Sustainability

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

Addressing a topic at the forefront of global interests in business and development, this book is the first comprehensive book in the world that ad...

This book presents an in-depth examination of the challenges facing the port industry in reducing CO2 emissions. Through empirical studies and real...

This book explores some of the common socio-economic and environmental challenges faced by the cities of South Asia, which remain highly under-rese...

The book presents the collated and high-quality proceedings of the Conference on Recent Technologies in Electronics and Photonics held during 9-10 ...

This comprehensive companion surveys intelligent design thinking in architecture and urbanism, investigates multiple facets of smart approaches to ...

Mining waste management is an important issue for the mining industry since it entails the safe and responsible disposal of waste created during mi...

This book highlights research presented during the American Solar Energy Societys 52nd National Solar Conference (ASES SOLAR 2023) held at the Univ...

This book takes a deep dive into the design and planning, and unique challenges of settlements in the European Arctic. Attractive Arctic Cities req...

This book takes a deep dive into the design and planning, and unique challenges of settlements in the European Arctic. Attractive Arctic Cities req...

Buildings have a long lifetime, and so they are a major target for any structural changes in consumption patterns. Conversely, long lifetimes come ...

This book looks more closely at how natural disasters impact bank activity and how banks can support economic recovery after a natural disaster. Th...

Focuses on providing answers to the question of how food production and consumption systems can stay within the limits of the carrying capacity of ...

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290626, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribut...

This book assesses the impact and implementation of national qualifications frameworks in sixteen different countries. It presents two major lesson...

This book underscores the idea of harnessing the sustainable designs and materials in nature and integrating them into the field of engineering to ...

This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconom...

This book looks at sustainability and the environmental safety of transport, both key priorities within the global strategy of sustainable developm...

This book is an interdisciplinary study linking the circular economy and renewable energy, satisfying the public interest in sustainable energy sol...

Powerfuels are the subject of intense and often contentious current discussions within industry, research, politics, as well as the overall society...

This book aims to provide theoretical and empirical frameworks and highlights the challenges and solutions with using Big Data for Corporate Social...

This book aims to explore how sustainability transitions can be explored in current and future cities and how research and policy approaches can be...

This book provides audiences the research ideas and research achievements of authors who attended CEESD 2022.  Although all countries in the world ...

This book highlights lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and explains how these can be used to build sustainable health systems, especially in Low- ...

The Future of Electric Aviation and Artificial Intelligence presents a unique collection of proceedings papers from two multi-disciplinary symposiu...

In the face of unprecedented challenges in managing water resources, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) emerges as a revolutionary for...

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 2023 iteration of the International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainabi...

This book provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities for creating positive systemic change through research for development projects,...

This open access book describes the complex dynamics that coevolve in cities and from cities, to inform agendas for urban research and urban policy...

In many African countries, access to electricity and modern energy fuels remains a significant concern. Over 570 million people in Sub-Saharan Afri...

This book focuses on various psycho-social and socio-physical aspects of climate change and includes a wide range of case studies. Included topics ...

This book presents a detailed analysis of sustainable utilization of natural gas for low-carbon energy production. Its content is divided into thre...

This updated second edition textbook explains the different technologies of agronomy to achieve a more sustainable agriculture, for undergraduate a...