Sustainability

This book discusses the use of technology, data science and open data to achieve the net-zero carbon emissions target set up by the Paris Agreement on climate change.

This volume looks at the critical issues of industrial policy and sustainability.

This book shows how promoting clean energy technologies - from solar panels to electric cars - can end human-induced climate change.

This book gathers contributions on modern irrigation environments in Egypt from an environmental and agricultural perspective.

This book presents ways of shaping the built environment sciences and practices for steering the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe.

Globalization and industrialization involve a number of reactions, products, extractions, and separations that require the use of organic solvents.

This book offers a new, nuanced, and comprehensive look at how CSR is practiced and disclosed in terms of corporate transparency, sustainability, and accountability, from the perspective of developing and emerging economies.

This is volume 2 of a two-volume work.

The book is the collection of the latest research results from Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning in environmental policy and reform during the past years, mainly related to ecological compensation, the emission trading, the environment audit, carbon tax, environment friendly city, environmental health, economic policy in medical waste, scattered coal treatment subsidies, environmental policy efficiency analysis, environmental industry statistics, environmental performance evaluation, green fiscal and taxation policy, etc.

How small, innovative grassroots groups are discovering a new kind of economy and a richer quality of life Many of today’s most troubling environmental and economic issues have come to seem insoluble: carbon emissions, overshoot, inequality, joblessness, and a dysfunctional food system.

Ground water resources are receiving global attention, as human population growth and development cause significant changes to the earth system.

The report aims to help the cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China identify their potentials for green development, especially to find their own suitable green development paths.

Energy and Global Climate Change: Bridging the Sustainable Development Divide focuses attention on two urgent global development challenges faced by the UN and its member states: access to sustainable energy for all, and global climate change.

This book offers a comprehensive framework of the current state of water resources in Italy and of the main stages of the evolutionary way in the last decades for achieving an integrated, sustainable and equitable water resources management.

This book contains papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Smart Cities (ICESC2022), previously known as the International Conference on Civil, Offshore and Environmental Engineering (ICCOEE).

This book illustrates the importance of microbiome interactions in sustainable agriculture and the environment.

Toward Sustainability recommends a design for a new Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) for the U.

The book gives a detailed description of the Nilgiri state district and traces the growth of tea cultivation in the district.

Despite being a relatively young sub-discipline, European environmental sociology has changed considerably in the last decades towards more interdisciplinary collaborations and problem solving.

The drive for change has informed human endeavour throughout history.

This book offers innovative ideas and frameworks for sustainable strategizing to advance business by scaling-up its positive impact, which is so urgently needed at this time in the 21st century.

Historically pharmaceutical and fine chemical products have been synthesised using batch methods, but increasingly chemists are looking towards flow chemistry as a greener and more efficient alternative.

The free market underpins our economy and our way of thinking around enterprise and value, but it is also a major factor in the sustainability problems that we now live with.

Some geographic regions around the globe that are rich in terms of modern agriculture technologies, face a dilemma when it comes to storing excess produce, such as grains and even seasonal fruits and vegetable.

Anaconda tells the unexpected story of the world's largest snake.

This book looks to cover the issues related to advances in higher education for sustainable development goals.

In this volume, sustainable creative industries become a beacon for innovative change, forging a path towards a conscious, harmonious world.

By now, planners everywhere know - more or less - what the ingredients of a sustainable city are, in theory.

By emphasizing on the Pamir region a comprehensive overviewof path-dependent and recent developments in a remote mountain region isprovided in this book.

Mountains have long held an appeal for people around the world.

This book provides new knowledge, insights and experience about school-university partnerships.

This book summarizes the latest studies regarding innovation in urban design and planning.

COVID-19 has exposed defects in our current political-economic order: extreme wealth inequality, an ideology-driven government, a greedy corporate sector, a precarious labour force and a looming climate catastrophe.

This, conference proceeding, book contains invited articles and contributory papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, on June 24-25, 2021.

Climate change is believed to be a great challenge to built environment professionals in design and management.

This book contains the full research papers presented at  the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University &  Research  in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

This book addressed the pressing challenges of climate change, land scarcity, and food security, offering a comprehensive synthesis of research on using, managing, and reclaiming marginal lands in Africa.

This book presents the emerging sustainability concerns for India to achieve holistic development.

This book includes a general overview of the book series and summarizes the research results in its 13 subtopics.

As the uncertainty of global and local contexts continues to amplify, the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures responds to the increasing urgency for reimagining futures beyond dystopias and utopias.

Small molecules cause big problems in our modern world.

Applying a trans-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive, research-based guide to understanding, implementing, and strengthening sustainable community health in diverse international settings.

Leadership, Management, Führung – kaum ein Thema ist so von Stereotypen, Mystifizierungen und normativen Appellen beherrscht.

This book highlights the concept of environmental water footprint in the energy (bioenergy & hydropower) sector and the building/construction sector, focusing on a case study in Iran.

The ambition of the book is to give a contemporary insight in the state of the art when it comes to designing our cities and landscapes for dry conditions.

This book sets out to develop a quantitative-based analysis, Form Syntax, which is able to identify various prototypes of urban forms and their degrees of urbanity, thereby enhancing urban design practices.