Sustainability

The prospect of a transition to Net Zero by 2050 has profound implications for businesses in various industries worldwide.

Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues.

Agriculture is the backbone of our economic system.

This book explores our changing relationship with meat as food.

This book showcases the discussion about megaprojects carried out at the MeRIT (Megaproject Research Interdisciplinary Team) workshop 2022: the crisis, discontinuity, rising prices, and supply chains disruption force radical reflection for those involved in megaprojects.

Coastal areas are commonly defined as the interface or transition areas between land and sea, including large inland lakes.

Green Harvest explores the ideas and practices that have shaped organic farming and gardening in Australia from the interwar years to the present day.

This book provides the latest research on zero carbon industry and its practical implications for eco-innovation and environmental sustainability for businesses in current scenario.

This book focuses on the emergence of COVID-19 and climate change as twin mega risks to cities of both developed and developing countries.

This book presents the results of the first full-scale emissions trading schemes in Australia and internationally, arguing these schemes will not be sufficient to 'civilize markets' and prevent dangerous climate change.

The book provides new perspectives from leading researchers accentuating and examining the central role of the built environment in conceiving and implementing multifaceted solutions for the complex challenges of climate change, revealing critical potentials for architecture and design to contribute in more informed and long-term ways to the urgent transition of our society.

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability.

This book details two elements of textile chemistry namely- sustainable/eco-friendly dyes and green chemistry.

Delve into the fascinating world of soil science with "e;The Urban Soil Guide,"e; a comprehensive manual designed for everyone from science beginners to seasoned horticulturists.

Overall Winner, SAGT (Scottish Association of Geography Teachers) Awards 2022
Winner, Global Dimension Teachers' Choice Award 2023
Shortlisted, BERA Educational Research Book of the Year 2023
Highly Commended, GA (Geographical Association) Publisher's Awards 2023

Sustainability Education: A Classroom Guide provides an accessible, in-depth guide and critique of sustainability education for school and university students, teachers, curriculum makers and school governors working around the world with children aged 3- to 14-years old.

This book provides an introduction to the state of sustainability education in Asia.

Henriette Kammer untersucht die Hemmnisse für den Einsatz von seewasserbetriebenen Wärmepumpen in Deutschland und zieht damit Rückschlüsse auf andere Technologien im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien, deren geringer Einsatz das Vorankommen der Wärmewende in Deutschland behindert.

This book seeks to explore the critical but very influential challenge of wastewater management from a global perspective and to specifics in SSA region where the subject is under researched.

This book covers a critical topic, including green building design, sustainable urban mobility, renewable energy integration, and the use of advanced technologies to minimize environmental impact.

This monograph is designed to provide a comprehensive and accessible reference to Net Zero efforts globally.

This unique reference gathers numerous new studies examining specific, prominent high-rise buildings around the world.

This book looks at how multinational enterprises address sustainability within their business activities.

This book presents a cross-disciplinaryapproach to smart grids, offering an invaluable basis for understanding theircomplexity and potential, and for discussing their technical, legal, economic, societal, psychologicaland security aspects.

This book amalgamates the facts on carbon dioxide capture from ethanol fermentation of sugarcane molasses and its impact on climate changes.

In a world experiencing unprecedented urbanization and drastic climate change, there is immense demand for creative solutions to the environmental, social, and economic obstacles faced by burgeoning cities in the developing world.

This book consists of selected papers from the International Conference on Economics, Business and Sustainability (ICEBS) 2023 which brings together academics to exchange their research results and share experiences on all aspects of economics, business and sustainability The conference delivered a specific focus and significant breakthroughs in the rapid global economic rebound.

This volume builds on an international workshop held in 2019, inspired by James Lovelock's "e;The Revenge of Gaia - Why the Earth Is Fighting Back, and How We Can Still Save Humanity"e;.

This book provides the latest research on net zero policies, environmental sustainability, and the practical implications for adopting sustainable technologies in the current scenario.

Given the increasing need to optimize resources sustainably, decision-makers face challenges in analyzing and considering the numerous factors involved.

A majority of the world's population lives in cities.

This is the most comprehensive book discussing the impact of renewable energy transition by engaging local narratives, and combining this with the domestication of technology theory.

Global cities are facing an almost unprecedented challenge of change.

Arsenic is one of the most toxic and carcinogenic elements in the environment.

The petroleum age began about 150 years ago.

Since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis the prevailing economic development model based on an assumption of unlimited resources and, therefore, unlimited growth has been increasingly put into question by academics, policy-making agencies and even industry leaders themselves.

This handbook includes three parts, corresponding to the following three domains of OR/MS research related to sustainability: (i) Systems Design, Innovation, and Technology, (ii) Manufacturing, Logistics, and Transportation, and (iii) Sustainable Natural Resource Management.

This volume collects the results from the Politecnico di Milan's award-winning "e;Boa_Ma_Nha, Maputo!

Resource depletion and ecological risks are more than ever at the heart of societal and economic debates.

Robert Walker provides a critical examination of the promise and reality of SDG1, the United Nations' Social Development Goal designed, among other things, to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.

Sustainability challenges blur the boundaries between academic disciplines, between research, policy and practice, and between states, markets and society.

The increasing human population and the associated activities have negatively influenced the ecosystems and life on earth.

This contributed volume dives into the critical intersection of climate adaptation, vulnerability to hazards, and the imperative of decarbonization in fortifying global food and nutritional security.

This book offers a fresh perspective on Green Human Resource Management (Green HRM) by focusing on the Global South's industries and cultures.

Green Harvest explores the ideas and practices that have shaped organic farming and gardening in Australia from the interwar years to the present day.

Ordinary people, community leaders, and even organizations and corporations still do not fully comprehend the interconnected, "e;big picture"e; dynamics of sustainability theory and action.

This book discusses a number of recent technological and methodological progressions in achieving sustainable agriculture.