A Mining Industry Sustainability Index: the case of Gold and Uranium -- Sustainable City Indicators in Malaysia -- Indicators of measuring transport system in India.This book highlights various methods for quantifying sustainability indicators using different indices. To date, numerous sustainability indicators encompassing either all three pillars (economic, environmental and social) or indivi…
GREATER KENYIR: LANDSCAPE, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY -- The weather and climate of tropical Kenyir Lake, Terengganu -- Water quality status in Kenyir Lake, Malaysia: a preliminary assessment -- Comparative study of physico-chemical analyses of different water sources in Setiu Wetland, Terengganu -- A baseline assessment on the distributions and sources of aliphatic and…
Challenges in LCA for Agricultural Systems -- Application of the Cereal Unit in a New Allocation Procedure for Agricultural LCAs -- Modeling Crop Rotation in Agricultural LCAs -- Crop Rotations and Crop Residues are Relevant Parameters for Agricultural Carbon Footprints -- International Initiatives on Global Challenges for Agriculture.Gerhard Brankatschk provides solutions for methodological li…
1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 Knowledge, Change and Everyday Living -- 3 Conversation about the Politics of Everyday Knowledge at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies on 14th August 2014 -- 4 Negotiating Chineseness and Capitalising on Resources through Learning Chinese Heritage Language: Habitus and Capital in Fields -- 5 Matariki Tāpuapua: Pools of Traditional Knowledge and Currents of C…
1. Climate Change and Frontiers of Democracy -- 2. Nationalism and “The End of Nature” -- 3. The Cold War and the Anthropocene -- 4. The Tragedy of a False Dichotomy -- 5. Transcending the Tragedy of the Commons -- 6. Governing Ourselves.-7. Democracy Beyond the Nation State -- 8. Global Democracy.This book will survey past and present efforts to democratize international institutions, and …
Water Footprint of Agricultural Products -- Water Footprint of Livestock Farming -- Water Footprint and Consumer Products -- Water Footprint of a Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Strategy Based on Membrane Technology.This book uses case studies to highlight the environmental water footprints in the agricultural and livestock farming sector, and those of consumer products. Water conservation i…
Part I. The Author -- Chapter 1. Autobiography: Personnel and Intellectual Influences -- Chapter 2. Bibliography -- Part II. Methodology, Gender & Peace -- Chapter 3. Key Texts on Methodology, Development, Regions, Environment, Food & Water -- Chapter 4. Methodology & Methods in Interdisciplinary Research -- Chapter 5. Personality Aspects & Drug Abuse -- Chapter 6. Gender & Gender Equity -- Cha…
Addressing Environmental Criteria and Energy Footprint in the Selection of Feedstocks for Bioenergy Production -- Cumulative Energy Demand of Hydrogen Energy Systems -- Energy Footprint of India: Scope for Improvements in End-use Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.This book examines the energy footprints of various industrial sectors, including the bio- and hydrogen energy systems, and expl…
1. Introduction -- Part 1: Carbon stock and flow at ecosystem scale – Carbon Storage -- 2. Backgrounds, Theory, Methods, and Seagrass case -- 3. Mangrove case -- 4. Seaweed case -- Part 2: Carbon stock and flow at ecosystem scale – Gas exchange -- 5. Backgrounds, Theory, Methods, and Seagrass case -- 6. Mangrove case -- 7. Tidal marsh case -- 8. Tidal flat case -- Part 3: Carbon stock and f…
Energy Footprint of Biorefinery Schemes -- A Technical Review on Methods and Tools for Evaluation of Energy Footprints, Impact on Buildings and Environment -- Establishment of Electrical Energy Benchmarking Protocol for the Assessment of the Carbon Emission in Hotel Industry.This book deals with the energy footprints of biorefineries and the hotel and buildings sector. It presents footprint cas…