Sustainability

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Sustainability and Emerging Technologies for Smart Manufacturing (SETSM 2024) held on 27-28 April at Hanoi in Vietnam.

Your Shopping Superpower provides an insightful guide and strategies for shoppers to align the contents in their carts with their personal values.

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

Sustainable catering aspires to reduce the environmental impacts of foodservice by serving nutritional, safe and environmentally friendly meals, and Italy has embraced the adoption of environmentally friendly diets and the minimization of food waste by introducing the minimum environmental criteria.

This book critically analyzes the reasons for the lack of tangible success in preventing progressing eutrophication and its negative effects as a global environmental problem without a clear solution until now.

This book demonstrates to the world by a series of replicable case studies, how the Indo-Pacific developmental initiatives of QUAD, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Australia, and others can be implemented using the design of "e;Core Digital Economic Communities"e; within the 21 megacities that form Indo pacific megacity system and outside with independent country strategies to engage with these megacity systems where "e;Peripheral Digital Economic Communities"e; are located.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge insights and research in sustainable infrastructure development, offering valuable solutions tailored to meet contemporary challenges.

This book offers a comprehensive detail about the role that corporate social responsibility can play in promoting sustainable development thereby ensuring a resilient and greener future for all.

The book provides a comprehensive account of the linkages between education, sustainable development, and nation-building from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book deals with climate finance and presents a balance between the theoretical framework—as drawn by the most widely cited practitioner-oriented and academic journals in environmental management—and experimental finance.

Gender equality and environmental sustainability are gaining political momentum as global challenges that require urgent action at the national and international levels.

This book addresses the urgent need to reduce our use of virgin fossil plastics.

This report analyses planned infrastructure projects, decision-making frameworks related to infrastructure development and strategic planning documents in the six countries of the EU Eastern Partnership: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

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This volume consolidates chapters from across Southeast Asia as a means of discussing alternative development pathways.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

In an era of undeniable human impact on the planet, can business drive sustainable development and enhance well-being for all?

This book presents a selection of the best papers from the 18th International Conference on Business Excellence, "e;Smart Solutions for a Sustainable Future"e; (ICBE 2024), held in Bucharest, Romania, in March 2024.

Challenging conventional leadership models, this timely and pioneering volume offers a critical rethinking of educational leadership in the context of global crises, particularly climate change and social inequality.

This book systematically summarizes the occurrence and source of MPs through various municipal and industrial wastewaters.

Humanity is facing a steadily diminishing supply of fossil fuels, causing researchers, policy makers, and the population as a whole to turn increasingly to alternative and especially renewable sources of energy to make up this deficit.

The book provides a comprehensive account of the linkages between education, sustainable development, and nation-building from an interdisciplinary perspective.

In an era of undeniable human impact on the planet, can business drive sustainable development and enhance well-being for all?

Sustainable design is a collective process whereby the built environment achieves unprecedented levels of ecological balance through new and retrofit construction, with the goal of long-term viability and humanization of architecture.

Over the past decade, the United Kingdom has reduced several environmental pressures while growing its economy.

The financial services industry has one constant lately - change.

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.

Companies play a pivotal role in the green transition.

This book reveals the intricacies of the Indian education system, especially those that surged in the past decade.

This book provides an overview of promoting the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources and reducing waste and pollution, while also addressing the challenges posed by climate change.

Since the 1990's, the countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) have made great progress in pursuing economic development that is also environmentally sustainable.

This book covers the use and impacts of nanofertilizers from a sustainable agriculture perspective and together with its companion book "e;Nanofertilizers in Agriculture: Synthesis, Mechanisms, and Effect on Plants"e; serves as an indispensable resource for researchers, agronomists, and policymakers exploring sustainable agriculture with nanotechnology.

This book highlights the integration of eco-friendly infrastructure, innovative materials, and advanced technologies to build sustainability and resilience in both urban and rural environments.