Sustainability

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).

Wild animals have been housed in zoos and aquariums for 5,000 years, fascinating people living in virtually every society.

This contributed volume offers several cases in life cycle assessment (LCA) and implementation of circular economy principles across different industries.

This book highlights the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This volume of three books presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on the application of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems).

This work presents the evolution of the traditional concept of "e;national security"e; as military security to additionally embrace "e;environmental security"e; and then necessarily also "e;social (societal) security"e;, thence to be termed "e;comprehensive human security"e;.

This volume examines the practicality of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in India, and includes policy analyses and statistical assessments of comparative data between India and different countries.

Social design-the practice of designing for poverty relief-is one of the most popular fields in contemporary architecture.

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This book provides the latest research on bioethanol production from first- and second- generation feedstock.

This book presents detailed discussions concerning the environmental footprints of various packaging systems and materials, life cycle assessments of packaging, sustainable design of various packaging systems and materials, as well as the biodegradation of various packaging materials.

The book describes the recent trends in space policy and the space sector overall.

How do todays leaders move from playing it safe to playing for great?

This book presents selected papers from the 3rd Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction - Expanding the Platform for Bridging Science and Policy Making, which was held at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus from 19 to 21 March 2017.

"e;Urban Climate Change Adaptation"e; is a timely and informative book that delves into the complex challenges posed by climate change and explores the pathways to achieving environmental sustainability.

In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World, leading researchers in fire ecology and management discuss how fire regimes have shaped and will continue to shape the distribution and abundance of Australia's highly diverse plants and animals.

This book provides information and resources to city planners and other public policy officials on the importance of smart sustainable cities and their relationship with urban knowledge-based economy.

This book provides readers with the most current knowledge on hazardous waste management practices.

Volume II presents the latest advances in catalytic hydrodeoxygenation and other transformations of some cellulosic platform chemicals to high value-added products.

Governing Arctic Seas introduces the concept of ecopolitical regions, using in-depth analyses of the Bering Strait and Barents Sea Regions to demonstrate how integrating the natural sciences, social sciences and Indigenous knowledge can reveal patterns, trends and processes as the basis for informed decisionmaking.

This book explores the role of renewable energy sources in driving sustainable development, with a focus on their circular use in achieving environmental efficiency and an energy balance.

The intricate interplay between food, energy, water, societal dynamics, and the environment constitutes the bedrock of contemporary global challenges.

The aim of this book is to open a vision to sustainability and development through a holistic perspective comprising the critical blocks of energy, environment and economy.

This book provides insights into deep learning techniques that impact the implementation strategies toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) laid down by the United Nations for its 2030 agenda, elaborating on the promises, limits, and the new challenges.

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries.

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Digital Twin Computing for Urban Intelligence focuses on new and ongoing discourses in interdisciplinary research and practice in urban system and smart city development pathways.

This textbook offers a detailed overview of the current state of knowledge concerning the ecology and management of compositionally and structurally diverse forests.

Reduce financial exclusion, improve social impact, meet regulatory compliance and tap into market opportunities with Inclusive Finance.

Design makes a tremendous impact on the produced world in terms of usability, resources, understanding, and priorities.

This contributed volume provides case studies from around the world that feature a convergence of indigenous and western knowledge in an attempt to understand complex socio-ecological systems.

This interdisciplinary book incorporates various aspects of environment, ecology, and natural disaster management including cognitive informatics and computing.

The transportation sector cannot continue on its current path: The volatility of oil prices threatens the U.

This multidisciplinary volume dicusses the impact of tourism on sustainable development in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Mediterranean.

How does the world of theatre and the performing arts intersect with the climate and environmental crisis?

This book focuses on grassland ecosystem evaluation including vegetation coverage, net primary productivity, carbon sink accounting, and grassland degradation evaluation based on mutual data resource, ecosystem model simulation, remote sensing monitoring and driving mechanism exploration.

This volume explores whether theatre pedagogy can and should be transformed in response to the global climate crisis.

Sustainability challenges blur the boundaries between academic disciplines, between research, policy and practice, and between states, markets and society.

Arsenic is one of the most toxic and carcinogenic elements in the environment.

This contributed volume dives into the critical intersection of climate adaptation, vulnerability to hazards, and the imperative of decarbonization in fortifying global food and nutritional security.

This book presents a comprehensive collection of recent research on the timely topic of sustainable development goals, with a focus on developing countries.

This book documents and analyses spatial planning in Ghana, providing a comprehensive and critical discussion of the evolving institutional and legal arrangements that have shaped and defined Ghana's spatial planning system for more than seven decades; the contemporary policy instruments and mechanisms for articulating and implementing policies and proposals at multiple scales; and the formally established procedures for development management.

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An authoritative and comprehensive volume of knowledge and green technologies wholly focused on the future of the bioeconomy.

In recent decades, significant advances in new methodologies like DNA sequencing and high-throughput sequencing have been used to identify microorganisms and monitor their interactions with different environments.