Sustainability

Oil spills can be difficult to manage, with reporting frequently delayed.

The book presents methodological and applied aspects of sustainability and sustainable management from different countries and regions around the globe.

This book presents the latest developments and advances in solar desalination technology, including the concept, design, testing, modeling, economics and innovation.

This Volume 2 contains essential contributions highlighting the use of biotechnology in dye removal.

This book is based on the author's 33 years of intensive fieldwork.

This book highlights the preparation and characterization of efficient electromagnetic shielding composites containing bio-carbon derived from natural loofah with unique three-dimensional porous structures by means of entire structure design of composites according to shielding theory.

Fashion, a realm often associated with trends and whims, is undergoing a transformation-one that goes beyond aesthetics to embrace sustainability as a guiding principle.

The debate that has arisen around the concept of the Anthropocene forms the basis of this book.

The county diagnostic method is a spatially explicit, unit specific, component expanded regional environmental footprint framework for the USA designed by Bryce Lawrence to compare the influence of ecoregions on poly-factorial environmental footprints.

This volume discusses emerging contexts of agricultural and ecosystem resilience in Sub Saharan Africa, as well as contemporary technological advances that have influenced African livelihoods.

Recycling of Polymers This timely reference on the topic is the only book you need for a complete overview of recyclable polymers.

This contributed volume provides a wealth of case studies on corporate social responsibility in the textile and fashion industry.

This book features select peer-reviewed proceedings from the 6th International Symposium on Water Pollution and Treatment (ISWPT 2023).

This proceedings book showcases the latest research and developments in materials sciences and their applications for solving environmental and energy-related challenges.

Under the contraction of global energy supply brought on by geopolitical situation, this timely book addresses how resource-scarce developing countries respond to challenges in energy security.

This book looks at the global importance of mountain systems, emphasizing their ecological and socio-economic role in light of climate change and globalization.

Emerging Development of Agriculture in East Africa offers case studies that find promise in many new innovations.

A detailed exploration of the impact of environmental conditions and management on crops, resource requirements and soil resources.

In order to create truly sustainable universities, we require new methods of visualising and interpreting them holistically as institutions built on complex relationships and systems, rather than as individual departments and people operating independently.

As the application of smart technologies for monitoring environmental activities becomes more widespread, there is a growing demand for solutions that can help analyze the risk factors and impacts on the environment by focusing on energy consumption, storage, and management.

This edited book includes more than four hundred short papers that were presented during the fourth edition of EMCEI, which was held in Sousse, Tunisia in November 2022.

Help build a world based on flourishing well-being for both the human family and nature In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it's difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy.

This book reviews comprehensively the field and development of biochar-based catalyst by summarizing fundamental approaches and principles to prepare biochar and biochar-based catalysts and focusing on the main applications of biochar-based catalysts in environmental remediation.

This book provides a new framework for analysis of slope nonlinear stochastic seismic dynamic response based on the new theoretical tool of stochastic dynamics.

This book pursues a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach in order to analyze the relationship between water and food security.

Learn how to de-stress, relax and connect with the wildness you can find on your doorstep even in urban and suburban settings.

Condensed, accessible review of latest state-of-the-art assessments of IPCC, within context of sustainable development.

Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity.

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

Sustainable development sets the agenda for the 21st century.

This book examines green transition and circular economy in the fields of building design and Real Estate management.

Spatial planning defines how men use one of the most important and scarce resources on Earth: land.

This edited volume comprises ideas, visions, strategies, and dreams of entrepreneurs, managers, scientists and political experts who share their best practice experience relating to the joint goal of a more sustainable, humanistic, and responsible fashion industry.

This book provides a comprehensive, hands-on approach to bioclimatic building design in Africa.

This book addresses space science and communication - one of the main pillars of space science sustainability, an area that has recently become of great importance.

Drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world.

National and global security can be assessed in many ways but one underlying factor for all humanity is access to reliable sources of water for drinking, sanitation, food production and manufacturing industry.

This book describes initiatives and concrete examples on sustainable food production worldwide.

In recent years, macroeconomic dynamics, social transformations, technological innovations, and regulatory developments have caused significant changes in the banking industry, but most especially the need to integrate ESG factors into corporate strategies.

The book aims to provide city administrators and planners with a tool to accompany them in experimenting with the regeneration of no longer used parts of the built heritage, called leftovers, by adopting an innovative approach.

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.

Explore the forefront of urban resilience and sustainability with this groundbreaking collection of research and insights.

This book gathers revised and extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE 2024), held in/from Antalya, Turkey, on August 7-9, 2024, as a hybrid event.

The book presents a broad overview of emerging smart grid technologies and communication systems, offering a helpful guide for future research in the field of electrical engineering and communication engineering.

Environmental pollution is a worldwide concern now.

Embedding Sustainability is a practical, solutions-focused guide for sustainability managers and leaders to embed sustainability in organizations and drive improved performance.

This contributed book, as a part of a series of CERES publications, provides a multi-regional and cross-sectoral analysis of the interlinkages, challenges, and emerging responses in the areas of water security, climate change, and food systems, especially in a context marked by severe implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, increased climate vulnerability of many regions already water stressed, and an ambitious global action aiming at curbing climate change and restoring ecosystem.

This book explores many recent techniques including ANN, fuzzy logic, hydraulic models and IWRM utilized for integrated water resources management, a real challenge in India for obtaining high irrigation efficiency.