Sustainability

This book is part of a two-volume work that offers a unique blend of information on realistic evaluations of catalyst-based synthesis processes using green chemistry principles and the environmental sustainability applications of such processes for biomass conversion, refining, and petrochemical production.

Including considerations of sustainability in universities' activities has long since become mainstream.

This book explores various nanotechnology applications and their effect on the food industry, innovation and environmental issues.

What could the ancient Egyptians tell us about 3D printing?

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

The book discusses some of the issues related to proximity, challenges an acritical use of the concept and highlights several dimensions that may better frame the actual contribution of proximity to urban and mobility planning in different places.

This book is a collection of chapters focusing on green composite materials.

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts.

This book is the first 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 examination of sintering technology and the crucial role it plays in the steelmaking process.

This book demonstrates the benefits of using commercially available surfactants, or surface-active agents, for remediation of metal-contaminated soil and sediment.

Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions is about a specific 'promise' that participation holds for environmental decision-making.

This book presents a review of the state-of-the-art knowledge on the interactions between biodiversity and wind energy development, focused on the Portuguese reality.

This book discusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development.

This book approaches Green Civilization based on the background of international initiative on sustainable development and in-depth analyzes the valuable era consensus reached by 193 countries on the UN Sustainable Development 2030 Agenda.

While the last few decades have witnessed incredible leaps forward in the technology of energy production, technological innovation can only be as transformative as its implementation and management allows.

This proceedings is a collection of selected papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Environmental Science and Sustainable Development (ICESSD 2015), which was held on October 25-26, 2015, Bangkok, Thailand.

Empowering Teachers through Environmental and Sustainability Education draws inspiration from an empirical study exploring early career teachers' attempts at enacting Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in their everyday teaching practices.

This book advances the scientific understanding and application of space-based technologies to address a variety of areas related to sustainable development; including environmental systems analysis, environmental management, clean processes, green chemistry, and green engineering.

This book delves into the specific subject area of life sciences, focusing on the remarkable world of millets and their multifaceted contributions.

This book focuses on sustainability issues post COVID-19 outbreak, discusses ways to restrict global spread of the pandemic, and also how to survive holistically in the environment.

This book includes a collection of researches that contains research data, discussions and conclusions focusing on several related geotechnical aspects of infrastructure.

This book explores theoretical and empirical perspectives on corporate governance and sustainability and reflects upon India's three decades of corporate governance reforms.

The book consists of multiple chapters by leading experts on the different aspects in the unique relationship between arthropods and plants, the underlying mechanisms, realized successes and failures of interactions and application for IPM, and future lines of research and perspectives.

Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from?

This book invites the reader to follow seemingly unrelated paths towards the same goal: making sense of what it means to be human in a world that casually blends discourses on nature, technology, and biology with ideas of progress, optimization and their capitalization at the centre.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and environmental impacts of climate change on the tropical ecosystems in Tanzania.

This book presents the proceedings of the EAI International Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Manufacturing (ICRESM 2023), which took place in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, December 16-17, 2023.

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This popular textbook covers how the built environment and the management of energy relate to the quality of human living-conditions and the environmental performance of buildings.

This book features a selection of the best papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management (ICIE2019), held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from 9 to 11 October 2019.

Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator–prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management.

Tanasescu examines the rights of nature in terms of its constituent parts.

All global countries are interdependent and all aspects of the global economy operate synergistically.

This book contains select proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Technologies for Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development (ICSTEESD 2020).

This book shows how managers at all levels of the company can master the challenges of sustainable corporate management with confidence.

Arsenic contamination poses a major environmental problem, especially in Southeast Asian countries like Bangladesh and India.

This book discusses disaster risks and hazards as well as measures to increase people's resilience.

This book explores the intersection of culture, sustainability, and tourism.

This book presents conscious business as a constantly expanding and powerful approach to reinvent and shape organizations in a human and beneficial manner.

This book describes the water sector as it is structured in Italy.

This book provides a collection of recent research works, related to structural stability and durability, service life, reinforced concrete structures, recycled materials, and sustainability with endogenic materials.

Sustainable Urban Planning introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability.

In a fast-changing world, where the extraction of natural resources is key to development, whilst also creating environmental and social disasters, understanding how landscapes, people and politics are shaped by extraction is crucial.

In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in August 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Environmental Sustainability takes the reader through Singapore's environmental journey over the past 50 years, to its present day challenges and solutions, and seeks to explore what lies ahead for Singapore's environmental future.

This book covers the latest developments in life cycle assessment (LCA) both in terms of methodology and its application in various research areas.

SHORTLISTED: Project Syndicate 2023 - Sustainability Book AwardWINNER: Business Book Awards 2023 - Change & Sustainability CategoryThe case for business sustainability has already been made; organizations can no longer ignore the issue when climate change affects supply chains and customer expectations require them to take action.