Sustainability

This double-volume work focuses on socio-demographics and the use of such data to support strategic resource management and planning initiatives.

This books focuses on co-design, and more specifically, on the various forms co-design might take to tackle the most pressing societal challenges, introducing public-interest services as the main application field.

This book illustrates the importance of microbiome interactions in sustainable agriculture and the environment.

This book explores the environmental and ecological wisdom inherent in some of the indigenous traditions of traditional communities from developing societies like, Argentina, Brazil, India, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

This book provides practical guidelines to chemical engineers, plant managers, maintenance engineers, and senior managements in modern chemical processing facilities.

Increased consumption of electronic equipment has brought with it a greater demand for rare earth elements and metals.

This book presents a comprehensive approach to address the need to improve the design of tailings dams, their management and the regulation of tailings management facilities to reduce, and eventually eliminate, the risk of such facilities failing.

Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, the impacts of climate change have been fierce, causing loss of human life and irreparable destruction to natural and man-made infrastructure in many parts of the world.

This book describes the consequences of an increased demand for food for human consumption for the global food industry.

The National Research Council's Science and Technology for Sustainability Program hosted two workshops in 2011 addressing the sustainability challenges associated with food security for all.

This contributed volume discusses how consumer awareness of textile sustainability can lead to a more sustainable textile supply chain.

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

This book analyses the effectiveness of climate finance as political instrument to reduce the effect of anthropogenic activities on climate change and promote the green growth in developing countries.

This book contributes to debates on current sustainability practices, with a focus on assessment tools as applied in higher education institutions.

This book provides an overview of recent advances in Integrated Community-Managed Development (ICMD) as an innovative strategy for the community-based development of local institutions in order to achieve lasting poverty reduction and empowerment.

This SpringerBrief provides an overview of the use of ultrasound in various dairy applications, highlighting their significant benefits for the dairy industry, including energy savings and product improvement.

Presents cutting-edge insights into adapting institutions that build social-ecological resilience to complex multi-scale environmental change.

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Dieses Buch wird klimapositiv hergestellt, cradle-to-cradle gedruckt und bleibt plastikfrei unverpackt.

This book examines the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounting within an applied development content  for Costa Rica.

Culturally Responsive Choral Music Education visits the classrooms of three ethnically diverse choral teacher-conductors to highlight specific examples of ways that culturally responsive teaching (CRT) can enrich choral music education.

This book proposes a holistic transdisciplinary approach to sustainability as a subject of social sciences.

This book analyses and develops overarching concepts for forest policy and forest governance and includes a detailed investigation into the historical discussion on forests.

This book explores interfaces between land and sea and their geostrategic, ecological, urban, productive, indigenous, legal, historical, and artistic dimensions.

"e;Sustainable Justice and the Community"e; is an attempt to locate justice in a workable and sustainable way within the community, introducing 'Sustainable Justice' as a key concept for the coming century.

This book is based on the assumption that "e;organic has lost its way"e;.

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

How have the events of the twenty-first century shaped African economies and societies?

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Conference Environmental and Construction Engineering: Reality and the Future, held in Belgorod, Russia, on May 18-19, 2021.

The Globalization and Environment Reader features a collection of classic and cutting-edge readings that explore whether and how globalization can be made compatible with sustainable development.

This book highlights one of the most important water pollutants known as Microplastics.

The Handbook Digital Farming sheds light on the technological, economic, social, and legal perspectives of the digital transformation.

This book explores how China's industrial transformation and development depend on technology and innovation and how considerations about issues associated with technology and innovation may affect China's development strategies.

The Climate Planner is about overcoming the objections to climate change mitigation and adaption that urban planners face at a local level.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of geotechnical engineering, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 7th Italian National Congress of Geotechnical Researchers (CNRIG 2019), entitled "e;Geotechnical Research for the Protection and Development of the Territory"e; (Lecco, Italy, July 3-5, 2019).

This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management in Southern Africa.

This book presents important developments and applications of green chemistry, especially in the field of organic chemistry.

This book offers comprehensive insights into the cultural and ecological values that influence sustainable development across Asia, addressing the cultural, religious and philosophical moorings of development through participatory and grassroots communication approaches.

This book focuses on many aspects of mass transfer dynamics of contamination in fractured media.

Female scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians worldwide are making historic contributions to their fields.

First published in 1998, this volume focuses on the range of crucial role that the headteacher must fulfil as the leader.

Evolving traveller expectations, pressures to reduce emissions and a need to preserve popular destinations from over-tourism and climate change are creating untold disruption in the travel industry.

Climate change and its impacts are well known, and it is not hard to see the effects of climate change vulnerability to daily lives in many parts of the world.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a buzzword in management today.

This book constitutes the referred proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Engineering Solutions Toward Sustainable development (ESSD2023), organized by the Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University and held in Port Said, Egypt, during May 2-3, 2023.