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  • Assessing Progress Towards Sustainability

    Frameworks, Tools and Case Studies

    Edited by Carmen Teodosiu, Silvia Fiore, Almudena Hospido ...
    Assessing Progress toward Sustainability: Frameworks, Tools, and Case Studies provides practical frameworks for measuring progress toward sustainability in various areas of production, consumption, services and urban development as they relate to environmental impact. A variety of policies/strategies or frameworks are available at national and international levels. This book presents an integrated ... Read more

    $141.59 CAD

  • Growing up in Latin America

    Child and Youth Agency in Contemporary Popular Culture

    by Marco Ramírez Rojas, Pilar Osorio Lora, Carlos Ayram, Nicolás Balutet, Jeffrey Diteman, Sophie Dufays, R. Hernández Rodríguez, Alicia V. Nuñez, Astrid Lorena Ochoa Campo0, Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo1, Rodrigo Pardo Fernández2, Alexander Torres3, Rafaela Fiore Urízar4, Silvia Ruiz Tresgallo5 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical processes of the Latin American continent during the 20th and 21st centuries, both as national citizens ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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  • Entrepreneurship in the Raw Materials Sector

    Proceedings of the LIMBRA International Scientific Conference

    Edited by Zoltán Bartha, Tekla Szép, Katalin Lipták, Dóra Szendi ...
    The Entrepreneurship in the Raw Materials Sector proceeding is a collection of papers focusing on the macroeconomic aspects of green growth, the business opportunities in the raw materials sector, and the challenges in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship training. These papers were presented during the closing conference of LIMBRA (‘Decreasing the negative outcomes of brain drain in the raw ... Read more

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  • Forest Bioeconomy and Climate Change

    Edited by Lauri Hetemäki, Jyrki Kangas, Heli Peltola ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This edited open access volume explores the role of forest bioeconomy in addressing climate change. The authors put a particular focus on planetary boundaries and how the linear, growth-oriented economy, is coupled with climate change and environmental degradation. Biobased products and sustainable production paths have been developed, but how can they be scaled in order to lead to an economic ... Read more

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  • Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

    Edited by Roland Clift, Angela Druckman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high quality of life for everyone? What progress has been made towards reducing resource use and waste, and what are the prospects for more resilient, material-efficient economies? What are the environmental and social impacts of global supply chains and how can they be measured and ... Read more

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  • Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management

    Challenges and Prospects

    Edited by Zbigniew Stanislaw Klos, Joanna Kalkowska, Jędrzej Kasprzak ...
    This open access book includes a selection of contributions from the Life Cycle Management 2019 Conference (LCM) held in Poznań, Poland, and presents different examples of scientific and practical contributions, showing an incorporation of life cycle approach into the decision processes on strategic and operational level. Special attention is drawn to applications of LCM to target, organize, ... Read more

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  • Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies

    From Science to Innovation

    Edited by Enrico Benetto, Kilian Gericke, Mélanie Guiton ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and management of smart agricultural systems, smart mobility systems, urban infrastructures and energy ... Read more

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  • Life Cycle Assessment Student Handbook

    by Mary Ann Curran ...
    This student version of the popular bestseller, Life Cycle Assessment Handbook, is not a watered-down version of the original, but retains all of the important information and valuable lessons provided in the first book, along with helpful problems and solutions for the student learning about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).As the last several decades have seen a dramatic rise in the application of ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Sustainability

    A Biological Perspective

    by Stephen Morse ...
    Encouraging students to engage in the challenges and complexity of sustainability, this text considers not only the theories underlying sustainability, but more importantly how theories are translated into practice and the difficulties of achieving this in the world in which we live. This pragmatic focus gives students a greater understanding of the practice of sustainability and highlights the ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Forest Products in the Global Bioeconomy: Enabling Substitution by Wood-Based Products and Contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This report addresses the role of forest products in replacing fossil-based and GHG-intensive products. The overarching objective is to provide recommendations to strengthen the contribution of substitution by forest products to sustainable development. To that end, this report firstly provides an overview of the understanding of the bioeconomy and the role of forest products across the world. ... Read more

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  • Life Cycle Assessment

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Michael Z. Hauschild, Ralph K. Rosenbaum, Stig Irving Olsen ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book is a uniquely pedagogical while still comprehensive state-of-the-art description of LCA-methodology and its broad range of applications. The five parts of the book conveniently provide: I) the history and context of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with its central role as quantitative and scientifically-based tool supporting society’s transitioning towards a sustainable economy; II) all ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD