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Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. What is a Landscape? -- Chapter 3. Drivers of Landscape Change -- Chapter 4. Landscape Trajectories -- Chapter 5. Options for Managing Landscape for Change -- Chapter 6. Barriers to Managing for Change -- Chapter 7. Social and Institutional Innovations -- Chapter 8. Technologies for Innovating Forward -- Chapter 9. Conclusions and Recommendation.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Mangrove Systems Facing Enclosures, Markets and Social Inequality -- Chapter 2. Early History of Mangrove Management in Giao Lạc -- Chapter 3. Socialism, Cooperatives and Mangrove Management in Giao Lạc (1954-1985) -- Chapter 4. Impacts of Economic Renovation on Households and Coastal Ecosystems -- Chapter 5. Social Differentiation under Đổi mới Reforms -- Chapter 6. Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Exploring the economics of the circular bioeconomy -- Chapter 2.The role of culture and moral responsibility in facilitating a sustainable bioeconomy -- Chapter 3. Social and economic contribution of the bioeconomic sector in Ecuador: A methodological approach -- Chapter 4. Biobutanol Production from Agricultural Biomass -- Chapter 5. Valorization of biowastes into food, fuels and chemicals - towards sustainable environment, economy and society -- Chapter 6. Sustainable biorefinery technologies for agro-residues: challenges and perspectives -- Chapter 7. Biotechnological Interventions for Production of Flavour and Fragrance Compounds -- Chapter 8. Phytochemicals for the management of stored product insects -- Chapter 9. Assessing the impact of indigenous knowledge systems on sustainable agriculture: A case study of the selected communities in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan, Gauteng Province, South Africa -- Chapter 10. Tropical biological natural resource management through integrated bio-cycles farming system -- Chapter 11. Biopesticides for Pest management -- Chapter 12. Renewable energy for a low carbon future: Policy perspectives -- Chapter 13. TNAU Energy Soft 2016: An efficient energy audit tool to identify energy saving technologies for sustainable agriculture -- Chapter 14.Mechanism for Improving the Sustainability of Homestead Food Gardens in the Gauteng Province, South Africa -- Chapter 15. Assessment of Potassium Nutrient Balance in Agricultural Farming System: A Pathway to Sustainable Production of Crops.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Use of The Nexus Approach as a Tool for Resources Management in Resilient Cities and Multi-functional Land Use Systems (Hülsmann and Jampani) -- Chapter 2. How to Best Apply Information Technology to Realize a Transdisciplinary Water-Soil-Waste Nexus Approach (Bouma) -- Chapter 3. Nutrient Recovery for Use in Agriculture: Economic Assessment of Decentralized Compost Business Model in Nairobi (Gebrezgabher, Taron and Amewu) -- Chapter 4. Sustainable and Safe Reuse of Wastewater for Food Production in Peri-urban Areas of Karnataka, India (Ramakrishna and Hanisch) -- Chapter 5. Multi-functional Historical Data for Improved Management of Reservoirs (Sang and Maina) -- Chapter 6. Usefulness of Surface Water Retention Reservoirs Inspired by 'Permaculture Design'. A Case Study in Southern Spain Using Bucket Modelling (Fiebrig and Van De Wiel) -- Chapter 7. Economic Valuation of Environmental Services Associated with Agriculture in the Watershed of Lake Lagdo, Cameroon (Nje and Ayuk) -- Chapter 8. he Energy-Water Nexus in Iran: The Political Economy of Energy Subsidies for Groundwater Pumping (Jaghdani and Kvartiuk) -- Chapter 9. Political Economy of Energy Subsidies for Groundwater Irrigation in Mendoza, Argentina (Riera, Brümmer and Gennari) -- Chapter 10. Rural Resources (Including Forestry) in the Local Development of Low Carbon Economy: a Case Study of Poland (Wiśniewski) -- Chapter 11. Opportunities and Challenges to Adopt Sustainable Watershed Management Interventions: An Overview of Experiences from Ethiopia (Tesfahunegn and Ayuk) -- Chapter 12. The Potential Contribution of Cultural Ecological Knowledge in Resources Management of a Volcanic River Basin (Ariyanti, Scholten and Edelenbos) -- Chapter 13. Nexus-Oriented Approach for Sharing Water Resources: Development of Eco-industrial Parks in the Catchment of Zayandeh Rud River, Iran (von Koerber, Raber and Schneider) -- Chapter 14. City-to-City Learning within City Networks to Cater City Needs to Climate Adaptation - Results of a Preliminary Study (Haupt, Zevenbergen and van Herk) -- Chapter 15. A Participatory Multi-stakeholder Approach to Implementing the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development: Theoretical Basis and Empirical Findings (Eichhorn, Hans and Schön-Chanishvili).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2.Environmental Sustainability of Universities: Critical Review of Best Initiatives and Operational Practices -- Chapter 3. The Green Vision of Technical University of Crete’s Campus -- Chapter 4. The Construction of Green Building using Interlocking Brick System -- Chapter 5. The Feasibility of Using Palm Oil Ash in the Mix Design of Interlocking Compressed Brick -- Chapter 6. Second-generation Bioethanol: Advancement of Ethanologenic Microorganisms towards Industrial Production -- Chapter 7. Microalgae Chlorella as a campus sustainable feedstock for bioethanol production -- Chapter 8. Use of Biomass in Biocoke Production with Enhanced Calorific Values inside UTM Campus,- Chapter 9. The effect of enzyme addition on the anaerobic digestion of food waste -- Chapter 10. Anaerobic Digestion of Organic Waste in UMS Campus for Resource Recovery and Waste Reduction -- Chapter 11. Green Engineering for Waste Management System in University - A Case Study,- Chapter 12. Sustainable Waste Management in Higher Education Institutions - A case study in AC Tec,- Chapter 13. Food Waste Composting at Faculty of Engineering,- Chapter 14. Characterization of University Residential and Canteen Solid Waste for Composting and Vermicomposting Development,- Chapter 15. Sewage Treatment in Campus for Recycling Purpose: A Review,- Chapter 16. Advanced Treatment of Campus Sewage by MV/UV/O3 for Water Reclamation.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction – overview and relevant background, including published (cross-disciplinary) research that provides a context and justification for the study -- Chapter 2: The Ecological Footprint – tracking the evolution of this sustainability metric -- Chapter 3: Biocapacity accounting – used to develop a context for carrying capacity set against the Ecological Footprint -- Chapter 4: Case study – national scale case consideration of Costa Rica as an example of a developing country set amid the contemporary context of sustainable development -- Chapter 5: Implications – examines the contribution for sustainable development, using the Sustainable Development Goals as a springboard for discussion -- Chapter 6: Quality Analysis – presents caveats of the methodology based on the National Footprint Accounts -- Chapter 7: Conclusion – summary of the findings and contribution of the brief, including address of path dependency and final consideration given to sustainability metrics and sustainable development.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Concept and framework of the East Asian Low-Carbon Community -- Chapter 1. Climate change and low carbon society: coping with uncertainty -- Chapter 2. Climate change strategy and emission reduction roadmap for China, Japan, and South Korea -- Chapter 3. Concept and framework of the East Asian Low-Carbon Community -- Chapter 4. Modeling an East Asian Low-Carbon Community -- Part II Urban-rural Linkage for Low-Carbon Community -- Chapter 5. Realizing a local low-carbon society through urban-rural linkage -- Chapter 6. Development of a tool to optimize urban-rural linkage and a decentralized power supply -- Chapter 7. Local low-carbon society scenarios of urban-rural linkage -- Part III Technology Innovation for Low-Carbon Community -- Chapter 8. Spatial-temporal distribution of carbon capture technology according to patent data -- Chapter 9. Low-carbon technology integration -- Chapter 10. Economic assessment of Japan’s nuclear power policy -- Chapter 11. Construction of an East Asia nuclear security system -- Chapter 12. Building a global low-carbon society based on hybrid use of natural clean energy -- Part Ⅳ Social Innovation for Low-Carbon Community -- Chapter 13. Social innovation towards a low-carbon society -- Chapter 14. Achievement of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) through emissions trading in China, Japan, and South Korea -- Chapter 15. Design and analysis of a carbon emissions trading system for low-carbon development in China -- Chapter 16. An empirical analysis of international carbon transfer -- Chapter 17. Global recycling system for an East Asian low-carbon society -- Chapter 18. Building a recycling-oriented society through collaboration between urban and rural areas: sustainable domestic waste treatment “Pujiang model” -- Chapter 19. Potential for cooperation among China, Japan, and South Korea in renewable energy generation -- Chapter 20. Potential for technical cooperation between Japan and China in a third-country market -- Chapter 22. End chapter: Integration of local and global perspectives.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 01 Rural Sustainability: challenges and opportunities -- Chapter 02 Case study: Rural revitalization in Hong Kong -- Chapter 03 Rural Sustainability: six core dimensions -- Chapter 04 Conclusion and the future of rural communities.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction -- 2 Re-Imagining human health in the Anthropocene -- 3 Connecting the dots..How the current planetary emergency affects our health and well-being- 4 Breaking out mental and institutional silos for positive transformation -- 5 The corridors of power as a stress test for planetary health -- 6 Tackling inequalities to unleash the full potential of planetary health.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Importance of Yangtze River -- Chapter 2. Stages of Yangtze River Rehabilitation and Protection -- Chapter 3. Achievements in Rehabilitation and Protection -- Chapter 4. Situation Facing the Yangtze Rehabilitation and Protection in the New Era -- Chapter 5. Visions on Yangtze River Rehabilitation and Protection -- Chapter 6. Strategic Measures -- Chapter 7. Master Plan of the Yangtze River Basin -- Chapter 8. Change of River-lake Relation and the Regulation of Dongting and Poyang Lakes -- Chapter 9. Master Plan of the Yangtze River Basin -- Chapter 10. Joint Operation of the Group Reservoirs -- Chapter 11. Water Resources Protection -- Chapter 12. Major Scientific and Technological Research Subjects.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Valuing Heritage as A Public Good: An Application of Zonal Travel Cost Method (ZTCM) in Hoi An, Vietnam -- Chapter2. The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Organizational Commitment – The Case of Viettel Group -- Chapter3. Impacts of Economic Freedom on Economic Growth in Developing Countries -- Chapter4. The Effect of Government Size on Economic Growth and Technical Change -- Chapter5. Assessing Effects of FDI on Economic Growth via Impact on Domestic Firms in Vietnam -- Chapter6. The Kien Nguyen. Analysis the Factors Affecting Satisfaction of the Quality of Seafood Logistics in Vietnam -- Chapter7. Fight against Counterfeit Goods Related to IP Infringement: Criminal Perspective and Judiciary Role in Vietnam -- Chapter8. Vietnam and “Non-market economy” in the U.S Anti-dumping Law -- Chapter9. An Analysis of Supply Response of Black Tiger Shrimp Production Using Nerlove Model: A Case Study of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta -- Chapter10. Highly-Skilled Migration, Recognition and Motivation towards Knowledge Share with the Indigenous Co-Workers: Empirical Findings from the Vietnamese in the Laos Construction Sector -- Chapter11. Is Public Debt Good or Bad for Economic Growth? Fresh Evidence in Emerging Economies -- Chapter12. Factors Affecting Depositors’ Behavior at commercial Banks in Northern Vietnam -- Chapter13. Determining the Impact of Financial Development on the Environment based on Biquadratic Equation in ASEAN Countries -- Chapter14. A Study on the Factors Affecting Intention Using Online Banking Services in Vietnam -- Chapter15. The Research on Interpolation Methods and Fitting Models for the Lorenz Curve -- Chapter16. Analyze the Differences in the Impact of FDI and Exports on Labor Productivity of Enterprises: the case of Vietnam -- Chapter17. A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Career Orientation for Students: A Case Study in Human Resource Management -- Chapter18. Downstream Market Equilibrium and Optimal Policy for the Conventional Food Distribution System in Vietnam: An Industrial Organization Analysis -- Chapter19. Compensation Policies and Employee Perceptions of Pay Equity in a Transitional Economy: The Case of Vietnamese State-Owned Enterprises -- Chapter20. Sustainable Agriculture for Hanoi City: An Application of Thünen’s Agricultural Rings based on the Gravity Model -- Chapter21. Building a New Management Model for Vietnamese Higher Education Institutions based on the Made in Vietnam Lean Management -- Chapter22. Key Factor in the Made in Vietnam Lean Decision Making Method -- Chapter23. Empirical Research on the Influence Factors of Ecommerce Adoption among Ecommerce Companies in Vietnam -- Chapter24. Antecedents of Social Media Adoption: A Case Study of Individual Online Retailers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City -- Chapter25. Contribution of Industry to Labor Productivity Growth in Vietnam -- Chapter26. Improving the Competitiveness for Enterprises in Brand Recognition Based on Machine Learning Approach -- Chapter27. The Role of Official Development Assistance on the Development of Economic Infrastructure in Vietnam.-Chapter28. Relationship between Organizational and Employee Work Innovation: Mediation Role of Brand Support Behavior and Psychological Capital (Hotels in Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam) -- Chapter29. Improving the Managerial Performance in the Context of Financial Autonomy: An empirical investigation in public education sector -- Chapter30. The Strategy of Vietnamese Business Associations in Knowledge Sharing for the Sustainable Development of Vietnam Businesses Community -- Chapter31. Macroeconomic Factors Affecting Merger and Acquisition (M&A) Activity in Vietnam -- Chapter32. A Comparative Analysis of Market Definition in Antitrust Law and WTO Law: Some Suggestions for Vietnam -- Chapter33. Website Marketing Activities in Healthcare Service Sector - A Case in Danang, Vietnam -- Chapter34. Valuing tourism landscapes in Ba Vi National Park (Vietnam) -- Chapter35. An Empirical Analysis of the Factors Influencing the Switching Intention from Cash Payment to Mobile Payment in Vietnam -- Chapter36. Trade facilitation and its impacts on Vietnam’s trade. Chapter37. Value Chain Financing Approach: A Good Way to Sustainable Agricultural Growth in Vietnam -- Chapter38. Improving the Position of Ethnic Minority Women through the Policy of Credit Support for Poor Households: A Case Study of Northern Mountains of Vietnam -- Chapter39. Factor Affecting Financial Sustainability of People’s Credit Fund in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta Region -- Chapter40. In Search of Solutions for the Governance of the Rights of Migrant Workers in Southeast Asia: Regulatory Regionalism as a Reasonable Approach -- Chapter41. Towards Responsible Tourism in Vietnam: Critical Review and Implications for Future Research -- Chapter42. Fostering Sustainable Development by Eliminating Gender Stereotypes in Career Choice -- Chapter43. The Impact of Tourism Development on the Life of Residents in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Justice is Needed in Three Governance Orders -- Chapter 1: Small-Scale Fisheries in the Blue Economy -- Chapter 2: Justice in Three Orders -- Part 2: Justice Issues Have Deep Historical Roots -- Chapter 3: Coastal Small-Scale Fisheries in Brazil: Resentment against Policy Disarray -- Chapter 4: Social (In)Justice for Small-Scale Fisherfolk in the Turks And Caicos Islands: Struggling to Stay Afloat in a Tax Haven -- Chapter 5: Governance for Blue Justice: Examining Struggles and Contradictions in Atlantic Canada’s Small-Scale Fisheries -- Part 3: Justice Issues Stem from Old and New Conflicts -- Chapter 6: Conflicts in the Artisanal Fishing Industry of Ghana: Reactions of Fishers to Regulatory Measures -- Chapter 7: Blue Justice and Small-Scale Fisher Migration: A Case Study from Sri Lanka -- Chapter 8: Marginalization and Reinvention of Small-Scale Fisheries: A Finnish Case Study of Social Justice -- Part 4: Justice is Systemic and Multi-Dimensional -- Chapter 9: An Evaluation of Multidimensional Conflicts in Small-Scale Fisheries in Nigeria -- Chapter 10: Perception and Reality of Justice in the Small-Scale Fisheries of Nigeria -- Chapter 11: Making Sense Of Multidimensional Injustice for Creating Viable Small-Scale Fisheries in Chilika Lagoon, Bay of Bengal -- Part 5: Justice Is a Territorial and Spatial Issue -- Chapter 12: Legalized Injustices: Old Providence Island (Colombia) Small Scale Fisheries in the Context of Geopolitical Disputes and State Power -- Chapter 13: Social Conflicts and Fishery Governance Systems in the Estuary and Coast of Pará, Amazonia, Brazil -- Chapter 14: Flagging Justice Matters in EU Fisheries Local Action Groups (FLAGs) -- Part 6: Justice is Competitive in Alternative Livelihoods -- Chapter 15: Adopting a Blue Justice Lens for Japanese Small-Scale Fisheries: Important Insights from the Case of Inatori Kinme Fishery -- Chapter 16: Feeling the Pinch: Perceived Marginalization of Small-Scale Commercial Crab Fishers by an Expanding Recreational Sector -- Chapter 17: Making Pescatourism Just for Small-Scale Fisheries: The Case of Turkey and Lessons for Others -- Part 7: Justice is an Imminent Issue for Inland Fisheries -- Chapter 18: Exploring Challenges of “Blue Justice” in Landlocked Mountainous Countries: The Case of Nepal -- Chapter 19: Blue Justice and Inland Fisheries: How Justice Principles Could Support Transformative Knowledge Production in the Mekong Region -- Chapter 20: Navigating Conflicts to Improve Livelihoods of Traditional Communities Impacted by Hydroelectric Dams -- Part 8: Justice Issues Are More Evident when in Crisis -- Chapter 21: The 2019 Brazilian Oil Spill: Perceptions of Affected Fishers -- Chapter 22: Small-Scale Fishers in the Time of Covid-19: Reinforcing the Inequalities in the Food, Economic and Governance Systems in South Africa and Zimbabwe -- Chapter 23: Vulnerability and Social Justice among Fishing Households Headed by Women in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka -- Part 9: Justice is a Priori Condition for Sustainable Development -- Chapter 24: Understanding Vulnerability of Urban Waterfront Communities to Rapid Development: the Case of Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria -- Chapter 25: Mariculture Parks in the Philippines Push Small-Scale Fishers out of, or far into, the Waters -- Chapter 26: Incentives to Mariculture Development in Brazil: Environmental Injustice on Traditional Fishing Communities -- Chapter 27: Pescastemic Rights for Blue Justice: Aquaculture and Coal Power Complexes in Chile -- Part 10: Justice Is about Going beyond Claims -- Chapter 28: Institutionalizing Injustice? Aligning Governance Orders in Swedish Small-Scale Fisheries -- Chapter 29: Navigating Institutional Change in the French Atlantic Fishing Sector: How do Artisanal Fishers Obtain and Secure Fishing Opportunities? -- Chapter 30: Blue Justice and Small-Scale Fisher Mobilizations in Istanbul, Turkey: Justice Claims, Political Agency and Alliances -- Part 11: Justice Needs a Strong Knowledge Foundation -- Chapter 31: Transdisciplinarity and Blue Justice: The Alianza Nuquí, a Research-Action Platform for Wellbeing and Reflexive Governance in the Colombian Pacific Coast -- Chapter 32: Strengthening Capabilities of Individuals and Communities through a Small-Scale Fisheries Academy -- Chapter 33: Understanding Gender Equality in Small-Scale Fisheries and its Role in Enhancing Blue Justice -- Part 12: Justice is Better Understood from Experience -- Chapter 34: Collective Experiences, Lessons and Reflections about Blue Justice -- Chapter 35: Towards Blue Justice for Small-Scale Fisheries.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The state and trend of China's low-carbon development -- Chapter 3. End-use energy consumption & CO2 emissions -- Chapter 4. Power sector -- Chapter 5. Primary energy consumption and CO2 emissions -- Chapter 6. Non-CO2 GHG emissions -- Chapter 7. Technical support for long-term deep decarbonization -- Chapter 8. Investment & cost analysis for realizing a low emission strategy -- Chapter 9. Long-term low-carbon transition pathways -- Chapter 10. Strategic linchpins and policy safeguards -- Chapter 11. Global climate governance & international cooperation -- Chapter 12. Conclusions and policy recommendations.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. The Sustainable Development of Green Space in the Tourism Zone of Moc Chau Mountains (Son La, Vietnam) -- Chapter2. Wooden Funeral Sculptures of the Jrai and Bahnar in the Vietnam Central Highlands: Conservation or Destruction?- Chapter3. Traditional Concepts on "Sustainability" in Vietnamese Culture and the Impacts on Forming Modern Values of Sustainable Development -- Chapter4. Educational Renovation in a Restructuring Society: Vietnam’s Case Study -- Chapter5. Tourism Climate Indicators (TCI) Applied in Moc Chau District (Son La, Vietnam). Chapter6. Carbon Footprint of Vietnam’s Small Urban Areas (A Case Study of Ha Dong District, Hanoi) -- Chapter7. Agriculture Land Conversion and Its Implications for Food Requirements and Farming in Vietnamese Northern Mountains -- Chapter8. Urban Exclusion: Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Trajectories for Vietnam -- Chapter9. Applying Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to Analyze Factors Affecting the Entrepreneurial Intention of the Students of Vietnam National University, Hanoi -- Chapter10. Creating an Added-Value Capital of Forest Based on the Local Knowledge of Tai in Tuong Duong (Nghe An, Vietnam) -- Chapter11. Minimizing the Negative Effects of Irrigation and Hydropower System on Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection in the Huong River Basin -- Chapter12. Socio-Economic Development towards Sustainable Ecological Model in Vietnam -- Chapter13. Perennial Cropping System Development and Economic Performance of Perennial Cropping System in Dak Lak Province, Vietnam -- Chapter14. Sustainable Agriculture Development in Vietnam -- Chapter15. Community Participation in Urban Planning in Vietnam towards Sustainable Development - Prospects and Challenges -- Chapter16. Current Status and Impact of Imbalance of Sex Ratio at Birth in the Son La Province, Vietnam -- Chapter17. Obstacles in the Sustainable Development of Industry in Ethnic Minorities’ Areas of Vietnamese Mekong Delta (Kien Giang and Can Tho) -- Chapter18. Integrating Sustainable Development into National Policy: The Practice of Vietnam -- Chapter19. Building Human Capital for Sustainable Development: Experience from Some East Asia Countries and Policy Implications for Vietnam -- Chapter20. Mapping Marine Functional Zoning for the Northern Tonkin Coastal Zone, Vietnam -- Chapter21. Rainfall Regime and Its Impact on Water Resources on Ly Son Island, Central Vietnam -- Chapter22. Factors Affecting Community Forest Management in Ha Giang Province, Vietnam -- Chapter23. Impacts of Urban Expansion on Landscape Pattern Changes: A Case Study of Da Nang City, Vietnam -- Chapter24. An Assessment of Pollution Load Capacity of Son La Hydropower Reservoir in the Northwest Mountains of Vietnam 40 -- Chapter25. An Approach for Prioritising Climate Change Mitigation Measures: A Case Study in Ho Chi Minh City -- Chapter26. Developing Agricultural Production of Ethnic Minority Households in the Context of Climate Change (Lak District, Dak Lak Province, Central Highland of Vietnam) -- Chapter27. Detecting Flash Flood Susceptible Areas Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model: A Case Study of Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam -- Chapter28. Implementing Agricultural Land Use Solutions to Adapt Climate Change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta -- Chapter29. Geothermal Renewable Energy in Vietnam: A Current Status Overview and Proposing Solutions for Development -- Chapter30. Study on stand structure of secondary mangrove forest; Sonneratia caseolaris - Aegicerus corniculatum stand for introducing silvofishery systems to shrimp-culture ponds -- Chapter31. Evaluation the effectiveness of sheath blight disease controlling on rice caused by Rhizoctonia solani in green house condition by applying some biofungicides -- Chapter32. Consideration on the Use Sentinel-1 Radar Image and GIS for Flood Mapping in the Lai Giang River Basin of Binh Dinh Province (Central Coast Vietnam) -- Chapter33. Studying Shoreline Change in Ky Anh Coastal Area of Ha Tinh Province during 1989-2013 based on the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) -- Chapter34. How Do Yao Farmers Cope with Extreme Weather Events with Their Indigenous Knowledge? A Case Study of Mo Vang Mountains (Yen Bai, Vietnam) -- Chapter35. Multilevel Governance Roles in Land Use Change: Lessons for REDD+ from the Case Study in Nghe An Province, Vietnam -- Chapter36. Technical Efficiency of Irrigation Water Use of Robusta Coffee Production in the Dong Nai river basin (Vietnam): A case study of Lam Dong province -- Chapter37. Climate Change Vulnerability of Agriculture in Coastal Communes of Quang Tri Province, Vietnam -- Chapter38. A GIS Application in Optimizing the Collection and Transportation Route of Domestic Solid Waste in Hue City, Vietnam -- Chapter39. Water-Food-Energy Nexus in the Context of Climate Change: Develop a Water Security Index for Water Resources Management in Vietnam -- Chapter40. An Integrated Approach for Saltwater Intrusion Monitoring based on Remote Sensing combined with Multivariable Analysis: A Case Study of Coastal Zone in Southern Vietnam -- Chapter41. Diversity of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) in the Hoang Lien - Van Ban Nature Reserve (Lao Cai, Vietnam): Implications for Local Livelihood Improvement and Biodiversity Conservation -- Chapter42. Quantify Forest Stand Volume Using SPOT 5 Satellite Image -- Chapter43. Evaluating Impact of Climate Change to Fishing Productivity of Vietnam: An Application of Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Regression Model -- Chapter44. An Experimental Study on Using Biogas Slurry to Improve the Water Quality of Aqua-Culture Systems in Acid Sulfate Soil Areas -- Chapter45. Assessment of Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability in the Coastal Aquifers in Ninh Thuan, Vietnam -- Chapter46. Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Urban Planning of Vietnamese Coastal Towns toward Sustainable Development -- Chapter47. Mike Flood Application for Solving Inundation Issues for Ho Chi Minh City in The Context of Climate Change: A Case Study in the District 1 -- Chapter48. Enhancing the Efficiency of Land Dispute Mediation for Ethnic Minorities in Van Canh district (Binh Dinh, Vietnam) -- Chapter49. A Stakeholder Delphi Study on Local Communities Adaptation to Climate Change in the Coastal Area: Case Study in An Duong District (Hai Phong, Vietnam) -- Chapter50. Assessing Flash Flood Risks based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Geographic Information System (GIS): A Case Study of Hieu Catchment (Nghe An, Vietnam) -- Chapter51. Analysis and Prediction of Noise Pollution from Wind Turbines: A Case Study of Loi Hai Wind Power Plant (Ninh Thuan, Vietnam) -- Chapter52. An Environmental Zoning for Sustainable Development in Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam -- Chapter53. Climate Change Vulnerability of Urban Development in the Phanrang-Thapcham (Ninh Thuan, Vietnam).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Introduction -- Chapter 2-National and international developments -- Chapter 3-Climate change and built environment -- Chapter 4-Energy and carbon emission -- Chapter 5-Materials and water -- Chapter 6-Sustainable waste management -- Chapter 7-Resilience and adaptation in buildings -- Chapter 8-Sustainable building design -- Chapter 9-Urban sustainable developments -- Chapter 10-Regional sustainable developments.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 – Introduction -- Chapter 2 – Culture’s divergence -- Chapter 3 – Culture’s convergence -- Chapter 4 – The cultures framework -- Chapter 5 – Cultural stability -- Chapter 6 – Cultural change -- Chapter 7 – Using the cultures framework for policy analysis -- Chapter 8 – Using the cultures framework for research -- Chapter 9 – Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. Observed Climate Change and Ecological Environment Evolution and Their Causes -- Projections of Future Climate Change and Risks -- Adaptation and Mitigation: Measures, Actions and Effects -- The Development Pathways with Climate Resilience.

Description / Table of Contents: Records of Press Conference during the Two Sessions -- Records of the Press Conference of the State Council Information Office -- Records of the Press Conference of the Second National Census of Pollution Sources -- Records of the Press Conference of Science and Technology Help Win the Battle to Protect the Blue Sky -- Records of the Press Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection during the 13th Five-Year Plan Period -- Records of Implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee and Promote Green Development through High-level Protection -- Records of Regular Press Conferences in 2020. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. WEF nexus in cities: Opportunities for innovations to achieve sustainable development goals in the face of climate change -- Chapter 2. The importance of Water-Energy and Food Nexus in the promotion of Sustainable Cities in the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter 3. What Can Cities Do to Enhance Water-Energy-Food Nexus as a Sustainable Development Strategy? -- Chapter 4. Water–Energy–Food nexus under climate change: analyzing different regional socio-ecological contexts in Brazil -- Chapter 5. How can the Water - Energy - Food Nexus approach contribute to enhancing the resilience of Amazonian cities to climate change? -- Chapter 6. The water-energy-food nexus and the micro-politics of everyday: a view from institutional bricolage -- Chapter 7. WEF Nexus Innovations: the institutional agenda for sustainability -- Chapter 8. Innovations towards 'the nexus' in the science-politics-society interface: What transformations do we really seek? -- Chapter 9. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean: Priority Interconnections -- Chapter 10. Methods for evaluating Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Data Envelopment Analysis and Network Equilibrium Model approaches -- Chapter 11. Learning about the nexus from vulnerable urban communities -- Chapter 12. Urban gardens and composting: effective governance for strengthening urban resilience and community waste management -- Chapter 13. WEF Nexus and Sustainable Investments in West Africa: The Case of Nigeria -- Chapter 14. The Food-Water-Renewable Energy Nexus Resource-Security examples for Asian-Pacific cities -- Chapter 15. Urban Living Labs and the water-energy-food nexus: experiences from the GLOCULL Project in São Paulo, Brazil. -- Chapter 16. The challenges of the food, water, and energy nexus and potential interlinkages with instruments to tackle climate change: cases of Brazilian cities -- Chapter 17. Food waste redistribution and implications for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: the case of a food bank in Sao Paulo Municipality, Brazil.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Humans and the Environment -- Chapter 2. A Brief History of Human Resource Use.-Chapter 3. Natural Resources and Economic Development -- Chapter 4. Environmental Impacts of Resource Extraction and Consumption -- Chapter 5. Social and Cultural Factors in Human-Nature Interactions -- Chapter 6. Sustainable Resource Management -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Moving Towards a Sustainable Future.

Description / Table of Contents: Bridging Peace and Sustainability amidst Global Transformations -- Toward Synergies between Peace and Sustainability: Using Institutional Research Data to Explore the Diversity of Participants in SDG-related Research -- Interactions between SDG 14 (life below water) and SDG 16 (peace, justice, and strong institutions): A review of co-benefits, synergies, conflicts, and trade-offs -- Ecological Education in Islamic Religious Learning Based on Creative Imagination -- Sustainable peacebuilding through a dignity lens: A case study of caste-based discrimination in Nepal -- Bangsamoro Youth in Peacebuilding: Contributions, Opportunities and Challenges.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Narrative and Nature Interest -- Chapter 2: Green Progress -- Chapter 3: The Apocalypse -- Chapter 4: Postapocalypse -- Chapter 5: Towards a Critique of the Environmental Movement.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I Eastern Africa -- Tackling child malnutrition by strengthening the linkage between agricultural production, food security and nutrition in rural Rwanda -- Weather Shocks, Gender and Household Consumption: Evidence from Urban Households in the Teso Sub-region, Uganda -- Indigenous and Local Knowledge practices and innovations for enhancing food security under climate change: Examples from Mijikenda communities in coastal Kenya -- Reframing the challenges and opportunities for improved sanitation services in eastern Africa through Sustainability Science -- Part II Southern Africa -- Ethanol as a clean cooking alternative in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from sugarcane production and ethanol adoption sites in Malawi and Mozambique -- The effect of introduced Opuntia (Cactaceae) species on landscape connectivity and ecosystem service provision in southern Madagascar -- The Legacy of Mine Closure in Kabwe, Zambia: What can resilience thinking offer to the mining sustainability discourse? -- Knowledge co-production in Sub-Saharan African cities: Building capacity for the Urban Age -- Part III Synthesis -- Harnessing science-policy interface processes to tackle sustainability challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Sustainability challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trade-offs, opportunities and priority areas for Sustainability Science.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Railways and low-carbon mobility -- Part 1. Retrospect of the past: modal shift is important -- Railways and national carbon emissions from passenger travel in China -- Railways and regional carbon emissions from passenger travel in China -- Part 2. Current situation: competition and integration between railways and other transport modes -- Competition between railways and other transport modes -- Cooperation between railways and other transport modes -- Part 3. Prospects for the future: breaking institutional barriers -- Breaking institutional barriers in China -- Towards sustainable low-carbon mobility in China.

Description / Table of Contents: 1-Environment, Society and Sustainability: A Human-Nature Interface -- 2-Social Welfare and Sustainable Development: Paradigm Shift -- 2-Ensuring Social Security for Child and the Elderly People -- 3-Geo-heritage and Geo-Ecotourism Conservation- Case Study -- 4-Resource Allocation and Sustainable Development -- 5-Welfare Schemes for Socially Vulnerable Segments -- 6-Population Growth, Poverty and Inequality -- 7-Illiteracy, Unemployment, Underemployment and Migration -- 8-Slums and Issues of Educational Sub-normality of Social Poor -- 9-Urbanization & Housing Affordability, Requirements of the Marginalized People -- 10-Gender Inequality, Women Health Issues and Women Empowerment -- 11-Climate Change and its Social Consequences and adaptation -- 12-Flood and its Impact on Human Livelihoods on Global South- Case study -- 13-Drought and its Associated Social Responses- Case study -- 14-Access to Basic Amenities, Healthcare Services and Mass Education -- 15-Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development, Industrialization as a Source of Employment -- 16-Protection of Civil Rights, Transgender Equality, Vocal for Local and Ecofeminism -- 17-Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Global Climate Governance and China’s Role -- Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Conservation -- Global Ocean Governance and Ecological Civilization -- Chapter 4 Green Urbanization Strategy and Pathways towards Regional Integrated Development -- Green Transitions and Sustainable Social Governance -- Major Green Technology Innovation and Implementation Mechanisms -- Green Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -- The Global Green Value Chain -- Green Finance.

Description / Table of Contents: Overview: Stability, Resilience and the Green Transition -- Carbon Dioxide Emissions Peak and Carbon Neutrality Policy Measures and Implementation Pathways -- Value Assessment of Nature- based Solution (NbS) -- Ecosystem-based Integrated Ocean Management under the Vision of Carbon Neutrality -- Low-carbon and Resilient Urban Development and Adaptation to Climate Change -- Sustainable Food Supply Chain -- The Key Pathways on a Green and Low-Carbon BRI.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Scientific Foundations of Sustainability -- 1. Perspectives of Sustainability: towards Design and Implementation -- 2. Framework to Identify Preferred Sustainable Management Actions with Application to Forest Fuel Treatment -- 3. Sustainable Development in Indonesian Regions: Towards an Assessment -- 4. Sustainability of Water Ecosystems: from Theory to Practice -- Part II. Promoting Sustainability through Policies -- 5. Balancing Sustainable Coastal Management with Development in New Zealand -- 6. Remediation Measures for Accumulated Environmental Damages Using Principles of Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Russian Regions -- 7. Defining Sustainability as Measurable Improvement in the Environment: Lessons from a Supply Chain Program for Agriculture in the United States -- 8. Local Aspects of Water Quality Assessment as the Basis for Regional Sustainable Development -- 9. Developing Indicators for Sustainable Water Management using Australian National Water Account -- 10. Evolving Perspective of Sustainability: Lessons from Nepal’s Community Forestry Programme -- Part III. Implementing Sustainability in Practice -- 11. A Study of Seasonal Trends in Precipitation Patterns during a Period of Forty Years for Sustainable Agricultural Water Management in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina -- 12. Advanced Energy Storage Devices: Principles and Potential Applications in Sustainable Energetics -- 13. Spatial Variability of Reasonable Government Rebates for Rainwater Tank Installations: A Case Study for Adelaide, Australia -- 14. Strategic Planning of Socio-Economic Development in Russian Regions on the Basis of Sustainability Principles -- 15. Resilience of Desalination Plants for Sustainable Water Supply in Middle East -- 16. Managing the Forest Fringes of India: A National Perspective for Meeting Sustainable Development Goals.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge for Socio-Ecological Systems: A 20-Year Global Bibliometric Analysis -- Chapter3. Interfacing indigenous knowledge with scientific knowledge for improved health outcomes: A case of Eswatini -- Chapter4. Indigenous Ways of Predicting Agricultural Droughts in Zimbabwe -- Chapter5. Kusintha kwa nyengo: local meanings of climate change in Malawi -- Chapter6. Unravelling indigenous knowledge using the Msangu (Faidherbia albida) tree in Malawi: through the voice of farmers -- Chapter7. Traditional Early Warning Signals for Floods and Drought in Nsanje and Chikhwawa Districts, Malawi -- Chapter8. Conservation of Natural Forests through Indigenous Religious Beliefs and Practices: A Case Study of M’bona Cult, Nsanje District, Malawi -- Chapter9. Cross-scale properties and adaptive management of indigenous residual moisture crop cultivation systems in Malawi -- Chapter10. Indigenous Knowledge and Practice Related to Health, Nutrition and Environments in Bangladesh -- Chapter11. Assessment of Knowledge and Attitudes of Pastoralists towards Tsetse flies and Trypanosomiasis in the Maasai Steppe, Northern Tanzania -- Chapter12. Shortage, meanings, and adaptations of water: Reflections on the perspectives elders from San José Lachiguirí Oaxaca, Mexico -- Chapter13. North American case studies of medicinal plant conservation -- Chapter14. Contested understanding of river health from communities’ perspective in the Lower Komati River in South Africa -- Chapter15. Awajun and Ginger: Introduced Species Becoming Important Traditional Medicines -- Chapter16. Overview of Brazilian Biodiversity Law and Identification of Legal Instruments and Strategies for Effective Participation of Traditional Communities in exporting and other commercial opportunities related to biodiversity assets -- Chapter17. Lessons learnt.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Modeling local product development through multidisciplinary collaboration: A case study in Nagara, Chiba Prefecture in Japan -- 2. Developing reusable packaging for FMCG: Consumers’ perceptions of benefits and risks of refillable and returnable packaging systems -- 3. Design, evaluation, and acceptance of advanced energy efficient houses for Thailand -- 4. Explore the Framework Construction of Gamification Applied to Basic Design Teaching -- 5. Future Design Based Policy Making Card Game For High School Education -- 6. Frugal innovation in BoP communities: co-design of a technical solution to support community agriculture in Mexico -- 7. Exploring frugal innovation as an eco-design strategy: a case study of a water access solution at the BoP -- 8. A methodical concept for the development of sustainable products through radical innovations -- 9. Thinking Model for Japanese Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Innovation Explicated by OntoIS -- 10. Applying regenerative sustainability principles in manufacturing -- 11. The Potential for Reverse Innovation in Sustainable Development: A Knowledge-Directed Outlook -- 12. Finding applications for secondary raw materials -- 13. Digital product passports in circular economy – case battery passport -- 14. Data Platforms as tools for circular economy -- 15. Artificial Intelligence for Process Control In Remanufacturing -- 16. Machine Recognition of ICs in Recycling Process of Small-sized Electronics -- 17. Exploring new way media information of the product that promote sustainable consumption and production -- 18. Towards digital circular design -- 19. Circular furniture design: A case study from Swedish furniture industry -- 20. Current challenges in the lifetime extension of smartphones -- 21. Dielectric Elastomer Transducer (High Efficiency Actuator and Power Generation System) -- 22. Sustainable Services in Convenience Stores: a case study of food loss label -- 23. An Overview of Sustainability Held During 1992 to 2021 in China - An Industrial Design Perspective -- 24. Increased personal protective and Medical Equipment manufacturing to fight COVID-19: an egregious approach for the environment -- 25. Silver Recovery from Spent Photovoltaic Panel Sheets using Electrical Wire Explosion -- 26. Procedure Model to support the Recycling-oriented Design of Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles -- 27. Holistic Eco-design Framework Developed Through a Case Study in the Automotive Industry -- 28. Depth and detail or quick and easy? Benefits and drawbacks of two approaches to define sustainability criteria in product development -- 29. Designing Interventions for Sustainability: A conceptual framework for information scoping in the design research phase -- 30. A Sustainable Product Service System (PSS) Design for Retail Food Loss and Waste: Research Through Design -- 31. Environmental and Economical Design Problem of Upgrading and Remanufacturing Option Selection -- 32. Renewable Energy System in the Off-grid Communities: The Systems' Characteristics and Storage Technologies -- 33. Optimal Cooling Strategy for Energy Management using Multi-Temperature Acquisition Points in a Protected Cropping Facility -- 34. Price – based demand response programs considering fixed and dynamic price elasticity matrix (PEM) of demand in the wholesale market in Japan -- 35. Wind Turbine Minimum Power Loss Optimization, using Nonlinear Mathematical Programming.

Description / Table of Contents: Human-nature relations: The unwanted filibuster -- Sociocultural carrying capacity: Impact of population growth in Rapa Nui -- Territorial integration of foreigners: Social sustainability of host societies -- Sustainable land reforms and irregular migration management -- Role of the international ecological network, Emerald, in the Western Balkans’ protected areas -- How efficient is urban land speculation? -- Land use change model comparison: Mae Sot Special Economic Zone -- Cohesion policy for Europe 2020 -- Evaluating green infrastructure via unmanned aerial systems and optical imagery indices -- Urban sustainability: Integrating ecology in city design and planning.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-The UN Sustainable Development goals -- Chapter 2-Partnerships and SDG Implementation -- Chapter 3-SDG Governance and Partnership -- Chapter 4-Partnering for data harvesting, sharing and analysis: the UN open SDG data hub -- Chapter 5-Modelling and Assessing Multi-Stakeholder Relationships: The Case of Collaboration in Global Public-Private Partnerships -- Chapter 6-National Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals: Multi-stakeholder partnerships in Ireland -- Chapter 7-Comparing practical SDG partnerships in Wales and Sweden -- Chapter 8-Learnings and reflections from Sustainable Antioquia: A Colombian pioneer experience of SDG -- Chapter 9-Mapping an Ecosystem of Minnesota Organizations and Corporations in Alignment to the Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter 10-Ingredients for Partnership Success and Failure -- Chapter 11-Conclusions and Recommendation.

Description / Table of Contents: What and how are we sharing? Academic landscape of the sharing paradigm and practices. Objectives and organization of the book -- Home-based food provision and social capital in Japan -- Food provisioning services via homegardens and communal sharing in satoyama socio-ecological production landscapes on Japan’s Noto peninsula -- Non-market food provisioning services via homegardens and communal sharing in satoyama socio-ecological production landscapes on Japan's Noto peninsula -- Sharing experiences and associated knowledge in the changing waterscape: an intergenerational sharing program in Mikatagoko area, Japan -- "Sustaining Diverse Knowledge Systems in SEPLs: Sharing Tacit Knowledge of Apiculture and Mushroom Production with Future Generations -- Can new digital technologies and traditional sharing practices be inte-grated? The case of use of natural resources in Palau, Micronesia -- Solidarity Economy in Brazil: Towards Institutionalization of Sharing and Agroecological Practices -- Sharing knowledge and value for nurturing socioecological production landscapes: a case of payment for ecosystem services in Rejoso watershed, Indonesia -- Sharing Place: A case study on the loss of peri-urban landscape to urbanization in India -- Cow-Sharing and Alpine ecosystems. A comparative case study of sharing practices and property rights -- Synthesis: Can sharing enhance the sustainability and resilience of our society?. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Framework for urban growth simulation driven by strategic spatial plan -- Chapter 3. Household lifecycle model employed as basement for simulating policy impacts on urbanization -- Chapter 4. Household residential relocation model for investigating impact of spatial strategic policy -- Chapter 5. Simulating household shopping choices for verifying location policy of large-scale shopping centre -- Chapter 6. Simulating policy impact of community-based facility location on day-care service for aged population -- Chapter 7. Evaluating evacuee number and capacity of accommodation shelters for earthquake disaster -- Chapter 8. Water consumption behaviors and water price negotiation between government and households for domestic water management -- Chapter 9. Household energy consumption and environment tax in urban area -- Chapter 10. Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Knowledge Systems -- Chapter 1. Introduction – Ocean Governance for Sustainability (Partelow et al.) -- Chapter 2. How do we know the Ocean (Hornidge & Partelow) -- Chapter 3. Managing fish or governing fisheries stakeholders? An historical recount of Fisheries Governance in the last Century (a South American Case) (Barragán et al.) -- Chapter 4. Post-War Reconnaissance of Japanese Fishery and Ocean Science and its Contribution to the Development of U.S. Scientific Programs: 1947-1954 (Finley, Carmel) -- Part 2: Policy foundations -- Chapter 5. Ocean governance from the perspective of the law of the sea: an inquiry into the past, present and future, with an emphasis on fisheries, area-based management and international seabed mineral resources. (Singh et al.) -- Chapter 6. International Fisheries Law: Past to Future -- Chapter 7. Legal aspects of the sustainable exploitation of marine energy and mineral resources (present/future) (Willemez, Alix) -- Chapter 8. Making Marine Spatial Planning Matter (Flannery, Wesley) -- Chapter 9. Marine and Coastal Governance: Lessons from Current Practice of Managing Land Sea Interactions and Marine and Coastal Governance in EU Member States (Lawlor and Depellegrin) -- Chapter 10. Developing progressive marine biodiversity indicators to support the functions of area-based management tools for the sustainable use of oceans: case studies from European territorial waters (Kaymaz, Ipek) -- Chapter 11. Ocean Governance in An Era of Climate Change: Protecting Living Marine Resources on the Sea Bed – the Need for an Integrated Approach (Borg, Simone) -- Chapter 12. The diverse legal and regulatory framework for marine policy in the North Atlantic – A case of a never-ending “horrendogram” or an opportunity for convergence? (Calado, Helena et al.) -- Part 3. Thematic Analyses -- Chapter 13. Assembling the seabed: Pan-European and interdisciplinary advances in understanding seabed mining (Chen et al.) -- Chapter 14. Societal transformations and governance challenges of coastal small-scale fisheries in the Northern Baltic Sea (Salmi, Pekka & Svels, Kristina) -- Chapter 15. Marine Governance as a process of reflexive institutionalization? The case of Arctic Shipping (Van Tatenhove). Chapter 16. The plastic bag habit on Bali: From Banana Leaf Wrappings to Reusable Bags (Schlüter et al.). Chapter 17. Market initiatives of small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean: innovation in support of sustainable blue economy (Penca, Jerneja & Said, Alicia) -- Chapter 18. Towards Just and Sustainable Blue Futures: Small‐Scale Fisher Movements and Food Sovereignty (Ertör et al.) -- Chapter 19. Ocean acidification as governance challenge in the Mediterranean Sea (Bernadsek et al.) -- Chapter 20. Futuring the terra-aqueous: Reading alternative urbanities from the Java Sea (Siriwardane- de Zoysa et al.). Chapter 21. Moving forward on Ocean Governance: Key messages for students, researchers and policy-makers (Hornidge, Hadjimichael, Partelow). .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The practical use of biocement as self-healing agent and in construction requires a socio-ecological approach -- Chapter 2. Utilisation of Biomineralisation Method in Recycled Coarse Aggregate Concrete with Fly Ash -- Chapter 3. Characterization and an overview of utilization and neutralization for efficient management of Bauxite residue for sustainable environment -- Chapter 4. The amendments in typical microbial induced soil stabilization by low-grade chemicals, biopolymers and other additives: A review -- Chapter 5. An Overview of Factors influencing Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation for its Field Implementation -- Chapter 6. Life Cycle Assessment of Concrete Masonry Units with Waste Paper Fibres -- Chapter 7. Soil pH and its Significance as Ecological Material: Perspectives and Implications -- Chapter 8. A review on coupled phenomena in aquifers from the perspective of geological storage of carbon dioxide with ecological significance -- Chapter 9. A review on role of enzymes and microbes in healing cracks in cementitious materials -- Chapter 10. A socio-ecological perspective on green urbanisation and urban ecological intensification.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Types and distribution of calcareous soils in Egypt -- Reinventing extraction and processing of mineral resources of Egypt -- Assessment of microbial biota in Egyptian desert soil -- Sustainable soil management to mitigate soil erosion hazards in Egypt -- Sustainable Development of microbial community in Egyptian Desert soil -- Bio-fertilizers for sustainable agriculture development under salinity stress.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: a framework for realizing the SDGs in African cities -- Chapter 2. Localizing the SDGs in Africa: debunking assumptions and reviewing experiences -- Chapter 3. Unpacking SDG localization in eThekwini, South Africav -- Chapter 4. How data-ready are African Governments to Monitor SDG Progress -- Chapter 5. Reporting on the SDGs: South Africa’s Voluntary National Review process -- Chapter 6. SDG indicators for health outcomes in South African cities -- Chapter 7. Citizen-centric approaches to achieving the SDGs in Africa -- Chapter 8. Financing the SDGs in African cities -- Chapter 9. The future of SDGs in Africa.

Description / Table of Contents: Current Progress on Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Development -- Innovations and Transitions: Urban Factors and Low Carbon Strategies -- Overview of China’s Low Carbon Progress: Past, Present, and Future -- Low carbon Transitions in Practice: Low Carbon Development in China -- Lessons and Paradigms to Meet the 2030 Targets and the 2060 Plan -- Key Suggestions and Steps Ahead.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I Environments -- Part II Climate changes -- Temperature -- Precipitation -- Wind speed -- Part III: Population and economic system changes -- Population -- Gross domestic Production -- Global crop distribution -- Global industrial value added -- Global road system -- Global population exposure to high temperature -- Global population exposure to rainstorm -- Global GDP exposure to drought -- Global Crop exposure to extremely high temperature -- Part IV Global change risks -- Population risks -- Crop yield risks -- GDP loss risks.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Global Climate Governance and China’s Role -- Chapter 2 Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Conservation -- Chapter 3 Global Ocean Governance and Ecological Civilization -- Chapter 4 Green BRI and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -- Chapter 5 Green Urbanization Strategy and Pathways towards Regional Integrated Development -- Chapter 6 Ecological Compensation and Green Development Institutional Reform in the Yangtze River Economic Belt -- Chapter 7 Major Green Technology Innovation and Implementation Mechanisms -- Chapter 8 Green Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter 9 The Global Green Value Chain -- Chapter 10 Green Finance -- Appendix -- Appendix I From Recovery to Green Prosperity: Accelerating the transition toward high-quality green development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period -- Appendix II Progress on Environment and Development Policies in China and Impact of CCICED’s Policy Recommendations (2019-2020) -- Appendix III CCICED Phase VI Composition. .

Description / Table of Contents: Reduction of GHGs in buildings- Indian Affordable Houses -- Modern Techniques for Earthquake Resistant Buildings: A Review -- Review of Modern techniques and automation in the Construction industry -- COVID 19 and Urban Development -- A case study on flyover in Urban context -- Planning for Pedestrian - Friendly Cities -- Spatiotemporal variation in surface velocity of glaciers, namely Mount Kolahoi in the Lidder basin between 2016-2019 using Landsat-8 imagery -- 3-D Reconstruction of Heritage Site Using Terrestrial Lidar Scanner (Tls): A Case Study of Gulistan-E-Iram, Lucknow -- Efficient Bus Transport System, Case study of Dehradun -- Forest Stock Mapping of Lit Forest Block, Awadh Forest Division, Lucknow Using Remote Sensing Techniques. .

Description / Table of Contents: 1-Introduction to the Third Pole -- 2-Overview of the Third Pole’s Grasslands -- 3-Third Pole’s Grasslands in the Global Context -- 4-Grassland Plant-soil interfaces -- 5-Grassland biodiversity and conservation -- 6-Grassland ecosystem function and service -- 7-Grazing management and pastoral production -- 8-Grassland Social-ecological systems -- 9-Grassland degradation and restoration -- 10-Climate change and adaptation of Grassland -- 11-Future of the Third Pole’s Grasslands.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Application of Life Cycle Costing in Building Energy Performance -- Chapter 2: Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Nearly-Zero Energy Buildings: An Introduction to the Methodologies -- Chapter 3:Analysis of Life Cycle Cost, Barriers and Strategies towards Enhancing its Application: Case Study of Commercial Buildings -- Chapter 4: Applications of Life Cycle Costing in Waste-to-Energy Projects -- Chapter 5: Life Cycle Cost Assessment of Various Wave Energy Converters (Based on Energy & Carbon Intensity) -- Chapter 6: Towards Optimising Life Cycle Costs of High-Rise Residential Apartments: A Case of Sri Lanka.

Description / Table of Contents: ­Sustainability challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -- 2. Enabling sustainable bioenergy transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: strategic issues for achieving climate-compatible development -- 3. Linking industrial crop production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa: local, national and continental perspectives -- Large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa and corporate social responsibility (CSR): Insights from Italian investments -- Determinants of foreign investment and international aid for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa: a visual cognitive review of the literature -- Perceived community resilience to floods and droughts induced by climate change in semi-arid Ghana -- Linking rural livelihoods and fuelwood demand from mangroves and upland forests in the coastal region of Guinea -- Strategic partnerships between universities and non-academic institutions for sustainability and innovation: Insights from the University of Ghana -- Long-term vegetation change in central Africa: the need for an integrated management framework for forests and savannas -- Forest-agriculture in the Center-South region of Cameroon: how does traditional knowledge inform integrated management approaches?.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: The science of anthropogenic climate change -- Chapter 2: The Holocene, the Anthropocene, and the Planetary Boundaries -- Chapter 3: Managing the Earth System – Why we Need a Poly-Scalar Approach -- Chapter 4: Environmental Accounting, Absolute Limits, and Systemic Change -- Chapter 5: Resolving the Disconnect between Earth System Science, Management Theory, and Environmental Accounting -- Part 2: Developing Planetary Quotes -- Chapter 6: Translating the Planetary Boundaries into Planetary Quotas -- Chapter 7: A Planetary Quota for Carbon Dioxide.-Chapter 8: A Quota for Agricultural GHG Emissions (Methane and Nitrous Oxide) -- Chapter 9: A Quota for Forestland -- Chapter 10: A Quota for Ozone Depleting Substances -- Chapter 11: A Quota for Aerosols -- Chapter 12: A Quota for Water -- Chapter 13: A Quota for Nitrogen -- Chapter 14: The Phosphorus Quota -- Chapter 15: The Biodiversity Quota -- Chapter 16: The Imperishable Waste Quota. Part 3: The planetary Accounting Framework -- Chapter 17: The Planetary Accounting Framework.

Description / Table of Contents: Part One Guideline for community energy planning compilation Establishing energy planning objectives -- Energy demand analysis and prediction -- Available energy resource assessment -- Integrated energy system optimization -- Cost-effectiveness analysis of planning proposal -- Implementation management and post-assessment -- Part Two Topical subject research Building energy consumption baseline -- Models for energy demand prediction -- Relationship between community morphology and energy consumption -- Integrated energy system optimization models for community energy plan -- Energy bus system design -- Fuel cell and its application in community energy system -- Policies for community energy -- Energy system optimization in urban renewal.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. International Relations Theory and the Great Paradigms -- 2. Integration: A Means to Transcend the Westphalian Order and Go Beyond Geopolitics -- 3. The Anthropocene: Are We in the Midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction? -- 4.Sustainable Development or Sustainable Systems? -- 5. Alternative Paths Towards Post-Capitalism or a Renewed Democratic Socialism -- 6. Towards a Transnational Cosmopolitan Paradigm and Citizenship.

Description / Table of Contents: Creating a green circular entrepreneurship mindset in students -- Green entrepreneurship - added value as a strategic orientation business model -- Effectiveness of renewable energy policies in promoting green entrepreneurship: A benchmark global comparison -- Theory of sustainable paths for entrepreneurship associated with fashion and practical examples -- The impact of plastic and the small businesses’ measures to combat plastic overproduction -- Redefining entrepreneurship: The incorporation of CSR and Positive Corporate Image as business strategies in green entrepreneurialism -- Creation of sustainable enterprises from the female directionality -- Growing the green entrepreneurial intention youth - A worldwide comparative Analysis -- Green marketing and entrepreneurship -- Sustainable Entrepreneurship: How create firms and support SDG -- FinTech: an innovative green entrepreneurship model -- Intention of green entrepreneurial among university students in Colombia.

Description / Table of Contents: General Introduction -- A Conceptual Framework for Constituting a Footprint Family -- Exploring Some Fundamentals of Environmental Footprints -- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Nice to have or Essential for Environmental Footprints? -- Understanding the Complementarities of Environmental Footprints and Planetary Boundaries -- Benchmarking the National Carbon, Water and Land Footprints Against Allocated Planetary Boundaries -- General Discussion. .

Description / Table of Contents: Society, Energy and the Natural World -- Energy and Our Lives -- Pandemic Overview -- Our conversation with Mother Nature -- The math of our energy-dependent existence -- How to keep the Planet Human-friendly -- How do we get to where we need to be? -- Your Home and Lifestyle -- Cars, Tools and Mobility -- Communities lead the Way -- Your Country; Sustainable, Resilient and Secure -- How to invest for minimum disruption and maximum benefit -- How to drive change -- How to enjoy a sustainable lifestyle.

Description / Table of Contents: Reusability, Dependability, and Software -- Application Aspects and Organization of Dependable Software Reuse -- Reusability-Driven Software Development -- Software Reuse Technologies -- Reuse and Testing -- Background -- Ecodesign, Design for Reuse -- HW/SW Interferences -- Environment and Dependability -- Managerial Aspects -- Legal aspects, Standardization and Liability.

Description / Table of Contents: Evolution of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment -- A Sustainability Assessment Framework for the Australian Food Industry: Integrating Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Circular Economy -- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: Methodology and Framework -- Application of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment to Evaluate the Future Energy Crops for Sustainable Energy and Bioproducts -- Sustainable development: ICT, new directions, and strategies -- Implementing Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment in Building and Energy Retrofit Design - An Investigation into Challenges and Opportunities -- Evaluating the Sustainability of Feedlot Production in Australia Using a Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Framework -- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Study of Conventional and Prefabricated Construction Methods: MADM analysis.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction: Thinking about seeds -- 2 Reclaiming diverse seed commons through food sovereignty, agroecology and economies of care -- 3 Integration of endogenous development theory into the study of seed governance -- 4 Indigenous seed systems, biocultural heritage: the Andean Potato Park’s approach to seed governance -- 5 The diversity of seed-saving governance and sharing systems in contemporary Japan -- 6 Seed system dynamics and crop diversity of Chinbaung in Myanmar -- 7 Organizations and functions for seed management in East Asia: Korea, Japan and Taiwan -- 8 Evolutionary populations for sustainable food security and food sovereignty -- 9 Adding value to a Scottish rye landrace: collaborative research into new artisanal products -- 10 Inside the Japanese seed industry: its characteristics and implications for agroecology -- 11 Bhutan’s ‘middle way’: diversification, mainstreaming, commodification and impacts in the context of food security -- 12 The third way of seed governance: the potential of the seed commoning in Japan -- 13 Agroecology, sovereignty and the endogenous development perspective in seed governance and management.

Description / Table of Contents: Multivariable Interactions on Simulation-based Energy-saving Building Design with Response Surface Methodology -- Performance of L-shaped Mini Louvers in Tropical Cities in Cooling Load Energy Reduction: Case Study of Mumbai, Mexico City, and Lagos -- User perception of Energy Efficiency in School of Architecture and Built Environment (SABE) Building Kigali, Rwanda -- Research on Small Sewage Treatment Technology -- Smart Energy Infrastructure & Technology: Assessing Community Preparedness for Residential Solar Uptake -- A Comparative Study of Spanish Mid-Sized Smart Cities from The Citizen´s Perspective.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Energy Justice and Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Africa: Trends, Narratives and Contestations -- Part I History and Politics of Off-grid Solar Electrification -- Chapter 2 : Off-Grid Enterprise: A Critical History of Small-Scale Off-Grid Solar in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 3: At the Margins of the Grid: The Politics of Off-Grid Electrification in Senegal -- Chapter 4: Decade of Change: Off-Grid Solar Energy in Rwanda -- Part II Manifestations of energy injustices -- Chapter 5: The dark side of the sun: Solar home systems and their injustices in Africa -- Chapter 6 : Framing Energy Justice: Perspectives from Malawi’s Off-Grid Solar Market -- Chapter 7: Gender Differentiation, Equality and Equity in Off-Grid Solar Usage in Rural Tanzania: A Fraying Thread? -- Chapter 8 ; On-Grid and Off-Grid Electrification in Kenya: Who are left Behind and Why? -- Part III Enabling uptake: Constraints and Opportunities -- Chapter 9: Solar Home Systems in Rural landscapes: Examining the Forces Shaping Solar Home Systems Adoption in Southeast Nigeria -- Chapter 10: Assessing Enablers and Barriers to Off-Grid Solar Electrification in Urban Ghana -- Chapter 11: Off-Grid Solar Electrification on the Rise in Africa, But Where to?.