Sustainability

Encyclopedia of Green Materials covers comprehensive overview, recent research and development of Green Materials and Green Nanomaterials, and their applications in all areas, including electronics, sensors, textiles, biomedical, energy and energy storage, building constructions and interiors design, automotive, green plastic manufacturing, food packing, membrane technology, wastewater treatment, rubber technology, and tire manufacturing.

The edited book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of scientific developments in agricultural sustainability under changing climate conditions.

This multidisciplinary handbook explores concrete case studies which illustrate how sustainability science and research can contribute to the realization of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This edited volume explores the world of clean energy, diving into technological innovations and advancements.

Can there be a common definition of sustainable development?

This book presents the advantages of the circular economy as a powerful - and inevitable - model for tackling the current challenges against shrinking resources and establishing the resource efficient economy.

This book presents most recent research studies on mapping and spatial analysis of socio-economic and environmental indicators used by various national and international contributors to regional development projects.

This book highlights advanced sustainable techniques and innovations in textile coloration.

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 investigates China's railway transformation through history, along with culture changes and urban development.

This book, from noted materials selection authority Mike Ashby, provides a structure and framework for analyzing sustainable development and the role of materials in it.

This book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a transformation of its built environment.

This book highlights the traditional boundaries of the textile industry and discusses to what extent organic cotton is sustainable.

Sustainable mobility is a highly complex problem as it is affected by the interactions between socio-economic, environmental, technological and political issues.

This book presents ways of shaping the built environment sciences and practices for steering the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe.

This book reviews and analyzes the period (roughly from the 1950s to the present) when the "e;environment"e; became an issue as important as economic growth, or war and peace; to assess the current situation, and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead.

The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points that can be used to further the agenda of transport planning.

This book represents a synthesis of research findings on energy in remote rural areas in East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia, demarcating a localised understanding of electricity issues that are relevant to similar community profiles in other developing countries, which are facing similar challenges.

This book presents papers from the 12th Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT 2025), to be held in April 2025.

This book addresses water privatization from a historical-sociological perspective and argues against the unrelenting imposition of neoprivatist water politics worldwide.

Climate change has been identified as one of the greatest threats to humanity of all times.

This book explores the latest advances in the sustainable production of packaged foods.

This book examines the use of smart city-associated technologies to enhance sustainable transportation planning in cities of both the global north and south, focusing specifically on sustainable transportation.

Access to reliable and affordable energy, water, and services is an important determinant of the prosperity of cities along with effective mission sustainment at military installations.

Over half of the global population now lives in cities.

This book presents possible alternatives and interpretations to the well established notion in the mostly western discourse on public space.

Connects a qualitative perspective of environmental management with the quantitative skills used by engineering and applied science students.

A call to arms, How to Save the City invites the reader to engage with the challenges of living and working in cities at a time when several conflating emergencies have become more pressing and connected.

How can we create a thriving life for us all that doesn't come at the price of ecological destruction?

This book presents high-quality peer-reviewed articles from the 2nd International Conference on Biomass Utilization and Sustainable Energy 2022 (ICoBiomasSE 2022) organized by the Centre of Excellence for Biomass Utilization (COEBU), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Malaysia.

This book presents a selection of the best papers from the 16th International Conference on Business Excellence, "e;New Challenges of the Century.

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

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an established methodology used to quantify the environmental impacts of products, processes and services.

The book focuses on specific infrastructural solutions for bicycling for Indian cities and other emerging economies.

This book advances the use of biodiesel-more environmentally friendly than traditional fossil fuels-by showing how it can be synthesized at a lower cost, with greater efficiency and as a more pure and stable product.

This volume includes selected contributions presented during the 2nd edition of the international conference on WaterEnergyNEXUS which was held in Salerno, Italy in November 2018.

This volume challenges global leaders and citizenry to do more in order to resource the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (AfSD) and its 17 interwoven Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book covers the crucial yet often overlooked fermentation process that transforms coffee beans after harvest.

The 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Innovation emphasizes on natural resources technology and management to support the sustainability of mankind.

Political elites have been evading the causes of climate change through deceptive fixes.

The notion of sustainable development is applied to financial activities through sustainable finance.

This book highlights the critical role of green materials in sustainable, active food packaging.

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