This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within a rapidly changing social,...

This book summarizes the NGO Master Plan that provides a comprehensive program to rehabilitate the Lower Jordan River and its tributaries in Jordan, Israel and Palestine. It is a regional and civil society effort designed to promote the restoration of the valley’s environmental and ecological...

1. Introduction -- 2. Action on Climate Change: What Does it Mean and Where Does it Lead To? -- Part 1. Policy -- 3. Mainstreaming Impact Evidence in Climate Change and Sustainable Development -- 4. Pathway to Impact: Supporting and Evaluating Enabling Environments for Research for Development...

Chapter 1 Entering the Green Industrial Revolution -- Chapter 2 The Theory of Green Development -- Chapter 3 Global Ecological Crisis -- Chapter 4 Green Developments in China -- Chapter 5 Green Development Plan -- Chapter 6 Local Green Practice -- Chapter 7 Green Enterprise Innovation -- Chapter...

Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...

Part I. Theoretical Contextualization -- 1. Embedding Diversity in Social Entrepreneurial Research: India’s Learning Laboratories; Shambu Prasad and Joseph Satish V -- 2. Education Conversations: Situating Social Enterprise in India’s Education Discourse; Isabel Salovaara -- 3. Foremost...

This 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...