Sustainability

This book provides a comprehensive manual for researchers, practitioners, policymakers as well as students striving to achieve environmental sustainment.

This book delves into the intricate world of sugarcane breeding, offering a comprehensive exploration of advanced technologies and methodologies revolutionizing the field.

This book highlights the evaluation and assessment of various aspects of sustainable buildings to achieve a greener future.

This book outlines how advances in the diverse scientific and engineering disciplines of synthetic biology, DNA synthesis, production of protein therapeutics, and bioinformatics have led to the commercialization of new complex biotherapeutic modalities in modern era, including monoclonal and multi-specific antibodies, antibody drug conjugates (ADC), fusion proteins, CAR-T and CRISPR technologies and applications, mRNA vaccines and more.

This book explores eco-cosmeceuticals and offers a comprehensive overview of the latest sustainable and environmentally friendly innovations in cosmetic science.

Sustainable mobility is a highly complex problem as it is affected by the interactions between socio-economic, environmental, technological and political issues.

This volume discusses and analyses the use of quantitative indicators to assess sustainability across sectors, with the goal of offering readers the tools to choose and validate indicators.

This book overviews the sustainable production and diverse applications of Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), with a special focus on agriculture, industry, and the environment.

Energy technologies in the future will need to be based on renewable sources of energy and will, ultimately, need to be sustainable.

Governments are setting challenging targets to increase the production of energy and transport fuel from sustainable sources.

Maximizing reader insights into the strategic value of mass retrofits in the residential property sector through a detailed case study analysis of the 'Hackbridge project', this book uses this development to broaden understanding of how planners may perform urban regeneration in accordance with a centralized plan.

Encompassing a thorough survey of the lighting techniques applied to internal illumination characterized by high efficiency, optimized color and architectural integration, a consolidated summary of the latest scientific, technical and architectural research is presented in order to give the reader an overview of the different themes with their interactions and mutual effects.

Many people, professionals and non-professionals alike, recognize that it is of critical importance to solve global energy and environmental issues.

Concrete is the most used man-made material in the world since its invention.

Providing up-to-date numerical data across a range of topics related to renewable energy technologies, Renewable Energies and CO2 offers a one-stop source of key information to engineers, economists and all other professionals working in the energy and climate change sectors.

Mobile Persuasion Design presents ten conceptual design projects (or 'Machines') for new mobile application's (smartphone or tablet with Web portals) that combine theories of persuasion and information design to change people's behaviour.

Industrial energy efficiency is one of the most important means of reducing the threat of increased global warming.

Environmental Silicate Nano-Biocomposites focuses on nano-biocomposites, which are obtained by the association of silicates such as bioclays with biopolymers.

Sustainable mobility is a highly complex problem as it is affected by the interactions between socio-economic, environmental, technological and political issues.

Environmental Design is becoming an increasingly significant agenda for many manufacturing companies and yet there is no standard to their approaches, strategies or their levels of execution.

Understanding the sustainable use of energy in various processes is an integral part of engineering and scientific studies, which rely on a sound knowledge of energy systems.

Sustainable Bioenergy and Bioproducts considers the recent technological innovations and emerging concepts in biobased energy production and coproducts utilization.

Solid waste management is currently a major issue worldwide with numerous areas reaching critical levels.

Wind Energy Conversion System covers the technological progress of wind energy conversion systems, along with potential future trends.

Limited availability of grid-based electricity is a major challenge faced by many developing countries, particularly the rural population.

The demand for renewable energies from biomass is growing steadily as policies are enacted to encourage such development and as industry increasingly sees an opportunity to develop bio-energy enterprises.

This book covers the challenges and opportunities presented by plastics in the modern era and sheds light on the complex interplay of technology, environment, and socio-economic dynamics.

This 2-volume book highlights cutting-edge ecodesign research, encompassing product and service design, smart manufacturing, and social perspectives.

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

This volume aims to highlight Indigenous knowledge toward climate mitigation with a focus on peoples in Sub-Saharan Africa, an underpublished region vis a vis this topic.

The first section deals with hydrological topics, problems, and principles.

This book covers smart agricultural space and its further development with an emphasis on ultra-saving labor shortages using AI-based technologies.

Leather and its products are globally traded commodities known for durability, fashion, reuse, repurpose, and resistance to degradation.

This book focuses on recent advances in biosensors and nanosensors to monitor, manage and improve horticultural crops in terms of plant growth, nutrient deficiency, toxicity, diseases, abiotic stress, soil amendments and agrochemicals entry into surrounding environment.

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

This edited volume consists of research in three closely related fields: (i) carbon emissions allowance and market, (ii) green economic development and sustainable finance, and (iii) environmental, social, and good governance.

This book includes peer reviewed articles from ICSFT-2024 held on 12 November at Jalandhar in India.

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China from September 21st - 27th, 2023, with the theme of Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth.

This book explores and highlights the geothermal fields of India.

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China from September 21st - 27th, 2023, with the theme of Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth.

This book reviews the latest research on innovative and sustainable biotechnologies for metal recovery from various process streams, emphasising the fundamentals and applications of biosystems.

This book discusses the challenges that have arisen due to environmental hydrocarbon wastes, their toxicity to the ecosystem, limitations, the improvement of sustainable techniques, as well as the zero-waste approach used for the management of environmental hydrocarbon wastes for resilient future.

This volume addresses livelihood vulnerabilities due to climate change-induced socio-environmental stresses among different communities in various geographical locations in India, and discusses how the people and communities can become resilient to these stresses.

This book offers a detailed analysis of the intersection of sustainability, innovation, and global progress, and it comprehensively explores sustainable practices and their impact on business, education, and technology.

The overall framework for leaders is now changing and a reassessment of traditional economic and financial models is called for to foster the green and circular transition.

This handbook focuses on electrocatalytic materials, a field that has experienced significant advancements in recent decades, primarily driven by nanoscale catalyst design improvements.

The first section deals with hydrological topics, problems, and principles.

This book highlights microbial biodiversity, biowastes, and innovative bioprocesses that contribute to creating these environmentally friendly biopolymers.

This volume addresses livelihood vulnerabilities due to climate change-induced socio-environmental stresses among different communities in various geographical locations in India, and discusses how the people and communities can become resilient to these stresses.

This book summarizes the advanced sustainable trends in removing toxic pollutants by environmental and biotechnological processes from both industrial wastewater and sewage wastewater.