Sustainability

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This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2, 2017.

This book represents one of the first attempts by a multidisciplinary research team, encompassing the social sciences, business, architecture and planning, engineering, and finance and economics, to help rural communities discover sustainable and self-reliant paths to development and transformation.

This book provides the basic theory, method framework and application results of urban metabolism.

This book discusses how nanostructured materials play a key role in helping address environmental challenges.

With capitalism in crisis - rising inequality, unsustainable resource depletion and climate change all demanding a new economic model - the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has been suggested as an alternative.

This book collects selected contributions of the "e;Optimization and Decision Science - ODS2023"e; international conference on the theme of optimization in green sustainability and ecological transition.

What must we do to achieve a sustainable society?

Resource depletion and ecological risks are more than ever at the heart of societal and economic debates.

In this multi-authored book, senior practitioners and researchers offer an international overview of landscape character approaches for those working in research, policy and practice relating to landscape.

The transition to renewable energy is essential for ensuring energy supply, and to mitigate environmental effects of fossil fuels, particularly climate change.

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

In Greener Future: Building Sustainable Tourism Communities, a diverse array of contributors addresses the need for innovative and practical solutions for creating sustainable tourism communities.

This book reviews the latest research on innovative and sustainable biotechnologies for metal recovery from various process streams, emphasising the fundamentals and applications of biosystems.

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The UN's urban sustainability goal (#11) is fundamental to the global sustainable development agenda.

This book provides a comprehensive description of traditional and innovative forest-based bioproducts, from pulp and paper, wood-based composites and wood fuels to chemicals and fiber-based composites.

This book results from a pioneering effort to organize a productive interdisciplinary research program on sustainable development policy in a small country not previously recognized as a world leader in environmental social science.

An innovative textbook setting out a systematic approach to business and human rights.

This book is a uniquely pedagogical while still comprehensive state-of-the-art description of LCA-methodology and its broad range of applications.

The aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of the newest research in Geography concerning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's).

This book deals with the in-depth study of sustainability issues in the agri-food sector.

Sustainable Energy Management: Planning, Implementation, Control and Strategy, Second Edition provides the key concepts and practical knowledge needed to successfully plan, implement and control sustainable energy technologies.

This book analyses the influence of art and culture as an engine to promote the resilience of regional and urban economies.

By the year 2025 nearly 2 billion people will live in regions experiencing absolute water scarcity.

This volume discusses how different geographical spaces can enhance or hinder the capacity of a variety of organizational settings to achieve economic value creation in the pursuit of sustainable regional development.

Textile industry wastewater contains toxic dyes as well as heavy metals and many other persistent organic compounds which are difficult to biodegrade using conventional biological methods.

This book introduces basic and practical information on fertigation to researchers, extension agents and growers.

This book presents a selection of the best papers from the 18th International Conference on Business Excellence, "e;Smart Solutions for a Sustainable Future"e; (ICBE 2024), held in Bucharest, Romania, in March 2024.

Now with new Introduction and additional new chapter.

This book examines the Indian mandate for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its implementations in various individual organizations.

Environmental impacts created by the textiles and fashion sector are well known and acknowledged by various stakeholders involved in the entire supply chain.

This book discusses in detail the concepts of recycling and upcycling and their implications for the textiles and fashion sector.

This book reviews the economic potential of various natural resources found in the Egyptian deserts that could help fill the food gap in Egypt, e.

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Asia continues to ascend as an economic powerhouse and a strategic priority for business leaders around the world, yet there is often limited understanding of the human capital systems that fuel the economic engines of the region.

An overview of the obstacles to effective climate governance, including international relations, national politics and psychosocial factors.

This book examines the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programs in schools across Europe.

This book explores the relationships between natural resources management, sustainable livelihoods, and integrated watershed management in the context of the mountainous region, especially in the northeastern region of India.

This multi-authored book is edited by an expert in the field and includes chapters from international contributors.

Books on Textiles tend to focus solely on aesthetic or technical points of view.

This book comprehensively reviews, as well as analyzes, various aspects related to the Indian textile and apparel industries.

Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling to an international audience into how cities address the sustainability challenges they face.

Children with mild to moderate learning difficulties (MLD) make up the largest sub-group of children requiring special educational needs, and yet they are often neglected in terms of research and in their influence on future Government policies.

This book analyzes China's climate and environmental change facts, impacts and vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies.

There is growing awareness among leading responsible management scholars and practitioners that understanding global wicked problems is insufficient in effecting lasting engagement and changed behaviors.

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.