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Agility, sustainability, and business value have become crucial in the ever-changing world of modern business. This book investigates how these can work harmoniously and create value for businesses.

This book explores the emergence of ecological sustainability as a new EU policy and legal objective, distinct and autonomous from sustainable development. It provides an overview of the legal changes occurring in topical areas such as agri-food, energy, digitalization, corporate governance and intellectual property.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the sustainable design of products, services, or related systems. It goes beyond concept explanations to provide you with practical instructions on how to apply the tools and methods to your own designs.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the sustainable design of products, services, or related systems. It goes beyond concept explanations to provide you with practical instructions on how to apply the tools and methods to your own designs.

A Nordic Smart Sustainable City: Lessons from Theory and Practice presents an overview of current approaches in a readable format for practitioners and administrators in municipalities and related businesses, for researchers, academics, educators, students, and stakeholders.

This book details the transformation processes that impinge on constitutionally ordained governance, by drawing on the new theoretical approaches in the Urban Sciences. It will be useful to researchers in the field of urban and social science, public administration, urban sociology, political economy, and urban politics.

This book offers a complex and problem-based analysis of the past, present, and future of smart cities in Japan's energy transition. This book will be a valuable resource for all interested in energy transition, climate action, and smart cities, where Japan and Japanese smart cities serve as excellent benchmarks.

This book offers a distinctive and comprehensive view of the energy transition of Japan, with a particular focus on the rise of smart cities.

This book critically interrogates dominant narratives surrounding displacement by offering an in-depth examination of how it unfolds across diverse urban and rural settings worldwide.

This book explains the role of geology as the basis of sustainability. It discusses how humans have altered natural balances and the unique dimensions that geology brings to understanding sustainability. This book provides sustainability-oriented solutions so that humans can live in harmony with nature.

This book offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America, and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires. It will benefit scholars and students of popular culture, film and media studies, horror, American studies, and urban and environmental studies.

This book provides an understanding of the importance of embedding and integrating the concept of sustainability into teacher education in India. It focuses on training teachers and educators towards achieving the principles of education for sustainability.

This book offers an in-depth examination of wetland ecosystems, delving into their intricacies from three critical perspectives: limnological, bio-geochemical, and economic. It notably emphasizes the economic significance of wetlands, advocating for sustainable practices to preserve their value.

From extracting clay to exporting your work, this is a practical guide to producing unique ceramic pieces with minimal environmental impact.

This book is a collection of six essays by the authors on conflicts around water. Among other topics, the essays in this book also discuss interstate transboundary water sharing and conflict resolution, the formation of zonal water partnerships, and the development of interdisciplinary knowledge in relation to transboundary water sharing.

This textbook provides a foundation for understanding how the changes underway impact structure and function in the world's major biomes, while also describing how evolution has resulted in a multitude of features that shaped plants and their capacities to persist across widely contrasting environments.

This book explores intelligent systems in computing and informatics, focusing specifically on their role in advancing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities.

This book explores intelligent systems in computing and informatics, focusing specifically on their role in advancing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities.

Truffles are economically valued macro-fungi with numerous environmental, agricultural, and human health applications. They have attracted attention due to their ability to produce varied metabolites of basic, health and industrial significance.

It probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's environmental crises. It's of interest to students and scholars of environmental science, environmental decision-making, ecology, climate change, environmental philosophy, and the philosophy of science.

It probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's environmental crises. It's of interest to students and scholars of environmental science, environmental decision-making, ecology, climate change, environmental philosophy, and the philosophy of science.

This book focuses on the present and future trends, technologies, as well as regulations for the reuse and recycling of technological waste globally from the perspective of environmental, social, and economic elements of the different connected systems.

Mike Berners-Lee finds new perspectives on the climate and ecological emergency by standing further back, digging deeper and joining up every element of the polycrises that we face. The need for radically higher standards of honesty emerges as the single most critical leverage issue for those seeking meaningful change.

The third edition of this foundational text on housing tenure, housing policy, homelessness, and housing in a global context delves into the complexities of housing and related issues, to provide a deep understanding of housing's relationship to national economic factors and housing policies.

The third edition of this foundational text on housing tenure, housing policy, homelessness, and housing in a global context delves into the complexities of housing and related issues, to provide a deep understanding of housing's relationship to national economic factors and housing policies.

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport and development priorities by connecting with local aspirations and demands.