Sustainable Supply Chains: A Research-Based Textbook on Operations and Strategy

This book is primarily intended to serve as a research-based textbook on sustainable supply chains for graduate programs in Business, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Industrial Ecology, but it should also be of interest for researchers in the broader sustainable supply chain space, whether from the operations management and industrial engineering side or more from the industrial ecology and life-cycle assessment side

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Managing Sustainable Business: An Executive Education Case and Textbook

This book offers 32 texts and case studies from across a wide range of business sectors around a managerial framework for Sustainable Business

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Sustainable Combustion Systems and Their Impact

As the world enters the third decade of the 21st century, a shift in global energy demand and use is anticipated.

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Smart Sustainable Manufacturing Systems

With the advent of disruptive digital technologies, companies are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Advanced manufacturing systems are of paramount importance in making key enabling technologies and new products more competitive, affordable, and accessible, as well as for fostering their economic and social impact

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Age of Auto Electric: Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the Sustainable Car

The electric vehicle revival reflects negotiations between public policy, which promotes clean, fuel-efficient vehicles, and the auto industry, which promotes high-performance vehicles. Electric cars were once as numerous as internal combustion engine cars before all but vanishing from American roads around World War I.

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Environmental management for sustainable development

This updated second edition explores the nature and role of environmental  manage­ment,  covering  key  principles  and  practice,  and  offers  a  comprehensive  and  under­standable  introduction,  which  points  readers  to  further  in-depth  coverage.  This  new edition reflects the rapid expansion and evolution of the field and focuses much more strongly on  sustainable  development.

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Sustainable Energy Technologies

The world must move toward a more sustainable energy future, and the development of technologies that facilitate this for transport, heating, and power systems is crucial. This journal encourages papers on any aspect and scale of technologies for energy generation and/or utilization that decrease …

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The agile city : Building well-being and wealth in an era of climate change

In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global warming-and blunt its effects-by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns. The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level can reach carbon-reduction goals rapidly.

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Ecotextiles the way forward for sustainable development in textiles (TL giấy)

Recycling and use of waste as raw materials; sustainability and ecodesign; sustainable development and renewable; waste management; novel technologies.

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Environmental management for sustainable development

Theory, principles and key concepts: Introduction; environmental management fundamentals and goals; environmental management and science; environmental, social science, economics and environmental management; environmental management, business and law; participants in environmental management; Pracitce: Environmental management upproaches; standards, monitoring, modelling, anditing and co-ordination; proactive assessment, prediction and forecasting; key resources; global challenges; pollution an

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