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Free Download Circular and Transformative Economy: Advances towards Sustainable Socio-economic Transformation
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032356014 | 303 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB
The main aim of the book is to illustrate circular models for sustainable resource management. It highlights the benefits of transformative approaches in integrating, simplifying, and facilitating understanding of complex systems and transforming systems towards greater sustainability while achieving multiple social, economic, and environmental outcomes. It provides pathways towards strategic policy decisions on socio-economic transformation supported by case studies.

Free Download Sustainability Reporting Practices and the Circular Economy: Analysis and Integrated Strategies
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031518446 | 333 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
The Circular Economy (CE) and CE-related approaches are increasingly prominent in corporate strategy, with potential environmental, social, and economic benefits to the organization. However, a comprehensive framework that incorporates CE with governance and reporting practices, providing accurate assessments of CE’s success in achieving sustainability targets and other goals, is not yet in place. This book addresses that gap, analyzing the relationship between CE and sustainable development practices, company performance, and to what extent organizations have disclosed this information in annual reporting practices. It proposes different frameworks to evaluate the environmental, social, and economic impact of CE and how CE might be promoted, disclosed, and accurately assessed in reporting practices. It will be of great interest to researchers and students of sustainable development, governance, accounting, and business economics, as well as practitioners seeking a research-based framework for integrating CE into their business reporting.

Free Download Circular Plastics Technologies
by Katrina Knauer
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1501523287 | 82 pages | True PDF EPUB | 52.08 MB

Free Download Circular Cities : A Revolution in Urban Sustainability
by Jo Williams
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367748169 | 177 Pages | True PDF/epub | 11.2 MB

Free Download Advances in Thermodynamics and Circular Thermoeconomics
by Feidt, Michel;Valero-Capilla, Antonio;, Antonio Valero-Capilla
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1789451264 | 269 pages | True PDF EPUB | 112.26 MB

Free Download Developing Circular Agricultural Production Systems
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1801462569 | 481 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB
Developing circular agricultural production systems reviews the emergence of circular agriculture as an approach to improving the sustainability of the agricultural sector. The book addresses recent advances in understanding and developing closed-loop systems to optimise crop nutrient cycles and resource use, as well as ways agricultural wastes can be recycled back into agricultural production or used as feedstock to produce a range of bio-based materials.

Free Download A Circular Built Environment in the Digital Age
English | 2024 | ISBN: 303139674X | 297 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 21 MB
This open access book offers a comprehensive exploration of the digital innovations that have emerged in recent years for the circular built environment. Each chapter is meticulously crafted to ensure that both academic readers and industry practitioners can grasp the inner workings of each digital technology, understand its relevance to the circular built environment, examine real-life implementations, and appreciate the intriguing business models behind them. Our primary objective is to blend scholarly knowledge with practical inspiration by providing real-life case studies for each innovation. The authors, who possess extensive expertise in their respective fields, have contributed chapters dedicated to digital technologies within their areas of specialization.

Free Download Design for a Sustainable Circular Economy: Research and Practice Consequences by Gavin Brett Melles, Christian Wölfel
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 (2024 Edition) | 236 Pages | ISBN : 981997531X | 16.7 MB
This multi-authored book aims to illustrate the social, economic, and ecological factors that should determine and be determined by design in the implementation of a sustainable circular economy and society. We take design to refer to a continuum of perspectives and applications from industrial design to policy design, and this broad perspective invites theoretical and methodological contributions from a range of fields. In addition to bringing scholarly diversity to circularity, we expand and challenge the mainstream circular economy narrative of material efficiencies and green growth to include the demands of inclusive growth and ecological boundaries consistent with sustainable development. Readers from within and beyond design, conscious of the limitations of circular green growth will find new inspiration in this book regarding the nature of a sustainable circular economy and society and the broad design agenda that must be implemented to enable a just and informed circular transition.

Free Download Nanotechnology in Construction for Circular Economy: Proceedings of NICOM7, 31 October-02 November, 2022, Melbourne, Australia by Wenhui Duan, Lihai Zhang, Surendra P. Shah
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 525 Pages | ISBN : 9819933293 | 120.9 MB
This book covers emerging opportunities and future use of nanotechnology in construction, including deep advances in cement chemistry, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, concrete technology, and extreme engineering (blast, impact and fire). The proceedings also presents sectorial interactions within the traditional construction industry supply chain, enabled by the dynamic partnership between international industry, government agencies, and universities. Nanotechnology has transformed the construction materials industry into an advanced manufacturing sector to address climate change and carbon neutrality challenges by delivering sustainable and resilient infrastructure assets. Hence, this book reports specific advances in nanoscience and nano-engineering, and their impacts on numerous novel construction materials including binders, additives, high-performance concrete materials, concrete structural systems, polymer composites, and pavement materials.

Free Download Date Palm Byproducts: A Springboard for Circular Bio Economy by Hamed EL-Mously , Mohamad Midani , Eman A. Darwish
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 392 Pages | ISBN : 9819904749 | 115.9 MB
This comprehensive book presents an alternative fresh look at date palm byproducts as a springboard for the future circular bio economy. The book shows and exemplifies how these sustainable biomaterials can be the base for a wide spectrum of products and uses. Examples of these numerous products and uses are demonstrated and categorized into five principal uses: i) pharmaceutical, cosmetics and natural wax ,ii) textiles and composites, cellulose and cellulose derivatives, iii)timber and wood substitutes, architecture insulation and building materials, iv) organic fertilizer, compost and soil amendment and water treatment purposes, v) natural fodder and silage , green fuels and bioenergy.