Sustainability

The "e;Blue Economy"e; is used to describe all of the economic activities related to the sea, with a special emphasis on sustainability.

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

An overview of the forms of agency in urban climate politics, discussing their strengths, limitations, and the power dynamics between them.

This volume brings together outstanding contributions to the Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, held at the Marina Hotel Kuwait, near Kuwait City.

The Dusk of Design explores the intersection of evolutionary theories and architectural design.

This book covers lignin, a renewable source of carbonaceous material derived from biomass, which is a subject of research, development and innovation in both academia and industry.

"e;Industrial Innovations: New Technologies in Cities' Digital Infrastructures"e; is a comprehensive proceedings book that delves into the latest research and practices shaping the industrial landscape in urban settings.

Thisbook will enable teachers and managers in the post-compulsory sector to considera range of approaches to embed Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) intheir practice in the post-compulsory sector.

This book provides a structured overview of contemporary sustainable organisational practices.

Conventional building skins are constructed as static structures upon the typical design conditions in terms of external climate and internal occupant activities.

This book presents a number of innovative uses of fly ash.

To help address the challenges of sustainable development, higher education institutions must transform themselves, bringing together best practice in quality management for tertiary education with best practice in education for sustainable development.

This volume discusses the sustainability of Egypt's agriculture and the challenges involved.

This book discusses current trends, challenges, and opportunities in the fields of business, hospitality, and tourism, particularly in Eastern Europe.

Since the beginning of human civilization, plants have been our true companions.

What if you could challenge your twelfth-grade students to explore energy consumption and climate change in their own communities, and connect that information with other communities around the world?

A firsthand, trench-view story of the failure of the modern environmental movementand an inspiring prescription for change.

This volume orients readers to the concept of energy footprints and their implications for sustainability and offers several cases that illustrate this concept.

This book addresses basic and applied aspects of two nexus points of microorganisms in agro-ecosystems, namely their functional role as bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides.

This textbook explores sustainability, climate change, and the corporate responsibility movement from a broad array of perspectives, including the challenges, risks, and opportunities of ESG policies, energy and environmental science, economics and philosophy, and sound public and private sector management.

This book explores the multifaceted relationship between sustainability and corporate performance in health care by providing a review of the relevant policy and academic literature, together with novel quantitative evidence to support strategic and managerial decision-making.

In this awesome new graphic novel for children, kids will learn to never give up on themselves in this charming children's book!

This book discusses different bioprocesses to produce value-added compounds, the science behind their production, the economics of their introduction to the marketplace, their environmental impacts, and their implications for world agriculture.

This book is a first step towards understanding the complexity of corporate environmental strategy while explaining the relationships between the numerous dimensions of the concept.

This book offers an alternative analysis of the various theories and dimensions of green and environmental justice which are rooted in political economy.

This volume addresses SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and SDG 12 (Sustainable Consumption and Production).

This book discusses innovative responses and reforms developed in critical areas of urban governance in European countries.

The book aims to capture, describe and convey the current significance, the values and potentials of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services to scientists and professionals in the context of sustainable urban development and ongoing urbanization processes.

Get an inside look at how companies with cutting-edge sustainability programs are innovating in the face of extreme conditions related to climate change.

The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding fast.

The authors of this book, who represent a broad range of scientific disciplines, discuss the issue of centralized versus decentralized control and regulation in the context of sustainable development.

This book sheds light on the topic of financial water risk by examining the modeling challenges associated with physical, regulatory, and reputational water risk in finance.

The main focus of this book is to help better understand the multidimensionality and complexity of population displacement and the role that reconstruction and recovery knowledge and practice play in this regard.

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Sustainable Bioenergy and Bioproducts considers the recent technological innovations and emerging concepts in biobased energy production and coproducts utilization.

The majority of clothes we use regularly are made up of plastic-based materials like polyester, rayon, nylon, and acrylic.

This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario.

Sub-Saharan Africa grapples with many public health issues such as food insecurity, increased prevalence of infectious diseases, limited access to clean water supply, poor nutrition and lack of improved health services for its populace (IMF, 2021).

The book analyzes energy technologies, business models and policies to promote sustainable development.

Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of the environmental policy in the years to come, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the EU ETS from both the legal and economic perspectives comparing it with the other main ETSs existing worldwide, in order to assess whether the EU ETS has truly represented a prototype for the other ETSs established around the world and to investigate the current perspectives for linking them in the future.

This book focuses on bioconversion of lignocellulosic residues into single-cell protein, which offers an alternative to conventional proteins (such as soybean meal, egg protein or meat protein in animal feed) that is not affected by the climate.

This book gathers extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE), held on August 14-16, 2023, in New York, USA.

This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture and city regeneration, as well as, in general, the future of the city in the new millennium.

This book seeks to push forward the boundaries of current practices and knowledge to embrace innovative solutions, novel approaches, and grounded technologies within realistic comprehension of economic risks and environmental implications.

In the context of the worldwide concern with the sustainability of current forms of development, business managers are being required to engage with environmental policy more creatively than in the past.

We live in a fundamentally changed world.

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