Sustainability

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG), held on October 28 - November 1, 2018 in Hangzhou, China.

A ground-breaking work that addresses a crucial challenge facing our planet and the finance discipline, this book discusses key omissions in finance theory, principles, and equations, and explores recent developments in sustainable finance/ESG integration.

This book focuses on the sustainable security practices in the domain of blockchain, quantum, and post-quantum technologies dealing with the real-time applications.

This book introduces a groundbreaking approach to urban design, addressing site-specific challenges arising from the impacts of climate change.

The report aims to help the cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China identify their potentials for green development, especially to find their own suitable green development paths.

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.

This book explores how digital technologies can be used to drive sustainable business practices and achieve long-term business success.

Nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize the way we address environmental challenges.

This book describes a diverse array of studies unravelling the intricate interplay of education, sustainability, and organizational dynamics.

This book presents selected peer reviewed articles from the 2nd International Engineering Research Symposium- IERS 2024, held at Colombo in Sri Lanka, under the theme of 'Engineering Innovations for Economic Transformation"e;.

This book presents peer-reviewed full papers of the 50th Textile Research Symposium (TRS50, 2023).

This book provides a structured presentation of machine learning related to vision, speech, and natural language processing.

This book offers a variety of cases that detail microbial technologies for remediation of microfiber pollution.

The relentless bombardment and blockade on Gaza have not only drastically restricted the inflow of essential food supplies but have also led to a catastrophic humanitarian crisis with unprecedented casualties.

This book contributes to blockchain applications in food supply chain management from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 6th International Conference on Bio-Based Building Materials (ICBBM), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 17-20, 2025.

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China from September 21st - 27th, 2023, with the theme of Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth.

This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China - particularly city governments and social actors - tackle China's urban environmental crisis.

This book illuminates the essential role of plant genetic resources (PGR) in tackling global challenges such as climate change, desertification, and salinization of agricultural land.

This volume comprehensively discusses marine bioprospecting and its applications in the marine bioeconomy, specifically in clean energy generation, and in biomedical, industrial and agricultural sectors.

This book presents the systematic evolution of digitized education: trends, advances, challenges encountered and their solutions toward the use of advanced technologies.

This book analyzes China's climate and environmental change facts, impacts and vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies.

This timely book provides an understanding of how an ageing population can maintain health in the ageing process in their preferred homes and neighbourhoods while coping with global crises of climate change events, infectious diseases, systemic violence, and radical or extreme industrialisation.

This textbook addresses the complexities associated with the practice of corporate finance in the transition to a Net-Zero world.

This book contains the proceedings of the 3rd IFToMM Workshop for Sustainable Development Goals (I4SDG), held in Lamezia Terme, Italy, on June 9–11, 2025.

This book discusses the convergence between nanotechnology and sustainability detailing the advances in addressing global challenges in achieving technological advancement in nanoscience.

This book highlights cutting-edge ecodesign research, covering product and service design, smart manufacturing, and social perspectives in ecodesign.

This edited volume evaluates how sport organizations in the public, private, and non-profit sectors define responsible management and sustainability and what these mean in their daily operations.

This book includes selected peer-reviewed articles from the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technology; ICSET 2023 held at the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with a focus on the theme "e;Sustainable Energy Technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Energy use is not uniform throughout the day and year.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles and recent advances on the potential applications of Science and Mathematics for future technologies, from the 8th International Conference on the Applications of Science and Mathematics (SCIEMATHIC 2022), held in Malaysia.

This book delves deeply into the multifaceted challenges of geoheritage management today, including the ever-evolving geological landscape, human impact, and the pressing need for sustainable solutions.

This book highlights recent progress on the advancements toward optimization of major biorefinery processes, including biomass pretreatment and fractionation, saccharification of sugars, and conversion of sugars and lignin into fuels and chemical precursors.

This book discusses the latest information and advancements on all aspects of sustainable sludge management including treatment, characterization, stabilization, digestion, thickening, dewatering, thermal processing, utilization, valorization production of usable materials, and disposal, with associated pros and cons addressed.

This book fills a crucial gap in the literature by providing an in-depth exploration of sustainable environmental technologies.

This collection of essays sheds light on repair as a disposition to material culture and a practice rooted in diverse sociocultural experiences.

Mining waste management is an important issue for the mining industry since it entails the safe and responsible disposal of waste created during mining operations.

This book highlights the utilization of biomaterials as emerging suitable and effective flame retardants (FRs) to replace most of the conventional FRs (e.

Solid waste management has become a significant global concern, particularly in maintaining and preserving value in solid waste resources.

This book emphasizes the comprehensive application of sustainability for all sectors of Environment, Energy, Building, and Infrastructure to secure a well-balanced world.

This book highlights what are likely to be the future megatrends in the water sector and why and how they should be incorporated to improve water governance in the coming decades.

The relentless bombardment and blockade on Gaza have not only drastically restricted the inflow of essential food supplies but have also led to a catastrophic humanitarian crisis with unprecedented casualties.

This book explores the current ecosystem status of tropical inland waters especially in Southeast Asia, the progress of ecosystem restoration in terms of current studies, technological interventions, policy recommendations, and stakeholder participation that gives due respect to traditional knowledge and cultural practices, and the challenges and opportunities of the restoration processes.

This book presents selected peer reviewed articles from the Smart and Sustainable Industrial Ecosystem Conference 2024 (SSIEC 2024), that took place on 5 August 2024in The Kuala Lumpur Teaching Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China - particularly city governments and social actors - tackle China's urban environmental crisis.

This book covers the basic concepts and applications of photoredox processes.

This book states that the new environmental challenge will also have to be faced ethically, science can provide the tools, but people will have to be sensitized so that they make their own environmental ethics.

This contributed volume offers a wealth of cases that explore the factors and conditions required for heritage tourism to be economically and socially beneficial to local communities without impairing the natural environment, cultural heritage preservation, or sustainability for future generations.