Sustainability

In a society more concerned with how to cope with existential dread than how to make actionable changes to save the planet, a surprisingly large number of Americans identify as environmentalists.

This book provides information about the sources, structure, and properties of keratin as well as its applications.

This book sheds light on current issues in sustainable finance through an in-depth analysis and discussion of relevant sustainable products and sustainable initiatives of several financial institutions.

This book presents a foundation for studying the micro-behavioral economics of global warming.

Agricultural residues are a significant waste product of modern agriculture.

This book aims to examine sustainability and spirituality philosophically with ethics as the balancing force.

This book examines education about standardization in the context of sustainable management.

The current global environmental crisis is primarily the result of non-standardized parameters for environmental regulation, and is impacting e.

This unique sourcebook provides a global, state-of-the-art review of the rapidly evolving field of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) that is intended to serve as a baseline for the work of an OECD Task Team on SEA and a UNEP initiative on integrated planning and assessment.

This book gathers selected contributions in the field of civil and structural engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Materials Physics, Building Structures and Technologies in Construction, Industrial and Production Engineering (MPCPE), held in Vladimir, Russia, on April 22-25, 2024.

The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet.

This book seeks to answer the essential question of the investment-worthiness of green instruments.

This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century: why deaths continue to occur in natural disasters despite the tremendous advancements in disaster management science and weather forecasting systems, increased sophistication of human-built environments and ongoing economic and policy development worldwide.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles and recent advances on the potential applications of Science and Mathematics for future technologies, from the 7th International Conference on the Applications of Science and Mathematics (SCIEMATHIC 2021), held in Malaysia.

This edited book focuses primarily on biofuel production potential in agricultural waste, such as biogas generation, biohydrogen production, and research trends on managing or converting agricultural waste to biofuel.

The book spans across the research domains of mechanisation and automation, agrobusiness, food processing and value addition, climate smart agriculture, rural sanitation, agro biotechnology, and rural energy.

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children.

This book includes both theoretical conceptualization and practical applications in the fields of product design, architecture, engineering, and materials.

This book offers a timely snapshot of soft computing methodologies and their applications to various problems related to sustainability, including electric energy consumption; fault diagnosis; vessel fuel consumption; determining the best sites for new malls; maritime port projects; and ad-hoc vehicular networks.

In terms of energy security the Black Sea region is important to Europe.

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.

This book discusses the connection between fast fashion brands and customer-centric sustainability.

This book identifies and provides reasoning for computed methods of local climate dynamics and the livelihood vulnerability indices assessment in the mountainous region of Himachal Pradesh, India.

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.

This book presents carbon footprint calculation and mitigation in the manufacturing and transportation sectors.

This book discusses the history of environmental science and climate change, and the initiation and development of different parameters determining climate changes.

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.

This volume, the first of a two-volume set, provides a foundation for future research and development in science curriculum.

This book provides comprehensive economic analyses on the paths to net-zero for China.

This book offers a detailed analysis of the intersection of sustainability, innovation, and global progress, and it comprehensively explores sustainable practices and their impact on business, education, and technology.

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.

Microbial bioremediation and biodegradation in environmental monitoring offers an environmentally friendly approach for the monitoring and effective removal of contaminants.

'Real, simple, organic and sustainable food is what Daylesford offers - and these are the recipes for putting it on your table'Raymond Blanc'Now more than ever chimes with the way we want to eat'The TimesA fully updated reissue of the pioneering seasonal cookbook by Carole Bamford, the founder of Daylesford.

Ecopedagogies showcases a range of creative approaches that educators across multiple disciplines use to empower students to access and engage with nature, an increasingly important consideration in a post-COVID world in environmental crisis.

Tanasescu examines the rights of nature in terms of its constituent parts.

This book offers support for interdisciplinary research on the interactions of nature and society.

This book highlights the rightful role of citizens as per the constitution of the country for participation in Governance of a smart city using electronic means such as high speed fiber optic networks, the internet, and mobile computing as well as Internet of Things that have the ability to transform the dominant role of citizens and technology in smart cities.

The United Kingdom's Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government 2010-15 was responsible for some of the most radical changes to education policy for decades.

This book provides comprehensive and practical information on the design and implementation of circular systems for various industries, with a focus on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors.

This book describes initiatives and concrete examples on sustainable food production worldwide.

Since the 1960s, breakthroughs in agriculture have made it possible to satisfy the world's increasing requirements for food.

As a continuation of our award-winning book, 'China's City Cluster Development in the Race to Carbon Neutrality' and our recent book, '30 Years of Urban Change in China's 10 Core Cities', this book delves into China's recent progress in reshaping its cities through holistic urban transformation strategies.

The author proposed the satoumi concept, analogous to the satoyama concept on land, as "e;coastal sea with high biodiversity and productivity in harmony with human interaction"e; in 1998.

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).

The book is primarily focused on natural plant (lignocellulosic) fibers as sustainable reinforcement material for green composites.

This book comprises select papers from the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Engineering (AISE 2020).

Education for Sustainability is a key priority in today's schools, as our society seeks to find a balance between environmental, social, cultural, political and economic imperatives that affect our future.