This interdisciplinary book explores human ecology, revealing the social and cultural processes linking us to our environment. Using global case studies on climate change, it shows how degradation affects vulnerable communities and offers sustainable alternatives.
President Jimmy Carter recalls the imminent nuclear threat he faced in the White House. He is joined by experts and a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bomb in this collection of talks on nuclear disarmament and the ongoing struggle for peace.
Disasters impose enormous misery on children. This volume explores how to reconstruct sustainable communities that are safe for children and their families, covering topics from gender equality and child soldiers to lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami.
The 21st century presents many challenges to the hazard manager as changing conditions reshape disaster impacts and human vulnerability. This book examines evolving approaches to natural hazards, offering insights into applied research to inspire future work.
Demystifying Climate Risk Volume II
Before their expertise is lost, seasoned leaders from the Montreal Protocol—the world’s most successful treaty for atmospheric protection—share their wisdom. This book leverages their lessons to inspire future innovations in climate science, industry, and sustainability.
Searching for Sustainable Development and Its Purpose
This book provides a synthesis of sustainable development, detailing the “big picture” of the human story and our influence on the environment. A future-oriented study, it maps the potential opportunities and threats associated with our development.
Connecting the circular economy, trade, and climate action, this book scrutinizes the global sustainability agenda to propose new management perspectives and adaptive solutions for a changing world.
This collection of essays addresses pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. It highlights the inter-relation of science, philosophy, ethics, and religion, concluding with an ethical analysis of the overlapping challenges that require urgent attention.
This book challenges the idea of progress that treats nature as an inexhaustible resource. It proposes a revolutionary alternative: harmonious progress that respects nature’s boundaries, defining a clear action plan using renewable energy, smart grids, and green settlements.
How can tourism benefit a country inclusively and responsibly? Prominent scholars explore sustainable tourism development in Tanzania, focusing on local food linkages and responsible practices. A valuable source for the tourism industry, policymakers, scholars, and students.
The Great 1976 Tangshan Earthquake
In 1975, China predicted the Haicheng earthquake, saving thousands. Eighteen months later, jubilation turned to despair when the unpredicted Tangshan quake killed over 250,000. This book explores this epic success and failure and offers a viable future for earthquake prediction.
Globally, over two thirds of soils are affected by constraints, causing significant yield loss. This book brings together global experts to outline the most successful strategies to manage these constraints for sustainable food production worldwide.
Despite a demand for public spaces in Nairobi’s Central Business District, existing ones are under-utilized. This book analyzes their spatial evolution and sustainability, establishing factors for creating better-utilized spaces suitable for commerce, transit, and recreation.
Coastal Management Revisited
An overview of the maturing field of coastal and ocean management. Written by leading experts, it reviews 25 years of research on issues from governance to climate change, drawing on global case studies to address urgent challenges and propose a new theory of coasts and oceans.
This guide presents practical guidelines on how to find your creative role in the journey to sustainability. It offers innovative ideas for solving pressing global challenges and invites you to examine your values to achieve personal victories on the path to a better world.
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.
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 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.
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 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.