This book is a comprehensive overview of clay science, covering the characterization and application of clay minerals. Explore applications in pharmaceuticals, wastewater treatment, construction, and agriculture. An important reference for researchers, scientists, and engineers.
Current residential design is failing to meet new demands. In a world facing environmental, economic, and social change, this book argues that homes must offer greater choice, adaptability, and circularity. It explores innovative solutions and case studies for today’s challenges.
Cities and Cultural Landscapes
Undifferentiated space becomes ‘place’ when endowed with value. However, misunderstanding the importance of heritage has often led to its destruction. This book raises awareness of our responsibility to preserve the beauty and cultural importance of our cities and landscapes.
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.
Classical Signal Processing and Non-Classical Signal Processing
Unraveling the allure of signals, this book explores their profound impact on modern life. From classical techniques to cutting-edge advancements, it delves into fundamental concepts and diverse applications in audio, image processing, communications, and biomedical analysis.
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges threatening Earth. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this textbook combines the scientific principles of climate change with the Water-Energy-Food-Health (WEFH) Nexus to help develop long-term strategies for the future.
Climate Change and Water-Related Challenges in Pakistan
Pakistan is one of the countries most affected by climate change, facing crises in water and food security. This collection by leading academics examines the burden of the problem and presents feasible, affordable solutions to inspire discourse and accelerated action.
To truly understand climate change, we must first understand ourselves. This guide explores the crisis through a multi-faceted lens—social, psychological, and cultural—revealing the core beliefs and ideologies that shape our response.
Climate Crisis and Creation Care
Our constant consumption of resources has had a negative impact on the world—affecting everything from the weather to the social fabric of our society. This book explores how we arrived at such an unstable world and offers sustainable solutions to a global crisis.
Climate Crisis and Sustainable Creaturely Care
Global academics tackle the climate crisis through the lens of creation care. This volume reviews the damage to our environment and how our misuse of resources threatens all life, offering a global voice on our impact and presenting creation care as a way out of this crisis.
Climate Dynamics over the Indian Subcontinent
This book explores the Indian subcontinent’s climate dynamics and its role in global climate. Using geological archives to reconstruct paleoclimate, it offers vital context for evaluating today’s warming and provides practical data for climate science and geology researchers.
This book explores climate-resilient building in India, focusing on durable structures for aggressive environments. It covers the causes of concrete deterioration and offers cost-effective mix designs and improved construction practices to enhance the service life of structures.
Climate’s Impact on Agriculture
As climate change reshapes food production, this book offers actionable solutions. It merges cutting-edge research with sustainable practices and innovative technologies, providing strategies for farmers and policymakers to navigate this urgent challenge and build resilience.
A clear guide to achieving success in EU-funded projects, this book highlights the tools required to close the gap between robotics innovation and the markets of inspection and maintenance. For technology innovators, researchers, start-ups, scaleups, and SMEs.
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 book explores creating a new material by combining the biopolymer Arboblend V2 Nature with silver nanoparticles, known for their antimicrobial properties. Using Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), a nanofilm creates a uniform distribution of silver for various applications.
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.
Collagen is vital to cell culture and tissue repair. This book describes the journey from pioneering 1950s research on collagen preparations to the massive implications for today’s tissue engineering and personalised medicine.
This book explores two pillars of dynamic systems engineering: modeling, analysis, and control, and model-based fault diagnosis. It equips readers with the tools to detect, isolate, and mitigate defects, providing the skills to identify and remedy potential system failures.
Communities in Action
This volume shows how ICTs are a powerful resource for community action, including social change, learning, and development. It offers a platform for exchanging experiences, case studies, and solutions, helping readers grasp the complexities of social-technical relations.