Sustainability

This book offers groundbreaking insights into transforming the concrete industry with innovative, environmentally conscious solutions.

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making.

This book paves the way for a proper understanding of current and future issues on global warming, air pollution, depletion of natural resources, cyberattacks on smart grids, amongst others, by unifying various diverse disciplines of science to focus on a sustainable green society of the future.

Companies and policy makers are prioritizing environmental, social, and governance goals as part of their strategies.

The second volume of this series, Integrating Ecology into Global Poverty Reduction Efforts: Opportunities and solutions, builds upon the first volume, Integrating Ecology into Global Poverty Reduction Efforts: The ecological dimensions to poverty, by exploring the way in which ecological science and tools can be applied to address major development challenges associated with rural poverty.

This proposed book chapter is expected to provide the readers with wide aspects of green technologies for industrial waste remediation.

This thesis focuses on the energy, chemical and carbon implications of diverse wastewater treatment alternatives, and offers effective solutions for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to achieve sustainability goals.

This book gathers high-quality research papers presented at the 2nd AUE international research conference, AUEIRC 2018, which was organized by the American University in the Emirates, Dubai, and held on November 13th-15th, 2018.

This book will bring a state of the art overview of the research done in sustainable logistics.

Environmental impacts created by the textiles and fashion sector are well known and acknowledged by various stakeholders involved in the entire supply chain.

This book provides a variety of cases at the intersection of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and sustainable textile and apparel supply chain management.

This landmark work lauds the benefits of decreased energy consumption, investigating its relationship to public policy and analyzing its potential billion-dollar benefits to the U.

This book provides extensive insight into the impact of electro-mobility (e-Mobility) on traditional automobile manufacturers.

This book highlights a need to engage research and innovation for energy production from waste given the challenges of insufficient electricity in most developing countries.

This book aims to review the key areas of modern research in power engineering regarding environmental conservation, as well as the research and development of digital technologies in the energy sector.

This book examines the physical andeconomic characteristics of the global oil resource to explain why peak oil hasbeen so poorly understood.

This book examines the growing interest in gasification technology, which has become the primary route for effectively utilizing solid carbonaceous material for energy generation and syngas production.

This book details various stages in the introduction, establishment and evolution of China's environmental management system.

This book investigates how urban planning can promote inclusive, climate-resilient, and healthy communities.

This book, based on extensive international collaborative research, highlights the state-of-the-art design of smart living for metropolises, megacities, and metacities, as well as at the community and neighbourhood level.

This Directory means that a whole range of built environment professionals need never be caught out by the perversities of policy in its formulation or on its journey into the real life of you and me.

This book provides new perspectives on endurance sport and how it contributes to a  good and sustainable life in times of climate change, ecological disruption and inconvenient truths.

This first hands-on guide to ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) makes this powerful tool immediately accessible to both professionals and students.

This book covers the latest developments in sustainable textiles and how they can help mitigate the fashion industry's environmental impact.

This book highlights recent findings of membrane - based dye removal methods along with the application of photocatalytic, nanofiltration and ultrafiltration membrane including membrane - based fibers, metal-organic frameworks, polyethersulfone, ceramic, etc.

The definitive guide to water-efficient gardening, helping you to grow healthy, resilient plants in the face of climate change.

An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field.

This book presents emerging economical and environmentally friendly polymer composites that are free of the side effects observed in traditional composites.

The future of the distributed energy generation market is promising, with opportunities in the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors driven by increasing awareness of clean energy, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets, and rising global demand for energy.

This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the conference "e;Susta- able Resource Use and Economic Dynamics"e; (SURED), held on Monte Verita ` in Ascona, Switzerland, in June 2004.

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

This book is a uniquely pedagogical while still comprehensive state-of-the-art description of LCA-methodology and its broad range of applications.

This book introduces the highly topical issue from many different angles, sensitizing readers to the various challenges to human life posed by climate change, identifying possible intentional and inadvertent anthropogenic factors and consequences, and seeking socially and environmentally viable solutions.

This book will help decision makers model nature-based solutions to the complex problem of sustainable development, locally and globally.

This book provides an understanding of Business Continuity Management (BCM) implementation for local/international construction operations, with a primary focus on Indonesian construction firms as an illustrative example.

This book provides a holistic framework for assessing the environmental and economic impacts of land-use strategies for a range of purposes, such as food, animal feed, biomass and biofuels, and timber.

Sustainable development encompasses economic, social, and ecological perspectives of conservation and change in natural resources.

Focuses on how the theories underlying sustainability can be translated into practice and the challenges involved in achieving this.

This book presents state-of-the-art solid waste management in developing countries.

The book analyzes the problems and potential of renewable energy development for the Coachella Valley of California and provides a useful case study for renewable energy feasibility assessments for other areas.

In this thesis a prospective approach was developed to identify and to assess current as well as potentially upcoming product applications with focus on environmental releases and exposures of engineered nanomaterials.

This edited collection brings together theoretical and empirical reflections on the role played by new technology and digital platforms in the provision of food.

This book highlights the latest research on biochar, a low-cost carbonaceous material produced from biomass, and is regarded as an economical substitute to the activated carbon.

Ecopedagogies showcases a range of creative approaches that educators across multiple disciplines use to empower students to access and engage with nature, an increasingly important consideration in a post-COVID world in environmental crisis.

This book addresses space science and communication - one of the main pillars of space science sustainability, an area that has recently become of great importance.

Sustainability Appraisal is a sourcebook of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly emerging and diversifying area.