Sustainability

This book offers a comprehensive review of the latest developments, challenges and trends in C1-based (one-carbon based) bioproduction, and it presents an authoritative account of one-carbon compounds as promising alternative microbial feedstocks.

This book contains contributions from the international conference "e;Engineering Innovations and Sustainable Development,"e; organized by three Russian universities on June 17-18, 2021.

Die Cannabispflanze könnte als Nutzhanf besser als bisher gedacht dazu beitragen, die Ziele des UN-Nachhaltigkeits-Reports, der sog.

This book focuses on the politics, discourse and actors surrounding climate change issues in China.

Water is the elixir of life and is crucial for sustainable development.

This book highlights the recent research works on sustainable construction, people behavior and built environment which were presented virtually during the 2021 AUA and ICSGS Academic Conference, Global Strategies for a Resilient and Sustainable Post Pandemic World Towards a Better Future for All which was conducted on 26-27 October 2021.

The book presents expert assessments of modern opportunities for fisheries and aquaculture in terms of economic efficiency, the state of fishery reservoirs, and the state of ichthyocenoses.

This book includes 15 works by scientists of the Eurasian region, which reveal the various stages of the life cycle of digital transformation The creation of value propositions and their distribution chains is important for the sustainable development of society.

This volume is intended to provide a comprehensive understanding of recent innovations related to the study of agricultural and environmental management for sustainable development.

Auf der Grundlage umweltpsychologischer Erkenntnisse werden Ansatzpunkte und Strategien zur Förderung nachhaltigen Verhaltens benannt.

The primary aim of this reference volume is to provide an accessible and comprehensive review of current methods used to address resource evaluation and environmental as well as climate issues, and in a manner easily understood by decision-makers and the non-economists interested in environmental policy matters.

  Will we really soon no longer be sitting behind the wheel of our own car, but will only be taken to our destination by driverless electric taxis?

This book describes the impact of Era 4.

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 book introduces important reflections on understanding the meaning of cultural-religious heritage in an international context and their relationship with issues of sustainability at the local community level.

Even though technology makes us more ';connected' than ever, we still hunger for authentic relationshipswith the natural world, our creator, and one another.

This edited volume analyzes cases of higher education programs engaging with sustainable development.

There are multiple variants of environmental footprints such as carbon footprint, ecological footprint, water footprint, nitrogen footprint and so on.

This first of this set of books presents the various sustainable approaches in terms of circular economy and micro plastic pollution pertaining to the textiles and fashion supply chain.

This book presents the current causes and effects of implementing sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) as well as green supply chain management (GSCM) strategies in the automotive industry.

Are you afraid of a nuclear reactor accident?

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

This book publishes some papers presented at The International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability (ICoWEFS  2023), a major forum to foster innovation and exchange knowledge in the water-energy-food nexus.

The book's objective is to present the energy transition process in Brazil over time and offer new perspectives on this process in the eyes of a sustainable future.

This book (The AUN/SEED-Net Joint Regional Conference in Transportation, Energy, and Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering) gathers selected papers submitted to the 14th Regional Conference in Energy Engineering and the 13th Regional Conference in Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering in the fields related to intelligent equipment, automotive engineering, mechanical systems and sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, heat and mass transfer.

This book highlights the concepts of lean manufacturing that help to achieve the objectives of sustainability in a global competitive atmosphere.

This book presents carbon footprint calculation and mitigation in the manufacturing and transportation sectors.

This book covers biodiversity conservation under special consideration of the challenges in the global south with particular attention being paid to consider the existing conservation challenges in relation to the study area in Ethiopia.

This book presents and critically evaluates the results of a European territorial cooperation project addressing the planning challenge of brownfield transformation in fragile territories.

This volume discusses geological, biological and sustainability aspects of coastal, estuary and lake environments.

This book highlights the approaches for achieving trans-disciplinary research integration for "e;semi-arid dryland agriculture systems"e; under changing climates, while also identifying the elements of a collaborative research agenda that are needed to advance global food security.

Since 2014, and the start of the New-type Urbanization Plan (NUP), we see a turning point in the sustainability agenda of China.

Among various industries releasing wastewater into the environment, printing, dyeing and textile industries are of great importance as they frequently contain high amounts of colorful compounds having high chemical and biological oxygen demands.

This book includes both theoretical conceptualization and practical applications in the fields of product design, architecture, engineering, and materials.

This book highlights advances in the fields of civil engineering and construction industry with a particular focus on Structural Engineering and Construction Management.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG2021) focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of transportation of people and freight.

Planetary health involves complex spatial-temporal interactions among agents, hosts, and earth environment.

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 our understanding of planetary resources and circularity, revealing critical potentials for architecture and design to contribute in more informed and long-term ways to the urgent transition of our society.

This book presents smart energy management in the context of energy transition.

Degrowth Decolonization and Development reveals common underlying cultural roots to the multiple current crises.

This book introduces the Political Economy of Alternative Economic Futures for the Greek economy up to 2035.

This volume aims to explore project management contributions to sustainable business change based on renewability, reuse, and repair as well as the effect of circular economy business solutions on project management in terms of the management approach, governance, and leadership.

The present publication focusses the attention on new avenues in regional information and knowledge management, while we will zoom in particularly on the potential promises and hurdles of digital technology.

This book provides a description of material characterization and mechanisms of secondary batteries during discharge, cycle, and storage process.

This book reports on the treatment of waters and wastewaters with contaminants of emerging concern such as pharmaceutically active compounds.

This book provides new insights into the development of integrated approaches to peace and sustainability in the era of global change.

There have been concerns about the integrity of thousands of wells drilled worldwide for different purposes ranging from oil and gas to geological carbon sequestration.

WINNER: 2023 Goody Business Book Awards - Business - EnvironmentSHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2024 - Change & Sustainability CategoryFINALIST: Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2024 - Social ChangeIn the face of our climate emergency, we desperately need solutionists working to fix the future.