Sustainability

Get the single-source solutions guide to the sustainable management of water resources.

Industrial energy efficiency is one of the most important means of reducing the threat of increased global warming.

Fertilizers have been used extensively around the globe since the Green Revolution, due to the high subsidies.

Restoration ecology, as a scientific discipline, developed from practitioners' efforts to restore degraded land, with interest also coming from applied ecologists attracted by the potential for restoration projects to apply and/or test developing theories on ecosystem development.

Many informal organisations around the world are making a positive impact on the environment and their communities by turning waste into a resource, increasing the social capacity of their community and reducing the amount of pollution in their environment.

Over this last decade, the concept of Social Metabolism has gained prestige as a theoretical instrument for the required analysis, to such an extent that there are now dozens of researchers, hundreds of articles and several books that have adopted and use this concept.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of effective methods of calculation, resource-saving technologies, and advanced materials in civil and environmental engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the XVIII International Scientific Conference Current Issues of Civil and Environmental Engineering "e;Lviv- Kosice - Rzeszow"e;, held in Rzeszow, Poland, on September 6-8, 2023.

Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from?

Solid waste management has become a significant global concern, particularly in maintaining and preserving value in solid waste resources.

Biorefineries are becoming increasingly important in providing sustainable routes for chemical industry processes.

This book explores the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the business, hospitality, and tourism sectors, with a special focus on Eastern Europe.

This book is about the ongoing transition of fisheries governance, from top-down command and control towards a more transparent and participatory form.

Advances in Water Treatment and Pollution Prevention explores the most up-to-date studies in the field of water pollution.

This book provides a breadth and depth of innovative and impactful research led by women investigators in the field of renewable energy.

The word sustainability shares its root with sustenance.

In the first book of its kind, this volume addresses the problem of the future cooling energy demand, the global frame defining the actual and future cooling energy consumption in the building sector.

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

This book describes the concept, characteristics, methodology, design, management, business, recent advances and future technologies of plant factories with artificial lighting (PFAL) and indoor vertical farms.

This book highlights different roles in entrepreneurship and innovation, based on the act of setting up a new venture in the area of sustainable luxury and fashion, which also involves cognitive and motivational characteristics.

Using "e;the sharing paradigm"e; as a guiding concept, this book demonstrates that "e;sharing"e; has much greater potential to make rural society resilient, sustainable and inclusive through enriching all four sharing dimensions: informal, mediated, communal and commercial sharing.

This book challenges conventional wisdom by showing how, in some circumstances, improved energy efficiency may increase energy consumption.

Plant-parasitic nematodes are recognized as one of the greatest threats to crop production throughout the world.

This book comprehensively describes the major ecosystem services in dryland environments that are provided by typical land use, including forestland, grassland and farmland, using the Loess Plateau, Northwest China as an example.

This interdisciplinary book challenges current approaches to "e;environmental problems"e; that perpetuate flawed but deeply embedded cultural beliefs about the role of science and technology in society.

This book delves into the integration of sustainability within the European Union's external activities, emphasizing the necessity to weave 'sustainability' throughout its relations with third states and international organizations.

This book focuses, in seven chapters, on the perspectives and solutions that different research groups offer to try to address problems related to SDG 14: Life Below Water.

This book presents high-quality peer-reviewed articles from the 2nd International Conference on Biomass Utilization and Sustainable Energy 2022 (ICoBiomasSE 2022) organized by the Centre of Excellence for Biomass Utilization (COEBU), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Malaysia.

This book includes papers presented at the 6th Arte-Polis International Conference.

-This book discusses how cities' identities are formed and developed over time and portrays architecture and the arts as the embodiment of the historical, cultural, and economic characteristics of cities.

This book presents a selection of major research texts by Prof.

Sustainability challenges blur the boundaries between academic disciplines, between research, policy and practice, and between states, markets and society.

This volume brings together multiple perspectives on both the changing Arctic environment and the challenges and opportunities it presents for the shipping sector.

The transition to renewable energy is essential for ensuring energy supply, and to mitigate environmental effects of fossil fuels, particularly climate change.

This volume discusses topics of global sustainability involving sustainability indicators, stakeholders' participation, and technological and strategic advances with the goal of "e;thinking locally to act globally"e;.

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This contributed volume contains the conference proceedings of the Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) conference 2015, Berlin.

The present publication focusses the attention on new avenues in regional information and knowledge management, while we will zoom in particularly on the potential promises and hurdles of digital technology.

Dieses Buch diskutiert die Verwendung von Technologie, Data Science und Open Data, um das Netto-Null-Emissionsziel des Pariser Abkommens zum Klimawandel zu erreichen.

The book is intended as a primary resource for Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs), all professionals with interest in sustainability as well as sustainability courses at CBS International Business School and other universities.

This book chiefly focuses on urban traffic, an area supported by massive amounts of data.

This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of resilience and adaptation of buildings and cities to climate change, as presented by international researchers at the VI International Conference on Recovery, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Buildings (CIRMARE 2023), held in Covilha, Portugal, on December 5-7, 2023.

This book attempts to move the family of squirrels (Sciuridae) out of the shadow of large charismatic mammals and to highlight management failures with the goal of moving towards an improved conservation approach.

This book highlights current efforts and research on waste management, processing and valorization, particularly in Asia-Africa countries.

This textbook applies basic concepts of ecology to address critical issues regarding food and agricultural systems.

In the present scenario, green technologies are playing significant role in changing the course of nation's economic growth towards sustainability and providing an alternative socio-economic model that will enable present and future generations to live in a clean and healthy environment, in harmony with nature.

This book gathers current research studies which explore new technologies in architecture and urban practices which ensure the efficient management of cities' infrastructures and provide new solutions to the complex complications that may result in the tackling of challenges of population density, traffic planning, and city planning at the neighborhood scale or rather the scale of buildings and everyday life.

This book draws upon case studies and practices of different types of DRR involvement by the private sector from all over the world.

Despite growing discussions on the relationship between sustainability and finance, so far little attention has been given to the relation linking sustainability-related risks and financial risks.