Sustainability

This study develops a new indicator for national and global sustainability.

This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018.

This book is an outcome of the symposium "e;Towards Earth Friendly Use of Resources and Energy,"e; organized by the Nagoya University Center of Excellence Program "e;From Earth System Science to Basic and Clinical Environmental Studies"e; and presents papers by four eminent researchers.

This book provides a step-by-step approach for organizations to reap benefits from a more sustainable approach.

While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of them, and many of us, may struggle to define the term, let alone trace its history.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles and recent advances on the potential applications of Science and Mathematics for future technologies, from the 8th International Conference on the Applications of Science and Mathematics (SCIEMATHIC 2022), held in Malaysia.

This book delves deeply into the multifaceted challenges of geoheritage management today, including the ever-evolving geological landscape, human impact, and the pressing need for sustainable solutions.

This book is a selection of the best papers presented at the XXX National Conference of Commodity Science held in Bari, Italy on 27 to 28th October, 2022.

This book highlights recent progress on the advancements toward optimization of major biorefinery processes, including biomass pretreatment and fractionation, saccharification of sugars, and conversion of sugars and lignin into fuels and chemical precursors.

This book discusses the latest information and advancements on all aspects of sustainable sludge management including treatment, characterization, stabilization, digestion, thickening, dewatering, thermal processing, utilization, valorization production of usable materials, and disposal, with associated pros and cons addressed.

How can a place be built and managed so that it is safe for people to live?

This book presents quality technical papers representing the recent developments in the field of hydrological modeling, water management and water governance including practical applications.

Nature is a vast source of inspiration and information for the resolution of complex problems and can influence many varieties of design.

Urban sustainability citizenship situates citizens as social change agents with an ethical and self-interested stake in living sustainably with the rest of Earth.

This book fills a crucial gap in the literature by providing an in-depth exploration of sustainable environmental technologies.

Life Cycle Assessment in Aviation: Theory and Applications provides readers with a comprehensive analysis that examines various elements within the aviation sector, including aircraft operations, maintenance and repair activities, aircraft gas turbine engine processes, airport auxiliary vehicles, airport operations, airport construction, airport access traffic, and airport wastes.

This book investigates why and how cycle and walking paths can help to promote the regeneration of marginalized areas facing depopulation and economic decline.

This book analyzes the current approaches to energy management in India that is based on a carbon-intensive pathway, which if continued, may have serious implications for climate change mitigation with severe consequences for human health and survival.

This volume discusses how different geographical spaces can enhance or hinder the capacity of a variety of organizational settings to achieve economic value creation in the pursuit of sustainable regional development.

Empirical in character, this book analyses the society-nature interaction of the Tsimane', a rural indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon.

There have been a lot of innovations in making the garment or apparel production sector sustainable.

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the Arctic in the era of globalization, or as it is referred to here, the 'GlobalArctic'.

This book examines the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounting within an applied development content  for Costa Rica.

This collection of essays sheds light on repair as a disposition to material culture and a practice rooted in diverse sociocultural experiences.

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 contains high-profile contributions that emerged from the Information and Communication Technologies in Organizations and Society (ICTO) conference on "e;Smart Technologies for an Inclusive World,"e; held in 2020.

This book focuses on the soil and environmental resources and how to utilize them under Egyptian conditions to achieve tolerance to environmental abiotic stresses, i.

Evolving traveller expectations, pressures to reduce emissions and a need to preserve popular destinations from over-tourism and climate change are creating untold disruption in the travel industry.

In any ecosystem, plant and microbe interaction is inevitable.

High population growth, informal settlements, and organizational and financial mismanagement represent major challenges for the water supply in many cities in developing countries.

Mining waste management is an important issue for the mining industry since it entails the safe and responsible disposal of waste created during mining operations.

This book introduces the readers to the new concept of cognitive cities.

This book highlights the utilization of biomaterials as emerging suitable and effective flame retardants (FRs) to replace most of the conventional FRs (e.

Urban Alchemy delves into the pressing challenges and unique opportunities facing developing countries in their quest for sustainable urban transformation.

This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2,.

Transportation remains one of the largest contributors to global carbon dioxide emissions with the majority of vehicles using fossil-based fuels such as gasoline and diesel.

The context of leadership has changed.

Covers different categories of green technologies (e.

This book continues the discussion on recent developments relating to ethical and sustainable issues in accounting and finance from Volumes I and II, looking into topics such as the importance of good governance in accounting, tax, auditing and fraud examination, ethics, sustainability, environmental issues and new technologies and their effects on accounting and finance, focusing in particular on environmental and sustainability reporting in the oil and gas and banking sectors.

This book explores various nanotechnology applications and their effect on the food industry, innovation and environmental issues.

This book discusses the phase "e;Interpretation"e; in an outstanding way.

Solid waste management has become a significant global concern, particularly in maintaining and preserving value in solid waste resources.

This book emphasizes the comprehensive application of sustainability for all sectors of Environment, Energy, Building, and Infrastructure to secure a well-balanced world.

This volume looks at the critical issues of industrial policy and sustainability.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication (Digital Concrete), held in Loughborough, UK, on June 27-29, 2022.

This book highlights what are likely to be the future megatrends in the water sector and why and how they should be incorporated to improve water governance in the coming decades.

This book explores an escalating modern-day crisis; managing waste in a sustainable way.

The world is entering the Third Industrial Revolution, an era of remarkable progress in science and technology that will require a global shift away from reliance on fossil-fuel and carbon-based energy.