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A City in Blue and Green

Highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, ...

A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility : From Theory to Action

This book discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by companies in an age that increasingly values sustainability ...

A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering : An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance / Dejan Mumovic, Mat Santamouris

Equips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering. The ...

A Reappraisal of the Ascending Systems in Man, with Emphasis on the Medial Lemniscus

Based on material assembled by Dr Jaap HR Schoen who was one of the few neuroanatomists to apply the Nauta method to human ...

Accounting and Statistical Analyses for Sustainable Development Multiple Perspectives and Information-Theoretic Complexity Reduction

In this book Claudia Lemke develops a comprehensive Multi-Level Sustainable Development Index (MLSDI) that is applicable ...

Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals

Presents detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, globally and across ten geographical regions. Based ...

Addressing the Climate Crisis : Local action in theory and practice

This book brings together a collection of cutting-edge insights into how action can and is already being taken against climate ...

Advanced Materials in Smart Building Skins for Sustainability: From Nano to Macroscale / Julian Wang, Donglu Shi, Yehao Song

Demonstrates the importance of smart and dynamic building skins in in sustainable buildings Provides the scientific basis ...

Advanced Strategies in Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints

The different techniques described throughout the book are particularly attractive for industrial applications not only in ...

Advances in Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Manufacturing Businesses

Life cycle engineering deals with technologies for shifting the industry from mass production and mass consumption paradigm ...

Advances in Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment

comprises the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the National Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment ...

Advances in Wheat Genetics: From Genome to Field : Proceedings of the 12th International Wheat Genetics Symposium

This book provides a comprehensive review of the forefront of wheat research, across various important topics such as germplasm ...

Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing III Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering & Advanced Manufacturing, JCM 2020, June 2-4, 2020

This open access book gathers contributions presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering ...

Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide ...

African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

discusses current thinking and presents the main issues and challenges associated with climate change in Africa. It introduces ...

Agricultural Value Chains in India : Ensuring Competitiveness, Inclusiveness, Sustainability, Scalability, and Improved Finance

This book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability ...

Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design

There is wide agreement on the need to change the prevalent agricultural models, given their negative impacts and their incompatibility ...

Agroecology Now! Transformations Towards More Just and Sustainable Food Systems

This book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It ...

AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City : Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition

This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred ...

AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City : The Invisible made Visible Phase 1

This book describes the coming about and first results of the AiREAS "healthy city" cooperative in the city of Eindhoven ...

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