Sustainability

This student version of the popular bestseller, Life Cycle Assessment Handbook, is not a watered-down version of the original, but retains all of the important information and valuable lessons provided in the first book, along with helpful problems and solutions for the student learning about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

The book, showing virtuous examples of urban planning in Italy and Europe, exposes certain doubts and open questions: what is the new role of urban planning?

This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of a much larger underlying problem - namely, humankind's predilection with continuous GDP-growth.

Education, once regarded as a key pillar of Commonwealth activity, is increasingly inconspicuous on Commonwealth agendas.

Food manufacturing generates an incredibly high volume of wastewater.

The book deals with the regulation of GMOs within the context of multiple principles and interests, including food security, sustainable development, and biodiversity.

The book explores current characteristics of the urban built environment in view of possible future transformations.

This book reports on the first empirical validation of "e;AccuRate,"e; Australia's national benchmark software tool for house energy ratings.

In an era defined by rapid technological advancement and growing concerns over environmental sustainability, the intersection of the Metaverse and sustainable development presents both remarkable opportunities and formidable challenges.

This book is the second volume of a selection of the best papers presented at the XXX National Conference of Commodity Science held in Bari, Italy on 27-28th October, 2022.

This book explores cutting-edge topics on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in aviation.

This book contains high-profile contributions that emerged from the Information and Communication Technologies in Organizations and Society (ICTO) conference on "e;Smart Technologies for an Inclusive World,"e; held in 2020.

This book highlights the efforts made to realize the concept of 'Circular Bioeconomy'.

This book opens up a critical dimension to the field of industrial ecology.

The answers to the questions of why and how people live where they live as well as how they maintain and integrate with one another are fundamental human settlement issues rooted in history and culture.

The prevailing global environmental crisis is primarily because of non-standardized parameters for environmental regulation.

This book presents current research on sustainable development issues and recent manufacturing and process engineering advances.

This book presents a new vision of literacy that frames meaning-making and communication in relation to individual, collective, and ecological needs.

This book introduces the companion modelling approach by presenting the stance that underpins it, the methods and tools used with stakeholders and the specific role of models during the process.

Sustainability Matters is a compilation of some of the best research papers submitted by students from the National University of Singapore's multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary graduate programme in environmental studies, as their MSc dissertations in Environmental Management [MEM].

An acknowledged challenge for humanitarian democratic education is its perceived lack of philosophical and theoretical foundation, often resulting in peripheral academic status and reduced prestige.

This book discusses the recent advancements in chemical engineering and their role in achieving the United Nations' 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it.

This book discusses the scientific process of biomass compaction, focusing on pressing chamber parameters and their influence on the quality of extrusions from biomass.

This book presents essential new governance structures to embrace and regulate smart mobility modes.

This book highlights various designs for urban green spaces and their functions.

Urban agriculture has the potential to change our food systems, enhance habitat in our cities, and to morph urban areas into regions that maximize rather than disrupt ecosystem services.

This book is the second volume presenting carefully selected chapters from the proceedings of the 7th International Scientific Conference on Business and Economics (ISCBE),Vila Real, Portugal, which took place in June 2024.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current biosurfactant research and applications.

This book investigates how urban planning can promote inclusive, climate-resilient, and healthy communities.

Dieses Buch zeigt die Bedeutung von Nachhaltigkeit für den Nonprofit-Sektor sowie die Herausforderungen und Ansätze für ein zukunftsfähiges Management in diesem Bereich.

This volume brings together multiple perspectives on both the changing Arctic environment and the challenges and opportunities it presents for the shipping sector.

This book critically examines sustainability challenges that humankind faces and offers responsible organising as a solution in responding to these challenges.

This book illustrates past and recent advances in radiation-based technologies for their application in waste biomass valorization.

Mathematics instructors are always looking for ways to engage students in meaningful and authentic tasks that utilize mathematics.

The research and its outcomes presented here focuses on tropospheric or ground level ozone, in particular due to its surfacing as a major threat to crop productivity around the world.

The free market underpins our economy and our way of thinking around enterprise and value, but it is also a major factor in the sustainability problems that we now live with.

This book provides an innovative approach to sustainable development, one based on insights gleaned from the Industrial Revolution to the present, and which highlights the importance of aligning economic interests with sustainable development considerations.

This book provides insights into recent trends and innovation of technologies aiming to provide sustainable and energy efficient computing.

This book is a new exploration of the paradigm of innovation with Chinese characteristics in the context of a new era.

This third of the three volume series highlights the intricate relationship in the handloom industry between its culture and the various areas of sustainability.

This book chiefly focuses on urban traffic, an area supported by massive amounts of data.

In order to yield the expected benefits, sustainability initiatives need to be undertaken by means of a close cooperation between universities on the one hand, and societal partners on the others.

This book features a collection of high-quality and peer-reviewed papers from 2022 13th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, which was held in Shandong, China, during October 21-23, 2022.

This book presents a selection of the best papers from the 17th International Conference on Business Excellence, "e;Rethinking Business: Sustainable Leadership in a VUCA World"e; (ICBE 2023), held in Bucharest, Romania, in March 2023.

This volume addresses SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and SDG 12 (Sustainable Consumption and Production).