Sustainability

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015.

This book illustrates innovative support-decision models, methods, and advanced automation and robotic technologies aimed at enhancing the overall performance of Warehousing and Material Handling (WMH) in terms of time and space efficiency, service levels, labor safety, and ergonomics.

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) remains the cornerstone of global ocean governance.

This volume uses an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to assess various issues resulting from human-environment interactions in relation to sustainable development.

This book offers a variety of cases that detail microbial technologies for remediation of microfiber pollution.

From Peter Wohlleben, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, and his wife, Miriam, comes an inspired, practical memoir of creating a sustainable homestead amongst the trees.

This book covers the latest technology and experimental scientific advancements in converting carbon dioxide (CO2) from waste to useful commercial products.

The relentless bombardment and blockade on Gaza have not only drastically restricted the inflow of essential food supplies but have also led to a catastrophic humanitarian crisis with unprecedented casualties.

This book provides new information to understand the relationship between urban development and environmental change to the reader.

While energy prices, energy security, and climate change are front and center in the national media, these issues are often framed to the exclusion of the broader issue of sustainabilityensuring that the production and use of biofuels do not compromise the needs of future generations by recognizing the need to protect life-support systems, promote economic growth, and improve societal welfare.

This book provides a comprehensive, balanced and reader-friendly account of the developments in climate science over the past 250 years.

Sustainable Futures explores the links between population growth, diminishing resources and environmental challenges, and the implications for Australia's future.

This book serves the purpose of documenting and promoting African experiences on sustainable development, which encompasses both, formal and non-formal education.

Microbial communities and their functions play a crucial role in the management of ecological, environmental and agricultural health on the Earth.

This book analyzes new forms of capitalism that are manifesting under the pressures of global transformation.

This book makes "e;green living,"e; as it relates to teens and young adults, an approachable subject.

John Grant is back!

This book presents a collection of cross-disciplinary research, with contributions addressing all key features of the plant/microbe/ENP nexus in agro-ecosystems.

This book brings together the papers presented at the Smart and Sustainable Built Environments Conference, 2018 (SASBE).

This textbook explains electricity generation in plain English so non-engineers can easily understand it.

This book is an interdisciplinary work that reveals the contemporary sustainability narratives in India within the context of various SDGs.

This edited book focuses primarily on biofuel production potential in agricultural waste, such as biogas generation, biohydrogen production, and research trends on managing or converting agricultural waste to biofuel.

This book contributes to blockchain applications in food supply chain management from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

The SSTEW Scale helps all those working with children aged two to six to achieve their full potential and enjoy the benefits and pleasure of delivering high quality early education and care.

This book highlights the processing, characterization and applications of various green composites.

Energy comes in many shapes and forms, from wind, solar power, geothermal, and biomass to coal, natural gas, and petroleum.

This book discusses a compelling array of topics at the intersection of entrepreneurship, education, and technological innovation within the creative industries.

In the growth of societies, business and entrepreneurship are regarded as two significant and determinative concerns.

Since 2014, and the start of the New-type Urbanization Plan (NUP), we see a turning point in the sustainability agenda of China.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 6th International Conference on Bio-Based Building Materials (ICBBM), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 17-20, 2025.

This book is centred around various interwoven topics which are fundamental to policy analysis in agriculture.

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China from September 21st - 27th, 2023, with the theme of Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth.

This book includes selected papers from the ICGSCE 2014 with focus on the current trends of global resources used to meet the growing demands to improve life style coupled with environmental and social problems related to the resource consumption with emphasize to move towards sustainable development.

Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class provides a compelling case, real-world examples, and the tools to follow a proven strategy for aligning sustainability efforts with existing organizational priorities.

In the face of unprecedented challenges in managing water resources, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) emerges as a revolutionary force, reshaping the landscape of water conservation, treatment, irrigation, policy formulation, watershed management, and the monitoring of groundwater and surface water.

The Space Value of Money introduces a fresh and innovative perspective on sustainability and finance.

Sustainable Development in Practice: Case Studies for Engineers and Scientists, Second Edition explores the concept of sustainable development and its implications for science and engineering.

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

This book presents the changing face of social responsibility, showing how it has grown to encompass governance, becoming a vital part of various aspects of human endeavor.

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

Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenge of turning international commitments and policy promises into action.

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

This book focuses on the prospects of fresh market waste management in developing countries.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of the environmental issues raised in the South China Sea Arbitration Awards, which have not attracted as much attention in the Philippines as the "e;nine-dash line"e;.

Sustainable development is based on the idea that societies should advance without compromising their future development requirements.

This proceedings volume focuses on the importance and power of spatial thinking and planning, especially by applying geospatial technologies in solving the past and current global problems such as environmental degradation, urban pollution, climate change, agricultural management and epidemiology.