Sustainability

Our behaviour in our own homes - our recycling habits, consumer choices and transport preferences - all have a huge impact on the environment local...

Rapid population growth, limited water availability, climate variability and environmental pollution together cause a significant challenge to prov...

Circular Economy in the Construction Industry is an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, implementers and PhD and Masters-level stude...

Across European cities the use of urban space is controversial and subject to diverging interests. On the one hand citizens are increasingly aware ...

This title was first published in 2000: Sustainable development offers visions of the future, but implementation of new sustainable policies seems ...

Sustainability is a topic of great interest today, particularly for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, which have witnessed very rapid e...

Kazakhstan is rich in natural resources including coal, oil, natural gas and uranium and has significant renewable potential from wind, solar, hydr...

Life Cycle Approaches to Sustainable Regional Development explains the ways life cycle methodologies and tools can be used to strengthen regional s...

Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing ...

This book offers a comprehensive guide to becoming a more eco-friendly setting, from small steps that can be taken to reduce waste and improve effi...

Environmental protection is a global issue. But most of the action is happening at the local level. How can communities keep their air clean, their...

Following the success of its predecessor, this second edition of The Future of Energy Use provides essential analysis of the use of different forms...

In this fourth and final volume of the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, Ronnie Lessem integrates all that has come before in terms of: Com...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of global goals that meet some of the most pressing challenges facing our world today. Goal 10 c...

Over 20 years ago Philip Sadler, then head of a leading British business school, wrote Managerial Leadership in the Post-Industrial Society. In it ...

The intersection of business, peace and sustainable development is becoming an increasingly powerful space, and is already beginning to show the ca...

Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy sol...

This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modeled and optimized. Starting ...

With growing awareness of environmental deterioration, atmospheric pollution and resource depletion, the last several decades have brought increase...

This open access book provides a topical overview of education, development plans, the knowledge economy, and human development in the State of Qat...

This edited book analyses the implementation of green transformation policies and the UN Sustainable Development Goals across the European Union, i...

Architectural Design Strategies for Saving Energy in Buildings: An Architect's View employs an architects perspective, defined equally as art and e...

This open access book considers that the water is vital for life on Earth. The quality of the world's freshwater resources is deteriorating due to ...

Accelerating Sustainable Aviation Initiatives: Markets, Economics, and Social Issues examines the twin challenges of clean aviation and the industr...

This book contains the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Energy Engineering and Environmental Engineering (ICEEEE 2024), which wa...

The proposed book presents the current state of knowledge about the processes, parameters, and phenomena that influence the fate of neonicotinoids ...

The book focuses broadly on the preliminaries of the canal irrigation systems in India with a focus on their operation, maintenance, and management...

designing networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of prac...

During periods of environmental and societal upheaval, design has the potential to be a formidable catalyst towards a sustainable future. However, ...

How do we provide for and nurture millions of people without destroying the planet in the process? Author Doug Kent, an environmental specialist, b...