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This book gives readers the tools to craft AI systems that don't just thrive today, but endure sustainably into the future.

The book compares different approaches to urban development in Singapore and Seoul over the past decades, by focusing on community participation in the transformation of neighbourhoods and its impact on the built environment and communal life.

This handbook provides researchers and students with an overview of the field of sustainability indicators (SIs) as applied in the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development.

This book provides a wide-range exploration on the ongoing research and developmental events in environmental nanotechnology.

This is the most comprehensive book discussing the impact of renewable energy transition by engaging local narratives, and combining this with the domestication of technology theory.

People living in the mountains maintain a unique relationship with their surrounding environment.

This book illustrates past and recent advances in radiation-based technologies for their application in waste biomass valorization.

Globally, there is a need to promote and empower practical action towards better environmental conservation and greater sustainability; education aspires to achieve and motivate this - one mind at a time.

This expansive reference on clean energy technologies focuses on tools for system modelling and analysis, and their role in optimizing designs to achieve greater efficiency, minimize environmental impacts and support sustainable development.

This colourfully illustrated guide introduces new and established crafters to the traditional skills of hooking and its close relations prodding, punching and tufting.

This book investigates the development of high proton conduction properties free-standing two-dimensional coordination polymer membranes, with the goal of elucidating the mechanical flexibility, proton conduction behavior, and structural characteristics of these materials under varying environmental conditions.

A First-Hand Look at the High-Performance Civano DevelopmentThis GreenSource book offers a complete survey of Civano, the largest high-performance mixed-use community in the United States.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

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

This book presents ideas for strengthening the foundations for transformational change in polar and global education leadership in all stages of the education process.

This book aims to give a contribution to a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of the cross-cutting issues on energy, environment and health research topics in the current world scenario, where nations all over the world are struggling to accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to ensure sustainable patterns for all.

This book provides an overview of recent advances in Integrated Community-Managed Development (ICMD) as an innovative strategy for the community-based development of local institutions in order to achieve lasting poverty reduction and empowerment.

This volume highlights cutting-edge research on Zero waste management and the associated effects of waste on the environment.

This book analyzes key findings and developments of psychology for sustainable development.

This book gathers the latest research, innovations, and applications in the field of civil engineering, as presented by leading national and international academics, researchers, engineers, and postgraduate students at the AWAM International Conference on Civil Engineering 2022 (AICCE'22), held in Penang, Malaysia on February 15-17, 2022.

This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America.

Teachers see the impact of pupils' mental wellbeing on the experience of school every day.

This large-N, three-country study of the coffee sector assesses the effectiveness of private governance by standards in promoting sustainable production.

This book, divided in two volumes, originates from Techno-Societal 2018: the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications, Maharashtra, India, that brings together faculty members of various engineering colleges to solve Indian regional relevant problems under the guidance of eminent researchers from various reputed organizations.

In nature, radiata pine is very localised and an obscure tree species despite the romantic character of much of its natural habitat.

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This book explores interfaces between land and sea and their geostrategic, ecological, urban, productive, indigenous, legal, historical, and artistic dimensions.

This proceedings book provides selections from the 2022 Topical Issues in International Political Geography (TIPG) meeting.

In the present scenario, green technologies are playing significant role in changing the course of nation's economic growth towards sustainability and providing an alternative socio-economic model that will enable present and future generations to live in a clean and healthy environment, in harmony with nature.

Climate change is a pressing reality.

This volume, a collection of seven essays by individuals prominent in the water resources field, commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Water Science and Technology Board.

The cooperative banks' business model is unique in the financial market.

Currently, spatial analysis is becoming more important than ever because enormous volumes of spatial data are available from different sources, such as GPS, Remote Sensing, and others.

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 aimed at providing clarity through a systemic and systematic approach to organisational change management for sustainability.

This book reports on original research and practical findings fostering  collaborative, inclusive, just, safe and climate neutral transportation planning.

Biomass obtained from agricultural residues or forest can be used to produce different materials and bioenergy required in a modern society.

Urban areas face daunting environmental, economic and social challenges that have increased in scope in recent years, especially given climate change and globalization.

This book presents selected high-quality research papers submitted to ICNF 2017, the 3rd International Conference on Natural Fibers, which was held in Braga, Portugal, on 21-23 June 2017.

Nothing happens in the world without energy conversion and entropy production.

Cork-Based Materials in Engineering Applications provides a set of case studies investigating cork as an eco-friendly and sustainable engineering material.

Rampant industrialization, urbanization, and population growth have resulted in increased global environmental contamination.

Powerfuels are the subject of intense and often contentious current discussions within industry, research, politics, as well as the overall society.

This proposed book chapter is expected to provide the readers with wide aspects of green technologies for industrial waste remediation.

This book provides sound conceptual understanding of the current approach to management and decision making regarding geo-based challenges in developing countries that tend to suffer from information poverty and subjectivity and are reactive.