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Is your company using its talent to create social value? Or is it simply managing risks? To address the problems facing society and business today, sustainability is not good enough.Instead, companies need to do their part to lead social change. In Sustainability to...
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Kogan Page
Parution :
2022-03-03
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The constant increase in the consumption of mineral resources, as well as the growing awareness of their exploitation, is causing deep concern within the scientific community. This concern is justified by the fact that the energy transition will increase the pressure on...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2021-08-09
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Imagine a waste-free future for your business, your family, and yourself A circular economy is an economic system designed to save money, eliminate waste, and achieve deep sustainability. No-brainer, right? Circular Economy For Dummies explains why the old way of doing...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2021-04-07
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This exciting new volume will provide a comprehensive overview of the applications of geoinformatics technology for engineers, scientists, and students to become more productive, more aware, and more responsive to global climate change issues and how to manage...
Editeur :
Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2020-10-22
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Wealth is no longer just an ability to live well in a world shaped by human activities. It is also an ability to push back or defer the limits of a world in biological and climatic closure. This book examines the theoretical conflicts and the power plays which often...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2020-04-09
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This volume, number 109 of the Les Houches Summer School series, presents the lectures held in August 2017 on the subject of turbulent flows in climate dynamics.
Leading scientists in the fields of climate dynamics, atmosphere and ocean dynamics, geophysical fluid...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-05
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Food, water and society: what is managed by whom, and with what impacts?
Our food supply chains are at risk. Water resources--sometimes scarce, often damaged, and always under-valued--are among the major reasons why food and water security rank high every year in the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-27
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Get familiar with business sustainability in Asia Business Sustainability in Asia offers 12 chapters that cover different aspects of business sustainability with a keen focus on its implications in Asia. Anyone who is involved with business sustainability and corporate...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2019-02-20
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Some aspects of public health vary by locality or jurisdiction. Political challenges are not one of them.
As governments on every scale become motivated by short-term economic gains, the essential causes of public health and equity are regularly subject to political...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-30
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With headlines focused on human suffering-civil wars, refugee flows, the spread of disease due to hunger and poor sanitation, population growth, climate change-it is easy to dive into despair. What is needed, instead, is a radical rethinking of global policy to realize...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-06-01
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Describes all aspects of sustainable conversion adaptation of existing buildings and provides solutions for making urban settlements resilient to climate change This comprehensive book explores the potential to change the character of cities with residential conversion...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-02-12
Collection :
Innovation in the Built Environment
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Brings together leading thinking on issues of new professional practice and on the future of a sustainable built environment This book focuses on both construction and development issues, and examines how we can transition to a sustainable future by the year...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-01-09
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A valuable source of information, insight, and fresh ideas about a crucial aspect of the growing sustainable design movement Mounting resource shortages worldwide coupled with skyrocketing extraction costs for new materials have made the prospect of materials reuse and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-10-25
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A groundbreaking exploration of the most promising new ideas for creating the sustainable cities of tomorrow The culmination of a four-year collaborative research project undertaken by leading UK universities, in partnership with city authorities, prominent...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-09-08
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Future Challenges in Sustainable Development within the Built Environment stimulates and reinterprets the demands of Responsible and Sustainable Development in the Built Environment for future action and development. It examines the methods of evaluation, the use of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-04-05
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Urban Sustainability and River Restoration: Green and Blue Infrastructure considers the integration of green and blue infrastructure in cities as a strategy useful for acting on causes and effects of environmental and ecological issues. River restoration projects are...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-12-15
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A deep understanding of the implications of green roof retrofit is required amongst students and practitioners to make the decisions and take the actions needed to mitigate climate changes. Green Roof Retrofit: building urban resilience illustrates the processes...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-06-02
Collection :
Innovation in the Built Environment
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This book explores the concepts and practicalities that lead to sustainable construction. It breaks new ground by providing the reader with the underlying principles of how to build sustainably and then assesses many of the tools required for the task. From energy to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-13
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This book advocates a more thoughtful approach to urban water management. The approach involves reducing water consumption, harvesting rainwater, recycling rainwater and adopting Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) where surface water is not sent straight to drains but...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-02-22
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The challenges facing humanity in the 21st century include climate change, population growth, overconsumption of resources, overproduction of waste and increasing energy demands. For construction practitioners, responding to these challenges means creating a built...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-09
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