Sustainability

This book presents a quantitative description of the physics of solar-cell materials, transport processes, fabrication methods, and offers a scientific understanding of the technology involved.

This book discusses the foundations of social and environmental accounting and highlights local differences in countries like Italy and Bulgaria.

This volume collects papers presented at the International 100% Renewable Energy Conferences (IRENEC) from 2011 to 2015.

This Monograph explains the statistical theory behind the National Forest Inventory (NFI) data collection and compares different methods for modelling and inventory design.

This book covers the basics of animal manure, or animal dung, and highlights its applications in agriculture and biotechnology.

This book draws upon the expertise of academic researchers, urban planners and architects to explore the challenge of building the sustainable cities of the future.

This book considers the principle of 'sustainable development' which is currently facing a growing environmental crisis.

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

This book documents innovative approaches for integrating green technologies and decentralized water infrastructure.

This book is a state of the art treatise on what has been done so far on measuring sustainability for decision making.

This book brings together examples and cases from across the world to discuss how sport has and can further contribute to the UN 2030 Sustainable Development agenda.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication (Digital Concrete), held in Loughborough, UK, on June 27-29, 2022.

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

This book presents a range of nanocatalysts, together with their primary environmental applications and use in chemical production processes.

This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river.

This book explores different dimensions of the field of corporate governance and social responsibility.

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

This book presents novel findings concerning the systems, materials and processes used in solar energy conversion in communities.

Thirty carefully selected, peer-reviewed contributions from the International Conference on Pure and Applied Chemistry (ICPAC 2016) are featured in this edited book of proceedings.

This book shows possible solutions to how a profitable energy supply can be implemented with almost no population resistance.

This professional book introduces an analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East that is aligned with the Global South.

This contributed volume analyses and discusses how atmospheric carbon emissions can be prevented using carbon capture and removal technology and how renewable energies can be used to reduce carbon emissions.

This volume describes the recent developments in the free-radical mediated synthesis and elaboration of heterocycles.

This book serves the purpose of documenting and promoting African experiences on sustainable development, which encompasses both, formal and non-formal education.

Recurring extreme events of nature challenge disaster-prone settlements in complex ways.

This edited volume seeks to identify the sustainability issues currently affecting the energy business and finance.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in built environment, as presented by international researchers at the 15th Built Environment Conference, held in Durban, South Africa, on September 27-28, 2021, and organized by the Association of Schools of Construction of Southern Africa (ASOCSA).

This book focuses on the use of natural fiber composites (NFCs) in the automotive industry.

This unique reference gathers numerous new studies examining specific, prominent high-rise buildings around the world.

This book gathers the latest innovations and applications in the field of resource-saving technologies and advanced materials in civil and environmental engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 3rd International Scientific Conference EcoComfort and Current Issues of Civil Engineering, held in Lviv, Ukraine on September 14-16, 2022.

The book explores how architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) firms have been adapting and changing to effectively address key environmental challenges, focusing on Life Cycle Thinking and related methodologies (Life Cycle Assessments and Life Cycle Costing).

This book provides an overview of the environmental problems that arise from construction activity, focusing on refurbishment as an alternative to the current crisis in the construction sector, as well as on measures designed to minimize the effects on the environment.

Here, expert authors delineate approaches that can support both decision makers as well as their concerned populations in overcoming unwarranted fears and in elaborating policies based on scientific evidence.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the linkages between business and society by addressing key issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, ethics and governance.

The book focuses on efficiency analysis in enterprises and describes a broader supply-chain context to support improved sustainability.

This book contains selected papers presented during technical and plenary sessions at the World Renewable Energy Congress, the world's premier conference on renewable energy and sustainable development.

This book provides a rich overview and takes a closer look at the current state of theory and practice in the field of sustainable business models.

This multidisciplinary handbook explores concrete case studies which illustrate how sustainability science and research can contribute to the realization of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This book explores cutting-edge topics on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in aviation.

This book explains how and where copper and fossil fuels were formed and the likely future for the extraction of copper and coal.

The purpose of this book is to study the association of corporate environmental responsibility (CER) with financial performance, capital structure, innovative activities, corporate risk, working capital management and accounting quality.

This book reviews advanced techniques for the determination of pesticide residues, with focus on extraction, detectors and cleaning protocols.

This book introduces the influence and impacts of green economy and green growth on sustainable economic development.

This book explores the role of scientific evidence within United Nations (UN) deliberation by examining the negotiation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), endorsed by Member States in 2015.

This book is aimed at developing sustainability competences through pedagogical approaches by comparing 15 case studies from 12 countries in 4 continents (Africa, America, Australia, and Europe) analysing how Sustainable Development (SD) is being taught in their courses, which competences are being developed, and which pedagogical approaches are being used to develop the competences.

This book explores the growing spatial inequality in contemporary cities, and the opportunity of reframing the role of public open space as a tool of inclusion in a context of an increasing economic gap between the urban poor and rich.

This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development.

This book incorporates a wealth of research focused on the more and more urgent challenges that urban planning and architectural design all over the world must cope with: from climate change to environmental decay, from an increasing urban population to an increasing poverty.

This text provides an important overview of the contributions of edible insects to ecological sustainability, livelihoods, nutrition and health, food culture and food systems around the world.

This contributed volume contains the conference proceedings of the Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) conference 2015, Berlin.