Sustainability

Based on the premise that we have 21 days before we lose our modern conveniences, Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs is packed with practical solutions for becoming more self-reliant and transitioning to a lower energy lifestyle.

Phytoplasma-associated diseases are a major limiting factor in the context of the quality and productivity of many ornamental, horticultural and other economically important agricultural crops worldwide.

This book looks at the potential of sport to contribute to wide-ranging development outcomes, which have been recognized across international policy declarations, most significantly in the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This book is a highly illustrated "e;map,"e; using photos, infographics and statistics, showing designers how they can successfully navigate the emerging field of resource management and the circular economy.

This book discusses a crucial paradigm shift in urban planning and architectural design, addressing the urgent need for sustainability  and adaptation in the face of rapidly changing climate and urban landscapes.

The International Symposium on Electric Aviation and Autonomous Systems is a multi-disciplinary conference that presents research in the fields of aerospace, autonomous, and piloted unmanned systems.

Global climate change threatens human existence through its potential impact on agriculture and the environment.

This book focuses on holistic approaches of applying sustainable practices in all sectors of building, infrastructure, and energy to achieve a best-balanced global energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technology (EBITW) regime.

This book provides a rough entry into the interdisciplinary field of Infranomics.

This book examines how institutional and environmental features in neighbourhoods can contribute to social resilience, highlighting the related socio-demographic issues, as well as the infrastructure, planning, design and policies issues.

Sustainability is now a widely spread concept, and much progress has been achieved since the 1970s, when it started to be widely discussed.

Over the past few decades, the frequency and severity of natural and human-induced disasters have increased across Asia.

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the various aspects involved in biomass burning, highlighting the complexity of the phenomenon and the ensuing challenges for the design of approaches aimed at reducing fires in the open air.

This volume represents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, SEB'10, held in the City of Brighton and Hove in the United Kingdom, and organised by KES International.

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Accelerating Sustainable Aviation Initiatives: Markets, Economics, and Social Issues examines the twin challenges of clean aviation and the industry's ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

'It's important that everyone with an interest in fashion reads this book so we can live on a healthier planet' Arizona Muse 'The most timely book you'll read this year' India Knight* * * * * Running out of space for the clothes you can't stop buying?

Originally published in 1987, The Creation of Local Authority Sector of Higher Education is a macro-analysis of the creation and development of the local authority sector of higher education from the early 1960s to the 1980s.

How have the events of the twenty-first century shaped African economies and societies?

This book reports on original research and practical findings fostering  collaborative, inclusive, just, safe and climate neutral transportation planning.

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

This book presents a thorough analysis of the innovative food commons approach in relation to the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Natural dyes offer a time-tested and generally more sustainable alternative to synthetic dyes in the textile industry.

This book, the second volume, highlights 7 out of a total of about 36 megacities in the World which by definition have 10 million inhabitants.

All global countries are interdependent and all aspects of the global economy operate synergistically.

Companies and policy makers are prioritizing environmental, social, and governance goals as part of their strategies.

The book provides a comprehensive exploration of the the evolution in sustainability reporting and non-financial disclosure from three perspectives: regulatory, literary, and empirical.

An accessible synthesis of a decade of multidisciplinary research into how diverse actors exercise authority in environmental decision making.

This book introduces readers to the press release work carried out by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection in 2017.

This book covers themes related to the geosphere, biosphere, sociosphere and ecosphere dealing with changing geographical, environmental and socio-economic realities to plan a sustainable future for the northeast region (NER) of India.

The coastal areas of the tropics are rich in biodiversity, natural resources and place of intensive developmental activities as it provides livelihood to millions of people.

This book provides a wide-range exploration on the ongoing research and developmental events in environmental nanotechnology.

Achieving sustainability is perhaps the single-most important task for our generation.

Diverse Pedagogies of Place presents eight original place-responsive pedagogies that address a question of paramount importance in today's world: how do we educate the next generation of students to confront the challenges of global climate change and the on-going degradation of natural environments?

Practising Immanence: Living with Theory and Environmental Education makes creative contributions to both qualitative inquiry and environmental education by exploring how each of these ideas seep and fuse into one another, creating a space where methodology becomes pedagogy, and where each of these is already always environmental: indivisible with life.

The book provides a cross sectoral assessment of the most relevant environmental challenges in the Mediterranean region, including land and water degradation, water and food security, and solution opportunities for these.

Progress of corporate history since the industrial revolution has been an enormous growth in freedom of enterprise, economic prosperity, innovation, technical, and intellectual advancement but it has also been, stoking the passions of greed, a slow and sure decay of morality, and social order culminating in high unemployment and Occupy Wall Street movements.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Indian corporations following the 2013 legal mandate on corporate spending of profits for CSR.

A concrete, action-based look at the ways businesses can become sustainable as moving towards a sustainable world becomes more and more important.

The implementation of sustainability initiatives on campuses is an essential component of promoting sustainability in the higher education context.

This book covers several innovative alternative livelihoods based on mangrove floral resources with their respective SWOT analysis.

Natural products are used by the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, and extraction technologies and potential applications for plant extracts are of interest to many industrial sectors.

This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China - particularly city governments and social actors - tackle China's urban environmental crisis.

This book consists of two parts.

This book is aimed at developing sustainability competences through pedagogical approaches by comparing 15 case studies from 12 countries in 4 continents (Africa, America, Australia, and Europe) analysing how Sustainable Development (SD) is being taught in their courses, which competences are being developed, and which pedagogical approaches are being used to develop the competences.

This 2-volume book covers the state-of-the-art of the research and practices on eco-design.

It is estimated that there are more than 110 national and international business-led corporate responsibility coalitions.

This book expounds on the related technologies of intelligent transportation infrastructure construction.