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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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-8213-4031-X

Collation

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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ISBN/ISSN

1-4200-4477-X

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730 p.; 23 cm.

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-

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615.902 Han h

PARKING; A HANDBOOK OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

0-419-13530-8

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vii, 278 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

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-

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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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ISBN/ISSN

0-07-013158-9

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xx, 1374 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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-

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628 Sta s 1989

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

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-07-026829-0

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

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-

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721 Har h

ENVIRONMENTAL NEGOTIATOR HANDBOOK

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ISBN/ISSN

90-411-2016-5

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xvii, 540 p.: ill. ; 25 cm

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-

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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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-

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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

Collation

xiv, 206 hlm. ; 14 x 21 cm

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-

Call Number

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 …

Sustainable Luxury and Jewelry

This book discusses the current trends in luxury and jewelry and presents how to make these sustainable for a better future. In the age of sustainability, we increasingly see how designers and consumers begin to think beyond a product's look&feel and operation, and are especially concerned about what has happened during its manufacturing process and what will happen once its useful life comes t…

Nanozymes for Environmental Engineering

This book reviews the latest developments and applications of nanozymes in environmental science. Protection of the environment is essential because pollution has become a global problem with many adverse effects on life and ecosystems. For that, remediation strategies and techniques have been designed, yet they are limited. Here, the recent development of nanotechnology opens a new vista for e…

Environmental Impacts of Mountaineering

This book investigates the consequences of mountaineering (hiking, trekking, climbing) on the natural environment. These consequences are divided into three groups: 1) transformations caused by the mountaineer’s, or other people’s, stay in a mountaineering region; 2) transformations caused by the mountaineer’s travel (movement) through a mountaineering region, with the consideration of th…

Bio#Futures

This volume presents a timely recognition, warning and mapping of the fast approaching wave, or “bio-tsunami”, of global socio-technical transformation, built by a much wider spectrum of converging powers, including biotechnology, new agriculture, novel foods, health, quality of life, environment, energy, sustainability, education, knowledge management, and design of smart applications. The…

Heavy Metals in Scleractinian Corals

This book provides an in-depth review of heavy metals in corals, describing the sources of heavy metals in the marine environment and their effect on corals. It is designed to serve as a unique reference for upcoming marine researchers and chemists, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as those interested in marine pollution with respect to heavy metals. The book explains th…

Mediterranean Protected Areas in the Era of Overtourism

This book comprises studies that reflect on various influences of excessive tourism development in protected areas, and solutions designed and initiated to mitigate such challenges. A large proportion of tourism in Mediterranean destinations constitutes nature-based tourism, in particular, tourism in parks and protected areas. As a destination experiences higher intensity and density of tourism…

Fundamental Principles of Environmental Physics

This book is an interdisciplinary and accessible guide to environmental physics. It allows readers to gain a more complete understanding of physical process and their interaction with ecological ones underpin important environmental issues. The book covers a wide range of topics within environmental physics, including: • natural and anthropogenic canopies, including forests, urban o…

Land Degradation in India

This book discusses land degradation in India using statistical tools such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Regression Analysis (RA), and uses statistical analyses and graphical representations of the causal relationship between land degradation and land productivity to determine linkages with deforestation, climate change and agricultural productivity. While most studies of land degra…

Theory of Mountainurbanology

This book is about mountainurbanology grounded in Southwest China, where mountain is a typical landform for many towns and cities. From the multi-disciplinary perspective in a dynamic changing context, it presents a comprehensive framework including the location of mountain city, planning, design, building, transportation, disaster, aesthetics and governance in building up mountain cities based…

Routledge Handbook of Marine Governance and Global Environmental Change

This comprehensive handbook provides a detailed and unique overview of current thinking about marine governance in the context of global environmental change. Many of the most profound impacts of global environmental change, and climate change in particular, will occur in the oceans​. It is vital that we consider the​ role of marine​ governance in adapting to and mitigating these impac…