Entwicklungspolitik

Urban Sustainable Development in East Asia

Xiaolong Zou

This book offers careful glimpse from the lenses of selected case studies of major counties in East Asia, namely China and Japan to obtain insights as well as lessons regarding their perspective s...

Sustainability Challenges in the Fashion Industry

<p>Fashion, and the growth of fashion, are presented as the manifestation of a process of civilization, within a capitalist culture (capital understood as material possessions) that has beco...

Die nächsten 50 Jahre der Erde

Lyndon H. LaRouche jr.

Lyndon H. LaRouche, wichtigster Denker unserer Zeit, schafft hier die konzeptionelle Grundlage, wie der Kampf der Kulturen nachhaltig überwunden werden kann. Vollständig neu übersetzt und über...

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation

Mark Diesendorf / Rod Taylor

<p><b><i>The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation </i></b>shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making. We have allowed large corp...

A Sustainable Green Future

<p>The aim of this book is to open a vision to sustainability and development through a holistic perspective comprising the critical blocks of energy, environment and economy.&nbsp;From ...

Sustainable Environment

<p>This book covers topics that addresses the global environmental issues, their challenges, and mitigation strategies for sustainable development. Some of the major challenges global enviro...

Sustainable Health Through Food, Nutrition, and Lifestyle

<p>This book uncovers the multiple layers of challenges posed to achieve sustainable human health and improves the understanding of interactive areas set by the UN Sustainable Development Go...

Gated Communities and the Digital Polis

<div><div><div>This edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physically and virtually networked communities—the ‘digital polis’—and off...

Progress on Life Cycle Assessment in Textiles and Clothing

<p>Textiles and Clothing are key sectors and apparel is one of the necessities of human life. Environmental brunt of the textile sector and cradle to grave life cycle impacts of textiles and...

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability (ICoWEFS 2022)

<p>This book publishes some papers presented at The International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability (ICoWEFS&nbsp; 2023), a major forum to foster innovation and exchange...

New Horizons for Industry 4.0 in Modern Business

<p>This book discovers what it will take to reindustrialize the previous industrial powerhouses in order to offset the advantages of cheap labor suppliers dominating the industrial sector by...

Financial Inclusion in Circular Economy

Vinay Kandpal / Deep Chandra / Narendra N. Dalei / Jatinder Handoo

<div><p>This book presents an assessment of endeavors towards Financial Inclusion and its role in Sustainable development. An attractive feature is that it deals with almost all the co...

Footprint and Entrepreneurship

<p>This book highlights the relevant and timely global change movement: green entrepreneurship. Presented in this book is relevant literature and academic knowledge. The book is expected to&...

The Sustainable University of the Future

<i>The Sustainable University of the Future </i>discusses the rapid changes taking place within institutions of higher education—changes that have pushed universities to reconsider t...

Sustainability

<p>This book&nbsp;provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in Operations Research (OR) and Management Science (MS) as applied to sustainability...

Making Sustainability Measurable

Michael Wühle

<p><b>Making something measurable means being able to control it</b></p><p>Sustainability is a term with a wealth of meanings and many possible misinterpretations. Ye...

International Development

Michael Woolcock

<p>Whether understood as a long-run historical process or an intentional political project, international development transforms not only societies and economies but also key ideas about how...

Sustainable Renovation of Buildings

Pilar Mercader-Moyano / Manuel Ramos Martín

<p>The book provides a complete vision about Spanish sustainable renovation of buildings situation at this moment, analysing legal and technological context and opportunities that economic s...

Ecovillages and Ecocities

Klodjan Xhexhi

Ecological and livable cities need an objective method to be examined. This book is in search of a method to determine the level of livability, ecology and energy efficiency. Ecological and sustai...

Water-Energy-Nexus in the Ecological Transition

<p>This volume includes selected contributions presented during the 3rd edition of the international conference on WaterEnergyNEXUS, which was held in Tunisia in December 2020.&nbsp; Thi...