Sustainability

This volume describes the contributions made by women scientists to the field of agricultural biotechnology, the most quickly adopted agricultural practice ever adopted.

This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

The theory of anticipation suggests that systems, both biological and social, can adapt and update based on predictive models.

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how local corporate water strategies influence global water governance objectives.

Fostering inclusive green growth in Africa means addressing existing and emerging development challenges, while efficiently managing Africa's natural capital and building resilience to environmental, social and economic risks.

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for everyone who wants to have both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes.

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The experience accumulated in the wake of more than two decades of sustained effort to promote growth and change in the low-income countries presents a rich field for scholarly inquiry and new insights into the development process.

An enormous amount of synthetic dyes is used annually in the textile, leather, plastics, paper, and dye industries due to their coloring properties.

This book aims to explore and showcase global case studies focused on creating buildings and communities that promote health while enhancing climate resilience.

Combining multidisciplinary perspectives and new research, this volume goes beyond broad discussions of the impacts of climate change and reflects on the current and historical mediations and narratives that are part of creating this new social and scientific reality.

This book provides a unique guide to value management and sustainability in construction to researchers and professional.

This book presents recent research works related to blast resistant buildings, green roofs and sustainability, retrofit interventions with C-FRP fibers, analysis of cracking in pile cap foundation by delayed ettringite formation and acoustic performance in buildings.

This book presents the health emergency and disaster risk management (H-EDRM) research landscape, with examples from Asia.

This timely collection surveys and critiques studies of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) policy since the mid-1990s.

This book discusses the significance of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive digital enterprises and their practices for different functional domains and in different countries during COVID-19.

This book comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Green Buildings and Sustainable Engineering (GBSE 2019), which focused on the theme "e;Ecotechnological and Digital Solutions for Smart Cities"e;.

This book contains research findings from three major study areas, natural sciences, social sciences, and public policy and management.

This book highlights the water-energy-food nexus as one of the most important and fundamental global environmental issues facing the world.

This book discusses the generation of green energy, providing fundamental scientific information on the availability of sustainable biological resources.

How small, innovative grassroots groups are discovering a new kind of economy and a richer quality of life Many of today’s most troubling environmental and economic issues have come to seem insoluble: carbon emissions, overshoot, inequality, joblessness, and a dysfunctional food system.

This volume aims to highlight Indigenous knowledge toward climate mitigation with a focus on peoples in Sub-Saharan Africa, an underpublished region vis a vis this topic.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of sustainable materials and manufacturing techniques in aviation that reduce fuel consumption, increase operational efficiency, and make more sustainable use of raw materials, energy, and water during manufacturing.

This book is a compilation of chapters on scientific work in novel and innovative reference that compiles interdisciplinary perspectives about diverse issues related with Industry 4.

Sustainability is a global issue that urgently needs addressing, and for which the most serious consequences are for children and future generations.

The book examines the essential aspects of consumer behavior within the sharing economy.

This book gives new insight to the study of the global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics and microwave remote sensing tools together with the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring.

This book examines the role of local knowledge in promoting agricultural innovation and legislative support for agricultural innovation through intellectual property laws and the protection of farmers' rights.

The International Symposium on Energy Management and Sustainability (ISEMAS) is a multi-disciplinary symposium that presents research on current issues in energy efficiency, social awareness, and global climate change.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to leveraging nature-based economic initiatives for sustainable rural development.

This book examines various facets of the development process such as aid, poverty, caste networks, corruption, and judicial activism.

Sustainable management of soils is an important global issue of the 21st century.

The goal of Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems (SHES) education is to prepare students to facilitate social learning in communities that builds knowledge of, capacity for, and commitment to sustainability to facilitate the emergence of sustainable societies.

This book approaches three important aspects related with urban regeneration such as research, innovation and challenges.

This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them.

This book covers the use and impacts of nanofertilizers from a sustainable agriculture perspective and together with its companion book "e;Nanofertilizers in Agriculture: Synthesis, Mechanisms, and Effect on Plants"e; serves as an indispensable resource for researchers, agronomists, and policymakers exploring sustainable agriculture with nanotechnology.

This timely book provides an understanding of how an ageing population can maintain health in the ageing process in their preferred homes and neighbourhoods while coping with global crises of climate change events, infectious diseases, systemic violence, and radical or extreme industrialisation.

This textbook provides both students and professionals alike with a transdisciplinary and comprehensive foundation to design responsible chemical products and processes that protect human health and the environment.

This book gathers recent research work on emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods for processing and storing data generated by smart infrastructures.

Wealth is no longer just an ability to live well in a world shaped by human activities.

Winner of the International Solid Waste Association's 2014 Publication Award, Handbook of Recycling is an authoritative review of the current state-of-the-art of recycling, reuse and reclamation processes commonly implemented today and how they interact with one another.

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Soil fertility is the backbone of agricultural systems and plays a key role in determining food quantity and quality.