Sustainability

The 21st century has been called the "e;century of the city.

This book explores how education can be used as a tool to promote sustainability practices as the world faces huge challenges related to climate change and public health.

The edited book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of scientific developments in agricultural sustainability under changing climate conditions.

Interactive Media for Sustainability presents a conceptually rich, critical account of the design and use of interactive technologies to engage the public with sustainability.

Here, expert authors delineate approaches that can support both decision makers as well as their concerned populations in overcoming unwarranted fears and in elaborating policies based on scientific evidence.

This book considers the scope and dynamics of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and learning in schools in Africa.

Business sustainability and sustainable development are of great importance in modern-day socio-economic study.

This book explains how and where copper and fossil fuels were formed and the likely future for the extraction of copper and coal.

This book presents a systems thinking approach in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable national development in vulnerable countries.

This book is part of a two-volume work that offers a unique blend of information on realistic evaluations of catalyst-based synthesis processes using green chemistry principles and the environmental sustainability applications of such processes for biomass conversion, refining, and petrochemical production.

The book provides a comprehensive exploration of sustainable practices in biomaterial development for biomedical applications, covering diverse topics such as green synthesis methods, the potential of biodegradable materials, renewable resources for biopolymers, strategies in polymer synthesis, bio-mediated nanomaterials, sustainable manufacturing techniques including 3D and 4D printing, protein-based biomaterials, composite biomaterials derived from cellulose, chitin, and chitosan, as well as hydroxyapatite-starch-based biomaterials, carbonaceous materials, eco-friendly synthesis of metal and metal oxide nanomaterials, silk fibroin scaffold synthesis, utilization of green catalysts, cellulose-derived hydrogels for tissue engineering, plant extract-mediated synthesis of metallic nanoparticles, and eggshell-derived biomaterial synthesis.

This book brings together contributions from groundwater researchers and scientists on underground water resources in Egypt's deserts.

The Trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh has witnessed important changes linked to its geo-strategic importance, the rapid development of means of communication with other parts of India, socio-economic transformation processes and the effects of climate change.

This first hands-on guide to ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) makes this powerful tool immediately accessible to both professionals and students.

Climate change, species extinction, energy and raw material shortages are global challenges that are directly linked to our economic activity.

The book discusses new and emerging economic models, that respond to 'Pulling' and 'Pushing' forces.

As the world has transformed, so have cities.

This book states that the new environmental challenge will also have to be faced ethically, science can provide the tools, but people will have to be sensitized so that they make their own environmental ethics.

Examining the roles, impacts and challenges of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Latin America, this volume provides a broad perspective on the range of strategies these organizations employ and the obstacles they face in advocating for and delivering educational reform.

This contributed volume covers all relevant aspects of road vehicle automation including societal impacts, legal matters, and technology innovation from the perspectives of a multitude of public and private actors.

Tourism is an activity that anyone can take part in, regardless of their age, gender, nationality or level of income.

Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across the world.

This volume analyzes sustainability-related innovations in the building sector and discusses how regional contexts articulate transition trajectories toward green building.

This book explores the topic of proximity and its relations in the design of contemporary urban fabrics and public spaces.

This book presents an updated state-of-the-art for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) for MENA regions.

This book presents fundamental and applied research aimed at the development of smart cities across India.

Green toxicology is an integral part of green chemistry.

This book introduces readers to a powerful method for cross-cultural due diligence in mergers and organizational collaborations.

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (ELCA)  that was developed about three decades ago demands a broadening of its scope to include lifecycle costing and social aspects of life cycle assessment as well, drawing on the three-pillar or 'triple bottom line' model of sustainability, which is the result of the development of the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA).

These proceedings gather carefully selected, peer-reviewed contributions from the International Conference on Pure and Applied Chemistry (ICPAC 2018).

The book, showing virtuous examples of urban planning in Italy and Europe, exposes certain doubts and open questions: what is the new role of urban planning?

The book analyzes the problems and potential of renewable energy development for the Coachella Valley of California and provides a useful case study for renewable energy feasibility assessments for other areas.

This brief provides a valuable reference for the contribution of essential oils in the green chemistry, mainly in terms of their characteristics corresponding to their compositions, the development of their extraction technologies including both conventional and green process (e.

A guide to designing and building the environmentally friendly, energy efficient home of your dreams.

The valuable characteristics of animal waste materials in terms of climatic change impact and bioenergy production are discussed in this book.

This book focuses on holistic approaches to sustainability in all sectors of environment, energy, building, and infrastructure to achieve the best-balanced global environmental, energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technologies (EBITWs).

The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years.

Focuses on how the theories underlying sustainability can be translated into practice and the challenges involved in achieving this.

This book provides readers with the most advanced research on bridge engineering structures and high performance concrete applications in China.

This book covers the recent developments in biopolymer nanocomposite materials and their possible impact on the food packaging industry.

This book presents the latest findings and ongoing research in the field of environmental informatics.

This three-volume encyclopedia explores the concept of sustainability in the contexts of the environment, economics, and justice.

This volume provides new insights and conceptual understandings of the human and gender dimension of vulnerability in relation to the dynamics of tenure reforms in the dryland forests of Asia and Africa.

This book examines state-of-the-art techniques for using recycled materials for structural concrete production, and explores the use of concrete with metallurgical slag, rheology of fresh recycled concrete, and life-cycle analysis of building materials.