Sustainability

This open access book addresses the problem of global urban development that excludes various groups of people from the benefits of urban growth an...

Wir leben in Europa in einer privilegierten Welt, in der wir die Ressourcen der Erde oft zum Nachteil anderer nahezu vollständig aufgebraucht hab...

Roll Up Your Sleeves and Build a Better Farm! Loaded with complete plans and easy-to-follow construction tips, this book offers a creative mix of b...

On January 30-31, 2019 the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, in collaboration with the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and th...

The American West is often portrayed as a place of rugged, unending landscapes presenting us with boundless opportunities. But the land is more fra...

The American West is often portrayed as a place of rugged, unending landscapes presenting us with boundless opportunities. But the land is more fra...

This creative volume demonstrates the urgent importance of engaging students cognitively and affectively with the climate crisis and environmental ...

This book contains the proceedings of the third in a now-biennial series of conferences organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology around the ...

Containing most of the papers presented at the first International Conference on Environmental Impact and Development organized by the Wessex Insti...

This Handbook emerges as a pivotal resource in underscoring the important role of sustainability education in catalysing a global shift toward sust...

Cities have experienced an unprecedented rate of growth in the last decade. More than half the world's population lives in urban areas, with the U....

This volume offers background and a variety of cases dealing with the concept of water footprint. The first chapter provides an introduction to the...

This volume comprehensively discusses marine bioprospecting and its applications in the marine bioeconomy, specifically in clean energy generation,...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest research, technologies, and applications of health informatics to promote sustainability an...

The Tenth International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development is the latest in a well-established series that originated from the wo...

Containing the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability this book addresses the multidisciplinary ...

The workshop was convened to explore the region's approach to urban sustainability, with an emphasis on building the evidence base upon which new p...

The COVID-19 pandemic and overlapping global crises, including geopolitical conflict and climate change, have made achievement of the United Nation...

To help prioritize among possible investments to improve the resilience of built infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico region, the National Academie...

With fresh water becoming an increasingly precious commodity, and the prospect of becoming a source of the same type of political instability that ...

The border region shared by the United States and Mexico is currently experiencing multiple crises on both sides that present challenges to safegua...

The drylands region shared by the United States and Mexico currently faces multiple sustainability challenges at the intersection of the human and ...

The U.S. population is more than 80 percent urban. Recognizing that many metropolitan areas in the United States have been experimenting with vario...

In November 2018, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) President Marcia McNutt visited China for the first time in her official role. As part of this...

This book highlights various aspects of building construction industry based on data from field studies. It discusses the challenges, methodologies...

This volume discusses innovative advancements in soil and crop microbiome technology and methods to support agricultural sustainability and reduce ...

This volume describes risk management practices in the construction industry in selected countries, with an emphasis on developing countries and ho...

This book represents the background of the Barind Tract of Bangladesh with the proximity of drought information, conceptual and logic of the books,...

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. It includes sources such...

This volume aims to raise awareness and stimulate research on how agricultural management could help to mitigate climate change impacts, and focuse...

This book is an effort to draw attention to the resilience of traditional knowledge systems for a sustainable future in the Himalayas with a partic...

This book examines sustainability issues of 15 deltas in the world. Each delta is described in five sections: physical setting, socioeconomic chara...

This book describes and offers cases in the assessment of Ecological Footprint (EF) in different industrial spaces and processes. Ecological Footpr...

This book highlights the utilization of biomaterials as emerging suitable and effective flame retardants (FRs) to replace most of the conventional ...

This book offers the basics of embodied and operational carbon while discussing the inclusion of carbon emission in the GBRS at global and national...

This volume explores the spatial side of sustainability using cases from India. It provides a variety of chapters from scholars from West Bengal an...