Directly inspired by Indian British activist Satish Kumar's 2013 seminal work 'Soil, Soul and Society', this book rethinks education in line with thoughts around the current climate crisis, the purpose of education in a post-pandemic world, and the mental health of children, teachers and youth across societies.
This book highlights the institutional, legal, and policy measures to manage water pollution in India, and discusses how effective they have been in improving the overall quality of the country's surface and groundwater resources.
Healthy, Happy HomesteadingWhether you're looking for a farm-to-table solution that provides fresh meat and dairy products today, or a long-term plan that will feed you and your family after the collapse of civilizationor both!
La verificacion de la informacion sobre sostenibilidad constituye la piedra angular que otorga credibilidad a todo un sistema de informacion no financiera, que aborda pormenores basados en los criterios ESG.
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.
The achievements and legacy of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at BrookingsThe Imperative of Development highlights the research and policy analysis produced by the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings.
This book explores the current ecosystem status of tropical inland waters especially in Southeast Asia, the progress of ecosystem restoration in terms of current studies, technological interventions, policy recommendations, and stakeholder participation that gives due respect to traditional knowledge and cultural practices, and the challenges and opportunities of the restoration processes.
These best practice guidelines present the type and level of detail required for describing and evaluating the ecological baseline of an environmental assessment.
This book presents selected peer reviewed articles from the Smart and Sustainable Industrial Ecosystem Conference 2024 (SSIEC 2024), that took place on 5 August 2024in The Kuala Lumpur Teaching Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Mexico City is the second largest city on the American continent, the most populous Spanish-speaking city in the world and the richest city, in terms of GFP, in Latin America.
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.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Africa’s evolving role in sustainable energy, focusing on waste management, renewable energy, and green hydrogen production.
This book discusses different bioprocesses to produce value-added compounds, the science behind their production, the economics of their introduction to the marketplace, their environmental impacts, and their implications for world agriculture.
The rapid shift online during the Covid-19 pandemic has put online learning firmly on the agenda of universities everywhere and to realise fully the transformative potential of online learning this book argues the need for an evidence-based design approach.
From Flint, Michigan, to Standing Rock, North Dakota, minorities have found themselves losing the battle for clean resources and a healthy environment.
This book identifies and provides reasoning for computed methods of local climate dynamics and the livelihood vulnerability indices assessment in the mountainous region of Himachal Pradesh, India.
Provides a rigorous analysis of sustainable development that includes practical, policy-relevant, global case studies, explained concisely and clearly.
This book comprises select proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering (RATE 2018) with technical papers on the themes of traffic operation control and management, traffic safety and vulnerable road users, and sustainable transportation.
This book analyzes the implementation of CSR reporting and codes of business conduct and ethics in the legal systems of the USA, Austria and China and their enforcement in international supply chain arbitrations.
This book highlights the latest knowledge and innovations in the fields of civil engineering and construction industry striving for a sustainable built environment.
This book sets out the discussion on how cities can contribute solutions to some of the challenges the urbanised world is facing, such as the pressure of growing populations, mitigation of effects of, and adaptation to globally changing environmental, climate and public health conditions.
From climate change to species extinction, and habitat loss to soil degradation, a stark awareness of the often devastating impacts of human actions is growing.
Sustainability is a powerful force that is fundamentally reshaping humanity's relationship to the natural world and is ushering in the Age of Integration.
A positive agenda for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen "e;Sustainable Development Goals,"e; to be achieved by 2030.
This book highlights peer reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Renewable Energy and Energy Conversion, ICREEC 2019, held at Oran in Algeria.
Companies are increasingly facing intense pressures to address stakeholder demands from every direction: consumers want socially responsible products; employees want meaningful work; investors now screen on environmental, social, and governance criteria; "e;clicktivists"e; create social media storms over company missteps.
There is a need for an integrated approach to solving and mitigating environmental problems using colloid science technologies and considering the relationship between air, water and soil.
Although the food industry is beginning to make headway with its sustainability initiatives, substantially more progress is needed in order to feed the world s growing population sustainably.
This volume contains the proceedings of the 2022 iteration of the ISPGAYA meeting, titled "e;Multidimensional Sustainability: Transitions and Convergences"e; and held on September 29 and 30th, 2022 in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.
Food problems - the efficient production or procurement of food and its appropriate distribution among members of society - are problems endemic to mankind.
