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  • Urban Nexus Approach for Sustainable Cities

    Principles, Methods and Applications

    Edited by Wanglin Yan ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book showcases the advanced research for cities to implement the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus principles. The volume is a continuity of Resilient and Adaptive Tokyo: Towards Sustainable Urbanization in Perspective of Food-energy-water Nexus (2024) and again taking Tokyo as the focal area, compiles with fundamental principles of nexus thinking and empirical applications of nexus approaches. ... Read more

    $197.09 USD

  • Resilient and Adaptive Tokyo

    Towards Sustainable Urbanization in Perspective of Food-energy-water Nexus

    Edited by Wanglin Yan, William Galloway, Rajib Shaw ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Our cities, and the systems that support them, have not been designed to address the FWE nexus. There exist gaps in awareness of the role and impacts of climate change. Improving communication among stakeholders with the support of scientific evidence is the key to narrowing the gaps. This book approached this issue with a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary moveable nexus approach through the ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Rethinking Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in a Time of Change

    Edited by Wanglin Yan, Will Galloway ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book contributes to the literature on resilience, hazard planning, risk management, environmental policy and design, presenting articles that focus on building resilience through social and technical means. Bringing together contributions from Japanese authors, the book also offers a rare English-language glimpse into current policy and practice in Japan since the 2011 Tohoku disaster. The ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Tsunami and Fukushima Disaster: Design for Reconstruction

    Edited by Rob Roggema, Wanglin Yan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book consists of two parts. The first part describes the context in which the Prefectures of Minamisoma and Kesennuma need to operate and what the meaning is of the multiple disasters that occurred in the area. The second part illuminates the design process and content of the Minamisoma and Kesennuma designs. Thirdly, the chapters are alternated with reflections on the design and analyses of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    by Paulo Ferrao, John E. Fernandez ...
    A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy.Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population now generates more than eighty percent of global GDP. Cities ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Shaping an Inclusive Energy Transition

    Edited by Margot P. C. Weijnen, Zofia Lukszo, Samira Farahani ...
    This open access book makes a case for a socially inclusive energy transition and illustrates how engineering and public policy professionals can contribute to shaping an inclusive energy transition, building on a socio-technical systems engineering approach. Accomplishing a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy in 2050 is a daunting challenge. This book explores the challenges of the energy ... Read more

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  • Future Intelligence

    The World in 2050 - Enabling Governments, Innovators, and Businesses to Create a Better Future

    Edited by Tamás Landesz, Sangeeth Varghese, Karine Sargsyan ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The first quarter of the 21st century introduced the world to rapid uncertainty, be it the social-political and financial crises, or pandemics, or the shaking up of well-established democracies with an increasing rise in populism. At the same time, the technological promise has taken off with automation, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnologies increasingly becoming an economic reality. This ... Read more

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  • The Energy Transition in Japan

    Smart Cities and Smart Solutions

    Edited by Maciej M. Sokołowski, Fumio Shimpo ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies
    This book offers a distinctive and comprehensive view of the energy transition of Japan, with a particular focus on the rise of smart cities.Drawing on real examples from Japan’s journey towards carbon neutrality, this volume examines a variety of topics ranging from laws and policies to technological and managerial solutions, discussing them in the context of Japan’s energy transition. Among the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Revising Smart Cities with Regenerative Design

    by Zaheer Allam, Peter Newman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a road map to urban regeneration through the contemporary concept of smart cities. It investigates why the concept has gained adoption as it has but until now it has been geared towards a profit-making venture by large corporations and ignoring the economic aspirations of smaller companies and city councils. The technologies can provide enhanced liveability levels if the concept ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

    Edited by Roland Clift, Angela Druckman ...
    How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high quality of life for everyone? What progress has been made towards reducing resource use and waste, and what are the prospects for more resilient, material-efficient economies? What are the environmental and social impacts of global supply chains and how can they be measured and ... Read more

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  • The Third Industrial Revolution

    How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    A New York Times–bestselling account of the next great economic era, with a look into the individuals pioneering its implementation around the world.One of the most influential social thinkers of our time reveals how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create the new jobs of the twenty-first century and change the world.In The Third Industrial Revolution, Jeremy Rifkin takes us ... Read more

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  • Business Transitions: A Path to Sustainability

    The CapSEM Model

    Edited by Annik Magerholm Fet ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book represents a journey documenting the development of tools and methodologies over 3 decades and asks where the future lies. It further develops seminal work carried out under the auspices of the Capacity building in Sustainability and Environmental Management (CapSEM) project co-funded by the EU Erasmus programme from 2016-2019 as well as research projects such as IGLO-MP2020, ... Read more

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