Sustainability

This book describes the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design, environmental engineering and sustainability as presented by leading international researchers, engineers, architects and urban planners at the 3rd International Sustainable Buildings Symposium  (ISBS), held in Dubai, UAE from 15 to 17 March 2017.

The proceedings shed light on selected topics including economic management, public administration, and green development.

This book provides a comprehensive and multi-facettedanalysis of the current state of social-responsibility education in various Europeancountries.

This book provides the foundational knowledge essential for comprehending the functioning of financial markets and institutions and their current challenges.

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

This book critically examines sustainability challenges that humankind faces and offers responsible organising as a solution in responding to these challenges.

In order to be sustainable, a civilization must maintain the balance between 'mind' and 'matter' and between the egocentric 'I' and 'the others'.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Pollution Control for Clean Environment (ICPCCE-2023).

Get the definitive resource guide for sustainable site design, construction, and management.

This book comprehensively addresses surface modification of natural fibers to make them more effective, cost-efficient, and environmentally friendly.

This edited volume evaluates how sport organizations in the public, private, and non-profit sectors define responsible management and sustainability and what these mean in their daily operations.

Sustainable Geography recalls the system and laws of geographical space production, tackles the hardcore of geography and presents models and organizations through a regional analysis and the dynamics of territorial structures and methods.

This book presents novel findings concerning the systems, materials and processes used in solar energy conversion in communities.

For billions of years, nature has provided efficient solutions to complex problems, by means of natural selection, in a harsh environment that only the fittest organisms survived.

Spatial Resilience is a new and exciting area of interdisciplinary research.

This book aims to analyse the principles and merits of CSR and ESG approaches using a law and economics perspective.

This book presents 204 peer reviewed articles from the 5th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (GEOTEC HANOI 2023) held on 14-15 Dec 2023 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

This book is a compilation of transferable insights relevant to the dynamics of the current Asian business sector.

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Partnerships are often implemented in various ways, often without considering the impact, process or systemic performance and governance level of the partnership itself.

The first volume of this handbook explores different aspects of sustainable luxury textiles and fashion, broadly based on the following topics: Sustainability and business management, Value chain management, Use of materials and Sustainable production processes.

This book explains how an organization can use a management system to both control and improve its environmental performance.

Vivimos en un asombroso mundo de relaciones.

What must we do to achieve a sustainable society?

This book contains peer-reviewed papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL'19), held in Jinan, China from 6-8 November 2019.

This book reports the latest research and successful industrial case studies on sustainable technologies in the oil palm industry, ranging from plantation, processing to waste handling.

The goal of this book is to explore disaster risk reduction (DRR), migration, climate change adaptation  (CCA) and sustainable development linkages from a number of different geographical, social and natural science angles.

The first edition was extremely well received, providing an introduction and insight to this important topic in a comprehensive yet easy to read form.

Drawing on studies in environmental and sustainability education, this book brings together new work that has explored the research-policy interface in varied contexts and from diverse perspectives.

This volume of three books presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on the application of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems).

This book examines the evolution of foreign aid policy in Japan and South Korea, analyzing policy rationales, institutional developments and policy choices.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Yangtze River system and its water resources development and management.

Plastic pollution is a serious global environmental and health concern caused by the excessive use of plastic products and poor management of plastic waste.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in built environment, as presented by international researchers at the 15th Built Environment Conference, held in Durban, South Africa, on September 27-28, 2021, and organized by the Association of Schools of Construction of Southern Africa (ASOCSA).

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Sustainable Investing is fast becoming an essential method of generating long-term returns, moving beyond the negative approaches to socially responsible investing that have dominated the field.

This book focuses on the economic, political, and cultural factors that make up India's "e;informal processors,"e; which are the highly networked, multi-generational systems that reuse, repurpose, and otherwise dispose of 80% of India's electronic waste.

Among various industries releasing wastewater into the environment, printing, dyeing and textile industries are of great importance as they frequently contain high amounts of colorful compounds having high chemical and biological oxygen demands.

The aim of this book is to open a vision to sustainability and development through a holistic perspective comprising the critical blocks of energy, environment and economy.

Over the past decade, renewables-based technology and sustainability assessment methods have grown tremendously.

This book aims to prove that the so-called "e;energy crisis"e; is really an entropy crisis.

This book contributes to blockchain applications in food supply chain management from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on environmental sustainability and SDG's, using various case studies.

This book will highlight the role of CE in the sustainability field as it is expressed in the various fields and disciplines and its contribution to building a sustainable society by providing a better understanding of the relevant social and cultural structures and the need for cross-disciplinary knowledge and diverse skills.

This book provides a summary of the main concepts involved in environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions and a consistent sequence of environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Research Conference on Computing Technologies for Sustainable Development, IRCCTSD 2024, held in Chennai, India, during May 9-10, 2024.