Sustainability

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 presents a new analytical framework and several newly developed quantitative methods to investigate the interactions between climatic, ecological, and socioeconomic factors as a total socioenvironmental system (TSES).

This volume provides an interdisciplinary collection of studies that cover the trends and issues related to agricultural productivity and availability, food and nutrition security, and sustainability in India.

Progress in Sustainable Aviation looks at recent progress and new technological developments in sustainable aviation, presenting readers with engineering solutions and methodologies for efficiency and cost savings, performance improvement, and emission reduction.

This book details the crux of green fashion, addressing various environmental aspects and discussing the importance of sustainable fashion in the apparel industry.

Almost immediately after the UN Secretary-General called for a Decade of Action to deliver Sustainable Development Goals at the SDG Summit of 2019, the world faced massive COVID-19 induced disruptions at the cost to the global economy.

India is grappling with serious environmental issues that have been largely sparked by its galloping economy.

This book examines the synthetic approaches, properties, applications, and recyclability of bio-based superabsorbent polymers (SAP) in depth.

This book explores the comprehensive world of biomass-based clean technologies for sustainable development.

Evaluating building materials for environmental sustainability is a complex prospect.

This book summarizes fundamentals and advanced topics of green chemistry and highlights the importance and impact of green chemistry over traditional synthetic methods.

This book explores the intricate relationship between hydrology and urban water provision.

Innovation is changing.

This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America.

Sustainable development has become a central perspective in environmental strategies around the world.

This popular textbook covers how the built environment and the management of energy relate to the quality of human living-conditions and the environmental performance of buildings.

In Regenerative Tourism Industry, authors Geetanjali Sageena and Suneel Kumar take an in-depth and practical approach to regenerative tourism.

This book provides insights into recent trends and innovation of technologies aiming to provide sustainable and energy efficient computing.

Plant microbe interaction is a complex relationship that can have various beneficial impacts on both the communities.

This book is an outcome of the 37th International Conference EnviroInfo 2023, held at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (Munich, Germany), organized by the technical committee for Environmental Informatics of the German Informatics Society.

Climate Change and Social Movements is a riveting and thorough exploration of three important campaigns to influence climate change policy in the United Kingdom.

This book comprehensively covers researches on enzymatic polymerization and related enzymatic approaches to produce well-defined polymers, which is valuable and promising for conducting green polymer chemistry.

This book is a collection of selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2023 8th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development (ACESD), held in Sapporo, Japan, November 3-5, 2023.

This textbook provides an opportunity for undergraduate students studying the environment to work on addressing real-world environmental problems and practice the disciplinary and professional skills necessary to tackle complex issues.

This book covers the full spectrum of water and environment conservation, offering management lessons, identifying the barriers to transformative change, and then presenting agendas and initiatives for sustainable global water and environment management.

An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all shareIt is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history.

The proceedings consist of papers accepted by the 5th ICEMGD, which are carefully selected and reviewed by professional reviewers from corresponding research fields and the editing committee of the conference.

This book focuses in the current situation of water resources, water supply and sanitation, and population movement in Latin America.

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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 Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.

Architectural Design Strategies for Saving Energy in Buildings: An Architect's View employs an architect's perspective, defined equally as art and engineering science, to the contemporary concept of designing buildings that use less energy.

Japan-India  relations have traversed from "e;distantly friendly"e; to "e;indispensable partners.

This book presents specialised methods and tools built on classical LCA.

This book focuses on the use of natural fiber composites (NFCs) in the automotive industry.

This book discusses the science, causes, impacts and risk reduction strategies for climate change and disasters.

Marine plant life is an abundant source of nutrients that enhance the daily diet.

To achieve society's goals, as set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, the finance sector has a crucial role to play in driving sustainable business and the transition to a net zero economy.

This book shares essential insights on evaporites and their effects on dams and reservoirs.

This book, through systematic analyses and reviews, provides an up-to-date and holistic perspective on the progress of sustainable awareness and practices in different fields in Vietnam, such as Economics, Business, Finance, Law, and Management.

Although every country is distinguished by its history, culture and language as well as its unique economic, environmental and social conditions, it can be expected that international operating companies will exhibit common patterns since sustainability challenges do not stop at national borders.

This edited book is centred around the novel didactic model of Transformative Language Teaching for Sustainability.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

In recent years, especially with the approach of the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in late 2015, the number of publications, conferences and meetings on climate change has been growing exponentially.

This book outlines disaster risk reduction (DRR) approaches in Bangladesh, drawing examples and lessons from the national and community-level programs, projects, and relevant experiences of the country.