Sustainability

This book explores how China's industrial transformation and development depend on technology and innovation and how considerations about issues associated with technology and innovation may affect China's development strategies.

As improving energy efficiency and increasing energy R&D investment may be the main means for China's industrial sector to achieve sustainable growth, this book attempts to unify energy use efficiency and energy R&D inputs into a standardized economic analysis framework.

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.

The tropical zones are dominated by developing countries, which mainly face problematic environmental issues.

This book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities, how different countries are attempting to address these complex problems and to what extent they are likely to succeed.

This book presents research advances in intelligent transportation and smart cities in detail, mainly focusing on green traffic and urban utility tunnels, presented at the 4th International Symposium for Intelligent Transportation and Smart City (ITASC) held at Tongji University, Shanghai, on May 8-10, 2019.

This book focuses on digital innovation and sustainability in the Asian region in the context of business and management.

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

This book presents a methodology for assessing environmental safety in civil aviation.

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 is the first book to articulate how to address interlinkages among sustainable development goals (SDGs), which are keys to implementing those goals by 2030.

This book vividly shows the fostering environment, activity characteristics, distribution pattern, economic losses, casualties, disaster risks and management of earthquakes, mass movement, drought, floods, and marine disasters in the Silk Road region.

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

This book analyzes potential yields of six major food crops - rice, wheat, maize, potato, soybean and rapeseed worldwide using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to study both China's and global food security under climate change.

This book introduces readers to the preparation of two-dimensional metal sulfide/oxide for CO2 photoreduction.

This book presents diverse processes of crafting that bring humans, more than-humans and the environment closer to one another and, by doing so, addresses personal and educational developments towards ecological awareness.

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.

Books on Textiles tend to focus solely on aesthetic or technical points of view.

The goal of this book is to improve the ability of enterprises to implement the green growth model and value chain reconstruction.

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

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

This book examines the background of fourth-generation biofuel production, use of genetically modified microalgae for production of fourth-generation biofuels; cultivation and harvesting of genetically modified microalgae; residue from biofuel extraction; health and environmental concerns of fourth-generation biofuels; regulations on cultivation and processing of the genetically modified algae; carbon dioxide sequestration; water footprint and current status and key challenges.

This book collects the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of environmental science and sustainable development, which were presented by scholars and researchers at the 2021 6th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, held in Phuket, Thailand, November 6-8, 2021.

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).

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 highlights current efforts and research in Malaysia on conversion of bio-resources to renewable energy of biofuel as an alternative way of producing energy from fossil-based fuels.

This book highlights the multi-pronged strategy for achieving sustainable rural domestic water supply in India.

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 comprises select papers from the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Engineering (AISE 2020).

This book is concerned with the systemic examination of the prospects for the development of smart agriculture for sustainable development.

This book introduces systematically the cryospheric science, covering the formation, development, evolution, and research methods of each component of the cryosphere, the interaction between the cryosphere and the other spheres of the climate system and the anthroposphere, and the hot topics of social and economic sustainable development and geopolitics.

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

This book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities, how different countries are attempting to address these complex problems and to what extent they are likely to succeed.

This book offers concepts related to communication engineering principles to fight the current Covid situation, by developing contactless need-based solutions.

This book focuses on the properties of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) and recent advances in their application in lignocellulosic biomass processing.

This book introduces environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment and clarifies its characteristics as financial securities.

This book represents a synthesis of research findings on energy in remote rural areas in East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia, demarcating a localised understanding of electricity issues that are relevant to similar community profiles in other developing countries, which are facing similar challenges.

This book highlights the importance of incorporating coal bottom ash (CBA) into self-compacting concrete exposed to aggressive conditions.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Coal Combustion, held in Qingdao, China in July 2019.

This book, the second volume in the series, continues to raise contextual issues and presents perspectives regarding multifaceted challenges in management and governance of water in India.

The book comprises state-of-the-art scientific reviews on carbon management strategies in response to climate change.

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

This book introduces readers to the use of formic acid for efficient organic synthesis.

This book highlights cutting-edge ecodesign research, covering product and service design, smart manufacturing, and social perspectives in ecodesign.

This book highlights cutting-edge ecodesign research, covering product and service design, smart manufacturing, and social perspectives in ecodesign.

This book chronicles a few approaches to constructing biohybrid devices using photosynthetic protein complexes.

This book provides a solid foundation for a comprehensive, systemic and water-centric approach to water management.

This book comprises state-of-the-art advances in energy, combustion, power, propulsion, environment, focusing on the production and utilization of fossil fuels, alternative fuels and biofuels.

This book highlights various applications of renewable energy systems and their enabling technologies in electrical power systems.

This book comprises the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the National Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment (NCRESE) 2019.