Environmental Science and Sustainability Book

Environmental Science and Sustainability

  • Author : Sherman, Daniel J.
  • Publisher : W.W. Norton & Company
  • File Size : 13,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2020-01-13
  • Genre: Science
  • Pages : 21
  • ISBN 10 : 9780393422108
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Environmental Science and Sustainability helps students discover their role in the environment and the impact of their choices. Authors David Montgomery and Daniel Sherman bring scientific and environmental policy expertise to a modern treatment of environmental science; in addition to teaching climate change, sustainability, and resilience, they reveal how our personal decisions affect our planet and our lives.

Sustainability Book

Sustainability

  • Author : John C. Ayers
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • File Size : 19,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2017-06-26
  • Genre: Business & Economics
  • Pages : 333
  • ISBN 10 : 9781498752664
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This book presents an earth science-based overview of the challenges to sustainability. It provides a detailed study of climate change, as well as energy, food, and water security across different regions. The author uncovers the problems caused by current social and environmental practices, and offers potential solutions. Focusing on systems theory, footprint analysis, risk, and resilience, many examples are given of how to use resources sustainably, especially common pool resources such as the atmosphere, oceans, and groundwater. The book develops its ideas from an array of practical case studies, centering on communal objectives and shared responsibilities.

Sustainability Science Book

Sustainability Science

  • Author : Ariane König
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 5,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2017-11-22
  • Genre: Business & Economics
  • Pages : 364
  • ISBN 10 : 9781317216629
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Sustainability Science: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, and participants in executive trainings from any disciplinary background studying the theory and practice of sustainability science. Each chapter takes a critical and reflective stance on a key issue or method of sustainability science. Contributing authors offer perspectives from diverse disciplines, including physics, philosophy of science, agronomy, geography, and the learning sciences. This book equips readers with a better understanding of how one might actively design, engage in, and guide collaborative processes for transforming human-environment-technology interactions, whilst embracing complexity, contingency, uncertainties, and contradictions emerging from diverse values and world views. Each reader of this book will thus have guidance on how to create and/or engage in similar initiatives or courses in their own context. Sustainability Science: Key Issues is the ideal book for students and researchers engaged in problem and project based learning in sustainability science.

Environmental Sustainability and Economy Book

Environmental Sustainability and Economy

  • Author : Pardeep Singh
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • File Size : 7,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2021-07-30
  • Genre: Business & Economics
  • Pages : 382
  • ISBN 10 : 9780128221884
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Environmental Sustainability and Economy contains the latest practical and theoretical concepts of sustainability science and economic growth. It includes the latest research on sustainable development, the impact of pollution due to economic activities, energy policies and consumption influencing growth and environment, waste management and recycling, circular economy, and climate change impacts on both the environment and the economy. The 21st century has seen the rise of complex and multi-dimensional pathways between different aspects of sustainability. Due to globalization, these relationships now work at varying spatiotemporal scales resulting in global and regional dynamics. This book explores the complex relationship between sustainable development and economic growth, linking the environmental and social aspects with the economic pillar of sustainable development. Utilizing global case studies and interdisciplinary perspectives, Environmental Sustainability and Economy provides a comprehensive account of sustainable development and the economics of environmental protection studies with a focus on the environmental, geographical, economic, anthropogenic and social-ecological environment. Includes extensive interdisciplinary coverage, including intersectional topics such as environmental pollution and economic growth, resource utilization and circular economy, climate change and emissions, and sustainable solutions and green behavior Discusses market innovations and strategies through the lens of global case studies in sustainability and economic growth Bridges the gap between environmental studies and economics to reflect sustainable practices for enhancing environmental protection in response to climate change

Innovation Strategies in Environmental Science Book

Innovation Strategies in Environmental Science

  • Author : Charis M. Galanakis
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • File Size : 19,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2019-08-20
  • Genre: Science
  • Pages : 344
  • ISBN 10 : 9780128173831
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Innovation Strategies in Environmental Science introduces and examines economically viable innovations to optimize performance and sustainability. By exploring short and long-term strategies for the development of networks and platform development, along with suggestions for open innovation, chapters discuss sustainable development ideas in key areas such as urban management/eco-design and conclude with case studies of end-user-inclusive strategies for the water supply sector. This book is an important resource for environmental and sustainability scientists interested in introducing innovative practices into their work to minimize environmental impacts. Presents problem-oriented research and solutions Offers strategies for minimizing or avoiding the environmental impacts of industrial production Includes case studies on topics such as end user-inclusive innovation strategies for the water supply sector

Environmental Sustainability for Engineers and Applied Scientists Book

Environmental Sustainability for Engineers and Applied Scientists

  • Author : Greg Peters
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • File Size : 14,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2019-03-14
  • Genre: Business & Economics
  • Pages : 261
  • ISBN 10 : 9781107166820
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Connects a qualitative perspective of environmental management with the quantitative skills used by engineering and applied science students.

The Principles of Green and Sustainability Science Book

The Principles of Green and Sustainability Science

  • Author : Adenike A. Akinsemolu
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • File Size : 18,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2020-03-28
  • Genre: Science
  • Pages : 407
  • ISBN 10 : 9789811524936
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This book uses the concept of sustainability in science to address problems afflicting the environment, and to devise measures for improving economies, societies, behaviors, and people. The book pursues a scientific approach, and uses scientific evidence as the basis for achieving sustainability. The key topics addressed include: unemployment, health and disease, unsustainable production, our common future, renewable energies, waste management, environmental ethics, and harmful anthropogenic activities. Whereas past literature has mainly examined sustainability as an environmental issue, this book expands the conversation into various sciences, including mathematics, biology, agriculture, computer science, engineering, and physics, and shows how sustainability could be achieved by uniting these fields. It offers a wealth of information across various disciplines, making it not only an intriguing read but also informative and insightful.

Foundations for Sustainability Book

Foundations for Sustainability

  • Author : Daniel A. Fiscus
  • Publisher : Academic Press
  • File Size : 9,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2018-11-16
  • Genre: Science
  • Pages : 292
  • ISBN 10 : 9780128116449
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Foundations for Sustainability: A Coherent Framework of Life-Environment Relations challenges existing assumptions on environmental issues and lays the groundwork for a new paradigm, bringing a greater understanding of what is needed to help create an environmentally and economically sustainable future, which to date has been an uphill battle and not an obvious choice. The book presents the case for a paradigm based on a multi-model of life as organism, life as ecosystem, and life as biosphere, as opposed to the singular assumption that life can be viewed solely as an organism. All backed with well-cited research from top investigators from around the world, this book is a must-have resource for anyone working in ecology, environmental science or sustainability. Introduces a holistic, systemic approach and a synthesis of the systemic root cause that underlies many surface symptoms that are part of individual environmental problems (climate, water, energy, etc.) Complements current piecemeal approaches in order to solve many interconnected environmental problems which share root causes Provides tests and thought experiments to challenge current views on sustainability, leveraging the power of critical thinking to find new solutions Gives insights on how to find solutions by blending interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary focuses with disciplinary specialization in ecology and ecosystem science Bridges concepts and methods from math to ecology to human development

Reconstructing Sustainability Science Book

Reconstructing Sustainability Science

  • Author : Thaddeus R. Miller
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 18,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2014-12-05
  • Genre: Business & Economics
  • Pages : 130
  • ISBN 10 : 9781135960179
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The growing urgency, complexity and "wickedness" of sustainability problems—from climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and persistent poverty and inequality—present fundamental challenges to scientific knowledge production and its use. While there is little doubt that science has a crucial role to play in our ability to pursue sustainability goals, critical questions remain as to how to most effectively organize research and connect it to actions that advance social and natural wellbeing. Drawing on interviews with leading sustainability scientists, this book examines how researchers in the emerging, interdisciplinary field of sustainability science are attempting to define sustainability, establish research agendas, and link the knowledge they produce to societal action. Pairing these insights with case studies of innovative sustainability research centres, the book reformulates the sustainability science research agenda and its relationship to decision-making and social action. It repositions the field as a "science of design" that aims to enrich public reasoning and deliberation while also working to generate social and technological innovations for a more sustainable future. This timely book gives students, researchers and practitioners a valuable and unique analysis of the emergence of sustainability science, and both the opportunities and barriers faced by scientific efforts to contribute to social action.

Sustainability Science Book

Sustainability Science

  • Author : Bert de Vries
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • File Size : 6,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2013
  • Genre: Business & Economics
  • Pages : 609
  • ISBN 10 : 9781107005884
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This textbook surveys key issues of sustainability - energy, nature, agro-food, resources, economics - for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses.

Business and Environmental Sustainability Book

Business and Environmental Sustainability

  • Author : Sigrun M. Wagner
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 5,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2020-07-19
  • Genre: Business & Economics
  • Pages : 422
  • ISBN 10 : 9781351803151
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Environmental sustainability is increasingly important to organisations, whether for regulatory, financial or ethical reasons. Business and Environmental Sustainability looks at the environmental aspect of sustainability for all organisations pursuing competitive advantage. The book provides theoretical foundations from science, economics, policy and strategy, introduces three environmental challenges (climate change, pollution and waste) and looks at how corporate functions can address these. This textbook provides a thorough foundation by introducing readers to the science, reasoning and theory behind environmental sustainability and then delves into how these ideas translate into principles and business models for organisations to use. Next, it covers environmental challenges from climate change, pollution and waste, and then goes on to examine the different corporate functions (from supply chain management to human resources) to illustrate how environmental sustainability is managed and put into practice in organisations. Finally, a set of integrative case studies draws everything together and enables the reader to apply various analytical tools, with the aim of understanding how companies can not only reduce their environmental footprint but can positively contribute to environmental sustainability. Written by an award-winning lecturer, Business and Environmental Sustainability boasts a wealth of pedagogical features, including examples from a range of industries and countries, plus a companion website with slides, quiz questions and instructor material. This will be a valuable text for students of business, management and environmental sustainability and will also be suitable for broader courses on corporate responsibility and sustainability across environmental studies, political science and engineering.

Science Society and the Environment Book

Science Society and the Environment

  • Author : Michael R. Dove
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 15,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2015-04-24
  • Genre: Business & Economics
  • Pages : 164
  • ISBN 10 : 9781134740413
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In an era when pressing environmental problems make collaboration across the divide between sciences and arts and humanities essential, this book presents the results of a collaborative analysis by an anthropologist and a physicist of four key junctures between science, society, and environment. The first focuses on the systemic bias in science in favour of studying esoteric subjects as distinct from the mundane subjects of everyday life; the second is a study of the fire-climax grasslands of Southeast Asia, especially those dominated by Imperata cylindrica (sword grass); the third reworks the idea of ‘moral economy’, applying it to relations between environment and society; and the fourth focuses on the evolution of the global discourse of the culpability and responsibility of climate change. The volume concludes with the insights of an interdisciplinary perspective for the natural and social science of sustainability. It argues that failures of conservation and development must be viewed systemically, and that mundane topics are no less complex than the more esoteric subjects of science. The book addresses a current blind spot within the academic research community to focusing attention on the seemingly common and mundane beliefs and practices that ultimately play the central role in the human interaction with the environment. This book will benefit students and scholars from a number of different academic disciplines, including conservation and environment studies, development studies, studies of global environmental change, anthropology, geography, sociology, politics, and science and technology studies.

Applied Environmental Materials Science for Sustainability Book

Applied Environmental Materials Science for Sustainability

  • Author : Kobayashi, Takaomi
  • Publisher : IGI Global
  • File Size : 19,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2016-12-21
  • Genre: Technology & Engineering
  • Pages : 416
  • ISBN 10 : 9781522519720
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The growing presence of biomass and waste has caused significant changes to the environment. With the ubiquity of these materials, there is an increasing need for proper disposal and reuse of these resources. Applied Environmental Materials Science for Sustainability is a key resource on the latest advancements in environmental materials, including the utilization of biomass and waste for advanced materials. Highlighting innovative studies on renewable resources, green technology, and chemical modification, this book is an ideal reference source for academics, researchers, professionals, and graduate students in the field of environmental and materials sciences and technologies.

Green Chemistry for Environmental Sustainability Book

Green Chemistry for Environmental Sustainability

  • Author : Sanjay K. Sharma
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • File Size : 14,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2010-07-19
  • Genre: Nature
  • Pages : 450
  • ISBN 10 : 9781439824740
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When the Nobel Prize Committee recognized the importance of green chemistry with its 2005 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, this relatively new science came into its own. Although no concerted agreement has been reached yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there seems to be increasing interest in environmental topic

Social Science Theory for Environmental Sustainability Book

Social Science Theory for Environmental Sustainability

  • Author : Marc J. Stern
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 17,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2018-06-22
  • Genre: Nature
  • Pages : 256
  • ISBN 10 : 9780192511645
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Social-ecological challenges call for a far better integration of the social sciences into conservation training and practice. Environmental problems are, first and foremost, people problems. Without better understandings of the people involved, solutions are often hard to come by, regardless of expertise in biology, ecology, or other traditional conservation sciences. This novel book provides an accessible survey of a broad range of theories widely applicable to environmental problems that students and practitioners can apply to their work. It serves as a simple reference guide to illuminate the value and utility of social science theories for the practice of environmental conservation. As part of the Techniques in Ecology and Conservation Series, it will be a vital resource for conservation scientists, students, and practitioners to better navigate the social complexities of applying their work to real-world problem-solving.