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Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems : Benefits and Risks

With shortages of fossil energy, especially oil and natural gas, and heavy biomass energy use occurring in both developed ...

Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development

This valuable study of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions provides ...

CSR and Codes of Business Ethics in the USA, Austria (EU) and China and their Enforcement in International Supply Chain Arbitrations

Analyzes the implementation of CSR reporting and codes of business conduct and ethics in the legal systems of the USA, Austria ...

Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Smart City Development / R. Maheswar, M. Balasaraswathi, Ravi Rastogi, A. Sampathkumar, G. R. Kanagachidambaresan

Discusses advances in smart and sustainable development of smart environments. The authors discuss the challenges faced in ...

Chasing the Chinese Dream Four Decades of Following China’s War on Poverty

This book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society ...

Chemistry for the Protection of the Environment 4

This volume is the proceedings of the first CPE conference in the new millennium and the thirteenth in a well-established ...

China and the World in a Changing Context : Perspectives from Ambassadors to China

This book aims to present an overview of China and the world from diverse angles. It brings together essays by ambassadors ...

China's Long-Term Low-Carbon Development Strategies and Pathways : Comprehensive Report

This book introduces a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive research on China's long-term low-carbon emission strategies ...

Climate Change and Community Resilience : Insights from South Asia

This book documents myriads of ways community-based climate change adaptation and resilience programs are being implemented ...

Climate Risk in Africa Adaptation and Resilience

This book highlights the complexities around making adaptation decisions and building resilience in the face of climate ...

Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World : Proceedings of the 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE2008)

Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World gathers together papers from the 15th ISPE ...

Communicating, Networking: Interacting : The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU

This book illustrates the benefits to be gained from digitally networked communication for health, education and transitioning ...

Communicating, Networking: Interacting : The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU

illustrates the benefits to be gained from digitally networked communication for health, education and transitioning economies ...

Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education

This book is about the development of a common understanding of environmental citizenship. It conceptualizes and frames ...

Corporate Sustainability in Practice : A Guide for Strategy Development and Implementation / Paolo Taticchi,

Building better organisations, with a clear sense of purpose, is a common challenge faced by many entrepreneurs and executives ...

Creating Resilient Futures : Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas

This excellent text recognises that efforts towards improving development outcomes must work in concert with strategies which ...

Cross-border Governance and Sustainable Spatial Development : Mind the Gaps!

Border regions in Central Europe undergo tremendous changes due to the enlargement of the European Union and the related ...

Deltas in the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the ...

Design for Environmental Sustainability

Design for Environmental Sustainability is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations "Decade on Education ...

Designing Sustainability for All The Design of Sustainable Product-Service Systems Applied to Distributed Economies

This book introduces design for Sustainable Product-Service Systems (S.PSS) and for Sustainable Distributed Economies (S.DE). ...

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