Sustainability

Water is the elixir of life and is crucial for sustainable development.

Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry is a comprehensive guide.

This radical book aims to inject new insight and urgency into the discourse on the retrofitting of commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency.

This book addresses the following question: What is a sustainable society, and how can higher education help us to develop toward it?

This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development.

Introduces a bold, new model for energy industry pollution prevention and sustainable growth Balancing industrial pollution prevention with economic growth is one of the knottiest problems faced by industry today.

Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy.

There is a pressing global issue of waste and its multi-fold impact on society, the environment, and the economy.

In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments in Asia and examined emerging resilience themes from the point of view of sustainability and public policy.

Los artículos de este libro son aportes de una Red de Investigadores que se conformó en el marco del Proyecto PASO-Ambiental (Elementos que motivan la participación social en proyectos con impacto ambiental en el cantón Cuenca), quienes estuvieron atentos a los hallazgos, debates, aportes teóricos y prácticos de la reflexión de proceso de investigación.

This book reveals the interaction between the livelihood of people and the surrounding natural environment in rural and urban areas of Vietnam and discusses actions to be taken towards sustainable development, which provide some useful insights into several SDGs.

Leading School Renewal explores how school principal leadership behaviour impacts on school change endeavours, and in particular pedagogic renewal, which is a form of educational improvement that is primarily concerned with the growing of the knowledge, skills and beliefs of education in a manner that optimises students' life options.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current challenges in one of the most biodiverse regions in the world.

This book presents recent research works related to salt attack and corrosion in concrete structures, durability and service life in concrete, non-destructive techniques applied to reinforced concrete structures and acoustic performance of buildings.

This book is the first to cover all aspects of using ammonia for energy - from production to last use.

This book examines the background of fourth-generation biofuel production, use of genetically modified microalgae for production of fourth-generation biofuels; cultivation and harvesting of genetically modified microalgae; residue from biofuel extraction; health and environmental concerns of fourth-generation biofuels; regulations on cultivation and processing of the genetically modified algae; carbon dioxide sequestration; water footprint and current status and key challenges.

Anaerobic digestion is a core technology for sustainable waste(water) management and renewable energy recovery from waste sources.

This book discusses the challenges related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

This book provides a detailed overview of ecological money and finance.

Xenobiotic compounds including pesticides, nitrophenols, pyridine, polycyclic aromatic compounds and polychlorinated biphenyls are widely spread in environment due to anthropogenic activities.

This book reviews empirical and theoretical research on sustainable development in the context of leisure management for communities.

This book aims to provide innovative solutions to the various problems faced during the infrastructural development across the globe.

Business innovation and industrial intelligence are paving the way for a future in which smart factories, intelligent machines, networked processes and Big Data are combined to foster industrial growth.

Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "e;sustainable foods"e; that were produced from "e;sustainable agriculture"e;; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "e;sustainable development"e; as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "e;sustainable lifestyle.

This book brings forth the fundamental understanding of the role of Industry 4.

The volume presents innovative approaches to improving energy access in underprivileged communities.

Prioritizing Sustainability Education presents theory-to-practice essays and case studies by educators from six countries who elucidate dynamic approaches to sustainability education.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and environmental impacts of climate change on the tropical ecosystems in Tanzania.

This book provides a deep insight into urban regeneration schemes and explores the parameters of what is deemed a sustainable development, before appraising existing schemes' evaluation models for the sustainable return on investment.

This Brief discusses the translation of global environmental norms across local contexts in France.

A comprehensive, clearly structured and readable overview of the subject, Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment has established itself as the leading introduction to EIA worldwide.

Sustainable materials science and engineering is one of the important characteristics of the existing high-tech revolution.

This book advances the use of biodiesel-more environmentally friendly than traditional fossil fuels-by showing how it can be synthesized at a lower cost, with greater efficiency and as a more pure and stable product.

La constante emisión de contaminantes a la atmósfera debe abordarse desde una perspectiva de carácter interdisciplinario, lo que implica que la política de la calidad del aire debe ser transversal.

As the world increasingly recognizes the importance of sustainability, businesses and investors are looking for ways to integrate sustainable practices into their operations and investment decisions.

The construction of the Panama Canal at the beginning of the twentieth century created an enclave that ran parallel to the interoceanic waterway, controlled by the US government: the Canal Zone.

The book describes the recent trends in space policy and the space sector overall.

This book stems from the seminal work of Robert Venturi and aims at re-projecting it in the current cultural debate by extending it to the scale of landscape and placing it in connection with representative issues.

This volume presents up-to-date research on the Nile Delta and discusses the challenges involved in and opportunities for improving its productivity.

Many organizations have found themselves well advanced in their sustainability strategies and reaching the limits of progress made through eco-efficiency measures and regulatory compliance.

This book examines the intersections between children, education and geography.

This book focuses on the emerging field of food waste-based eco-textiles.

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