Aligning Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies in Asia

This book provides policymakers, researchers, and other interested audiences with knowledge on how to quantify and integrate and advance co-benefits in their decisions. It begins with an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the concept of co-benefits. This followed by a section that details quantitative approaches to estimate co-benefits, particularly in cities. A third section pre…

Emerging Challenges to Food Production and Security in Asia, Middle East, and…

This book, as a part of a series of CERES publications, provides a multi-regional and cross-sectoral analysis of food and water security, especially in the era of climate risks, biodiversity loss, pressure on scarce resources, especially land and water, increasing global population, and changing dietary preferences. It includes both conceptual research and empirically-based studies, which provi…

Sustainable Design in Textiles and Fashion

This book highlights the Eco-design or Sustainable design in textiles and fashion, aimed at reducing their environmental impact throughout their life cycle. Sustainable design is one of the core elements practiced in various industrial sectors. The textiles and fashion sector, is also creating a huge environmental brunt in terms of various fibres, processes, consumption of various resources inc…

The Home of the Future

This book presents an in-depth study to show that a sustainable future urban life is possible. To build a safer and more sustainable future, as humankind, we would like to use more renewable energy, increase energy efficiency, reduce our carbon and water footprints in all economic sectors. The increasing population and humans’ ever-increasing demand for consumption pose another question wheth…

Sustainable Development Goals for Society Vol. 2

This book profiles various cases that are emerging in addressing global challenges in the context of SDGs for society in the era of climate change and covers case studies of projects being undertaken to tackle biodiversity, food security, climate change, energy and water security. The book is written by 37 authors, and will appeal to various stakeholders including academics working within the i…

Sustainable Development Goals for Society Vol. 1

Written by 43 authors from Africa, Europe and Latin America, this book presents 19 topics addressing poverty in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), leadership in implementing SDGs, and SDGs in service delivery and local government. As the world has gone past five years of implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the intertwined 17 SDGs, new opportunities in …

What Smart People Do When Dumb Things Happen At Work

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81-7224-947-0

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334 p.; 23 cm.

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155.25 Wat w

Management and Development of Agricultural and Natural Resources in Egypt's D…

This book reviews the economic potential of various natural resources found in the Egyptian deserts that could help fill the food gap in Egypt, e.g., the date palm, olives, and domestic animals. Bearing in mind that the entire country is subject to arid or hyperarid climatic conditions, only a small portion (3% of total area) is agriculturally productive in comparison, the dominant deserts. The…

Sustainability in the Maritime Domain

This volume explores options for a sustainable maritime domain, including maritime transportation, such as, Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP), maritime education and training, maritime traffic and advisory systems, maritime security. Other activities in the maritime domain covered in the book include small-scale fisheries and sustainable fisheries, and greening the blue economy. The book aims to …

China's Sustainability Transitions

This book considers the impact of global climate change, advocating to promote sustainable development from the perspective of low carbon and climate resilience, by reducing carbon emissions in different aspects of urban and regional development. As the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, China is continuously exploring a sustainable path to achieve the momentous goal of 2060 carbon neut…

Understanding and Developing Student Engagement

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978-0-415-84338-6

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xix, 266 hlm. ; 23 cm

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378.197 Und u

COVID-19: Paving the Way for a More Sustainable World

This book gathers and disseminates opinions, viewpoints, studies, forecasts, and practical projects which illustrate the various pathways sustainability research and practice may follow in the future, as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepares itself to the possibilities of having to cope with similar crisis, a product of the Inter-University Sustainable Development Researc…

Environmental Resilience

This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings. It plugs a gap in knowledge especially in the sub-Saharan Africa region where food, despite its critical importance, has been ignored as a ‘determinant of success’ in the planning and management of cities and towns. The various chapters in the book demonstrate how urban…

Technological and Business Fundamentals for Mobile App Development

This book is an essential introductory guide to the knowledge required to develop apps. Chapter by chapter it provides the core principles any person must understand in order to develop mobile applications. It outlines the fundamental skills and knowledge that business and computer science students need to either oversee the development of a mobile app or themselves undertake to develop a mobil…

Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting the Implementation of th…

In order to yield the expected benefits, sustainability initiatives need to be undertaken by means of a close cooperation between universities on the one hand, and societal partners on the others. The principle of co-creation and co-execution of sustainability initiatives increases the value for all by mutual learning, and the sharing of expertise and resources. But pursuing sustainability init…

The Politics of Bioeconomy and Sustainability

This book addresses the underexposed political dimensions of bioeconomy promotion. Who wins and who loses? How are institutions being shaped, and by whom? Drawing from experiences since the earlier days of biofuels promotion, it explores in unprecedented detail the global drive away from fossil fuels and towards a biomass-based economy. Multipurpose agriculture gains ever more traction as co…

Integrating Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development

This book is a truly interdisciplinary publication, useful to scholars, social movements, practitioners and members of governmental agencies and private companies, undertaking research and/or executing projects focusing on social responsibility and sustainability from across the world. Sustainable development has become a matter of central concern to both public institutions and enterprises. …

Resource Use and Sustainability of Orang Asli

Comprising of ­18 sub-ethnic groups the indigenous communities, or better known as the Orang Asli, located in the Peninsular Malaysia, is a unique community in terms of their culture, lifestyle, and heritage. The life of the Orang Asli, popularly referred to as the Forest People, is highly intertwined with forest resources which makes the community a great source of information and traditiona…

Building web applications with Vue.js: MVVM patterns for conventional and sin…

This book provides a compact and practical introduction to the popular Vue.js. Use the MVVC concept for applications on the web on the basis of MVC design patterns and create single-page web applications easily. You will use one of the powerful frameworks based only on elementary WWW standard technologies. With Vue.js you will understand and apply data binding, components, directives and modula…

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Green Societies

This book covers the sustainability issues of a green environment towards economics and society in terms of alteration in industrial pollution levels, effect of reduced carbon emissions, changes in water bodies characteristics with respect to heavy metal contamination, monitoring of associated impact with respect to ecology and biodiversity, impact of reduced noise levels and air quality influe…

Critical to Success in CNS Drug Development

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978-1-4443-3064-9

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viii, p.263.; 23,5 cm.

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615.78 Cri c

Developing Sustainability Competences Through Pedagogical Approaches

This book is aimed at developing sustainability competences through pedagogical approaches by comparing 15 case studies from 12 countries in 4 continents (Africa, America, Australia, and Europe) analysing how Sustainable Development (SD) is being taught in their courses, which competences are being developed, and which pedagogical approaches are being used to develop the competences. The book b…

Promoting the Sustainable Development Goals in North American Cities

This volume presents North American best practices and perspectives on developing, managing and monitoring indicators to track development progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in local communities and cities. In 4 main sections, the book presents and frames the many ways in which community indicator programs are either integrating or retooling to integrate the SDGs into the…

Agri-food and Forestry Sectors for Sustainable Development

This book surveys state-of-the-art and prospective practices, methods and technologies in agri-food and forestry sectors to document the potential measurable improvements in areas of environmental management, food security, economic growth, social cohesion and human health at the local and global scale. With a focus on the ecosystems-resources-climate-food-health nexus as a framework towards ac…

East Asian Low-Carbon Community

This book presents new vision of regional de-carbonization with concrete scheme design and substantial quantitative demonstration from original interdisciplinary studies. It provides new horizon for not only climate change, environmental conservation but also for international cooperation and peace in East Asia. The chapters introduce diverse low carbon society principles from local to global l…

Global Sustainability in Energy, Building, Infrastructure, Transportation, an…

This book focuses on holistic approaches to sustainability in all sectors of building, infrastructure, and energy to achieve a best-balanced global energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technology (EBITW) system using a series of innovative research and implementation solutions. The goal of this book is to define the context for proactive consideration of scientific theor…

TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urban…

This book discusses a spectrum of approaches to designing the food-energy-water nexus at different spatial-urban scales. The book offers a framework for working on the FEW-nexus in a design-led context and integrates the design of urban neighbourhoods and regions with methodologies how to simultaneously engaging residents and stakeholders and evaluating the propositions in a FEW-print, measurin…

GOOD TO GREAT TO INNOVATE: Recalculating the Route to Career Readiness, K-12+

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978-1-4833-3186-7

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xx, 275 p.; 23 cm.

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155.25 Sha g

Strategic Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Industrial Networks

This book presents a diverse set of decision-making methodologies to solve some of the most important decisions that most organizations face today. It is an excellent demonstration of some great challenges in our society in the area of sustainability. These great challenges, ranging from sustainability in logistics to the use of renewable energies, needs to be urgently addressed. Sustainability…

Wiring the Brain for Reading: BRAIN-BASED STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING LITERACY

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978-0-470-58721-8

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xxiii, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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372.4 Spr