Sustainability

The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people.

Big Data Analytics for Smart Urban Systems aims to introduce Big data solutions for urban sustainability smart applications, particularly for smart urban systems.

This book provides a business-oriented analysis of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

This book presents a novel method of engineering to create advanced frugal products from scratch.

World human population is expected to reach upwards of 9 billion by 2050 and then level off over the next half-century.

This book highlights the sustainable aspects of fashion and textiles in Latin America and discusses how the manufacturing and consumption of textile products and fashion are significant sources of environmental damage.

This book offers a variety of cases that detail consumer behavior in the apparel industry as well as sustainable retail practices.

With capitalism in crisis - rising inequality, unsustainable resource depletion and climate change all demanding a new economic model - the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has been suggested as an alternative.

Recipient of a 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Business and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments prepares students for the modern workplace by exploring the opportunities and challenges they will face in today's interconnected, global economy.

This book offers a wide, in-depth study of the gender-climate change-agriculture nexus.

This Monograph explains the statistical theory behind the National Forest Inventory (NFI) data collection and compares different methods for modelling and inventory design.

The National Dialogue on Water in Thailand was initiated in 2021 under the regional initiative with the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea (MoE), the Asia Water Council (AWC) and the OECD.

This textbook addresses the complexities associated with the practice of corporate finance in the transition to a Net-Zero world.

This book contains the proceedings of the 3rd IFToMM Workshop for Sustainable Development Goals (I4SDG), held in Lamezia Terme, Italy, on June 9–11, 2025.

This book discusses the convergence between nanotechnology and sustainability detailing the advances in addressing global challenges in achieving technological advancement in nanoscience.

Keith Culver and David Castle Introduction Aquaculture is at the leading edge of a surprisingly polarized debate about the way we produce our food.

This book discusses the role of ESD stakeholders at university level, involving civil society and the private sector and public sectors (including local, national and intergovernmental bodies).

This collection traces the development and findings of curriculum studies of environmental education since the mid-1970s.

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts.

Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan offers an alternative account of how water policy, violence, and economic modernisation are linked.

This book highlights cutting-edge ecodesign research, covering product and service design, smart manufacturing, and social perspectives in ecodesign.

This edited volume evaluates how sport organizations in the public, private, and non-profit sectors define responsible management and sustainability and what these mean in their daily operations.

This book covers different aspects related to utilization of alcohol fuels in internal combustion (IC) engines with a focus on combustion, performance and emission investigations.

Advanced materials and nanotechnology is a promising, emerging field involving the use of nanoparticles to facilitate the detection of various physical and chemical parameters, including temperature, humidity, pH, metal ion, anion, small organic or inorganic molecules, gases, and biomolecules responsible for environmental issues that can lead to diseases like cancer, diabetes, osteoarthritis, bacterial infections, and brain, retinal, and cardiovascular diseases.

Soil is a complex system of inorganic and organic materials, living organisms, water, and air.

This edited book includes over one hundred and eighty short papers that were presented during the third edition of EMCEI, which was held in Sousse, Tunisia, in June 2021.

This book, a sequel to a well-received book titled "e;Bridging Peace and Sustainability Amidst Global Transformations,"e; delves deeper into the entwined roots of peace and sustainability and emphasizes their interdependence.

This book covers three topics that have dominated financial market regulation and supervision debates: digital finance, sustainable finance, and the Banking and Capital Markets Union.

Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, this book covers both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security and analyzes renewable technologies in diverse and highly topical countries: Japan, China and Northern Europe.

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.

This edited collection challenges the common preoccupation with knowledge acquisition and academic achievement by comparing the aims and cultural beliefs which drive education in different countries throughout the world.

Am Fallbeispiel der Volkswagen AG Nachhaltigkeit werden erstmalig auf der Grundlage eines sozialtheoretisch inspirierten Mehrebenen-Analysemodells die Wahrnehmungen und Zuschreibungen von Unternehmensverantwortung (Corporate Responsibility) durch 33 nichtmarktliche Stakeholder aus den drei Bezugsgruppen Wissenschaft und Forschung, Politik und Verbände sowie NGOs untersucht.

This book studies poverty issues by using social work theories and methods.

This book includes selected peer-reviewed articles from the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology; ICSET 2023 held at the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with a focus on the theme "e;Sustainable Energy Technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This volume analyzes the global challenges of food security, land use changes, and climate change impacts on food production in order to recommend sustainable development policies, anticipate future food services and demands, and identify the economic benefits and trade-offs of meeting food security demands and achieving climate change mitigation objectives.

This volume advances the state-of-the-art in the study of the interplay among financial crises, poverty dynamics and environmental sustainability.

This book offers up-to-date insights into the theory and practice of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability management.

This book examines the possible impacts of climate change on hydrology and water resources in the vast arid region of Northwest China, which is one of the world's largest arid places.

Major changes are taking place in the Chinese countryside as China rushes to modernizes and urbanizes its rural fabric.

Energy use is not uniform throughout the day and year.

This expanded, revised, and updated second edition of Innovations in Green Chemistry and Green Engineering provides a comprehensive introduction to the state-of-the-art in this key area of sustainability research.

El 25 de septiembre de 2015, los líderes mundiales adoptaron un conjunto de objetivos globales para "erradicar la pobreza, proteger el planeta y asegurar la prosperidad" de todos sus habitantes como parte de la Agenda de Desarrollo Sostenible.

This book is a review of the recent literature on the key scientific and technical subjects of fertilization management in vegetable crops.

Beautiful and comprehensive, Vegetables is a must-have for all gardeners, by acclaimed authors Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix.

This book outlines the status quo of worldwide wildlife tourism and its impacts on planning, management, knowledge, awareness, behaviour and attitudes related to wildlife encounters.

While the need for effective action toward a greener and socially inclusive economy has long been evident, health promotion in the context of sustainable development has faltered.