The environment

This book provides a broad overview how extremophiles can be used in biotechnology, including for the production and degradation of compounds.

This book asserts that the goal of smart villages should shift from one of extraction to one of community value creation.

Integrating waste management, environmental sustainability, and economic development is a prime milestone in the circular economy.

The book delves into the realm of biomaterials with a strong focus on sustainability, offering insights into their diverse applications in advanced therapeutics, and, diagnostics.

This book is tailored for the countless individuals entrusted with driving improvement initiatives within their businesses or organizations.

Responsible land distribution in Asia, with ever-increasing limitations in space, requires the use of smart technologies, sophisticated models, intelligent algorithms, and big data repositories.

This book summarizes contemporary research on land degradation, desertification, and how such issues relate to socioeconomic growth in developing countries.

We are the only species that uses fire.

This book highlights the latest knowledge and innovations in the fields of civil engineering and construction industry striving for a sustainable built environment.

This book looks at Pakistani fiction from an environmental perspective, focusing on the novels of the internationally renowned author Uzma Aslam Khan.

This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and updated source of reference in tourism research and practice.

This book brings together two important fields in the study of international politics and policy: climate change adaptation and mitigation (climate action) and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).

This book brings together two important fields in the study of international politics and policy: climate change adaptation and mitigation (climate action) and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).

This book brings together the interdisciplinary reflections of Christian scholars and poets, to explore how ecological virtues can foster the flourishing of our home planet in the face of unprecedented environmental change and devastation.

The official tie-in to the third instalment in the legendary Planet Earth franchiseFew places on Earth remain untouched by humans, creating challenges for the wildlife we share it with.

Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage presents case studies from different regions in the world and establishes a framework for understanding, identifying, and analysing disaster risks to immovable cultural heritage.

This edited collection aims to provoke discussion around the most important question for contemporary higher education - what kind of education (in terms of purpose, pedagogy and policy) is needed to restore the health and wellbeing of the planet and ourselves now and for generations to come?

This book uses economic and policy approaches to highlight sustainability, environmental, and social aspects of the circular economy.

Sustainable Energy Technology, Business Models, and Policies: Theoretical Peripheries and Practical Implications offers a new outlook on incorporating sustainable energy technologies into business models.

This book is a collection of speculative judgments that, along with accompanying commentaries, pursue a novel enquiry into how judges might respond to the formidable and planetary-scaled challenges of the Anthropocene.

This edited collection aims to provoke discussion around the most important question for contemporary higher education - what kind of education (in terms of purpose, pedagogy and policy) is needed to restore the health and wellbeing of the planet and ourselves now and for generations to come?

This book is a collection of speculative judgments that, along with accompanying commentaries, pursue a novel enquiry into how judges might respond to the formidable and planetary-scaled challenges of the Anthropocene.

This book comprehensively analyzes the challenges and opportunities associated with transitioning to sustainable energy systems in Latin America.

In 2015 the first edition of this book was published before the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention entered into force.

'Penetrating, intensely personal, and impossible to put down, this is a book you need to read.

Extensive industrialization has led to an increased release of toxic metals into the soil and air.

This book explores how human civilization has contributed to changes in the Anthropocene, an era that marks a fundamental change in the way mankind has interacted with the Earth system.

Die Gelbbauchunke (Bombina variegata) ist eine Leitart des Naturschutzes.

The UN's urban sustainability goal (#11) is fundamental to the global sustainable development agenda.

'From the moment that these waters were given back their beavers, I knew that I would never wish to return to the time when they were without them .

There is a need for an integrated approach to solving and mitigating environmental problems using colloid science technologies and considering the relationship between air, water and soil.

An illuminating account of urban botany in the British Isles its ecology, history and cultural significance.

Everything you need to know for your electrification journey by the bestselling author of The Big SwitchWe all know that renewable energy is the future, but how can we ditch coal and gas in our own lives and homes?

Rewilding Education calls for a radical, system-wide reinvention of education as an adaptable ecosystem; less predictable and measurable, but far more suitable for shaping the adults of tomorrow.

Theatres of Compost places ecology at the center of performance scholarship and criticism, and it positions performance as a key cultural process for bringing about a more just and sustainable future.

This book identifies and discusses opportunities and constraints in applying the sustainability paradigm to urbanization.

Die globale Entwaldung ist ein vielschichtiges Problem, das von der Landwirtschaft über Urbanisierung bis hin zum Klimawandel und Bergbau getrieben wird.

The climate problem is getting worse, but the solutions are getting better.

Urban Heat Mitigation Strategies: An Architecture Perspective explores heat mitigation strategies integrated into the urban architecture of global cities, aiming to enhance citizens' quality of life through thoughtful design decisions blending architecture, science and engineering.

Liam und Ami spielen am liebsten im Wald.

Stories of Human Resilience in a Changing Climate offers a captivating glimpse into the human face of climate change.

This book sheds light on environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy principles, practice and the implications of integrating ESG factors into business operations, investment strategies and corporate governance frameworks, across both developed and developing countries (Europe, Asia and the US).

Does gender matter in global climate change?

The plastisphere provides a unique man-made habitat for organisms and microbial communities.

This book sheds light on environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy principles, practice and the implications of integrating ESG factors into business operations, investment strategies and corporate governance frameworks, across both developed and developing countries (Europe, Asia and the US).

There is a need for an integrated approach to solving and mitigating environmental problems using colloid science technologies and considering the relationship between air, water and soil.

This book identifies and discusses opportunities and constraints in applying the sustainability paradigm to urbanization.

An authoritative treatment of the diverse and beautiful anole lizards of mainland Central and South AmericaAnoles are highly visible and aesthetically pleasing lizards that are abundant throughout Central and South America.