Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities

This open access book focuses on the meanings, agendas, as well as the local and global implications of bioeconomy and bioenergy policies in and across South America, Asia and Europe. It explores how a transition away from a fossil and towards a bio-based economic order alters, reinforces and challenges socio-ecological inequalities. The volume presents a historically informed and empirically r…

Energy Transitions and the Future of the African Energy Sector

This book explores current developments in the African energy sector and highlights how these are likely to be affected by the ongoing global efforts to transition to a low-carbon economy. It analyses the legal, regulatory and policy frameworks at the national and regional level as they relate to Energy transition in Africa and discusses how regionalism is increasingly utilized to tackle energy…

Understanding the Energy Transition

The transformation of the dominant model of centralized energy production from fossil fuels to renewable energies is at the center of the public and scientific debate, as well as the subject of national and European policies, as it is connected to highly topical issues such as climate change, emissions reduction and natural disasters, security of supply and sustainability of the current economi…

Europeanization of Environmental Policies and their Limitations

This book offers a window into the mechanisms that drive events when countries with poor track records in environmental protection and low administrative capacity, join an organisation with ambitious environmental regulatory regimes, which include some of the highest environmental protections standards in the world. This book examines the institutional building capacity in Romania after two …

Brazil-India Renewable Energy Cooperation

The book is a study of the cooperation of Brazil and India on renewable energy. It is based on a research project on the energy sector of both the countries. It discusses the agreements in the energy sector between the two countries and the renewable energy policies developed in four decades. A scientific and technological mapping, a brief study of competitiveness and a primary research were ca…

Agroecology Now!

This open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a sustainable and socially just alternative to today’s dominant food regime. Agroecology is an ecological approach to farming that addresses climate change and biodiversity loss while contributing to the Sustainable Develo…

Energy and Environmental Security in Developing Countries

This book presents a comprehensive account of the energy and environmental security perspectives of the developing countries. To address the subject comprehensively, it covers four geographically diverse clusters of developing countries from across the world. The regions particularly focused on are: South Asia, South East Asia, Sub Sahara Africa, and Latin America. It is a valuable contribution…

Low Platinum Fuel Cell Technologies

This book introduces readers to the fundamental physics and chemistry of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), followed by discussions on recent advances in low platinum electrocatalysis and related catalyst development for PEMFC (the book’s primary focus), methods of membrane electrode assembly (MEA) fabrication for low platinum catalysts, and durability issues in connection with M…

Advances in Managing Energy and Climate Risks

This book presents research related to energy and environmental technologies in the context of market liberalization and global warming. It focuses on the development and efficient use of alternative energy sources, implementation of sustainable energy policies, power generation, and energy finance. Advances in Managing Energy and Climate Risks provides readers with the necessary information…

Adaptive Thermal Comfort of Indoor Environment for Residential Buildings

This book is structured in four parts: First, it analyzes the sustainability objectives established for the building stock and the importance of thermal comfort in this aspect. Second, the existing adaptive thermal comfort models and the main energy-saving measures associated with these models are analyzed. Third, the energy savings obtained with these measures are analyzed in several case stud…

Data-Driven Modelling of Non-Domestic Buildings Energy Performance

This book outlines the data-driven modelling of building energy performance to support retrofit decision-making. It explains how to determine the appropriate machine learning (ML) model, explores the selection and expansion of a reasonable dataset and discusses the extraction of relevant features and maximisation of model accuracy. This book develops a framework for the quick selection of a …

Roads and the Environment: A Handbook

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0-8213-4031-X

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xvi, p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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333.77 Roa r

HANDBOOK OF NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL, and CHEMICAL AGENT EXPOSURES

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1-4200-4477-X

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730 p.; 23 cm.

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615.902 Han h

PARKING; A HANDBOOK OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

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1

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0-419-13530-8

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vii, 278 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

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388.474 094 1 McC p 1987

HANDBOOK OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY

Includes bibliographical references and index. Cover title: Handbook of environmental management & technology. "A Wiley-Interscience publication." Other Titles : Handbook of environmental management & technology.

STANDARD HANDBOOK of ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

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0-07-013158-9

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xx, 1374 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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628 Sta s 1989

HANDBOOK OF UTILITIES AND SERVICES FOR BUILDINGS: PLANNING, DESIGN, AND INSTA…

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0-07-026829-0

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x, p. bervariasi : ill. ; tab. ; 24 cm

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721 Har h

ENVIRONMENTAL NEGOTIATOR HANDBOOK

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90-411-2016-5

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xvii, 540 p.: ill. ; 25 cm

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341.76221 Tim e

Handbook of Environmental Engineering Calculations, Second Edition

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2nd

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vii, 1792 p.; 24 cm.

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696 Lee h

Business Models for Sustainability Transitions

Can innovations in business change society? Can innovations in society change business? These two questions have become critically urgent in recent years, but are rarely considered together. ‘Business Models for Sustainability Transitions’ therefore asks, can contemplating both concepts together result in a flourishing, sustainable future? Technology alone cannot save us. We cannot consciou…

Stories and Organization in the Anthropocene

This book is about the stories being told in the Anthropocene. Stories of irreparable damage being done to the global ecosystem, of sustainable growth, of dystopian collapse, of continued interspecies flourishing, of Gaia, and of accelerating capitalism’s dynamics in order to discover its outside. Stories of change. Stories of hope. Against them all, this book seeks to braid together a partic…

Corporate Citizenship

This book discusses corporate citizenship, corporate responsibility and business ethics across Africa generally, and Botswana specifically. It begins by contextualizing Botswana within the broader context of Africa, using nine other countries – Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe – to provide a comparative perspective, examining the common factor: that…

Future Sustainable Urban Freight Network Design in the Large Cities and Megac…

This book aims to investigate a long-term strategy for sustainable urban logistics. The literature evidence exhibits that considerable research on urban logistics lacks long-term planning and rarely considers the urban spatial development and integration of urban distribution innovations. Currently, 11 distribution innovations can be used for future sustainable urban freight transport. Accordin…

Current Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility

This book addresses the status quo of Corporate Social Responsibility practices and their development since 2008. How have things changed in the practice of CSR? What new opportunities and challenges have arisen? The book reports on an international set of cases and case studies on how CSR is practiced at business and organizations in various countries. It analyzes country-specific and industry…

Rethinking Corporate Sustainability in the Era of Climate Crisis

This book provides a clear, critical, and timely analysis of the state of corporate sustainability within the context of the climate crisis. It offers not only a substantive critique of the current efforts but also clarity about the changes needed and how to implement them. The book goes beyond the more common debate on shareholder capitalism vs. stakeholder capitalism to explain the short…

Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability during the Coronavirus Crisis

This book seeks to understand how society and businesses are affected by, and respond to, the coronavirus crisis in various parts of the world. The volume explores: new CSR perspectives given the pandemic situation; SME perspectives and responsibility during the early stages of the pandemic; how large companies responded to the crisis; the challenges and opportunities provided by the use of dig…

The TOBA BATAK Fighting For Environmental Justice (1988 to 2003): ENVIRONMETN…

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ISBN/ISSN

979-8071-57-3

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xiv, 206 hlm. ; 14 x 21 cm

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305.8 Sit t

Life Cycle Engineering and Management of Products

This book presents the role of life cycle engineering and life cycle management of products and services and their contributions to corporate environmental sustainability and the circular economy. It addresses the main techniques, tools, systems and practices for improving the environmental performance of business products and services throughout their life cycles. The book covers the main t…

Carbon Labeling Practice

This book focuses on the behavioral interactions among possible stakeholders in carbon labeling practice, brings the attentions of stakeholders’ interests to explore the opportunities, and challenges related to carbon labeling practice, thus to provide insight into low-carbon consumption and production. It is essential reading for students, researchers, and policy makers as well as those with…

The Earth’s Human Carrying Capacity

This book focuses on the Earth’s carrying capacity to service the needs of its human populations as well as preserve the ecosystems that provide natural resources that sustain life and support human activities in 2020 and later in the century (2050 and beyond). It addresses the two principal factors that challenge the limits of the carrying capacity: growing populations/demographic moves and …