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This book examines the United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals in practice and ideation. It explores how sustainability is exercised in a variety of public, political and cultural contexts, ranging from preserving indigenous voices and oral traditions; the appropriation of sustainability narratives by multinationals and large corporations; the democratising impact of streaming services on short-form film and video content; sustainability practices in the creative industries; the essential formation and preservation of communities through the arts; and threats to achieving sustainability in response to the UK's current higher education crisis. The book employs a multidisciplinary approach to sustainability that sits across cultural studies, politics, sociology and media, with contributing authors from New Zealand, Malysia, Indonesia, Denmark, and the UK.

This book looks at the multiple ways in which climate change contributes negative impacts on the healthcare sector globally, posing a number of challenges to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In taking an integrative approach to the SDGs and their implementation in Asian healthcare, the book highlights the health consequences of biodiversity loss in the healthcare sector. The authors unpack how rising temperatures, extreme weather conditions, and altering rainfall patterns intensify current health-related threats that slowing progress towards SDG 3, focused on health and well-being. They delve into how disadvantaged, underserved, and marginalized populations, including the elderly, children, and low-income communities, face health risks, highlighting the need for inclusive strategies to achieve gender equality (SDG 5) and reduced inequalities (SDG 10) to promote equality movement and health equity. The book draws attention to how effective implementation and mitigation of climate change risk strategy are essential, including reducing economic inequalities (SDG 8) in rural and/or underdeveloped areas that caused the unequal distribution of healthcare resources and accelerating industry innovation (SDG 9) to strengthen healthcare infrastructure, resilient healthcare systems, and digital healthcare, thus establishing more sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11). Human health and wellness are intricately depending on biodiversity (SDG 14 and SDG 15) to provide well-functioning ecosystems, stabilize the climate, and limit diseases. The volume shows that integrating climate resilience into health policies, corporate strategy, and education planning, is essential for advancing the SDGs and safeguarding public health. Relevant to researchers and policymakers in public health, climate change, and the SDGs, this is a timely contribution to discussions on the challenges facing the SDGs implementation in Asia.

This textbook provides a clear and comprehensive economic perspective on energy transition, highlighting that it involves more than just replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. It discusses critical interventions in the optimizing decisions of economic agents to achieve a reliable and sustainable future.

Students learn about the conditions under which such interventions can improve societal welfare, building on the fundamental economic principle that optimal outcomes arise when coordination mechanisms function effectively.

The book explores key motivations and drivers behind energy transition policies, including the depletion of energy resources, energy security, environmental impacts of fossil fuel use, and the challenges of high and volatile energy prices. It provides detailed analyses of the efficiency, effectiveness, and distributional effects of various government policy measures, such as capacity mechanisms, energy taxation, renewable energy support schemes, and emissions trading systems.

In addition to a societal and governmental perspective, the book discusses the roles of stakeholders within energy systems - such as producers, grid operators and consumers, as well stakeholders within organizations-such as shareholders, employees, and customers-in driving the energy transition. While grounded in economic principles, it integrates insights from other disciplines, including engineering, law, and social sciences, to provide a holistic understanding of energy systems and their transformation.

Designed for students and scholars, this book equips readers with the knowledge and tools to understand the economic principles underpinning a reliable and sustainable energy future.

Navigating Sustainability: Strategies and Solutions for Business in Emerging and Developing Countries offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how sustainability can be embedded within business practices in rapidly transforming economies. As environmental pressures intensify alongside economic growth, businesses are increasingly required to align operational strategies with ecological limits, social equity, and regulatory frameworks, while responding to evolving global sustainability standards, stakeholder expectations, and increasing demands for transparency and accountability.
This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to address key dimensions of sustainability, including climate change mitigation, water and resource management, circular economy transitions, sustainable finance, digital transformation, governance, and ethical considerations. The book emphasises the interconnected nature of environmental processes, socio-economic systems, and institutional structures, advocating for integrated and context-sensitive approaches that bridge theory, policy, and practice.
With a strong focus on emerging and developing countries, the book highlights both the structural challenges and the innovative potential within these regions, particularly in the context of rapid urbanisation, resource constraints, and institutional diversity. By combining conceptual frameworks with applied case studies, it provides valuable insights for academics, policymakers, and business leaders seeking to navigate sustainability transitions in complex and dynamic environments.

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and intensified a range of sustainability challenges in India, from pressures on public health systems and education to rising poverty, inequality, waste generation, and environmental degradation. Examining these interconnected issues through the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this contributed volume explores how the pandemic reshaped development priorities and outcomes across the country.

The chapters address key themes including public health, education, gender equality, poverty reduction, climate action, clean energy, and environmental management. Particular attention is given to the impacts of increased medical waste, changing patterns of resource use, and the challenges of balancing economic recovery with long-term sustainability objectives.

Drawing on case studies, empirical research, and policy analysis, the book provides a detailed assessment of India's post-pandemic development landscape. It highlights emerging challenges, evaluates responses at multiple levels of governance, and considers pathways for advancing the SDGs in the years ahead. The volume will be of interest to researchers, students, policymakers, and practitioners concerned with sustainable development in India and beyond.

This book offers contemporary insights into the intersection of sustainable development, leadership, innovation, and organizational performance in a global context. Featuring 30 selected papers presented at the 20th Academy of Global Business Advancement (AGBA) World Congress held in Bangkok, Thailand, this book brings together research from scholars across Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States addressing real-world challenges in public governance, green management, digital transformation, and global business. The work also highlights critical themes such as artificial intelligence in marketing and governance, internationalization of global firms, the post-pandemic effects on SMEs, and sustainable practices in hospitality and manufacturing. By offering comparative and cross-country perspectives, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of global trends shaping business and entrepreneurship in an increasingly interconnected and digitalized world. This book is a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and graduate students in the fields of business, economics, sustainability, innovation management, and public administration.

This comprehensive work examines the vital role of dredging equipment in national economic and defense development, highlighting seven decades of remarkable progress in China's shipbuilding industry. Through detailed analysis of technological evolution, the book showcases how Chinese workers and technical personnel demonstrated exceptional self-reliance while advancing from basic dredging equipment to sophisticated world-class machines. The narrative particularly emphasizes the industry's journey of overcoming technical challenges, documenting the transformation that has positioned China as a global leader in dredging technology. As a reference work, it offers invaluable insights and practical knowledge specifically tailored for workers, cadres, and technical personnel in related fields.

Rethinking life with microbes through the art of natural fermentation

Within us and around us, microbes are everywhere, constantly reshaping what it means to be human as we interact with them - sometimes knowingly, sometimes not. Singing with Invisible Worlds theorizes human-microbe relationships through a rare ethnographic account of the fermentation process at the 350-year-old Terada Honke, one of only two natural sake breweries in Japan.

Painting a vivid picture of how sake brewers collaborate with bacteria, molds, and yeasts, Maya Hey reveals that ambient microbes are not controlled but courted, cultivated, and deliberately choreographed. As the brewers adapt to shifting microbial dynamics, they engage in what Hey calls an "improvisational ethic" - a way of responding to the unknown with care and attentiveness through each phase of blooming and waning across weeks, months, and even centuries. In documenting these remarkable practices, Singing with Invisible Worlds offers an intimate, situated understanding of how we can come to know and live with microbial life, with implications for feminist theory, science and technology studies, and multispecies ethnography.

Unsettling simplistic notions of "good" or "bad" microbes, this book presents a compelling vision for planetary coexistence - one that starts not with grand solutions but with small, rhythmic acts of microscopic attunement.

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This book addresses a critical gap in understanding net-zero strategies and sustainability practices in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), exploring their intersection with data innovation, climate risk, climate governance, firm performance, firm risk, greenwashing, and green finance. In doing so, the book demonstrates how data innovation plays a crucial role in advancing net-zero goals by enabling organizations to optimize resource usage, identify emission hotspots, and improve operational efficiency through advanced data analytics, machine learning, and AI. The book underscores the need for vigilance against greenwashing, emphasizing transparent reporting practices and robust verification mechanisms to uphold credibility and trust in sustainability claims. Providing new insights provided by a diverse set of contributors, including industry leaders and policymakers, the book highlights the integration of financial and environmental sustainability into net-zero initiatives, emphasizing elements such as carbon accounting, biodiversity accounting, and economic resilience. This perspective is relatively unexplored, especially in comparison to other developed regions, making the book a pioneering resource in identifying and addressing the unique challenges and opportunities present in the MENA region in the global fight against climate change. With both theoretical and empirical studies, practical case studies, industry analyses, and policy evaluations, the book presents a comprehensive overview of how net-zero strategies can be effectively implemented to enhance sustainability practices, both regionally and globally. It is relevant to both scholars and policymakers in areas of economic development, environmental sustainability, and social equity, focused on the means of transition toward a low-carbon future.

This book explores the integration of AI and knowledge management to achieve sustainability in the digital era. AI's ability to process vast data and generate actionable insights revolutionizes decision-making and resource optimization, while knowledge management ensures these insights foster continuous learning. This book highlights aligning these practices with sustainability goals to reduce environmental impact and drive long-term success. Emphasizing principles of the circular economy, resource efficiency, and environmental stewardship, it examines AI's role in modern workplaces, ethical considerations, and balancing economic growth with environmental preservation. It provides practical strategies, case studies, and emerging trends for implementing sustainable digital practices. This book bridges theory and practice, offering actionable insights for fostering a sustainable future through digital transformation. It is intended for business leaders, managers, and academics.

This book challenges dominant narratives of the circular economy by spotlighting informal entrepreneurs in marginalised contexts. Over 2 billion informal workers worldwide-waste pickers, repair artisans, and recyclers-recover 15-35% of urban waste in low- and middle-income countries, yet remain invisible within policy frameworks that privilege formal-sector innovation. This volume examines the "recognition paradox," whereby informal circular practices are simultaneously operationally central to urban metabolism, institutionally invisible within governance structures, and discursively misrecognized in policy narratives. Through seven empirical chapters spanning Ghana, Sub-Saharan Africa, Peru, Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, and Zambia, the authors demonstrate how necessity-driven circularity constitutes a parallel system with its own logics and efficiencies. Essential reading for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners seeking to govern circular transitions through inclusive, justice-based frameworks that dismantle colonial epistemologies of modernisation.

This book tells the story of how residents of Iitate village and volunteers from across Japan came together to address the many complex issues that followed the Fukushima nuclear disaster.It outlines challenges faced by every rural village: producing the food and energy needed by unsustainable, increasingly disaster-prone cities; maintaining their rich cultures despite depopulation and aging, and having the autonomy of their communities removed by the centralisation of power in capital regions, especially in the wake of crisis. The disaster caused an unprecedented situation, never experienced in Fukushima, Japan or anywhere else. There were no real experts anywhere in the world with experience in such a revitalization project - and official successes were limited. Responsibility fell to the people, who independently initiated collaborative efforts to address not only issues of contamination monitoring and decontamination, but also complex issues of healthcare, agriculture, forestry, trade, business innovation, and ultimately the revitalization of livelihoods and the village community. The book takes a practical, every day, scientific and human approach to discuss how humans might once again co-exist with nature in the context of fundamental shifts in human civilization, learning from Iitate village. It serves as a model for 21st century local revitalization movements, pioneering ways to create new public spaces for action, to overcome problems of modernity and to move toward coexistence with nature. The work will appeal to disaster management experts, and students and scholars in disaster studies, city planning, environmental science, nuclear energy, Japan studies, international relations and sociology.

This book examines how different forms of proximity influence the knowledge processes necessary for sustainable innovation. Exploring five key dimensions-geographical, cognitive, institutional, organizational, and social-it shows how the most effective combinations of these dimensions support strong, sustainability-oriented innovation networks.

Through an analysis of how these dimensions interact, the book identifies common patterns in successful collaborations. It provides practical guidance for companies, policymakers, universities, and civil society organizations designing innovation networks or selecting partners for collaborative projects. Policy actors will find guidance for crafting strategies that promote sustainability more effectively.

At its core, the book introduces a refined analytical framework for studying multiactor settings, which are typical of sustainable innovation. It addresses the complexity of sustainability challenges and the dispersed, context-specific knowledge they require. Drawing on innovation systems research and sustainability science, the book provides a deeper understanding of how sustainable innovations take shape and thrive.

This book examines three scenarios of decarbonization to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of allocating carbon pollution-free sources across sectors (uses). For this purpose and looking at the EU target, the LSCOA (levelized social cost of abatement), the abatement speed (AS) and the cost of the avoided carbon cumulation (COACC) are estimated. The main conclusion is that accelerating the use of pollution-free sources in contestable end uses before the electricity supply is fully decarbonized is inefficient and ineffective compared to prioritizing their allocation to power generation, whether through renewables or carbon capture utilization and storage. Therefore, policies should focus first on decarbonizing the electricity supply. Only once this has largely been achieved, a deep penetration of pollution-free sources into contestable end uses (both "less difficult to abate and "hard to abate") should be promoted. Following this sequence leads to lower abatement costs and reduced carbon accumulation, minimizing the cost of avoided carbon accumulation in the atmosphere. Otherwise, indiscriminate acceleration risks slowing down the overall energy transition and undermining climate objectives (including limiting global warming). Regarding the specific decarbonization pathways, direct electrification emerges as the preferable carrier, whereas hydrogen is justified as feedstock for e-fuels supply, including imports from Middle East and North Africa countries.

This book uses an International Relations Constructivist approach to analyze the greening of the Belt and Road Initiative in the wider context of Beijing's counterhegemonic efforts. The book's first part shows that, since 2013, China has been constructing a new international order. The numerous large prestige infrastructure projects of the BRI have served as material incentives allowing for the Chinese socialization of Global South political elites. In recent years, however, the Western infrastructure counteroffensive and severe financial difficulties have seriously hampered this process. In response, President Xi decided to make the BRI smaller, "cleaner," and greener. Given the first two changes' lack of results, greening remains the only way to restore the Initiative's effectiveness. This book's second part shows that despite a "mountain" of pro-environment policy documents, the BRI greening is, in large measure, little more than greenwashing. However, it has been successful in achieving its real objective. The Green BRI helps create long-lasting center-periphery relationships of dependence and, more importantly, tries to take control of the global environmental governance system or, if this fails, to create a new one. This governance system becomes a component of the Chinese-led international order, thus strengthening and bringing it closer to maturity.

Using big data resources and data mining methods, as well as econometric models and etc., this book provides several advanced assessment methods and empirical analysis of the economic impact of environmental disasters in China, and studied China's sustainability development policy avoiding disasters. This book uses cutting-edge methods, such as generalized difference in difference, inoperational input-output models, improved computable general equilibrium and others to calculate the economic influence of environmental disasters. It evaluates the redistribution of air pollution emissions in China by using improved data envelopment analysis. In short, it provides the ideas, methods and cases of the sustainability development road to avoiding disaster.

This book on peace and justice for all is part of a path-breaking initiative by Springer Nature heralding a new publication format compiling auto-summaries of literature. State-of-the-art computer algorithms were applied to select relevant sources from original articles published by Springer Nature. The selection was then rearranged in a topical order, and short summaries of the selected articles were provided. The result is the auto-summarization of current texts, organized by means of a similarity-based clustering routine in coherent chapters and sections.

The book collects material from about 150 original research articles published from 2018 to 2022. Every chapter comes with an introduction by the human expert that connects the dots of content chosen for that chapter and attempts to fill gap areas. In addition to more conventional topics such as crimes against women, children, and marginalized communities, human trafficking, criminal justice, activist suppression, access to social justice, institutions, and so on, the book contains discussions on relatively newer areas such as environmental and ecological justice. The book serves as a useful resource for anyone who wants to gain a quick overview of the topic, especially current developments in the field. Due to interdisciplinary nature of the content, the content is of importance to readers from a wide array of humanitarian research.

Note: The auto-summaries have been generated by a recursive clustering algorithm via the Dimensions Auto-summarizer by Digital Science handled by Subject Matter Experts and the editors of this book. The editors of this book selected which SN content should be auto-summarized and decided its order of appearance. Please be aware that these are extractive auto-summaries, which consist of original sentences, but are not representative of its original paper, since we do not show the full length of the publication. Please note that only published SN content is represented here, and that machine-generated books are still at an experimental stage.

This book provides a critical and timely examination of anthropogenic disruptions to the natural functioning of Earth systems while evaluating the extent to which such climatic perturbations affect the sustainability of BRICS+ nations in the Anthropocene and Capitalocene. Responding to the multiple challenges confronting Planet Earth in this critical geological and historical age, the book first demonstrates the advent of a new political economy and governance order, triggered by the BRICS movement. It rigorously explores the far-reaching consequences of environmental crises on global peace, security, economic stability, and sustainable development, substantiating the increasingly strategic role of BRICS+ nations as a rising global economic force determined to shape sustainable futures in the Anthropocene and Capitalocene.

The book further bears out how compounded policy theories are paradoxically impacting BRICS+ nations (intra-BRICS+ nations' contractions and the bloc's opportunities) in advancing a more multipolar world order-an agenda fostered by the bloc that is so significant today that it is impossible to ignore or rebuff. Finally, the book offers a comprehensive framework for multilateral cooperation among economic alliances and institutions and among BRICS+ nations, within which the world can thrive despite the growing anthropogenic atmospheric transformations that affect the well-being of Planet Earth.

South Asia has been experiencing a rapid digital transformation with huge impacts across its economic, governance, and social arenas. With the fast-paced technological evolution, various government initiatives, and emerging economic requirements, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and other South Asian countries are unprecedently shifting to digitalization following the developed nations worldwide. Yet, while this transformation creates many opportunities, it also presents challenges and threats, including concerns about regulation, gaps in digital inclusion, governance efficiency, cybersecurity risks, and the sustainability of digitalization.

This book explores and analyzes how digital transformation is shaping South Asia's economic resilience, governance models, sustainability efforts, and economic equity. By presenting and analyzing case policy frameworks, and empirical studies, the volume will build a solid understanding of digital governance, financial inclusion, AI integration, cybersecurity challenges, and sustainable innovations across the region. By exploring governance innovation, financial risks, AI applications, and sustainability challenges, this volume will serve as a resource and guidebook for policymakers and researchers interested in navigating this region and other regions' digital future worldwide.

This book manifests the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) framework propounded by the United Nations (UN), which connects sports to physical activity and human health outcomes through its ability to combat chronic diseases and improve mental and physical health. The UN also considers sports a catalyst for the socialization of children, youths and adults, the social inclusion of the disadvantaged, economic development of local communities, and a means of fostering intercultural exchange and conflict resolution.

This volume is the first effort of its kind that seeks to examine the scope of sports to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 16, particularly in India, by way of promoting peaceful and inclusive societies. As well, it provides a platform for achieving justice for all; building effective, accountable, and inclusive communication between institutions at all levels; and ensuring equality across ethnicity, faith, and sexual orientation in any corner of the globe.

The content of this volume will be of great interest especially to sports enthusiasts, sports event organizers, trainers, management faculty, students, and scholars. In a broader scenario, however, the discussions will be helpful for policymakers to find an alternative avenue of achieving SDG through the management and promotion of sports, not only in India but in many countries in the global south.

The volume explores the vital role of indigenous knowledge systems in addressing today's most pressing environmental and resource management challenges. Its chapters present a compelling case for integrating traditional ecological knowledge into modern development frameworks. Drawing on real-world case studies from diverse ecological zones across India-from tribal forest stewardship in the Northeast to organic farming in the Western Ghats-it highlights how community-led practices foster ecological resilience, economic sustainability, and local empowerment.

The book critically examines the impact of state policies, conservation models, and development interventions on traditional systems. It also explores participatory approaches, knowledge co-creation, and community-driven innovation as pathways to inclusive and sustainable resource governance.

Rich in field narratives, policy analysis, and interdisciplinary insights, this book is an essential resource for environmentalists, development practitioners, sustainability researchers, civil society actors, and students of indigenous knowledge and ecological justice.

Waters of Destiny tells the story of how sugarcane came to be produced at industrial scale in the Florida Everglades, thanks to a federal flood-control system that led to the devastation of downstream ecosystems and communities. It tells how the demand for both flood protection and water supply outstripped the system's capacity to deliver, necessitating painful tradeoffs. Water managers and advocates have been trying to solve this operational conundrum for decades, but South Florida's environment radically limits water-control options. Scientists advocate restoring drained wetlands to allow floodwaters to once again spread across the landscape, but they have been repeatedly foiled by Big Sugar, for whom any loss of cane acreage threatens their refineries' profit margins. Drawing on scores of interviews and years of observation, Schwartz reveals how, in the late 1990s, state and federal officials squandered a moment of peak bipartisan support for Everglades restoration, enacting an $8 billion program that-while much ballyhooed-relied on speculative technological "moonshots" in lieu of confronting Big Sugar. The program's "failure to launch" in the quarter-century since, Schwartz argues, was an inevitable consequence of this political failure.

This volume advances a critical conversation at the intersection of business management, innovation, and sustainable development by offering an integrated, multidisciplinary perspective on how organizations can navigate complexity while driving long-term societal value. Bringing together insights from human resource management, technological transformation, and inclusive economic systems, the book develops a coherent framework for understanding how organizations translate strategy into impact.

Structured across five thematic sections, the volume examines: the role of inclusive and ethical leadership in shaping organizational cultures; the mechanisms through which creativity and adaptive capabilities support resilient business models; the linkages between finance, development, and economic inclusion; the strategic implications of emerging digital technologies; and the growing influence of ESG and sustainability frameworks on organizational practice.

Distinguished by its integration of theory and application, the book draws on established and emerging perspectives; including human-centered management approaches, innovation systems thinking, and digitally enabled transformation to illuminate the pathways through which organizations respond to contemporary challenges. It offers both conceptual clarity and practical insight into how firms can align performance with broader societal outcomes.

This volume will be of particular interest to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to understand how management and innovation can be mobilized to address global development challenges. By situating organizational strategy within a broader socio-economic context, it provides a rigorous and forward-looking contribution to the evolving field of responsible and sustainable business.

This book is an essential guide for educators seeking to integrate sustainability into business curricula. It bridges the gap between traditional profit-focused models and the urgent need for environmental and social responsibility. The book provides a robust framework for designing programs that equip future leaders with the skills to navigate complex ethical dilemmas and drive systemic change. This book is an essential guide for educators seeking to integrate sustainability into business curricula. It bridges the gap between traditional profit-focused models and the urgent need for environmental and social responsibility. Featuring diverse case studies and practical teaching strategies, it explores how to embed sustainable development goals across disciplines like finance, marketing, and strategy. This book empowers academics to foster a new generation of business thinkers capable of building a truly sustainable and equitable global economy.

Building on the conceptual framework established in earlier volumes, The Sustainable Organization - Volume 3 advances the conversation from principles to practice. This volume focuses on how sustainability and the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are actively enabled, taught, governed, and implemented across academic institutions, industry, and cross-sector collaborations-guided by the Three-Pillar Model.

Spanning foundational reflections, academic research, and real-world case studies, the book brings together diverse perspectives from universities, global enterprises, public institutions, and innovators. Contributions explore topics such as transformative education, data-driven sustainability, circular business models, governance systems, fashion and luxury industries, MedTech, logistics, and collaborative sourcing.

Rather than prescribing a single pathway, this volume embraces plurality, connectivity, and purpose-driven transformation. Historical insights, contemporary case studies, and philosophical reflections underscore both the urgency of action and the opportunity for reconstruction-of organizations, leadership, and sustainability itself. This book serves as both inspiration and guidance for academics, practitioners, and decision-makers committed to shaping resilient, responsible, and future-ready organizations.