Sustainability

This report addresses the urgent issue of climate-related losses and damages.

How to Win Campaigns is a practical guide for creating and running successful campaigns.

With this absolute beginner's guide, learn how to set up your backyard hives, select and raise bees, and harvest honey, with the added bonus of bringing pollinators to your yard and garden.

This book aims at showing how big data sources and data analytics can play an important role in sustainable mobility.

This 2-volume book highlights cutting-edge ecodesign research and covers broad areas ranging from individual product and service design to social system design.

This volume discusses the reduction, recycling, and reuse of industrial and agricultural biomass wastes to develop value-added products using environmentally sustainable practices and technologies.

The book embodies the groundwater issues and challenges in India focusing its sustainable use.

This book offers a cutting-edge perspective of design for space to increase astronauts' wellbeing and performance creating a more sustainable and inclusive environment, but without to forget beauty.

Empowerment is the overarching idea used in this book.

This book examines the monetary and financial foundations for actively pursuing outer space exploration, development, and settlement.

This book examines the development needs of protected areas with threatened ecological biodiversity to gain deeper understanding of the local perspective of protected area ecosystems.

The book results from research carried out by the authors since 1999 on urban gardening collectives in Russia, then from the extension of this research towards collective urban gardening in France, with some investigations in other European Union Member States and Brazil.

Many governments worldwide are setting more stringent targets for reductions in energy use in government/public buildings.

This volume explores whether theatre pedagogy can and should be transformed in response to the global climate crisis.

Showing how the method of sustainability assessment plays a key role in choosing the best agricultural productive mode, this book guides the reader through the process of selecting, from among the various approaches for building farming systems, the method of decision-making that will result in the most appropriate outcome, given the context.

This book comes out of the 12th Iberoamerican Congress of Food Engineering, which took place at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal in July 2019.

This series of books are the output of the research project called "e;Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)"e;, which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA).

This book presents a design research on the basalt fiber, a natural mineral material with important characteristics, and investigates the material's properties, production techniques, and most common uses, while also delving into aspects yet to be improved.

This collection explores what the social and philosophical aspects of veganism offer to critical theory.

This volume discusses the challenges of Latin America in global environmental geopolitics.

This book highlights recent advances in variety of nanomaterials classes including metal chalcogenides, metal oxides/hydroxides, polymer, metal-organic frameworks, and hybrid nanostructures, with a focus on their properties, synthesis methods, and key applications.

How does the world of theatre and the performing arts intersect with the climate and environmental crisis?

This book presents the challenges of developing countries to understand and manage the risks of extreme natural events.

This volume reviews our current knowledge and novel research areas on Pochonia chlamydosporia, a cosmopolitan fungus occurring in soils as a saprophyte yet capable of colonizing the rhizosphere of crops as an endophyte and behaving as a parasite of eggs of plant-parasitic nematodes.

Since the emergence of climate and global warming onto the international agenda, research in sustainability has been underpinned by the development in energy and environmental science.

Decarbonization through optimized energy flows.

This book comprehensively describes social responsibility and sustainable development, with contributions from scientists and representatives from industry working in the field.

This book highlights the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) of the energy and textile sectors.

This book examines social innovation strategies in the collaborative development of spaces for growing food in cities.

This novel volume delves into a specific and crucial aspect of early years pedagogy - the intersection between early childhood education and spirituality, offering tips on nurturing spirituality and a sense of connectedness with nature through outdoor learning.

This edited collection proposes a wide range of approaches to address the legal issues pertaining to the end of the fossil fuel era.

This book highlights recent advances and evolution of various nanomaterials and their potential in diverse research fields.

Leather and its products are globally traded commodities known for durability, fashion, reuse, repurpose, and resistance to degradation.

This book covers how Internet of Things (IoT) has a role in shaping the future of our communities.

This book examines energy efficiency in the Australian built environment and presents current developments with a particular focus on the temperate setting of Victoria state.

This book gathers selected contributions in the field of civil and structural engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Materials Physics, Building Structures and Technologies in Construction, Industrial and Production Engineering (MPCPE), held in Vladimir, Russia, on April 26-28, 2022.

This two-volume set discusses recent approaches and technological innovations for sustainable agriculture in smallholder farming systems impacted by climate change.

Explains how energy industry firms have hedged their bets by using paradoxical strategies to cope with the uncertainty around energy prices and climate change.

An economy low in carbon and high in life satisfaction will require thousands, if not millions of exceptional leaders.

The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.

This book arises from a 2011 international conference entitled Climate Change, Agri-Food, Fisheries and Ecosystems: Reinventing Research, Innovation, and Policy Agendas for an Environmentally and Socially-Balanced Growth (ICCAFFE2011), organized by the North-South Center for Social Sciences (NRCS) in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany and the Institute for Research and Development (IRD), France.

This book highlights the comprehensive overview of the current status and future potential of biopolymers in the textile industry, including the properties and performance of different types of biopolymers, the applications of biopolymers in various textile products, the challenges and limitations associated with their use, and the environmental impact and economic benefits of biopolymers in the textile industry.

This book discusses the reality of implementing sustainable forest management measures.

This book talks about the dynamics of the surface water-groundwater contaminant interactions under different environmental conditions across the world.

This book approaches Green Civilization based on the background of international initiative on sustainable development and in-depth analyzes the valuable era consensus reached by 193 countries on the UN Sustainable Development 2030 Agenda.