Sustainability

Community Bushfire Safety brings together in one accessible and comprehensive volume the results of the most important community safety research being undertaken within the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC).

In this innovative and cogent presentation of her concept of sustainable happiness, Catherine O'Brien outlines how the leading recommendations for transforming education can be integrated within a vision of well-being for all.

This book asserts that the goal of smart villages should shift from one of extraction to one of community value creation.

Trends in cleaner business decisions have resulted in sustainable business models involving society, stakeholders, and consumers.

Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across the world.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Pollution Control for Clean Environment (ICPCCE-2023).

Microbial bioremediation and biodegradation in environmental monitoring offers an environmentally friendly approach for the monitoring and effective removal of contaminants.

Sustainable Design for Interior Environments, 2nd Edition, builds on the first edition's premise that the interior design profession has a social and moral responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of people and the environment.

Empowerment is the overarching idea used in this book.

Daily headlines of wildfires, drought, and record-breaking heat waves have brought climate change into our cities.

Though China's economy is projected to become the world's largest within the next twenty years, industrial pollution threatens both the health of the country's citizens and the natural resources on which their economy depends.

This book explores the multifaceted relationship between sustainability and corporate performance in health care by providing a review of the relevant policy and academic literature, together with novel quantitative evidence to support strategic and managerial decision-making.

This is an analytical assessment of how the government can accelerate development and deployment of energy technologies, for researchers and policy makers.

An authoritative analysis of [a decade of] research on institutional architectures in earth system governance, covering key elements, structures and policy options.

Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites is the first book to analyze a profound land use change happening all over the world: the search for sustainable futures for property formerly dedicated to national defense now becoming redundant, disposed of and redeveloped.

The depletion of fossil fuel reserves and concerns for environmental degradation due to the fossil fuel burning have led the scientific community to look for alternative renewable energy sources.

The increasing environmental and health concerns owing to the use of large quantities of water and hazardous chemicals in conventional textile finishing processes has lead to the design and development of new dyeing strategies and technologies.

This book investigates the main vegetable biomass types, their chemical characteristics and their potential to replace oil as raw material for the chemical industry, according to the principles of green chemistry.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of post-war labour market reconstructions, in the context of a regional bloc whose member states have experienced conflict.

Waste management has become a great challenge for cities and urban areas, especially in countries with a high population density.

This thematic collection of 26 case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage in the context of sustainable development.

This book presents the select papers from the International Symposium on "e;Emerging Trends in Synthesis and Catalysis"e; (ETSC 2023).

The book reflects on how intelligent urban regeneration can be an extraordinary driver of sustainable social and economic progress.

This book addresses basic and applied aspects of two nexus points of microorganisms in agro-ecosystems, namely their functional role as bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides.

This is the first book of its kind to present sustainable eating with a failsafe 30-way recipe plan for readers to follow and cook from.

Have I told you I'm vegan yet?

In the context of the worldwide concern with the sustainability of current forms of development, business managers are being required to engage with environmental policy more creatively than in the past.

"e;[This book] brings broad perspective to the discussion of millennial at work.

We are becoming increasingly aware and engaged in environmental issues, but it's not always clear what the solutions are and how we can do our bit.

This book by a practitioner (not an academic, a government official, or a pundit) has been written for practitioners and offers fresh thinking on how to do international development work.

Understand the science that explains what pressure our planet is under and how to take action.

In A New Capitalism, Frank Altman, a legendary figure in the Community Development Finance industry, offers a systematic argument for why and how American capitalism can be extended to people from every walk of life, including those from low-income census tracks.

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This book is a manifesto for real urban change.

A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream.

A clean and simple introduction to generating electricity from the wind.

Discover everything you need to know to kick-start your composting journey!

Strategy used to hit the book goal reinforced by case studiesPhase 1: methods & tools for testing and assuring to have an accurate analyzing result (e.

¿Es más fácil imaginar el fin del mundo que el fin del capitalismo?

Inspired by the WBCSD Vision 2050 in which "e;all people live well within the limits of the planet"e;, this book asks how do we achieve this bold ambition?

Exploring the science behind climate change has never been easierCombining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Climate Change is an essential introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge.

Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter.

Managers and academia targeting energy performance improvements have a valuable tool in ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems, which allows for a certification after third-party audits.

Explore the world and satisfy your wanderlust in the most eco-friendly way.

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics.

A practical tool kit for mending your clothes and upcycling your wardrobe.

From 2007 to 2012, almost five percent of American adults-about ten million people-lost their homes because they could not make mortgage payments.