Sustainability

This edited volume focuses on the characterization, reclamation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of salt affected soils and waterlogged sodic soils.

In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in August 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Environmental Sustainability takes the reader through Singapore's environmental journey over the past 50 years, to its present day challenges and solutions, and seeks to explore what lies ahead for Singapore's environmental future.

This book explores various aspects of thermophilic and halophilic microbes from Eurasian ecosystems, which have proved to offer a unique reservoir of genetic diversity and biological source of extremophiles.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Research Conference on Computing Technologies for Sustainable Development, IRCCTSD 2024, held in Chennai, India, during May 9-10, 2024.

Global Citizenship Education addresses the intersection of globalization, education and programmatic efforts to prepare young people to live in a more interdependent, complex and fragile world.

The book is the outcome of a unique venture: a team of Chinese geographers and a team of American geographers collaborated on a new Comparative Geography of China and the United States.

This book is an outcome of the 37th International Conference EnviroInfo 2023, held at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (Munich, Germany), organized by the technical committee for Environmental Informatics of the German Informatics Society.

This book addresses the fundamental changes that the Italian public utilities sector has undergone in the last two decades.

This book includes selected papers presented at the international expert forum on "e;Mainstreaming Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction in Education,"e; held at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand on 1-2 December 2017.

The book provides an accessible introduction to the core concepts of nanotechnology, the interactions between plants and nanoparticles, and the basic techniques for delivering nanoparticles to plant systems.

As improving energy efficiency and increasing energy R&D investment may be the main means for China's industrial sector to achieve sustainable growth, this book attempts to unify energy use efficiency and energy R&D inputs into a standardized economic analysis framework.

The book gathers inputs from universities and research organizations working on matters related to sustainable development in a variety of contexts.

This book focuses on the recent trends in carbon management and up-to-date information on different carbon management strategies that lead to manage increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The book focuses broadly on the preliminaries of the canal irrigation systems in India with a focus on their operation, maintenance, and management of the canal systems.

This book deals with the combustion and exhaust emissions of gas engines fueled with green biogas.

This book endeavors to critically assess and analyze the latent energy potential inherent within waste materials, thereby reframing the conventional perception of garbage from being solely a detrimental source of environmental pollution to being recognized as a viable and sustainable energy source.

Consumption of goods and services represents a growing share of global economic activity.

This book covers the latest advances in sustainable waste management and focuses on its implementation to mitigate water and air pollution, recycle and reuse raw material, and refine valuable metals.

The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and economic aspects involved in the mitigation and adaptation processes imposed by climate change.

This book highlights the development of cotton sector and its related issues, in Ethiopia.

This book presents select papers from the International Conference on Smart Materials and Techniques for Sustainable Development (SMTS) 2019.

This book highlights Thailand's growing demand for clean energy from coal.

This book highlights various dimensions of human habitats in 21st Century India.

This book challenges the dominant expertise professionalism rationale for music education by responding to the call to develop 'ecological awareness' at a time when all professions have a moral obligation to place sustainable and interdependent life at the center.

This book develops and applies an integrated socio-economic assessment of multi-use offshore platforms in European marine locations.

This volume is the first centralized source of technological and policy solutions for sustainable agriculture and food systems resilience in the face of climate change.

This Handbook illustrates that universities per se and higher education in general are essential to catalyze and action the transformative change needed for sustainability and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals.

This book gathers the latest innovations and applications in the field of resource-saving technologies and advanced materials in civil and environmental engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 3rd International Scientific Conference EcoComfort and Current Issues of Civil Engineering, held in Lviv, Ukraine on September 14-16, 2022.

This book employs a Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) framework to examine cycling mobility, marking a new turn in ecolinguistic discourse analysis.

"e;The Transition to Sustainable Living and Practice"e; provides a series of insights into real alternatives to the current economic malaise, with an examination of key themes such as transition towns, traditional villages, new green financial concepts, the sustainable utopia, co-operative farming, sustainability and activism, ecofeminism, green protectionism, intentional communities and a green philosophy of money.

This book explores how business organizations incorporate socially responsible approaches into their diverse functional strategies, decisions, and practices.

Ausgehend von den Mobilitätsbedürfnissen der modernen Industriegesellschaft und den politischen Rahmenbedingungen zum Klimaschutz werden die unterschiedlichen Antriebs- und Ladekonzepte von batterieelektrischen- und hybridelektrischen Fahrzeugen vorgestellt und bewertet.

This monograph explores the potential of blockchain technology to facilitate the transition in the oil and gas (O&G) industry.

This book studies the various dimensions of gender inequality that persist in higher education and employment in India.

Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses.

The book offers a multi-scale, epistemically diverse, and sense-making perspectives on the food system.

This book seeks to revise and challenge the roles and traditional realms of influence that national and local governments, and businesses at a critical juncture in terms of achieving sustainable development, faces when tackling the dual challenges of climate change and post-COVID recovery.

This book provides an insight into the complexities of weaning Nigeria from its fossil fuels addiction while growing the economy on low carbon trajectory.

Reviews the latest advances in biofuel manufacturing technologies and discusses the deployment of other renewable energy for transportation Aimed at providing an interface useful to business and scientific managers, this book focuses on the key challenges that still impede the realization of the billion-ton renewable fuels vision.

To be a storyteller is an incredible position from which to influence hearts and minds, and each one of us has the capacity to utilise storytelling for a sustainable future.

This book provides solution for challenges facing engineers in urban environments looking towards smart development and IoT.

With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world s resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century.

Plant-parasitic nematodes are recognized as one of the greatest threats to crop production throughout the world.