Sustainability

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This book reviews empirical and theoretical research on sustainable development in the context of leisure management for communities.

This book presents the proceedings of the 5th Edition of the Brazilian Technology Symposium (BTSym).

This book presents a large number of organic reactions performed under green conditions, which were earlier performed using anhydrous conditions and various volatile organic solvents.

This book describes the importance of water resources for socio-economic and ecological development including geomorphic and ecological environments.

This book stems from the seminal work of Robert Venturi and aims at re-projecting it in the current cultural debate by extending it to the scale of landscape and placing it in connection with representative issues.

This book explores local content policies and their role in natural resource management within the realm of energy justice.

The book is written in the backdrop of the environmental impacts of and future requirements from the natural environment for rapid economic growth that has characterized recent economic history of China and India, especially over the past few decades.

This book is mainly based on the results of the EU-funded UE-FP7 Project EnCoRe, which aimed to characterize the key physical and mechanical properties of a novel class of advanced cement-based materials incorporating recycled powders and aggregates and/or natural ingredients in order to allow partial or even total replacement of conventional constituents.

This book presents cutting-edge work on innovative planning methodologies, tools and experiences aimed at supporting the transition of our cities and regions towards a more smart and sustainable dimension.

This book presents an overview of the challenges that cities in Latin America and Asia are facing regarding the preservation of their tangible and intangible heritage.

This book discusses applied life cycle and supply chain management approaches for the sustainable development of tourism in Asian countries.

This SpringerBrief focuses on Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) in the three basins in the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Value chains are a vital part of how our world operates, yet we are only beginning to understand how to make them sustainable.

This edited volume discuses urban transport issues, policies, and initiatives in twelve of the world's major emerging economies - Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam - countries with large populations that have recently experienced large changes in urban structure, motorization and all the associated social, economic, and environmental impacts in positive and negative senses.

This book discusses innovative responses and reforms developed in critical areas of urban governance in European countries.

This book examines the planning of cities in global transition, looking at Australia's Greater Sydney as a case example.

This book focuses on the Nordic countries through a European perspective and wishes to draw attention to their place in the new world order.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the political economy of soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, by identifying the dominant private and public actors and control mechanisms that have given rise to a corporate-driven, vertically integrated system of regionalized agricultural production in the Southern Cone of South America.

In the present scenario, green technologies are playing significant role in changing the course of nation's economic growth towards sustainability and providing an alternative socio-economic model that will enable present and future generations to live in a clean and healthy environment, in harmony with nature.

This edited volume examines the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the Circumpolar North, a territory facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges at the start of the 21st century.

This edited volume focuses on how we can protect our environment and enhance environmental sustainability when faced with changes and pressures imposed by our expansive needs.

This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject.

This book presents the latest findings and ongoing research in the field of green information systems as well as green information and communication technology (ICT).

This book offers a detailed examination of the main sources of Chile's water, its principle consumers, the gap between supply and demand, hydrological droughts, and future projected impacts of climate change.

This volume analyzes sustainability-related innovations in the building sector and discusses how regional contexts articulate transition trajectories toward green building.

This book considers the scope and dynamics of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and learning in schools in Africa.

This book analyses the housing and governance policies of the city of Surakarta, in Indonesia.

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The book analyses the two decades of the brutal civil war of northern Uganda.

Environmentally friendly practices are crucial to the mission of museums, which, as houses of preservation, are uniquely suited to modeling green behavior and sustainability.

This book aims at showing how big data sources and data analytics can play an important role in sustainable mobility.

This book describes and analyses necessities for a more resource-efficient world.

This book presents the foundations for the future of tourism in a structured and detailed format.

This book provides an integrated perspective of the automotive market for the next decade.

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This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject.

This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

This book focuses on the recent advances in precision agriculture and satellite farming, detailing applications for sensing, data handling, modeling, and control.

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 book provides the first-ever overview of and guide to the geological setting and related features of the famous, volcanically active Galapagos Islands, as well as an in-depth analysis of the setting's relationship to the region's unique and iconic ecology, and its conservation.

This book presents five critical dimensions on relationships, institutions, produc-tion, organisation, and governance from design and systems perspectives for thesystematic transition of unstable and vulnerable communities across the world tosustainable community systems.

This book asks: What are the most suitable "e;mapping strategies"e; for detecting patterns of global dynamics?

Spatial planning defines how men use one of the most important and scarce resources on Earth: land.

This book discusses the role of ESD stakeholders at university level, involving civil society and the private sector and public sectors (including local, national and intergovernmental bodies).

This book provides detailed information on how to set up Deep Energy Retrofits (DERs) in public buildings, and shares in-depth insights into the current status of the major technologies, strategies and best practice examples of how to cost-effectively combine them.

This book explains the role of geology as the basis of sustainability.

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The book provides readers with essential insights into key issues in connection with planning, developing and financing sustainable energy projects in China that are relevant for practitioners, investors and developers involved in the emerging sustainable energy sector.