Sustainability

From sweatshops to fur farming, from polluting chemicals to painful garments, the fashion industry is associated with activities which have had devastating effects on workers, consumers, and the natural world.

Sustainable development, the circular economy and environmental issues are at the forefront of public and Government concern.

This companion to the documentary Cowspiracy explores the devastating environmental impacts of animal agriculture—and new paths to sustainability.

Comprehensive, objective assessment of the literature on renewable energy and its role in climate change mitigation for policymakers, professionals, researchers.

This book presents selected high-quality research papers submitted to ICNF 2017, the 3rd International Conference on Natural Fibers, which was held in Braga, Portugal, on 21-23 June 2017.

The book presents insights from a mixed methodology study that examines recent mobility patterns exhibited by the middle classes.

Damit alle ein gutes Leben innerhalb der Grenzen unseres Planeten führen können, müssen wir unser Verhalten in unterschiedlichen Facetten des Alltags ändern.

This book comprises recent developments in life cycle assessment (LCA) both with regards to the methodology and its application in various research fields, including mobility, engineering and manufacturing.

This book brings together agricultural ethics scholars from the US, Japan and Taiwan to discuss crucial issues in agricultural ethics and sustainability ethics in comparative context.

This book presents five interesting chapters dealing with the sustainability of toys.

This book highlights various designs for urban green spaces and their functions.

This volume explores major wetland ecosystem services, such as climate cooling and water quality improvement, and discusses the recent wetland conservation and restoration activities in China and neighboring countries.

This book explores optimal decisions for companies and governments to build a sustainable supply chain and economy by applying analytical models from new perspectives.

The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc.

This volume gives an overview of the applications of organometallic chemistry in process chemistry relevant to the current topics in synthetic chemistry.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of sustainable energy systems, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Conference Sustainable Energy Systems: Innovative Perspectives (SES), held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on October 29-30, 2020.

This book offers a unique vantage point on converting ideas into products using additive manufacturing.

Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level.

This book presents a novel approach to the classical scientific discipline of Structural Engineering, which is inspired by numerous current applications from domains of Civil, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.

This book introduces a 'triple-bottom-line' approach to the concept and practice of family business sustainability.

Demands for sustainability policies have set new challenges for business both on the individual firm level and on the level of organized business interests.

This book investigates the new urban geographies of "e;smart"e; metropolitan regionalism across the Greater Seattle area and examines the relationship between smart growth planning strategies and spaces of work, home, and mobility.

This book presents an overview of the challenges that cities in Latin America and Asia are facing regarding the preservation of their tangible and intangible heritage.

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

Foundations for Sustainability: A Coherent Framework of Life-Environment Relations challenges existing assumptions on environmental issues and lays the groundwork for a new paradigm, bringing a greater understanding of what is needed to help create an environmentally and economically sustainable future, which to date has been an uphill battle and not an obvious choice.

In the World Library of Educationalists, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces-extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions-so the world can read them in a single manageable volume.

There is a growing interest in the development of sustainable processes for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and this book bridges the divide between industrial examples and the fundamental chemistry.

This book introduces advanced methods of computational and information systems allowing readers to better understand the state-of-the-art design and implementation technology needed to maintain and enhance the safe operation of nuclear power plants.

During the last two decades, sustainability has become the dominant concern of transportation planners and policymakers.

Averting Climate Catastrophe Together addresses the necessity of meeting the Paris Agreement temperature target and explores what framework could enable climate action in an effective, efficient and equitable manner that is consistent with that goal.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of energy, environmental and construction engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Scientific Conference Energy, Environmental and Construction Engineering, held in St.

This book discusses capital separation processes of industrial interest and explores the potential for substantial improvement offered by a promising class of substances: ionic liquids.

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This book highlights the utilization of biomaterials as emerging suitable and effective flame retardants (FRs) to replace most of the conventional FRs (e.

The object of this book is to highlight how the nascent field of sustainability science is addressing a key challenges for scientists; that is, understanding the workings of complex systems especially when humans are involved.

This proceedings book provides selections from the 2022 Topical Issues in International Political Geography (TIPG) meeting.

Rainforests are rapidly being cleared in the humid tropics to keep pace with food demands, economic needs, and population growth.

Since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, sustainability has emerged as an over-arching policy goal in the OECD Secretariat and in its Member countries.

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This book covers multifaceted aspects of sustainable energy solutions for remote areas in the tropics, particularly focusing on Southeast Asia.

This book covers green finance with a focus on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) consequences of green financing and its role in attaining sustainable development and a carbon-neutral economy.

The book analyses the influence of corruption on economic growth and environmental protection, examining corruption from different perspectives.

Guarding with Cork: A Sustainable Solution for Protection offers a detailed and comprehensive exploration of the numerous protective applications of cork-based materials.

This volume defines and analyzes the Blue Economy, a system that encompasses all the economic activities which are happening in and around the ocean within a sustainable development framework, with focus on countries in Asia.

Increase in world population, extreme weather conditions, decrease in fresh water supplies, and changes of dietary habits are major issues that affect global food security.

This book highlights ecosystem services of Indian tropical soils driven by soil properties.

This book presents state-of-the-art research and case studies on new approaches to the design, construction and planning of our cities.

This book discusses the unknown and remote urban experiment of modernist social practices and dreams of a better tomorrow.