Gathering the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Disaster Prevention and Control (CADPC), held in Johor Baru, Malaysia, on April 25-27, 2025, jointly with the 3rd International Conference on Durability of Building and Infrastructures for Smart City (DuraBI), this book covers topics related to disaster prevention and control, such as disaster preparedness, assembled rapid disaster relief, geological hazards, earthquake-resistant buildings, mudslides, flood control and risk reduction, rocky slope, disaster prediction, prevention and control, application of Big Data in disaster rescue, and post-disaster reconstruction technology.
This book explores topics related to sustainability, including the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and accountability in various activities.
Sustainable aviation fuels have the potential to make an essential contribution to decarbonizing the aviation sector and play an important role in strengthening the circular bioeconomy.
This book highlights the latest research developments in civil engineering and architectural materials, reflecting the innovative works presented at the 8th International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering, and Technology (ICACE 2024) held on 12-13 December at Parkroyal Hotel Penang, Malaysia.
This book contains selected papers from the 2025 Greek Marketing Academy and the Global Alliance of Marketing and Management Associations Joint Symposium (GMA-GAMMA2025) held from July 24 to 27, 2025, in Hong Kong, China.
Le terme écologie (du grec oikos, demeure, et logos, science) a été proposé par Ernst Haeckel en 1866 pour désigner la science qui étudie les rapports entre les organismes et le milieu où ils vivent.
Biomass-derived sugars provide a rich, renewable feedstock for a diverse range of chemicals, making them a promising and feasible source for the sustainable manufacture of a variety of valuable products.
Gardening during times of crisis can have significant benefits to individuals and populations in terms of health, well-being, social and economic outcomes.
This volume examines scholarly perspectives on eco-imaginaries, focusing in particular on how eco-catastrophes have been represented in literature and different visual forms, including film, television and cartoons, among other cultural media.
Borne out of the current widespread interest in the pollution of water bodies, this book explores the latest research concerning the photochemical fate of organic pollutants in surface water.
This volume examines scholarly perspectives on eco-imaginaries, focusing in particular on how eco-catastrophes have been represented in literature and different visual forms, including film, television and cartoons, among other cultural media.
Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability - both as a concept and as a political objective.
The story of surfing in Scotland is defined by people who dared to dream in spite of the cold, from Neva MacDonald-Haig and the coffin-lid surfers of Machrihanish, who first took to the waves off the west coast in the 1930s with a little help from a local undertaker, to Andy Bennetts and the pioneers of the 1960s, who discovered many of the nation's best breaks, to contemporary big wave surfer Ben Larg, a native of the tiny island of Tiree who now travels the world riding skyscraper-sized walls of water for a living.
Guided by a belief that good crisis communication theory should inform and improve practice, this book makes a wide range of theories utilized in crisis communication accessible to researchers, students, and practitioners.
Guided by a belief that good crisis communication theory should inform and improve practice, this book makes a wide range of theories utilized in crisis communication accessible to researchers, students, and practitioners.
Biobased products offer substantial economic and environmental benefits, but understanding how to commercialize this requires a comprehensive look at the process, including feedstocks, technologies, product slate, supply chain, policy, financing, and environmental impact.
Dans le village de Keur Samba Diop, niché dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal, la terre n’est pas qu’un simple héritage : elle est l’âme de la communauté.
Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies explores the multitude of possibilities for conceiving and creating fulfilling post-carbon ways of life.
