Sustainability

With high urbanization rates, advancement in technologies, and changes in consumption behavior of people, wastes generated through the daily activities of individuals and organizations pose many challenges in their management.

A multidisciplinary introduction to sustainable engineering exploring challenges and solutions through practical examples and exercises.

This book is a comprehensive summary of current global research on no-till farming, and its benefits and challenges from various agronomic, environmental, social and economic perspectives.

Introduction to Sustainability is the first major textbook to review major themes in the cutting-edge field of sustainability.

This textbook offers a detailed overview of the current state of knowledge concerning the ecology and management of compositionally and structurally diverse forests.

This proceedings book of ICES 2023 presents the most recent studies on environmental sciences and environmental sustainability, which contributes to the resolution of environmental issues (air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution, thermal pollution, radioactive pollution, light pollution, and global warming).

This volume discusses innovative advancements in soil and crop microbiome technology and methods to support agricultural sustainability and reduce soil degradation.

This book offers a novel examination of socio-environmental change in a nomadic pastoralist area of the eastern Tibetan plateau.

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This collection of papers aims to draw lessons and apply indigenous knowledge, wisdom and cultural traditions to suit policy contexts describing the (a) role of individuals (b) communities, and (c) the state to ensure effectively manage water resources.

This book features expert contributions on key sustainability aspects of urban water management in Chinese agglomerations.

This book envisions the future of resilient finance and the societal value of responsible investment.

This, conference proceeding, book contains invited articles and contributory papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, on June 24-25, 2021.

This book explores how the education sector can transition to being truly sustainable and why necessary innovations for educational change are being subverted and undermined when mapped onto the existing industrial educational system.

A guide to designing and building the environmentally friendly, energy efficient home of your dreams.

The book seeks to comprehend how indigenous knowledge systems of local communities can be effectively used in disaster management of various types.

This book is a comprehensive resource that handles the issues of sustainable agriculture and natural resource management, aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book explores how the education sector can transition to being truly sustainable and why necessary innovations for educational change are being subverted and undermined when mapped onto the existing industrial educational system.

Global Overshoot is a multidisciplinary analysis (including history and pre-history) from an ecological and evolutionary perspective of the contemporary world system.

This book analyzes the adoption of stakeholders' engagement in various fields and scales while providing the readers with an international outlook of the topic.

This book is a compilation of eel research and fish migration studies for more than 40 years showing the research history and recent advances in eel studies.

This book focuses on the implementation of Quality FunctionDeployment (QFD) in the construction industry as a tool to help buildingdesigners arrive at optimal decisions for external envelope systems withsustainable and buildable design goals.

A complete guide to the financial requirements a nonprofit organization must follow to indefinitely maintain the volume and quality of their services An organization may have plenty of capacity in the long run, but in the short run, donor restrictions and limited financing options are constraining.

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 second volume on 'Inorganic-Organic Composites for Water and Wastewater Treatment' reviews research findings on advanced materials and methods for purification.

This book focuses on recent advances in Molecular Tools, Nanotechnology and Artificial Intelligence to monitor, manage and improve horticultural crops in terms of plant growth, nutrient deficiency, toxicity, diseases, abiotic stress, soil amendments and agrochemicals entering the surrounding environment.

The purpose of this volume is to explore sustainable innovation and "e;fair development"e; in China.

There is a growing interest in the development of sustainable processes for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and this book bridges the divide between industrial examples and the fundamental chemistry.

Understanding consumption requires looking at the systems by which goods and services are provided - not just how they are produced but the historically evolved structures, power relations and cultures within which they are located.

This book details the crux of green fashion, addressing various environmental aspects and discussing the importance of sustainable fashion in the apparel industry.

"e;Microbial Enzymes: Roles and applications in industry"e; offers an essential update on the field of microbial biotechnology, and presents the latest information on a range of microbial enzymes such as fructosyltransferase, laccases, amylases, lipase, and cholesterol oxidase, as well as their potential applications in various industries.

Since the democratisation of the clothing industry in the early 19th century, buyers have become increasingly disconnected from the creative and human aspects of the production of clothing.

This book provides an overview of plasticizers, from the latest global research developments to the laws and regulations applied to their use.

This volume comprehensively discusses marine bioprospecting and its applications in the marine bioeconomy, specifically in clean energy generation, and in biomedical, industrial and agricultural sectors.

This handbook covers both principal and applications aspects of hydroponics.

This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America.

This guide for tomorrow's urban practitioner systematically explains fifteen best practices across three continents; it explores questions of broad interest for designing and planning the future of cities and regions.

Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy solutions to promote sustainability.

Forty years since the first UN Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, how has the situation changed?

The first textbook in sustainable construction bringing together the whole range of topics from planning through to facilities management in an accessible and engaging way, and complete with illustrations and photographs.

Forest inventories throughout the world have evolved gradually over time.

This book addresses the needs of students, researchers, as well as engineers and other professionals or readers interested in recent advances of biofuel and efficient waste management.

This proceedings volume presents the selected papers from the 2022 8th International Conference on Advances in Environment Research (ICAER 2022), held as an online event from April 22-24.

Energieeffizienzmaßnahmen für Vermieter und WohneigentümerSie sind Miteigentümer einer Immobilie und wollen das Gebäude zukunftssicher gestalten, den Klimaschutz vorantreiben und mehr für die Umwelt tun?

Misiaszek examines the (dis)connection between critical global citizenship education models and ecopedagogy which is grounded in Paulo Freire's pedagogy.