Book chapters

Electric Power Systems Resiliency: Modelling, Opportunity and Challenges - Chapter Five - Smart grid stability prediction using genetic algorithm-based extreme learning machine

Elsevier,

Electric Power Systems Resiliency: Modelling, Opportunity and Challenges,  2022, Pages 149-163

This chapter advances SDG goals 7, 9, and 11 by improving our ability to use smart grids to provide stable, demand- and market-responsive energy.
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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

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Energy; Sustainable consumption and production, Global

Water and Climate Change - Chapter 9: Plastic pollution in waterways and in the oceans

Elsevier,

Water and Climate Change: Sustainable Development, Environmental and Policy Issues, Volume 1, 1 January 2022

This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation and Goal 14: Life below water by compiling and analyzing available data in the literature on the distribution of plastics/MPs in global oceans/seas and rivers and estimated riverine plastics outflows to global oceans.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 14: Life below water

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Water and sanitation; Water Pollution, Global

Energy Communities - Chapter 17: Grid-friendly clean energy communities and induced intracommunity cash flows through peer-to-peer trading

Elsevier,

Reinhard Madlener, Robert Crump, 17 - Grid-friendly clean energy communities and induced intracommunity cash flows through peer-to-peer trading. Editor(s): Sabine Löbbe, Fereidoon Sioshansi, David Robinson, 'Energy Communities', Academic Press, 2022, Pages 277-301, ISBN 9780323911351

This chapter advances UN SDG goals 7 and 11 by supporting clean and sustainable energy and power systems
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SDG:

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy

Tags:

Energy; Clean Energy, Global

Foundations of Art Therapy - Chapter 11: Art therapy for psychological disorders and mental health

Elsevier,

Foundations of Art Therapy
Theory and Applications
2022, Pages 335-377

The chapter provides different ways art therapy supports mental health and mental health recovery and concludes with information about art therapy for specific disorders and in different settings.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Advances in Legumes for Sustainable Intensification – Chapter 9. Grain legumes: A diversified diet for sustainable livlihood, food, and nutritional security

Elsevier,

Advances in Legumes for Sustainable Intensification, 2022, Pages 157-178

Legumes offer a wide range of benefits in addition to improving food security within many regions of the world.  Grain legumes particularly offer benefits as presented in this chapter.
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture, Global

Renewable Energy and Sustainability - Chapter 1: Sustainability-Concept and its application in the energy sector

Elsevier,

Imran Khan, Md. Sahabuddin, Chapter 1 - Sustainability---Concept and its application in the energy sector, Editor(s): Imran Khan, Renewable Energy and Sustainability, Elsevier, 2022, Pages 1-22, ISBN 9780323886680.

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 7, 11, and 12 by discussing the concept of sustainability as it relates to sustainable energy development, and highlighting the various assessment methods that can be used
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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

Energy; Sustainable consumption and production, Global

Renewable Energy and Sustainability - Chapter 14: Climate change, sustainability, and renewable energy in developing economies

Elsevier,

Mahfuz Kabir, Zobaidul Kabir, Nigar Sultana, Chapter 14 - Climate change, sustainability, and renewable energy in developing economies, Editor(s): Imran Khan, Renewable Energy and Sustainability, Elsevier, 2022, Pages 377-415, ISBN 9780323886680, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-88668-0.00001-2.

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 7, 11, and 12 by discussing the challenges and prospects of adopting renewable energy technologies, and making recommendations on the incentives and investment in research and development, market expansion, and the government's pro-active fiscal and monetary policy support to facilitate the rapid expansion of renewable energy in developing economies.
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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

Energy; Sustainable consumption and production; Technology; Emerging Renewable Energy Sources; Renewable Energy Access, Global

Plant Extracts in Neurodegenerative Diseases - Chapter 1: Effect of plant extracts against Alzheimer’s disease

Plant Extracts in Neurodegenerative Diseases, 2022, Pages 1-15

This book chapter advances SDG #3 and #10 by focusing on polyphenols and flavonoids and their crucial role in decreasing AD symptoms. In addition, it highlights the neuroprotective role of various essential ingredients of plant extracts such as Icariside, Onjisaponin B, Asarones, Liquiritin, Tanshinone IIA (TIIA) and cryptotanshinone (CT), Ginsenoside Rg1, and n-Butylidenephthalide. The efficacy of green nanotechnology are also discussed.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, Global, Middle East, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America

Materials and Sustainable Development, Second Edition - Chapter 18: Wave Power

Elsevier,

Michael F. Ashby, Chapter 18 - Wave Power, Editor(s): Michael F. Ashby, Materials and Sustainable Development (Second Edition), Butterworth-Heinemann, 2024, Pages 409-424, ISBN 9780323983617, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-98361-7.00018-X.

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 7 and 11 by explores a possible sustainable development: building wave-energy capture systems that can make a significant contribution, meaning at least 10% of a nation’s energy needs.
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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Tags:

Energy; Sustainable consumption and production; Oceans & Seas, Global

Materials and Sustainable Development, Second Edition - Chapter 3: What is a "Sustainable Development"

Elsevier,

Michael F. Ashby, Chapter 3 - What is a ‘Sustainable Development’?, Editor(s): Michael F. Ashby, Materials and Sustainable Development (Second Edition), Butterworth-Heinemann, 2022, Pages 51-68, ISBN 9780323983617.

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 11 and 12 by defining what is meant by a 'sustainable development' and describing the challenges inherent in planning one.
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SDG:

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

Tags:

Sustainable consumption and production; Sustainable Development, Global

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