Sustainability

This book, the conference proceeding, contains invited articles and contributory papers from the 9th International Conference on Energy Engineering and Environmental Engineering, organized by Beijing Jiao Tong University in Sanya, China, on December 9-10, 2022.

In an era in which environmental education has been described as one of the most pressing educational concerns of our time, further insights are needed to understand how best to approach the learning and teaching of environmental education in early childhood education.

This book outlines the methodologies, approaches and tools for modelling chemicals in a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) perspective, and also covers the main advantages and drawbacks of applying LCA to chemical processes.

This book critically examines the implementation and adoption of integrated reporting (IR) in organizations and corporations.

This book focuses on the technologies developed for the conversion of all three biomass components, i.

This book offers a thorough description of the challenges posed by increasing global urbanization.

This book is about the ocean and about the future.

Environmental protection is a global issue.

Dieses Buch wird klimapositiv hergestellt, cradle-to-cradle gedruckt und bleibt plastikfrei unverpackt.

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

This book presents up-to-date descriptions of Smart Services Innovations in industry, supported by new scientific approaches.

Sustainable development is based on the idea that societies should advance without compromising their future development requirements.

This book discusses sustainable land use practices  in relation to agricultural innovation, with a local focus by land size classes on the Murshidabad District of West Bengal.

This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene.

This book examines the roles of communities in the general framework of territorial innovation, particularly in the context of less developed regions.

The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "e;sustainable foods"e; that were produced from "e;sustainable agriculture"e;; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "e;sustainable development"e; as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "e;sustainable lifestyle.

This book presents peer reviewed articles from the International Conference of Sustainable Development and Smart Built Environments: SDSBE2024; held from 6-8Nov at Auckland, New Zealand.

This book provides a step-by-step approach for organizations to reap benefits from a more sustainable approach.

This volume collects the research papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Sustainable Automotive Technologies (ICSAT), Gothenburg, 2014.

The proceedings volume presents selected papers from the International Conference on Sustainability in Software Engineering & Business Information Management: Innovation & Applications (SSEBIM 2022) held in Olten, Switzerland from September 23-24, 2022.

This book makes general considerations regarding global changes and contemporary economic issues in Asian countries in real terms.

This book examines the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounting within an applied development content  for Costa Rica.

Following the success of the first edition, this fully updated and revised book continues to provide an interdisciplinary introduction to sustainability issues in the context of chemistry and chemical technology.

This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of modern nanoscience, and encompasses advanced techniques of nanocomposite materials that make their way from the laboratory to the field for the revival of energy and environmental systems in a sustainable manner.

This book introduces readers to Life Cycle Approach (LCA)-supported design solutions, through non-geometric-data-driven methodologies, to provide a clear picture of how to optimize individual designs in addressing ecological challenges.

This book gives a special emphasis to state-of-the-art descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives, and projects from universities, stakeholders, organizations, and civil society across the world, regarding cross-cutting issues in sustainable development.

In a fast-changing, globalising world, the teaching and implementation of a curriculum for Education for Sustainability (EfS) has been a challenge for many teachers.

This book explores the intricate relationship between luxury and craftsmanship, using brand-based case studies and consumer behavior to do so.

This book contains selected papers from the 2025 Greek Marketing Academy and the Global Alliance of Marketing and Management Associations Joint Symposium (GMA-GAMMA2025) held from  July 24 to 27, 2025, in Hong Kong, China.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

This book addresses key aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and explores them from a variety of perspectives in a case study on the Marange diamond mines in Zimbabwe.

This book focuses on enhancing urban regeneration performance and strategies that pave the way toward sustainable urban development models and solutions.

An analysis of the normative prerequisites for addressing the challenges of democratic earth system governance in the Anthropocene.

The valuable characteristics of animal waste materials in terms of climatic change impact and bioenergy production are discussed in this book.

Viele junge Menschen weltweit haben das Gefühl, dass sie um ihr Leben und ihre Zukunft kämpfen müssen: Wenn sie keine Hitzewelle erwischt, dann eben eine Dürre.

Traditionally, the public sector has been responsible for the provision of all public goods necessary to support sustainable urban development, including public infrastructure such as roads, parks, social facilities, climate mitigation and adaptation, and affordable housing.

Based on detailed research funded across two continents and involving universities in Argentina, Spain and the UK, this book sets out an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to assessing both environmental and social risks in a given territorial area.

Textiles and Clothing are key sectors and apparel is one of the necessities of human life.

This book presents a detailed exploration into the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), an enterprise concerned with finding and communicating sustainable ways of living, established in Wales in 1973.

This book covers a wide spectrum of water resources management, including water supply and demand, operation and maintenance of water distribution systems, water quality assessment, impacts of climate change on hydrological extremes, and water governance.

This book explores the interlinkages between copyright and tertiary education regimes, and their complementary roles for sustainable human development.

This book presents a profile of the majority of hot springs in and around tourist destinations in Nepal.

The book highlights the latest innovations in sustainable textile dyeing and printing, addressing the industry's growing need for eco-friendly solutions.

Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles established the modern settlement of Singapore with the intent of seeing it become 'a great commercial emporium and fulcrum'.

This book discusses the scientific process of biomass compaction, focusing on pressing chamber parameters and their influence on the quality of extrusions from biomass.

This book provides accurate and integrated information about land resources especially with the accelerated progress of information technology to help Egypt and similar countries to achieve the country sustainable development goals in the field of agriculture and natural resources.

The book establishes the importance of environmental education by tracing its history and the developments that have taken place subsequently to date.