This book provides transformative AI-based solutions for the next-generation energy revolution. Leading experts tackle key challenges from grid integration to decarbonization, detailing innovations for solar, wind, and green hydrogen to shape a sustainable energy future.
This timely book explores innovative, sustainable approaches to mitigate pollution. It delves into nature’s potential to address environmental issues, showing how natural solutions can transform waste management, restore ecosystems, and reclaim valuable resources.
Hydro Mastery
This book provides a blueprint for turning water management into a competitive advantage. By understanding water on a molecular level, businesses can boost efficiency, reduce costs, and prevent fouling, transforming water science into tangible economic benefits.
Technology, Innovations and Sustainability
This book offers an insight into emerging technologies to safeguard the future. A collection from leading experts, it provides cutting-edge solutions to climate change, covering topics like renewable energy, sustainable IoT, vaccine development, and waste management.
Civil Society and the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa
Experts explore the vital role of Civil Society Organizations in advancing Africa’s Sustainable Development Goals. Analysis covers CSO-state partnerships, donor impact, and the challenges of improving gender equality, education, and health outcomes for policymakers and scholars.
Build efficient, ethical, and sustainable supply chains. This guide bridges theory and practice with real-world case studies and exercises, covering carbon reduction, green transportation, and sustainable sourcing. An essential tool for students and professionals.
Biodiversity as a Source of Medicines
Renowned experts explore biodiversity’s potential for developing new medicines. Discover strategies for transforming scientific discoveries into marketable drugs, demonstrated with practical examples, case studies, and a look at biotechnology and regulatory status.
This book provides an in-depth understanding of combined power and water desalination plants. It covers the fundamentals, performance assessment, and economic evaluation of these fuel-efficient cogeneration facilities, intended for planners, engineers, researchers, and students.
A shift from fossil fuels to hydrogen and bio-based solutions is essential for a carbon-neutral future. This book explores sustainable methods for producing synthetic fuels from sources like biomass, water, and recycled CO2 to make this critical transition feasible.
Fusing advanced technology with environmental sustainability, this book offers innovative approaches to balance efficiency and eco-friendliness. Leading experts detail practical strategies, from low-power hardware to renewable energy, paving the way for sustainable computing.
This book presents a theory of integrated knowledge creation, essential for addressing sustainability. It develops and tests a novel intellectual process for producing sound knowledge, unearthing the foundation for a new field: the scholarship of sustainability.
This book explores the fundamental processes of carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems and their vital role in mitigating climate change. It provides an in-depth analysis of anthropogenic impacts, offering invaluable insights into the science, policy, and practices involved.
You know water is essential, but do you know what kind is best for your wellbeing? Do you know about the intimate structure of water, or what superionic ice—a.k.a. hot ice—is? These questions and more are answered within this book.
This book tackles the surging waste crisis in developing nations by uniting waste recycling with sustainable agriculture. Compiled by experts, it dissects recycling’s impacts on soil and crops, serving as a scientific compass and global playbook for waste-smart agriculture.
Studying Shanghai and Nanjing, this book examines the behavior and impact of pollutants in developing metropolises. It offers innovative solutions, including a method to distinguish human-added trace metals in soil from natural levels. A guide for researchers and policymakers.
The Finance Sector and Climate Change
While fossil fuel interests are blamed for thwarting climate policy, this book shows the financial sector’s influence is greater. It funds a ‘climate crisis’ narrative to serve its investments in renewables, imposing restrictions that harm the developing world, as revealed here.
Climate change and biodiversity decline are today’s major challenges. This book offers a bird’s eye view of these interconnected crises and details practical policy imperatives for mitigating their impacts, promoting the essential link between biodiversity and climate action.
Global waste threatens our ecosystem, but it also presents an opportunity. This collection of essays discusses transforming underutilized biomass waste into value-added products, covering sources, techniques, and policies for a circular economy.
Protected areas are our most effective tool for conserving biodiversity, but their success hinges on effective management. This book assesses national and natural parks, comparing data from 2005, 2009, and 2022 to offer crucial suggestions for our protected area systems.
Technological development is threatening to make the earth uninhabitable. This book presents scientific and engineering perspectives on promising, cost-effective technologies for restoring degraded environments and producing clean, low-carbon energy.