Sustainability

This book describes a collaborative Design Pilot Project held in Brazil (called MODU.

This book provides a breadth and depth of innovative and impactful research led by women investigators in the field of renewable energy.

Supercapacitors can both hold large amounts of energy and charge up almost instantly.

We face two global threats: the climate crisis and a crisis of democracy.

This book focuses on the use of natural surfactants in enhanced oil recovery, providing an overview of surfactants, their types, and different physical-chemical properties used to analyse the efficiency of surfactants.

Assuming that liberalism, liberal democracy and the free market are here to stay, this book asks how sustainability can be interpreted in ways that respect liberal democratic values and institutions.

The Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is a comprehensive presentation of definitions, philosophies, policies, models, and analyses of global environmental and developmental issues.

Everything you need to know for your electrification journey by the bestselling author of The Big SwitchWe all know that renewable energy is the future, but how can we ditch coal and gas in our own lives and homes?

This book offers comprehensive insights into the latest developments in biodiversity, sustainability, and agri-food supply chains, fostering an informed approach to policymaking decisions in the agriculture and agri-food industry within the global economy.

This book explores the theoretical background and provides an experimental analysis of using natural energy resources in sustainable building design.

This book elaborates the need, in a rapidly urbanizing world, for recognition of the ecological communities we inhabit in cities and for the development of an ethics for all entities (human and non-human) in this context.

A practical analysis of current sustainable development prospects using the innovative sustainomics framework.

The steadily increasing presence of both natural and anthropogenic pollutants in our environment poses a considerable challenge, given the recalcitrance of many of these pollutants.

This book provides insights into deep learning techniques that impact the implementation strategies toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) laid down by the United Nations for its 2030 agenda, elaborating on the promises, limits, and the new challenges.

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

This book presents a conceptual and practical tool for those involved directly or indirectly in the planning and management of basic provision of water supply, wastewater and stormwater services in metropolitan regions by offering insights into governance paradigms and institutional arrangements for urban wastewater reuse in agriculture from Australia and India.

This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject.

This authored monograph provides in-depth analysis and methods for aligning electricity demand of manufacturing systems to VRE supply.

This book discusses emerging contexts of global warming and climate change, agricultural vulnerability and adaptation from local to global scale.

This book presents sources of carbon dioxide emission, related environmental issues and methods for carbon dioxide utilization, storage, analysis, modeling and optimization.

This text provides an important overview of the contributions of edible insects to ecological sustainability, livelihoods, nutrition and health, food culture and food systems around the world.

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

This book presents a systems thinking approach in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable national development in vulnerable countries.

Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda.

This book includes a general overview of the book series and summarizes the research results in its 13 subtopics.

A compilation of 58 carefully selected, topical articles from the Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, this three-volume handbook provides a wealth of information on economically important basic foodstuffs, raw materials, additives, and processed foods, including a section on animal feed.

Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.

This book tackles the challenging issues raised by the growth of large megacities from diverse perspectives and approaches.

The proceeding of tropical agriculture is a proceeding of papers presented at the International Conference on Tropical Agriculture.

This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

This book focuses on the traditional ecological knowledge in addressing the current climate crisis in the Indian Himalayas.

This book breaks new ground in the studies of green transition.

ICT Innovations for Sustainability is an investigation of how information and communication technology can contribute to sustainable development.

The 'Complete Streets' concept and movement in urban planning and policy has been hailed by many as a revolution that aims to challenge the auto-normative paradigm by reversing the broader effects of an urban form shaped by the logic of keeping automobiles moving.

This book begins with an introduction describing current societal transformations that merit new urban designs, including depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, large numbers of aging "e;Baby Boomers,"e; and climate change.

Considers the role of fertiliser use in agriculture as a major contributor to the imbalance of the global nitrogen cycle Reviews the effectiveness of inorganic nitrogen fertilisers and organic sources of nitrogen in optimising nitrogen use efficiency Highlights recent developments in the use of enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilisers to reduce nitrous oxide emissions

Financial markets play a critical role in climate finance as they are a major source of funding for many of the projects and initiatives aimed at addressing climate change.

Andean dry forest ecosystems are threatened by deforestation and unsustainable land use methods.

Realities of power company choices, regulatory boundaries, and stakeholder approvals.

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability - ICoWEFS 2021, a major forum to foster innovation and exchange knowledge in the water-energy-food nexus, embracing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, bringing together leading academics, researchers and industrial experts.

This book focuses on the connections between mining activities, knowledge politics and the valuation of landscape in selected case sites in Russia, Greenland and Norway, whilst considering the interrelated aspects of industrialized, natural resource based development and environmental concerns in the Arctic.

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

Short food supply chains (SFSCs) rely primarily on local production and processing practices for the provision of food and are, in principle, more sustainable in social, economic and environmental terms than supply chains where production and consumption are widely separated.

Without energy, there is no well-functioning economy, besides facing social risks.

This volume offers background and a variety of cases dealing with the concept of water footprint.

Agronomic crops have provided food, beverages, fodder, fuel, medicine and industrial raw materials since the beginning of human civilization.