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The Sustainability Conundrum: Balancing Energy Transition and Global Development investigates how a clean environment and mitigation of Global Climate Change will affect the UN's sustainability goals for development, poverty elimination, and inequality reduction. It covers the necessity of energy use for humans, the global demand and the supply of energy, and the environmental challenges of energy consumption.

Outlining the interconnections between four of the UN goals, the book discusses the Global Climate Change problem by explaining how the scientific community eradicated other global environmental threats, such as acid rain, lead contamination, and the ozone hole. It establishes the uniqueness of Global Climate Change; evaluates proposed methods and "roadmaps" to achieve meaningful carbon dioxide emissions reductions; computes the cost of the necessary infrastructure for their implementation on a regional and a global scale; and draws conclusions about the implementation of the proposed energy transition and the sustainability goals for the elimination of poverty and reduction of inequalities within and among nations.

This book is intended for students of sustainability initiatives and any readers interested in the ongoing challenges surrounding sustainability and global economic development.

Combining theoretical insights with original evidence from social enterprises, chapters present a novel, multi-level perspective on the internal organisational processes supporting sustainability goals. Leading experts in the field contribute to the existing literature on sustainable HRM and identify practical guidance for managers. With a core focus on Central and Eastern Europe, the book provides forward-thinking recommendations for future research.

From Idea to Impact in Green HRM is an important reference for students and scholars of business and management, economics, social sciences and HRM. Policymakers and social enterprise managers with an interest in sustainable development and organisational behaviour will equally benefit from its valuable insights.

Engaging with the two main models of equality as a central analytical lens, Trenta builds a case for substantive equality over the formal framework and aligns these suggestions with the goals of the UN's Agenda 2030 and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. Tracing the evolution of EU tax jurisprudence from the perspective of human dignity and worth, chapters prioritize fair outcomes over economic neutrality as a step towards a more equal European society. The book outlines concrete policy recommendations for establishing clear legal definitions for vulnerable groups, implementing gender-responsive budgeting, and ensuring fair representation in Europe's fiscal future.

This enlightening book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of development studies, European law, tax law and fiscal policy. Its insights into Agenda 2030 and EU tax law are also beneficial for practitioners and researchers in public finance, tax law and fiscal policy and the sustainable development goals.

This book showcases how marine reserves, when implemented and protected effectively, could simultaneously achieve conservation and reef fishery goals.

Marine reserves, permanent spatial closures to fishing, are often viewed as detrimental to fisheries, reducing the area available for fishing and concentrating effort into smaller areas. But what if these reserves could supplement reef fisheries? Drawing on over forty years of research and teaching experience, the author explores the concept of net export-where reserves produce such abundant fish biomass that they spill over into fished areas, partly compensating for the loss of fishing grounds. The book delves into recent advancements in larval tagging and tracking, showcasing studies from the Great Barrier Reef, Papua New Guinea, and beyond, to demonstrate how recruitment subsidy, net export of fish larvae from reserves to fished areas, combined with reductions in fishery effort outside reserves when reserves are implemented, can lead to sustainable reef fisheries alongside conservation. The book argues that with the right balance between conservation and catch, marine reserves can achieve a "win-win" scenario, ensuring both healthy fish populations and sustainable reef fisheries. This book calls for conservation and fisheries to co-ordinate, not confront, in order to simultaneously achieve their objectives.

Written in clear and accessible language, this book is essential reading for marine conservation and fisheries professionals and policymakers, as well as students and scholars of marine science and conservation.

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers selected contributions from scholars in urban and regional planning from around the world with internationally recognised authors taking up pressing issues from theory, education for, and practice of planning.

This 8th volume features contributions on the theme, Dialogues in Planning for Climate Change: Enduring Challenges and Transformative Pathways, and explores how spatial planning can support adaptation measures to build resilience, mitigate impacts on communities, and improve climate change education for future practitioners. Chapters critically examine the dilemmas faced by societies, such as the trade-offs between reducing greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation) and adaptation efforts, as well as the disproportionate effects of climate change on disadvantaged communities. Practice-based case studies provide illustrative examples of these challenges, highlighting the uneven engagement of planners with climate change and the context-dependent nature of planning. For instance, the stark threats to human settlements differ significantly between regions like Northern Europe and Australia, yet there are opportunities for cross-regional learning. Issues such as climate-induced droughts and fires affect areas like the Southwest USA, Australia, and Southern Europe, while sea level rise impacts coastal cities worldwide.

The volume is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate studies in urban and regional planning, political studies, governance, urban development, and human geography.

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) series is published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and its national and transnational planning schools' associations members.

In Climate and Cultural Choice, Robert H. Winthrop offers some unconventional answers to two questions. Why are humans losing the fight against the climate crisis? What more can we do?

Scientists and politicians alike have treated climate change as a massive yet conventional environmental problem, caused by polluting greenhouse gases rather than toxic chemicals. In this book, Robert Winthrop demonstrates how this approach made climate change a technical problem for experts to define and solve, leaving citizens unengaged and paralyzed by polarization and inaction. Yet climate change is not inherently an environmental problem-it is a social and political problem. Drawing on anthropology, history, and other disciplines, Robert Winthrop explores the need for social innovation tailored to local conditions and values: a search for ways of life that are more satisfying, more supportive of well-being, and more protective of our climate. He examines case studies of successful and enduring practices, which can help chart a course toward effective climate mitigation. These include increasing local self-sufficiency, conserving resources, gaining greater control over technology, and fostering regional economic networks to supplement growth-focused global markets. To conclude, the book derives strategies from this archive of experience and presents climate-positive innovations that are strongly motivated, enduring, and well rooted in social institutions and practices.

Climate and Cultural Choice will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, social movements, environmental anthropology, and environmental politics.

AI-Enabled Learning for Climate Action brings together scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and innovators to examine how digital learning systems, data platforms, and emerging technologies-including artificial intelligence, digital twins, and immersive tools-can accelerate climate literacy, support green skills and jobs, strengthen institutional decision-making, and enable collective action. Rather than treating digital learning as a delivery mechanism alone, the contributors demonstrate how learning systems function as critical climate infrastructure by building the human and institutional capacities needed for adaptation, mitigation, and long-term resilience.

The chapters span global, regional, and local contexts, with examples from low-, middle-, and high-income countries. They explore how AI-enabled and digital learning approaches can enhance climate awareness and behavior change; equip youth and professionals with future-ready and green skills; support evidence-based policymaking; and enable experiential, problem-based learning grounded in real-world data. Contributors also examine how technology-enabled learning can advance climate justice, strengthen governance, and promote transparency, public participation, and accountability.

Blending conceptual frameworks with applied case studies, this volume offers both the what and the how of designing inclusive, scalable, and action-oriented climate learning ecosystems. It is intended for educators, policymakers, development practitioners, and institutions seeking practical guidance on how AI-enabled learning can help bridge the gap between climate knowledge, skills for the future of work, and meaningful action.

This book provides an introductory overview on SDG two on Zero Hunger and associated complexities and challenges in context of the Global South. It reviews the transition from MDGs to SDGs - specifically Zero Hunger and presents a comprehensive picture on where the Global South stands today and how global developments such as the Covid-19 pandemic and conflict affect this positioning. More importantly, this book critically reflects on the indicator-based framework of SDG two, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. While eradicating hunger unquestionably needs to be at the top of policy agenda, it is also important to parallelly engage in critical reflection so that this agenda is translated locally.

This volume highlights three omissions from Zero Hunger framework - urbanization of hunger, centrality of structural determinants and group inequality, which are defeating for the 2030 agenda for 'leaving no one behind'.

Topical and rich in primary and secondary data, this book is a must read for students of sustainable development, development studies, environment and sustainability, public policy, and professionals working in development sectors, aid organisations, and NGOs.

Timely and innovative, this book sets out an agenda for academic research into energy landscapes, a field of growing global importance as the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources accelerates. It explores how energy infrastructure has and is transforming landscapes, emphasizing that energy landscapes are social, cultural, and political phenomena shaped by human values, power relations and perceptions.

Addressing important conceptual issues and methodological developments, the authors propose creative ways to investigate key themes from landscape assessment and visualisation to novel approaches in landscape design to accommodate renewables. Drawing on a global range of case studies, the book sets out the argument that understanding energy landscapes requires interdisciplinary approaches that address conflicts, justice, design and lived experiences to support a more equitable and effective energy transition.

A Research Agenda for Energy Landscapes will greatly benefit scholars and students in environmental studies, human geography, anthropology, sociology, landscape architecture and planning. Its practical suggestions will also be valuable to policymakers in energy management, as well as energy specialists looking to deepen their knowledge of the field.

This book comprehensively reviews the impact of climate change on livestock production and the innovative technologies for building resilience. The chapters explore emerging concepts and technologies for sustaining animal productivity under climate stress. The volume also examines climate-driven variations in livestock productivity, including effect of heat stress on cattle, sheep, and goats, as well as adaptations in milk yield, meat quality, and reproductive performance. It also highlights the application of omics tools and sensor-based innovations, such as rumen bolus technology, for monitoring animal health under thermal stress. The book also addresses the multidisciplinary approaches, focussing on climate-resilient technologies, feed additives, shelter designs, and precise extension delivery systems for farmers. The book also explores the rising threat of climate-linked livestock diseases, immune system impairments, and one-health perspectives on disease management. The final section outlines future research priorities, including climate indices for resilience assessment, regional vulnerability atlases, and gender considerations in climate-affected livestock systems.

Key Features:

1) Presents emerging concepts and technologies that sustain livestock productivity under thermal and hydric stress.

2) Reviews climate-driven effects on yield, product composition, fertility, and fitness traits

3) Evaluates climate-smart production interventions, feed-based mitigation strategies, and innovative shelter designs

4) Examines climate-linked disease emergence, immune dysregulation, and One-Health mitigation strategies.

5) Highlights OMICS-enabled selection tools and continuous biosensing for precision heat-stress phenotyping.

This book is useful reference for researchers and students of veterinary and animal sciences.

This timely book presents undergraduate research as a powerful vehicle for engaging students in addressing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Hensel begins with a comprehensive foundation on the SDGs and higher education's evolving role in advancing them, then examines specific goals through detailed case studies and exemplary programs that showcase cross-disciplinary student research in action. These narratives illuminate the complex challenges and innovative solutions that emerge when students engage directly with pressing global issues: from climate action to poverty reduction to health equity. Both a call to action and playbook for any faculty member involved in undergraduate research, this text also functions as an important resource for administrators and policymakers seeking to support student discovery and innovation.

Challenging the pursuit of sustainable lifestyles as a matter of technical inventiveness or individual action, this Handbook proposes that sustainability is instead a systemic process that reorients prevailing ambitions and creates conditions for societal flourishing. Expert contributing authors countermand the widespread assumption that achieving a more environmentally sustainable and socially equitable future relies mostly on developing more efficient technologies. They offer alternatives to the relentless focus on achieving these objectives by governments and businesses over the past several decades, which has often been driven by an unyielding commitment to economic growth rather than socioenvironmental concern.

The Handbook of Research on Sustainable Lifestyles is an authoritative resource for scholars and students of environmental studies, politics and public policy, sustainable development, human geography, and sociology. Policymakers in innovation and technology and business leaders will also benefit from its practical approach to effectively incorporating sustainability strategies into everyday life.

This book offers insights into the development and implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4, the UN's global education agenda. It highlights important tensions within the agenda and identifies key topics to address as we move closer to--and beyond--the conclusion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, 2015-2030). Novel research, new perspectives, and critical reflection on these topics will help determine the path forward in the coming years. To this end, this book presents an array of critiques, best practices, and promising areas for future activity related not only to SDG 4 but also to future global education agendas. Challenges and barriers to meeting global goals, as well as innovative ideas and solutions, are emphasized to inform SDG4 and its successor. This edited volume benefits from insider insights, practitioner knowledge, scientific findings, and philosophical inquiry related to the progress achieved (and not achieved) in the 2030 Agenda. The book consists of contributions from top academic and policy scholars around the world.

The industrial revolution, environmental crises and socio-economic challenges underline the need for sustainable growth. Financial mechanisms used for systemic restructuring of the economy and reducing its carbon intensity are an effective and at the same time necessary tool for large-scale transformations. The taxonomy of "green" projects is a system of classification of economic activities, categories of projects and assets that contribute to sustainable development and are aimed at improving the efficiency of using existing natural resources, reducing negative environmental impacts, improving energy efficiency, energy conservation, mitigation of climate change and adaptation to climate change. This book evaluates these approaches as a means of systemic restructuring of the economy and of reducing carbon intensity throughout the world. Featuring select contributions presented at the 2nd International Scientific Conference "Green Taxonomy for Sustainable Development" (CONGREENTAX) held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, this book demonstrates modern achievement in green taxonomy focusing on scientific developments for real-world applications. It emphasizes the importance of a green taxonomy for achieving sustainable development goals by considering both fundamental methods and practical aspects of sustainable development-oriented processes. This book is useful for researchers, scholars, academics, practitioners, and policy makers interested in green taxonomy and sustainable development.

This open access book aims to explore the dynamic interplay between human behavior and environmental design in shaping future habitats. The interplay between environment and behavior is a critical area of study with profound implications for designing better habitats for human well-being. The book offers a detailed examination of how behavioral science informs environmental design, sustainability practices, and the creation of future living spaces. By integrating theoretical insights with practical applications, the book provides a comprehensive resource for understanding and influencing the ways in which our environments impact and are impacted by human behavior. The book is a conference proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Environment-Behavior Studies, Committee of Environment-Behavior of Architectural Society of China (CEB-ASC 2024)? focusing on the rapidly changing social and technological conditions. CEB-ASC 2024 features keynote speeches and multi-topic parallel sessions from distinguished practitioners, researchers, and educators. Representatives are from Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), International Association for People-Environment Studies (IAPS), and Man-Environment Research Association (MERA). Professionals and scholars from different fields such as architecture, planning, landscape, psychology, sociology, and artificial intelligence from various countries are invited to the conference, delving into various related topics and contributing wisdom to achieving a more sustainable, intelligent, resilient, healthy, and inclusive living environment. By delving into the core theories, methodologies, and pedagogies, this book promises to be a vital resource for advancing our understanding of how human behavior and environmental design intersect to shape the habitats of tomorrow.

Changes the conversation about risk by exposing the field's historical complicity with extractive industries and building new methodologies for future risk communication research.

Technical and professional communication has a problem with how the concept of risk has been considered alongside extractive technologies. Throughout its history, the practice, teaching, and research of technical and professional communication has been embedded within, complicit with, and indebted to these industries. These industries have also created massive global harm to people and ecosystems, both through accidents as well as the slow violence of pollution and climate change. In response, this book seeks to "undermine" how technical and professional communication works with risk by reconsidering implications that traverse a greater span of time and geography. It revises the field's risk methodology and encourages future researchers to navigate the scope and scale of their projects. Along with new theoretical framing, the text presents three detailed case studies illustrating how careful consideration of scope and scale can impact how technical and professional communication engages extraction and risk, showcasing to new and experienced technical communication researchers alike how risk communication is about to enter a new era.

This book brings together a diverse set of studies exploring how technology, sustainability, and human behavior shape our rapidly changing world. From innovative engineering solutions such as advanced OTEC heat exchangers, CO?-efficient solvent regeneration, and zero-carbon building strategies to analyses of aerodynamics and sustainable construction materials, the volume highlights the technical ingenuity driving global decarbonization.
Equally central is the role of digital transformation. Research on big data competitiveness, supply chain sustainability, digital currencies, and blockchain-enabled circularity reveals how emerging technologies are redefining economic systems and organizational performance.
Sustainability and environmental awareness appear throughout, reflected in studies on retail practices, digital media's influence on environmental behavior, and global trends in sustainable tourism. Social and human dimensions are also addressed, including the housing challenges of displaced Sudanese communities and the evolving role of AI and photonics in education.
Together, these works offer a concise yet rich portrait of the innovations, challenges, and societal shifts shaping a more resilient and sustainable future.

Environmental social scientist Urooj Raja explores how to promote environmental action through the repurposing of six hegemonic forces - anthropocentrism, extractivism, capitalism, legal hegemony, technofixes, and imaginative hegemony - drawing upon and offering practical insights rooted in both everyday actions and contemporary resistance studies.

This book delves into the concept of adaptive resilience, through which climate and environmental actors (CEAs) resist or repurpose these hegemonic forces by leveraging a combination of firsthand experiences, knowledge, networks, and skills. Raja argues that CEAs lean on adaptive resilience to resist and sometimes repurpose hegemonic forces and tools, which, when left unchallenged, often impede attempts to combat environmental inaction and climate change by design.

The author addresses the complexity and contradictions of how CEAs have engaged in contemporary climate action in the face of oppression, cautioning against a reliance on "purity solutions." This book's analysis traverses the environmental action ecosystems, engaging in discussions on traditional modes of activism, such as environmental campaigns, but also touches on novel ways of doing and thinking about environmental activism and action, including how CEAs harness and leverage technology and their imagination to do more for the climate. In doing so, this book offers an updated mapping of some of the less-discussed components of 21st-century environmental and climate activism and how CEAs, despite the odds, deliver and act when it comes to environmental action.

Uncovers the hidden history of conservation, conflict, and resistance on the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border.

Drawing on rich oral testimonies and archival records, this book examines the impact of colonial wildlife conservation policies on African societies and borderlands. Through this exploration, the author shows how colonial "fortress conservation" policies-game reserves, hunting concessions, and land restrictions-disrupted rural life, fueled grievances, and shaped popular participation in the wars of liberation.

By comparing Portuguese and British approaches across a shared cultural and ecological region, this book challenges conventional colonial divides to reveal how conservation became entangled with nationalism, migration, and survival. Extending into the postcolonial era, it also highlights how projects like the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park carried forward legacies of exclusion under new guises.

Engaging and accessible, this book is essential reading for scholars, students, policymakers, and anyone interested in African history, environmental politics, or the complex ties between people, land, and wildlife.

Offers a theoretical framework for how liberalism can meaningfully respond to our environmental crisis by respecting and accommodating diverse ways of relating to the natural world.

The major innovation of liberalism, now the world's dominant form of political regime, was this: cooperation amid difference. Foundational to liberal systems is toleration of diversity, which safeguards citizens' freedoms to pursue disparate views of the good life. Manuel Rodeiro is the first philosopher to think through what this commitment to toleration means for the environment. Liberalism's Environmental Promise puts forward terms of social cooperation between parties with differences in how they value and relate to the natural world. This changes the tack of environmental political theory. Rather than claiming the state should become green, Rodeiro urges it to remain neutral. He exposes state-authorized industrial expansion as unfairly elevating a single way of life over all others. What would it look like if the government were to cease promoting and favoring economic growth? How can states reckon with histories of environmental destruction that oppressively quashed so many cultures in the name of progress? Rodeiro offers an optimistic, yet practical, vision of how ecologically sustainable lifestyles might finally be allowed equal opportunity to flourish.

This book examines coastal ecologies under the growing pressures of climate change and climate-related disasters. It explores coastal vulnerability, disaster risk reduction, resilience, and socio-ecological sustainability. Bringing together theory, policy discussion, and empirical case studies, the book highlights how coastal communities, ecosystems, and governance systems respond to climate risks and environmental changes.

The book is organized into five parts. The first part introduces key ideas related to climate disasters and socio-ecological vulnerability in coastal regions. The second part discusses coastal resilience and management strategies, including infrastructure resilience, risk perception, communication and early warning systems, ecosystem-based adaptation, and community participation. The third part focuses on policy frameworks, sustainable coastal management, and future challenges in reducing climate-related risks. The fourth part highlights participatory research approaches and field experiences from coastal communities in the Global South. The final part presents case studies demonstrating the use of geographic information systems, community knowledge, nature-based solutions, and participatory planning in coastal disaster risk reduction.

The book enhances disaster policy planning by integrating coastal community perspectives into geographic analysis, benefiting policy planners, scientists, researchers, professionals, students and those working in disaster studies.