Sustainability

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.

This book focuses on challenges that have arisen because of trash discharges and their potential causes and provides long-term sustainable solutions.

This book is a complete guide to epoxidized natural rubber covering from the epoxidation chemistry, production process, raw rubber and compound properties, mixing recommendations as its applications in tire, engineering, general and industrial rubber goods,  latex based products such as adhesive, foam and paint as well as sustainability or life cycle analysis of ENR rubber.

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Our cities, and the systems that support them, have not been designed to address the FWE nexus.

Our cities, and the systems that support them, have not been designed to address the FWE nexus.

This book introduces a model for the built environment, designed to incorporate sustainability at every level.

The book tries to answer the most fundamental question of whether there is a link between abundant food supply and economic growth with respect to a higher degree of human development.

The valuable characteristics of animal waste materials in terms of climatic change impact and bioenergy production are discussed in this book.

The book covers advances in conversion of biomass and derivatives into useful chemicals and fuels.

The book covers advances in conversion of biomass and derivatives into useful chemicals and fuels.

This book identifies and investigates the determinants that influence investment decision-making for conducting foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh's power sector.

The valuable characteristics of animal waste materials in terms of climatic change impact and bioenergy production are discussed in this book.

This book is a complete guide to epoxidized natural rubber covering from the epoxidation chemistry, production process, raw rubber and compound properties, mixing recommendations as its applications in tire, engineering, general and industrial rubber goods,  latex based products such as adhesive, foam and paint as well as sustainability or life cycle analysis of ENR rubber.

The book aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly Goal 4, which focuses on quality education.

This book explores the environmental and ecological wisdom inherent in some of the indigenous traditions of traditional communities from developing societies like, Argentina, Brazil, India, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

This book explores the environmental and ecological wisdom inherent in some of the indigenous traditions of traditional communities from developing societies like, Argentina, Brazil, India, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

This book is a machine-generated literature overview that explores the interlinkages between communities, both rural and urban, and how they are dependent on natural resources and ecosystem services for livelihoods.