The environment

This book is a compendium of rare and unique spices, which have been least researched but hold immense economic potential on a global scale.

The Sun, Energy, and Climate Change conveys one central idea - that we can utilize energy without continuing to harm the planet by increasing our reliance on energy from the sun.

This book uses a historical and modern lens to reimagine the role that Extension could potentially play in catalyzing reciprocal, co-learning relationships between Land-Grant Universities and their diverse local constituencies.

In the contemporary global market, this book underscores the significance of Islamic institutions and companies to employ effective business and management strategies for sustained success.

This book summarizes the new major research findings about formation mechanism and control strategies of haze in China, including basic theories, key technologies, equipment and platforms and the applications and implementations of control technologies, in implementing the Strategic Priority Research Program (Class B) of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

This book describes environmental remediation technologies to remove pollutants from the environment and the environmental materials used for remediation.

This book presents select proceedings of the 3rd Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference 2022 (EPREC 2022).

This book focuses on the business operation of virtual power plants.

One of the key motivations and goals for China's social and economic development is the dual carbon target.

This book solicits meaningful contributions from key experts and practitioners that have been dealing with the emerging area of sustainability analytics.

This book presents up-to-date descriptions of Smart Services Innovations in industry, supported by new scientific approaches.

This book presents up-to-date descriptions of Smart Services Innovations in industry, supported by new scientific approaches.

Biofertilizer refers to the live or latent microbial inoculants capable of enhancing plant growth through direct and indirect mechanisms.

Tropical root and tuber crops form an important group of food crops for millions of people (about one-fifth of the world population), especially those living in the tropical and sub-tropical zones.

This book gathers selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Green Intelligent Transportation Systems and Safety, held in Qinghuadao, China, on September 16-18, 2022.

This book offers a fresh perspective on how science and religion are connected, and how prayer aligns with the laws of nature.

This book is composed of eight chapters, introducing the authors' research and application achievements in the hazard-causing system and disaster evaluation of water and mud inrush in tunnels over the past 10 years.

"e;This is the second in a series of three volumes of proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC 2022) which was held by Chinese Nuclear Society.

As India progresses fast in the 21st century, we also face daunting challenges of energy security and climate change.

The book provides information on the sources of arsenic contamination of groundwater and their impacts in the first part of the book consisting of 8 chapters.

This book provides a summary of the main concepts involved in environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions and a consistent sequence of environmental ethics, sustainability and decisions.

In this book, we proposed velocity-free localization methods for acoustic and microseismic sources.

This book provides comprehensive insights into the socioeconomic systems, carbon accounting, and consumption-expenditure frameworks influencing household carbon footprints (HCF) in a developing economy.

This book provides a detailed description of the flexibility of the power system with high share of variable renewable generation, including power system flexibility modeling, flexibility-based economic dispatch, demand side flexibility response, large-scale distributed flexible resources aggregation and market design for enhancing the flexibility of the power system, etc.

This book provides a knowledge base of the existing indigenous and local water knowledge, values, and practices, and how this water knowledge can be mainstreamed into the decision-making process.

This book sheds light on systems that learn extensively, with purpose and naturally interact with humans.

This book discusses recent trends and concepts in the field of biorefinery.

This book comprehensively covers many aspects of green mine, including the basic situation of green mines, mine facilities, extraction management, ecological environment, scientific and technological innovation, standardized management, environmental protection inspectors, and special tools in response to the needs of green mine construction, assessment, and management.

The major objective of this book is to introduce social business models to face the challenge of social issues in emerging countries.

The book brings together the research completed during 10 editions of International Seminars of Bionics, organized by the School of Architecture of the University of Alcala de Henares, Madrid, several of them in partnership with the "e;Ion Mincu"e; University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, carried out in Spain and in Romania.

Productivity growth has been slowing down globally in recent years in light of heightened economic crises and geopolitical tensions.

The book addresses the gaps in the body of knowledge from two grounds.

This contributed volume describes management practices based on interdisciplinary and convergence science approaches from different disciplines of agricultural science to enhance the resilience of dryland agriculture.

This book on biogas is about the production and use of biogas with an emphasis on the raw materials and processes suitable for use in Southeast Asia.

This book studies the low-carbon transformation path of the automotive industry.

This book delves into the current state and future prospects of systems thinking and sustainability education within business schools.

This book addresses quantitative assessment of forest governance and how local-level institutions work in governing efficient ways of forest resource management so that sustainable development of forest is ensured.

This book investigates the physical effects of a lightning flash on a person near the down conductor of a lightning protection system.

This book covers topics that addresses the global environmental issues, their challenges, and mitigation strategies for sustainable development.

This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in cement-based materials (CBM) and concrete structures, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the International RILEM Conference on synergizing expertise toward sustainability and robustness of CBM and concrete structures (SynerCrete), held in Milos Island, Greece, on June 14-16, 2023.

This book reviews recent innovations in the smart agriculture space that use the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensing to deliver Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutionsto agricultural productivity in the agricultural production hubs.

Under the contraction of global energy supply brought on by geopolitical situation, this timely book addresses how resource-scarce developing countries respond to challenges in energy security.

This book reviews recent innovations in the smart agriculture space that use the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensing to deliver Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutionsto agricultural productivity in the agricultural production hubs.

This book contains a set of papers which explore the links among climate change, health, and hazards and demonstrate how they interact.

This book presents the editor's recently proposed mathematical models for flux prediction in membrane filtration.

This book gets to the heart of trophy hunting, unpacking and explaining its multiple facets and controversies, and exploring why it divides environmentalists, the hunting community, and the public.

This book is part of the 4-volumes collection of Atlas of Chinese Macrofungal Resources.