The environment

This book offers stories and tools for designing and facilitating transformative sustainability pedagogy and explores how educators can intentionally design and facilitate eco-spiritual learning that promotes healing and wholeness.

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

This book addresses the geohazard of ground subsidence by giving an overview of subsidence processes and their harmful consequences.

This book features a collection of high-quality and peer-reviewed papers from 2023 14th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, which was held in Shandong, China, during November 23-25, 2023.

This book sheds light on the global environmental issue and proposes solutions to contamination through multi-disciplinary approaches.

The green transition is the way to a sustainable and fair planet, and necessary to secure supply chains, deliver predictable prices, and ensure access to raw materials despite resource scarcity through sustainable production and consumption.

This book comprehensively covers sustainable blended learning approach in each of the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines.

This book advances knowledge on loss & damage (L&D) and its interlinkages with climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

This book explores the possibility of building the resilience of the UNESCO cultural landscapes, both using theoretical conceptions and practical strategies and actions.

This book examines how emerging environmental challenges are situated within existing International Relations (IR) theoretical understandings of ‘security’.

This book examines contamination in groundwater.

This book offers stories and tools for designing and facilitating transformative sustainability pedagogy and explores how educators can intentionally design and facilitate eco-spiritual learning that promotes healing and wholeness.

This book presents up-to-date descriptions of smart service innovations in industry, supported by new scientific approaches.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive study on various aspects of environmental pollution dynamics using geospatial technology and modeling techniques.

This proposed book chapter is expected to provide the readers with wide aspects of green technologies for industrial waste remediation.

This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China - particularly city governments and social actors - tackle China's urban environmental crisis.

Followed by the previous part (Volume-1), Volume-2 of carbon footprint assessment book deals with the assessment of carbon footprint in different other sectors, which were not dealt in the first part.

This book focuses on the issues of integrating large-scale renewable power generation into existing grids.

This book presents different aspects of renewable energy integration, from the latest developments in renewable energy technologies to the currently growing smart grids.

This book is based on the behavioural intention of public transport passengers and the relationship between those factors in Indonesia.

Based on the field investigation and the summary of the published research results of the April 20, 2013, Lushan, Sichuan, China, MS7.

Carbon footprint is one of the important environmental impacts, which has received greater attention from the public, government and media.

This book reviews the manufacturing processes of different shopping bags used for grocery purposes, life cycle impacts, modelling of life cycle impacts, carbon and eco-footprints in different countries, consumption of shopping bags in different countries, consumer behaviour of shopping bags in various countries and its relation to eco-impact, assessment of functionality of shopping bags, concept and framework of eco-functional assessment of shopping bags, biodegradation of shopping bags, etc.

Books on Textiles tend to focus solely on aesthetic or technical points of view.

Taking into account the present day trends and the requirements, this Brief focuses on smart metering of electricity for next generation energy efficiency and conservation.

Solid waste management issues, technologies and challenges are dynamic.

This book evaluates and discusses the main sustainability challenges encountered in the production of biofuel and bio-products from oil palm biomass.

The present study has attempted to apply the advantage of neuro-genetic algorithms for optimal decision making in maximum utilization of natural resources.

The primary goal here is to present a treatise on the significance and value of coarse clastic carbonate sediments (i.

This multidisciplinary volume articulates the current and potential public policy discourse between energy security and climate change in the Asia--Pacific region, and the efforts taken to address global warming.

This book opens up horizons for designing innovative supply chains of citrus by-products, taking into consideration the current socio-economic situation of the actors, citrus production and distribution infrastructure, consumer preferences, and digitization progress at farmer and production levels.

This book provides a critical analysis of the interactions of humans and wildlife in Zimbabwe.

This book introduces the theory and practice of ecological risk management.

Solid chemisorption technology is an effective form of energy conversion for recovering low-grade thermal energy, but limited thermal conductivity and agglomeration phenomena greatly limit its performance.

This book describes a simplified approach to the modelling and process design of a fixed bed hybrid bioreactor for wastewater treatment.

This book analyses how a water utility from a developing country, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, that was totally dysfunctional, corruption-ridden and literally bankrupt in 1993, became one of the most successful water utilities of the developing world in only about 15 years.

This book discusses the sources of uncertainty in future model projections of the tropical Pacific SST warming pattern under global warming.

This book focuses on grassland ecosystem evaluation including vegetation coverage, net primary productivity, carbon sink accounting, and grassland degradation evaluation based on mutual data resource, ecosystem model simulation, remote sensing monitoring and driving mechanism exploration.

The Himalaya, a global biodiversity hotspot, sustains about one-fifth of the humankind.

This book presents selected articles from India Smart Grid Week (ISGW 2018), held on March 5 to 9, 2018, at the Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi, India.

This book pursues a comprehensive approach so as to arrive at a better understanding of the implications of climate change on sustainable development, focusing on the perspective of water.

This book presents an experimental simulation of sewage treatment, which is designed to evaluate the environmental and social-economic impacts of integrated sewage treatment policies.

Dry fish is an excellent and cheap source of protein and fat in both developed and developing nations, especially for vulnerable populations.

This book consolidates the collective contributions of various authors, presenting a diverse array of materials for systematic property assessment and their subsequent application in electronic, magnetic, and spintronic technologies.

This book addresses the problem of building an optimal community energy network in a decentralized distributed energy context.

This book covers the recent research advancements in the area of charging strategies that can be employed to accommodate the anticipated high deployment of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) in smart grids.

This book highlights the cutting-edge research on energy management within smart grids with significant deployment of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEV).

This book focuses on the state of the art in worldwide research on applying optimization approaches to intelligently control charging and discharging of batteries of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) in smart grids.

A static compensator (STATCOM), also known as static synchronous compensator, is a member of the flexible alternating current transmission system (FACTS) devices.

The book gives an overview of environmental friendly gaseous and vapour, refrigerated compressed gas, solid lubricant, mist lubrication, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) and vegetable oils that can be used as lubricants and additives in industrial machining applications.