This book provides a comprehensive overview of biotechnological advances and applications in microbial proteases, offering readers a detailed understanding of their role in modern science and industry.
Through cultural mapping and design methodologies, this book illuminates the role of architecture in preserving collective memory while adapting to contemporary needs.
This comprehensive guide transforms abstract sustainability theory into practical, real-world solutions, offering readers the proven policy frameworks, case studies, and green infrastructure strategies needed to balance urban economic growth with environmental stewardship.
Presenting Jewish environmentalism as a case study of contemporary post-secularism, this book exemplifies the responses of world religions to the global ecological crisis and situates Jewish environmental spirituality historically, socially, theologically, and politically.
One of a series of titles on the Futures of Asia, “Future of Cities in Asia” explores diverse facets of Asia's future city landscape during the transformative 2020s, offering insights into pivotal transformations and potential trajectories.
Sustainable Construction Management and Transportation Planning offers a comprehensive analysis of the prospects and challenges of decarbonizing the environment.
Disrupting education-as-usual in the face of climate crisis, this edited collection brings together pedagogical, curricular and conceptual approaches that respond to ecological precarity, centring Indigenous knowledge systems and Black ecologies alongside interdisciplinary methods grounded in storytelling.
This groundbreaking volume offers an innovative exploration of sustainability challenges through complementary lenses that traditional approaches have often kept separate.
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of slow-onset hazards, combining scientific analysis, policy perspectives, and practical adaptive strategies.
In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows.
This book explores the transformative impact of emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, and machine learning on industries and societies, particularly in Africa.
This compilation of papers captures the essence of the International Conference on Smart Systems for Sustainable Development using Advanced Computational Techniques (ICSSA 2025).
Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate social-environmental inequity.
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women's efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.
Forests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries.
A Translation of Luigi Paolucci's On Birdsong is the first English translation of a groundbreaking memoir on birdsong by the Italian naturalist Luigi Paolucci.
The boards and management of listed companies are under increasing pressure from investors to address urgent environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
The second edition of Geographic Information Systems in Water Resources Engineering, thoroughly revised and updated, presents a comprehensive review of the concepts and applications of GIS in various scenarios from surface water and groundwater to wastewater and river basin planning.
In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows.
Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize.
Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize.
Paying the Carbon Price analyzes the practice of freely allocating permits in Emissions Trading Schemes (ETSs) and demonstrates how many heavy polluters participating in ETSs are not yet paying the full price of carbon.
Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel PrizeA powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planetWomen are disproportionately impacted by climate change floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures overwhelmingly affect women in the short and long term.
This book contributes to the emerging field of the blue humanities by developing a critical media perspective on the technical, social, cultural, and historical mediation of knowledge, perception, and experience of the oceans.
Exploring the ongoing histories of human-centered ecosystem management in the lands and waters that comprise what is now known as North America, this book tracks the diverse ways in which human-environmental relations have been presented across different forms of media.
This book describes landfill sites, (designated areas for the disposal of waste materials), widely recognized as a substantial contributor to the deterioration of air quality due to the release of various pollutants into the atmosphere.
Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel PrizeA powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planetWomen are disproportionately impacted by climate change floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures overwhelmingly affect women in the short and long term.
