Sustainability

Social design-the practice of designing for poverty relief-is one of the most popular fields in contemporary architecture.

This book highlights the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) of the energy and textile sectors.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges (ICSC 2019).

This book delves into the urban planning theory of "e;smart growth"e; to encourage the creation of smart cities, where compact urban spaces are optimized to create transit-oriented, pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly areas, with a clear focus on developing a sustainable, humanistic transport system.

This professional book introduces an analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East that is aligned with the Global South.

This book highlights recent findings of membrane - based dye removal methods along with the application of photocatalytic, nanofiltration and ultrafiltration membrane including membrane - based fibers, metal-organic frameworks, polyethersulfone, ceramic, etc.

This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 2023 iteration of the ISPGAYA conference, titled "e;Digital Sustainability: Inclusion and Transformation"e; and held in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.

The pace of human progress accelerated profoundly in the twentieth century, spawning revolutionary advances in medicine, agriculture, and industry.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has a huge impact on science and technology, including energy, where access to resources has been a source of geopolitical conflicts.

This book provides transdisciplinary analyses of the automotive plastics production and recycling system, including prognoses, scenarios and solutions for corporate sustainability management.

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This book discusses the recent advancements in chemical engineering and their role in achieving the United Nations' 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book includes selected peer-reviewed articles from the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology; ICSET 2023 held at the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with a focus on the theme "e;Sustainable Energy Technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Our world stands at a critical crossroads.

This book focuses on developing a holistic sustainability assessment model for built environment that can help in identifying sustainability issues and parameters for the built environment.

This proceedings book, together with the conference, looks forward to spark inspirations and promote collaborations.

Sustainable practices within the mining and energy sectors are assuming greater significance due to uncertainty and change within the global economy and safety, security, and health concerns.

This book, the first volume, highlights 8 out of a total of about 36 megacities in the World which by definition have 10 million inhabitants.

The book presents a rich collection of research studies on the theory and practice of corporate integrated reporting (IR) in South Asia.

This contributed volume offers a wide variety of cases exploring how humanity can adapt to a changing climate.

This volume builds upon the 2019 International Bamboo Construction Competition (IBCC 2019) from the Concepts to the Realized Pavilions.

This book provides a structured presentation of machine learning related to vision, speech, and natural language processing.

This book investigates the main vegetable biomass types, their chemical characteristics and their potential to replace oil as raw material for the chemical industry, according to the principles of green chemistry.

The purpose of this book is to study the association of corporate environmental responsibility (CER) with financial performance, capital structure, innovative activities, corporate risk, working capital management and accounting quality.

Historically, the flow of sediment in the Missouri River has been as important as the flow of water for a variety of river functions.

This thematic collection of 26 case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage in the context of sustainable development.

Epistemic Justice, Mindfulness, and the Environmental Humanities explores how contemplative pedagogies and mindfulness can be used in the classroom to address epistemic and environmental injustice.

This book gathers contributions discussing climate change in Egypt from an agricultural perspective.

This book presents the results of a multi-annual project with sustainable Living Labs in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands.

This book investigates the influence of self-organisation processes on the commuting of the poor workers in urban China.

This book contains research findings from three major study areas, natural sciences, social sciences, and public policy and management.

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

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) remains the cornerstone of global ocean governance.

This book addresses the application of sustainable HRM principles within tourism in the specific context of Africa, a neglected area of study.

This book is an outcome of collaborative efforts of a multidisciplinary team of scientists.

This series of books are the output of the research project called "e;Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)"e;, which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA).

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

In the age of urban geopolitics, in cooperation with the major city networks and initiatives, interconnected coastal cities lead towards a more resilient sustainable future.

This book provides an introduction to the state of sustainability education in Asia.

This book outlines the status quo of worldwide wildlife tourism and its impacts on planning, management, knowledge, awareness, behaviour and attitudes related to wildlife encounters.

This book offers concepts related to communication engineering principles to fight the current Covid situation, by developing contactless need-based solutions.

This book is an introduction to the long history of human learning, the environment and sustainable development - about our struggles with the natural world: first for survival, then for dominance, currently for self-preservation, and in future perhaps, even for long-term, mutually beneficial co-existence.

The book presents the history of water supply to Cape Town, leading up to the worst ever drought recorded, through political turmoil impacting on drought interventions and resulting in the adoption of an integrated water strategy.