The environment

Over-exploitation of natural resources resulting in their severe degradation, diminishing water resources, declining forest cover, depleting energy sources, loss of biodiversity and generation of various kinds of wastes are the issues to be addressed on priority in India.

Urban areas are increasingly contributing to climate change while also suffering many of its impacts.

How to progress climate science to be policy-relevant and actionable?

The image of modern corporations has been shaped by a profits over people approach, but we are at a point where business must take the lead in healing the crises of our time.

This book reports on the objectives, methods used and difficulties faced by the RAVE research projects, and presents the results and their significance for the future use of offshore wind energy in a style that is understandable for everyone.

High speed rail (HSR) is being touted as a strategic investment for connecting people across regions, while also fostering prosperity and smart urban growth.

In recent years climate change has emerged as an issue of central political importance while the EU has become a major player in international climate change politics.

This book presents a technical approach to promoting the development of disaster and climate change risk financing and transfer strategies, and discusses several practical issues, chiefly focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Technological improvements have greatly increased the ability of marine scientists to collect and analyze data over large spatial scales, and the resultant insights attainable from interpreting those data vastly increase understanding of poplation dynamics, evolution and biogeography.

This book examines the environmental footprints of recycled polyesters, highlighting the benefits and impact of recycling polyester waste and preparing it to replace virgin polyester in the raw material stage.

The economic liberalization of India, changes in global structures, and the rapid emergence of India on the global landscape have been accompanied by the dramatic rise in popular, public, and elite discourses that offer the promise to imagine India.

This book focuses on environmental footprints that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, policy makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects on the environment.

L'expression "Peigner les plages" est la traduction littérale du mot anglo-saxon "beachcombing".

The business case for sustainability is clear and organizations are responding to the imperative to act.

This book addresses the implications of the Industry 4.

This book examines the challenges and possibilities of conducting cultural environmental history research today.

The important role that randomness plays in evolutionary changeJohn Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology.

This work investigates law as an instrument to deal with the challenges of sea level rise.

This book reviews taxing choices to protect the local and global environment and preserve and sustain natural resources.

Jinnaha mysterious historical character of modern history is critically analysed with new facts which are brought to light in this book.

At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture.

This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature.

This carefully researched book presents facts and arguments showing, beyond a doubt, that nuclear fusion power will not be technically feasible in time to satisfy the world's urgent need for climate-neutral energy.

An ecosystem's complexity develops from the vast numbers of species interacting in ecological communities.

This proceedings addresses the challenges of urbanization that gravely affect the world's ecosystems.

This book argues that security and defense have never been true priorities in the European Union, and have constantly been marginalized by the elites since the Soviet Union collapsed and the Warsaw Pact disintegrated.

This book investigates how actors organize in order to solve a water quality problem.

André et Simone Gaillard sont des pionniers au XXe siècle du végétarisme en France.

Flush it and forget it is the plumbing mantra of the industrialized world.

Business innovation and industrial intelligence are paving the way for a future in which smart factories, intelligent machines, networked processes and Big Data are combined to foster industrial growth.

El Nino can have drastic effects on livelihoods in affected regions.

This book explores the opportunities and barriers within the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) framework of the Paris Agreement for low-carbon technology diffusion.

This book serves as an introduction to sustainability standards and instruments and includes chapters on initiatives of governmental and intergovernmental bodies, sectoral CSR commitments, CSR-related reporting and management standards, and securities exchanges and regulators.

While environmentalists insist that lower rates of consumption of natural resources are essential for a sustainable future, many economists dismiss the notion that resource limits act to constrain modern, creative societies.

This book discusses soil and recycling management in the Anthropocene era.

This book highlights peer reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Renewable Energy and Energy Conversion, ICREEC 2019, held at Oran in Algeria.

This book is a review of the recent literature on the key scientific and technical subjects of fertilization management in vegetable crops.

Phase 1 of the EPSRC SUPERGEN Wind programme began in March 2006 and work continued under Phase 2 until March 2014.

This book analyzes the expanding oil and gas activities in the Arctic from the perspective of Sustainable Development (SD) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

COVID-19 has demanded management innovations across all sectors.

Build your home the 'green' way to reduce running costs, be more self-sufficient and create a more comfortable home.

What scenario around the world it is showing this Number's Game while with its power is doing big impact in life of people.

This collection explores whether and how religious and secular worldviews and political ideologies held by scientists, citizens, decision-makers and politicians influence science as practiced and understood today.

This book is dedicated to the Congo Basin.

A follow-up to the highly successful first edition, this book reviews the manifold ways that scale influences the interpretation of ecological variation.

Caillou loves magic.

Das Erdklima hat eine bewegte Vergangenheit hinter sich.

Ecosystem Services: Global Issues, Local Practices covers scientific input, socioeconomic considerations, and governance issues on ecosystem services.

The book ‘Integrated Science to achieve Sustainable Development Goals’ debates how different fields of study can confront or mitigate problems or contribute together to the development of society.