Sustainability

This book sheds light on systems that learn extensively, with purpose and naturally interact with humans.

This book discusses recent trends and concepts in the field of biorefinery.

The book brings together the research completed during 10 editions of International Seminars of Bionics, organized by the School of Architecture of the University of Alcala de Henares, Madrid, several of them in partnership with the "e;Ion Mincu"e; University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, carried out in Spain and in Romania.

Productivity growth has been slowing down globally in recent years in light of heightened economic crises and geopolitical tensions.

This book delves into the current state and future prospects of systems thinking and sustainability education within business schools.

This book addresses quantitative assessment of forest governance and how local-level institutions work in governing efficient ways of forest resource management so that sustainable development of forest is ensured.

This book covers topics that addresses the global environmental issues, their challenges, and mitigation strategies for sustainable development.

This book reviews recent innovations in the smart agriculture space that use the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensing to deliver Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutionsto agricultural productivity in the agricultural production hubs.

Under the contraction of global energy supply brought on by geopolitical situation, this timely book addresses how resource-scarce developing countries respond to challenges in energy security.

This book reviews recent innovations in the smart agriculture space that use the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensing to deliver Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutionsto agricultural productivity in the agricultural production hubs.

This book invites the reader to follow seemingly unrelated paths towards the same goal: making sense of what it means to be human in a world that casually blends discourses on nature, technology, and biology with ideas of progress, optimization and their capitalization at the centre.

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.

The book embodies the groundwater issues and challenges in India focusing its sustainable use.

This volume provides readers with the tools to unlock the potential of Earth observation (EO) technologies to transform coastal zone management.

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.

This book is an exploration of one of the world's largest man-made reservoirs, Lake Kariba, created along the Zambezi River in central Africa.

The book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of hydrology, environmental engineering, agricultural engineering, earth sciences, and watershed and range sciences, as well as to those engaged in water resources planning, development and management in arid and semi-arid areas.

The book embarks on the tasks to systematically analyze the macro background of the spatial patterns of China's urban development, the theoretical foundations and framework, and its changing trajectory.

This is the third volume of the proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG 2018), held on October 28 - November 1, 2018 in Hangzhou, China.

This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

This book presents the latest developments and advances in solar desalination technology, including the concept, design, testing, modeling, economics and innovation.

This book comprises a collection of chapters on advances in green nanomaterials.

This book highlights the present scenario of energy demand and power generation technologies in tropical countries.

This book discusses the detailed concepts of concrete and its development with pros and cons.

This book focuses on bioconversion of lignocellulosic residues into single-cell protein, which offers an alternative to conventional proteins (such as soybean meal, egg protein or meat protein in animal feed) that is not affected by the climate.

This book covers the state-of-the-art advances in several areas of energy, combustion, power, propulsion, and environment, focusing on the use of conventional and alternative fuels.

This book addresses the need for a technical guided thought on production, consumption, and waste management of plastic and polymers in the African continent.

This book presents the outcome of the Towards Sustainable Land Use in Asia (SLUAS) project, which was the pilot undertaking for development in a series of projects on land use.

This book reports the latest research and successful industrial case studies on sustainable technologies in the oil palm industry, ranging from plantation, processing to waste handling.

This book provides comprehensive economic analyses on the paths to net-zero for China.

This book describes the development of two kinds of continuous-flow transformation using heterogeneous catalysts, and explains how they can be applied in the multistep synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

This book provides insights into recent developments in the use of mulching in agroecosystems with emphasis on the major pros and cons.

The book spans across the research domains of mechanisation and automation, agrobusiness, food processing and value addition, climate smart agriculture, rural sanitation, agro biotechnology, and rural energy.

This book provides a new design and evaluation framework based on slope Stochastic Dynamics theory to probabilistic seismic performance for slope engineering.

This book describes environmental remediation technologies to remove pollutants from the environment and the environmental materials used for remediation.

This book highlights the three pillars of data security, viz protecting data at rest, in transit, and in use.

This book highlights the basic properties of round bamboo and bamboo strips of various species worldwide.

This book illustrates the importance of microbiome interactions in sustainable agriculture and the environment.

This book presents a systematic study of urban green space remote sensing from multi-dimensional and multi-scale technologies.

This book reviews humanitarian literature and presents the development of low-cost track & trace management system integrated with accurate GPS location data pinging using Internet of Things (IoT).

Productivity growth has been slowing down globally in recent years in light of heightened economic crises and geopolitical tensions.

This book covers topics that addresses the global environmental issues, their challenges, and mitigation strategies for sustainable development.

This book highlights the preparation and characterization of efficient electromagnetic shielding composites containing bio-carbon derived from natural loofah with unique three-dimensional porous structures by means of entire structure design of composites according to shielding theory.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles and recent advances on the potential applications of Science and Mathematics for future technologies, from the 7th International Conference on the Applications of Science and Mathematics (SCIEMATHIC 2021), held in Malaysia.

This book presents the systematic evolution of digitized education: trends, advances, challenges encountered and their solutions toward the use of advanced technologies.

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

Under the contraction of global energy supply brought on by geopolitical situation, this timely book addresses how resource-scarce developing countries respond to challenges in energy security.

This book will address the importance of the soil management concept, vis-a-vis chemical fertilizer use on soil.

This book will address the importance of the soil management concept, vis-a-vis chemical fertilizer use on soil.