The environment

Ever-increasing population growth, combined with ongoing climate change signals that agriculture will face great challenges in ensuring global food security by 2050.

In 'The Incredible Travel Tales of John Muir (Illustrated Edition)', readers are taken on a vivid journey through the adventures of the renowned naturalist and conservationist, John Muir.

Terrapsychological Inquiry is a path of storied, imaginative research that takes seriously our intense inner responses to the state of the natural world.

This book looks at the success and continuing potential of photovoltaic (PV) technology in combating climate change by harnessing solar energy through building-integrated (BIPV) and building-applied photovoltaics (BAPV).

The environmental professional must be educated to be ethical, and more importantly, trained through frequent participatory workshops with real-world scenarios to be able to make the right choices when faced with environmental dilemmas.

Carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond-forming reactions are the backbone of synthetic organic chemistry.

Handbook of Recycling, Second Edition, Winner of the International Solid Waste Association's 2014 Publication Award, is an authoritative review of the current state of recycling, reuse and reclamation processes commonly implemented today and how they interact with one another.

As humans expand the frequency and scale of interactions off-planet, Space Criminology ponders the nature of crime, harm and transgression in outer space and possible responses to these.

This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective.

This book focuses on the access to water in the building and its surroundings, to infer the mutual interaction and the complex interconnection of green/blue infrastructures.

The book reports the results on the fate of POPs in the abiotic and biotic components of the aquatic environment North Pacific Ocean (include Russian part of North Pacific), possible health risks for coastal residents Pacific Ocean exposed to these hazardous pollutants are systematized.

This volume provides state-of-the-art knowledge on xenobiotics in urban ecosystems, addressing a wide range of related issues, such as xenobiotic types and chemical composition, environmental fate, remedial approaches, regulatory policies and socioeconomic impacts.

Industry 4.

Die Befassung mit ‚Landschaft‘ hat in den letzten Jahren in der Öffentlichkeit und den Wissenschaften an Bedeutung gewonnen.

This volume brings together contributions from the 2022 conference of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology, held in Alesund, Norway, to address the many urgent questions raised by the concept of global sustainability.

This book addresses the growing need for a standard textbook on input-output analysis (IO) within the context of industrial ecology (IE).

An enlightening examination of the ways our capitalist system depends on three corrupt principles: greed, hatred and ignorance.

The Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters has been celebrated as a pioneering international environmental agreement.

This edited volume provides strategies for reducing inequality and promoting human development through the use of innovative digital technology and the adoption of new bioethical principles for governance.

This book focuses on the impact of climate change on India, addressing environmental problems and conducting an analysis of the climate change impact on mitigation processes.

This book includes the proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Engineering and Sustainability in the XXI CEntury, INCREaSE 2023.

Rising concern about climate change and strong societal expectations with increasing complexities of mineral deposits being mined, call for more innovative exploration and exploitation technologies with higher productivity and recovery including eco-friendly strategies and policies in place for long term sustainability of the mineral Industry.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of effective methods of calculation, resource-saving technologies, and advanced materials in civil and environmental engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the XVIII International Scientific Conference Current Issues of Civil and Environmental Engineering "e;Lviv- Kosice - Rzeszow"e;, held in Rzeszow, Poland, on September 6-8, 2023.

This book highlights the concepts, issues and policies related to the circular economy.

The wood used by master craftsmen to create many of the world's legendary stringed instruments-violins and cellos, mandolins and guitars-comes from seven near-mythic European forests.

This book gathers selected contributions in the field of civil and structural engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Materials Physics, Building Structures and Technologies in Construction, Industrial and Production Engineering (MPCPE), held in Vladimir, Russia, on April 26-28, 2022.

Green bond issuance has surged in recent years in response to growing investor appetite and borrowers' needs as they embark on the sustainability transition.

The book is unique in highlighting the issue of wastewater as one of the important environmental issues.

Sustainable aviation is a long-term strategy to provide innovative solutions to the industry's environmental challenges.

Now in a thoroughly revised and expanded second edition, this classroom-tested text demonstrates and illustrates how to apply concepts and methods learned in disparate courses such as mathematical modeling, probability, statistics, experimental design, regression, optimization, parameter estimation, inverse modeling, risk analysis, decision-making, and sustainability assessment methods to energy processes and systems.

Economic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products.

This book is devoted to a systemic study of socio-economic development risks arising in the Decade of Action, as well as the prospects for risk management in support of sustainable development.

This book focuses on the complex relationship between education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlights how important context is for both critiquing and achieving the Goals though education, given the critical role teachers, schools and curriculum play in young people's lives.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has a huge impact on science and technology, including energy, where access to resources has been a source of geopolitical conflicts.

This is an ecology textbook focused on key principles that underpin research and management at the landscape scale.

This book focuses on the access to water in the building and its surroundings, to infer the mutual interaction and the complex interconnection of green/blue infrastructures.

In both Islamic and non-Islamic countries many population groups worldwide, such as vegetarians and people of the Jewish faith, consumers do not eat pork.

This book presents a new analytical framework and several newly developed quantitative methods to investigate the interactions between climatic, ecological, and socioeconomic factors as a total socioenvironmental system (TSES).

Stadtwerken mit ihren oft mannigfachen Geschäftsbereichen wie Energieerzeugung, öffentlicher Nahverkehr, Netzbetrieb Strom/Gas/Wasser, dem Vertrieb von Strom oder Gas sowie dem Ausbau/Betrieb von Ladeinfrastruktur kommt eine maßgebliche Rolle bei der konkreten & lokalen Umsetzung von Nachhaltigkeitsprojekten zu.

Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops including floriculture.

The water policy issues are well- documented in a large set of reports and studies, completed over time showing that the policy prescription and its implementation has been weak in the past as this  book reveals.

Geography is a discipline with a profound interdisciplinary character focusing on studying the complex interactions between nature and society.

Museums and the Climate Crisis shows how museums can respond to the interrelated global climate, biodiversity and pollution crises.

This book examines the economic costs and benefits of the ecological restoration of estuaries, utilizing case studies from South Africa.

Historically the field of heterogeneous catalysis has focused on the design and optimisation of the catalytic materials.

This book provides one of the first systematic introductions to the Japanese concept of life-environmentalism, Seikatsu-Kankyo Shugi.

This book examines the economic costs and benefits of the ecological restoration of estuaries, utilizing case studies from South Africa.

The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet.

WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITINGFINALIST IN THE GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARDSFive years after writing her first nature memoir, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Kate Bradbury has a new garden.