Sustainability

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

This book serves the environmentalists to track the development of photocatalytic materials and technology in the present context and to explore future trends.

This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how.

This book provides an insight into how a country contributes to the GHG emissions reductions required to keep global warming within the limits set by the Paris Agreement arrived at COP21 in 2015.

Meeting the targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires contributions by scientists focusing on understanding, monitoring, protecting, managing and restoring the natural environment, including geoscientists.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of several urban related aspects that are of central importance to successful territorial cohesion processes.

This book reflects the current state of knowledge on sustainability in a wide range of fields, from engineering to agriculture, to education.

This book analyzes new forms of capitalism that are manifesting under the pressures of global transformation.

Recently, there have been public concerns about the impact of emerging market multinationals.

Infrastructure that manages our water resources (such as, dams and reservoirs, irrigation systems, channels, navigation waterways, water and wastewater treatment facilities, storm drainage systems, urban water distribution and sanitation systems), are critical to all sectors of an economy.

This book is the second of two volumes which highlight the concept of financial inclusion from the Islamic perspective.

This book examines the development and adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Polish businesses and social and environmental organizations, and analyzes the corresponding impact at the strategic and operational level in these fields.

These proceedings present fourteen peer-reviewed papers from the 10th International Conference on Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings and Smart Communities, which was held March 21-22, 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany.

This book gathers the latest research, innovations, and applications in the field of civil engineering, as presented by leading national and international academics, researchers, engineers, and postgraduate students at the AWAM International Conference on Civil Engineering 2019 (AICCE'19), held in Penang, Malaysia on August 21-22, 2019.

We are living at the dawn of what has been termed 'the fourth paradigm of science,' a scientific revolution that is marked by both the emergence of big data science and analytics, and by the increasing adoption of the underlying technologies in scientific and scholarly research practices.

This book addresses the application of sustainable HRM principles within tourism in the specific context of Africa, a neglected area of study.

The book is an overview of the diversity of anthropogenic aquifer recharge (AAR) techniques that use aquifers to store and treat water.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This book approaches the challenges the Arctic has faced and is facing through a lens of opportunity.

This book provides an overview of the current and emerging industrial applications of ionic liquids, covering the core processes, the practical implementation and technical challenges involved, and exploring potential future directions for research and development.

By now, planners everywhere know - more or less - what the ingredients of a sustainable city are, in theory.

This book highlights ecosystem services of Indian tropical soils driven by soil properties.

This book examines topical issues in global corporate social responsibility (CSR) from both scholarly and practical perspectives.

This book analyses the economic and environmental aspects of installing photovoltaic facilities for residential electricity users and determines whether the installation of photovoltaic units "e;behind the meter"e; makes sense, and if so, the best economic size to install.

This conference proceedings presents the research papers in the field of mine planning and mining equipment including themes such as mine automation, rock mechanics, drilling, blasting, tunnelling and excavation engineering.

In recent years the Arctic has become the focus of political, popular and scholarly debates around the future of our world's Energy.

This book applies system theory to analyze the operation and structure of the complex earth surface system, including the interactions between society and nature that cause environmental degradation and threats to human populations.

This book presents the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Materials and Sustainable Development ISMSD2019 (CIMDD2019), will include a 3-day Conference (12 - 14 November).

This volume examines the practicality of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in India, and includes policy analyses and statistical assessments of comparative data between India and different countries.

This book tells the story of one nation's sustained efforts to steer its economy toward low carbon technologies and to define national and global pathways for mitigating climate change.

With the introduction of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations General Assembly in 25 September 2015, UN agencies, member states and stakeholders have begun to focus on the adoption and implementation of these strategies in realization of 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

This book highlights the discontinuities and the ongoing development of the urban question in policy-making in the context of the controversial current issues of global reversal and regional revival.

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

This unique volume considers the emergence of "e;Industry 4.

This book discusses the reality of implementing sustainable forest management measures.

This book discusses the adoption of learning management systems (LMS) in higher education institutions.

This book describes the risks, impacts, measures, actions and adaptation policies that have developed globally as a result of the severe impacts of global climate change.

This book is an outcome of the 33rd International Conference EnviroInfo 2019, held at the University of Kassel, Germany.

This book comprises recent developments in life cycle assessment (LCA) both with regards to the methodology and its application in various research fields, including mobility, engineering and manufacturing.

This book covers how Internet of Things (IoT) has a role in shaping the future of our communities.

This book provides a wide-range exploration on the ongoing research and developmental events in environmental nanotechnology.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Sustainable Production and Use of Cement and Concrete (ICSPCC 2019), held in Villa Clara, Cuba on June 23-30, 2019.

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

This book provides an overview of cleaner production, including how regulations have evolved, and presents a broad perspective on how it is being developed.

This book provides a rich collection of essays discussing and showcasing the transformation of businesses around the world towards sustainability and responsibility.

This book focuses on the prospects of fresh market waste management in developing countries.

This book examines rural tourism across three different contexts, acknowledging the complexity of rural places.

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 gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd International Conference on Innovative Technologies for Clean and Sustainable Development, held in Chandigarh, India, on February 19-21, 2020.