Sustainability

Difficult ethical and political issues confront the application of scientific and technological solutions for preventing pollution from occurring.

This proceedings volume constitutes peer-reviewed full-length papers contributed by the Authors and tailored on various thematic areas of the 1st International Conference on Sustainable Advanced Technologies for Environmental Management (SATEM - 2023).

Community Development through Tourism examines the development of local communities through the healthy integration of community planning, business planning and tourism planning.

Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed.

What if you could challenge your kindergartners to come up with a way to reduce human impact on the environment?

This compilation on sustainability issues in civil engineering comprises contributions from international experts who have been working in the area of sustainability in civil engineering.

Sustainable materials science and engineering is one of the important characteristics of the existing high-tech revolution.

This book discusses the dynamic interplay of creativity and sustainability in the realm of design, offering a captivating exploration of innovative practices and their environmental impact.

This book explores the relevance of new sources, dimensions, and characteristics of knowledge for supporting creative and cultural organizations and initiatives.

Increasing agro productivity to feed a growing global population under the present climate scenario requires optimizing the use of resources and adopting sustainable agricultural production.

This book challenges the notion that nature is a city's opposite and addresses the often-overlooked concept of urban nature and how it relates to children's experiences of environmental education.

This volume offers a variety of cases dealing with circular business models in the textile and fashion industry.

In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World, leading researchers in fire ecology and management discuss how fire regimes have shaped and will continue to shape the distribution and abundance of Australia’s highly diverse plants and animals.

As improving energy efficiency and increasing energy R&D investment may be the main means for China's industrial sector to achieve sustainable growth, this book attempts to unify energy use efficiency and energy R&D inputs into a standardized economic analysis framework.

This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers presented in the International Conference Down To Earth 2019, and is focused on Water Security and Sustainability.

This book highlights the sustainability aspects of products and processes in forest science.

Powerfuels are the subject of intense and often contentious current discussions within industry, research, politics, as well as the overall society.

This book covers biodiversity conservation under special consideration of the challenges in the global south with particular attention being paid to consider the existing conservation challenges in relation to the study area in Ethiopia.

The third edition of this groundbreaking text offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility.

This book focuses on the Heritage Conservation of Architecture, Historic Districts of a City and Conservation strategies with specific case studies from India, in order to highlight the need for conserving the rich piece of history through research, education, advocacy, and practice.

This book is a visual guide to the territorial dynamics operating within a territory.

This book summarizes recent progress in cellulose chemistry.

This book addresses sustainability thinking and the bigger picture, by taking into consideration how and from where contemporary schools of thought emerged approximately a quarter-century ago.

Australia's Water Resources seeks to explore the circumstances underpinning the profound reorientation of attitudes and relationships to water that has taken place in Australia in recent decades.

This book comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Green Buildings and Sustainable Engineering (GBSE 2019), which focused on the theme "e;Ecotechnological and Digital Solutions for Smart Cities"e;.

This book describes the existential threats facing the global water systems from population growth and economic development, unsustainable use, environmental change, and weak and fragmented governance.

Having trouble reconciling your desire to do good by the environment while also moving your company forward?

Biorefineries are becoming increasingly important in providing sustainable routes for chemical industry processes.

This monograph addresses the methodological and empirical issues relevant for the development of sustainable agriculture, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe.

Based on the water footprint (WF) concept, this book reviews WF-based water stress evaluation methods at the city, provincial and river basin levels respectively.

Big cities don't have to mean a dystopian future.

Since the first EcoDesign International Symposium held in 1999, this symposium has led the research and practices of environmentally conscious design of products, services, manufacturing systems, supply chain, consumption, as well as economics and society.

This book combines core chapters on different aspects of sustainable transport and health, together with case studies of particular approaches to synthesise walking and health in cities around the globe.

Supercapacitors can both hold large amounts of energy and charge up almost instantly.

Over the past 50 years the volume of wastewater has grown exponentially as a result of the increasing world population and the expansion of industrial developments.

Green growth has proven to be politically popular, but economically elusive.

This book presents the contributions from the 3rd International Conference Engineering Innovations and Sustainable Development, held in Samara, Russia on April 26, 2024.

This book provides various approaches to complex industrial problems in sustainability, operations management and industrial engineering.

This book features expert contributions on key sustainability aspects of urban water management in Chinese agglomerations.

This book offers insights into important trends and future scenarios in the global tourism and travel industry.

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This book describes a diverse array of studies unravelling the intricate interplay of education, sustainability, and organizational dynamics.

This book is an outcome of the 33rd International Conference EnviroInfo 2019, held at the University of Kassel, Germany.

This authored monograph provides in-depth analysis and methods for aligning electricity demand of manufacturing systems to VRE supply.

Assembling papers originally presented at the Resilient Cities 2011 Congress in Bonn, Germany (June 2011), the second global forum on cities and adaptation to climate change, this volume is the second in a series resulting from this annual event.

The COVID-19 pandemic gives an opportunity to relaunch global economic systems with a better balance between the social and environmental dimensions.

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This volume contains the papers of the 1st Workshop IFToMM for Sustainable Development Goals (I4SDG), held online on November 25-26, 2021.