Sustainability

Sub-Saharan Africa grapples with many public health issues such as food insecurity, increased prevalence of infectious diseases, limited access to clean water supply, poor nutrition and lack of improved health services for its populace (IMF, 2021).

This volume brings together, in a central text, chapters written by leading scholars working at the intersection of modeling, the natural and social sciences, and public participation.

Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key driver of climate change.

This edited volume focuses on how we can protect our environment and enhance environmental sustainability when faced with changes and pressures imposed by our expansive needs.

This contributed volume provides case studies from around the world that feature a convergence of indigenous and western knowledge in an attempt to understand complex socio-ecological systems.

Much of the earth's population is dependent on agriculture as it provides food for their sustenance.

Since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis the prevailing economic development model based on an assumption of unlimited resources and, therefore, unlimited growth has been increasingly put into question by academics, policy-making agencies and even industry leaders themselves.

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 interdisciplinary book challenges current approaches to "e;environmental problems"e; that perpetuate flawed but deeply embedded cultural beliefs about the role of science and technology in society.

Considering the increasing importance of renewable energy for climate change mitigation, this book provides an overview of how renewable energy sources are integrated into the grid to promote better understanding among students and business professionals in the utility sector and across industries.

Regional equity as a field of scholarship, as an arena of policy change, and as a social movement has grown, diversified, and matured in important ways over the past decade.

Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides current science to support evidence-based action.

Taking a fresh new look at the energy industry and how the Earth's resources are being developed, the aim of this book is to aid engineers and scientists in attaining sustainability in this field, both from an economic and environmental perspective.

China has made a major strategic decision to achieve carbon peak before 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the complex journey toward achieving environmental resilience in the twenty-first century.

Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries.

This book presents a comprehensive account of the energy and environmental security perspectives of the developing countries.

What must we do to achieve a sustainable society?

This book presents the select papers from the International Symposium on "e;Emerging Trends in Synthesis and Catalysis"e; (ETSC 2023).

There is growing awareness among leading responsible management scholars and practitioners that understanding global wicked problems is insufficient in effecting lasting engagement and changed behaviors.

This book provides a detailed yet succinct overview of sustainable finance, with a specific focus on its origins, its policy focus and the practitioner dimension.

The International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) brings together global experts to focus on a sustainability agenda and the positive and detrimental changes that are taking place.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This book presents essential insights on the interaction between rising risks and raising the bar for resilience during the climate crisis.

This book surveys the historical development, current problems and likely prospects for Eastern Mediterranean port cities, providing contributions from scholars from various disciplines, such as archaeologists, historians, economists, urban planners and architects.

This book provides an overview of recycled polyesters, which are an important sustainable raw material in textile production.

This book is an introduction to one of the fast-developing core pillars in business, sustainability, as well as how it is closely tied into the concept of service.

This book provides the reader with an understanding of the impact that different morphologies, construction materials and green coverage solutions have on the urban microclimate, thus affecting the comfort conditions of urban inhabitants and the energy needs of buildings in urban areas.

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

Design for Sustainable Change explores how design thinking and design-led entrepreneurship can address the issue of sustainability.

This book presents a systems approach to bioenergy and provides a means to capture the complexity of bioenergy issues, including both direct and indirect impacts across the energy economy.

This proceedings volume of InCoTEPD 2018 covers many ideas for handling a wide variety of challenging issues in the field of education.

This edited volume explores the challenges and opportunities of knowledge management (KM) in the post-pandemic world.

This book presents the main drivers of benthic structure and processes in estuaries from the 8,000 km-Brazilian coast, assesses the influence of natural and human disturbance, and discusses their ecological importance and management needs.

This book covers various topics related to economics and the social sciences, such as artificial intelligence, sustainability, ESG, and tax administration.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP World Information Technology Forum, WITFOR 2016, San Jose, Costa Rica, in September 2016.

This book includes papers presented at the 6th Arte-Polis International Conference.

This book highlights ten cases of entrepreneurship that - in the context of circular economy - have redefined the paradigm of luxury and the notion of exclusivity that it requires.

This book analyses the roots and evolution of the concept of sustainability in Europe and the European Union.

This book provides comprehensive and practical information on the design and implementation of circular systems for various industries, with a focus on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors.

The Sustainable University of the Future discusses the rapid changes taking place within institutions of higher education-changes that have pushed universities to reconsider their traditional policies and plans.

Architectural Design Strategies for Saving Energy in Buildings: An Architect's View employs an architect's perspective, defined equally as art and engineering science, to the contemporary concept of designing buildings that use less energy.

Our daily lives are permeated by the activities of logistics and supply chain, from food and clothing to doorstep deliveries.

This book provides the reader with an understanding of the impact that different morphologies, construction materials and green coverage solutions have on the urban microclimate, thus affecting the comfort conditions of urban inhabitants and the energy needs of buildings in urban areas.