Planet Earth is under stress from various environmental factors, increasing the importance of being able to estimate the environmental costs associated with dynamic material shifts.
"e;Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World"e; gathers together papers from the 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE2008), to stimulate the new thinking that is so crucial to our sustained productivity enhancement and quality of life.
Optimal Control of Wind Energy Systems is a thorough review of the main control issues in wind power generation, covering many industrial application problems.
This book Innovations and the Environment aims to review the state of knowledge and to provide an empirical basis for the development and use of new technologies, products and services to reduce the impact of human activities on environmental quality.
"e;Design for Environmental Sustainability"e; is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations "e;Decade on Education for Sustainable Development"e; (2005-2014), aiding the development of a new generation of designers, responsible and able in the task of designing environmentally sustainable products.
This book provides accurate and integrated information about land resources especially with the accelerated progress of information technology to help Egypt and similar countries to achieve the country sustainable development goals in the field of agriculture and natural resources.
This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Sustainability and Emerging Technologies for Smart Manufacturing (SETSM 2024) held on 27-28 April at Hanoi in Vietnam.
This book focused specifically on the newly emerging issues related to the development of green science/technology, and green economy toward Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Control Design Techniques in Power Electronics Devices deals specifically with control theories relevant to the design of switched power electronics, for the most part, DC-DC converters and supplies, rectifiers of different kinds and inverters with varying topologies.
Since the 1992 Rio summit, corporate environmental responsibility has grown beyond complying with increasingly stringent environmental regulation and taking up proactive initiatives.
This book documents and analyses the differentiated control policies, the determinant factors behind, social resilience, and international relations during the pandemic from a comparative perspective in a facts-based, data-supporting manner.
In an era where economic progress and environmental sustainability must go hand in hand, this book offers an essential exploration of how renewable energy can drive both growth and sustainability.
This monograph is written based on the author's research on seismic assessment and retrofitting of corrosion-damaged reinforced concrete structures during the recent two decades.
Marine biorefineries of macroalgal (seaweed) feedstock are sustainable sources of food, materials, and energy, and can alleviate the growing pressure on land and freshwater resources.
This book compiles the latest advancements in vegetable crop growth, development, and quality improvement with potential implications for sustainable crop production.
This timely book provides an understanding of how an ageing population can maintain health in the ageing process in their preferred homes and neighbourhoods while coping with global crises of climate change events, infectious diseases, systemic violence, and radical or extreme industrialisation.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of bioactive phytochemicals within by-products from leaf, stem, root, and tuber vegetables, and it explores the valorisation of these vegetable cultivation and processing by-products, not only as a source of valuable bioenergy but also for health purposes.
This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 4th International Conference on Biomass Utilization and Sustainable Energy 2024 (ICoBiomasSE 2024) organized by the Centre of Excellence for Biomass Utilization (COEBU), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), held at Penang in MalaysiaThis book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 4th International Conference on Biomass Utilization and Sustainable Energy 2024 (ICoBiomasSE 2024) organized by the Centre of Excellence for Biomass Utilization (COEBU), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), held at Penang in Malaysia from 2nd to 3rd of Sept.
This book provides accurate and integrated information about land resources especially with the accelerated progress of information technology to help Egypt and similar countries to achieve the country sustainable development goals in the field of agriculture and natural resources.
This book explores spatiotemporal analysis and impact assessment of agricultural drought in China and investigates the correlation coefficient between meteorological drought and agricultural drought.
This book discusses the recent advancements in chemical engineering and their role in achieving the United Nations' 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This volume comprises the select peer reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Evolutions in Energy, Drives and e-Vehicles (REED-EV 2022).
This monograph covers uniqueness of micromorphology in resolving many important but enigmatic pedological issues such as clay illuviation, formation of pedogenic and non-pedogenic CaCO3, modification of plasmic fabric, contemporary and relict pedogenic processes, polygenesis of soils in Alfisols, Mollisols, Ultisols, Vertisols and Inceptisols of the tropical Indian environments.
This book explores the fragile Arctic marine environment from the perspective of marine toxicology, shedding light on the intricate relationship between pollution, contaminants, and Arctic ecosystems.
This book presents a comprehensive examination of the pivotal challenges and viewpoints about energy poverty, energy justice, and gender diversity challenges within the Latin American energy transition context.