Book chapters

COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals- Chapter 9: COVID-19 pandemic: The fears and hopes for SDG 3, with focus on prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (SDG 3.4) and universal health coverage (SDG 3.8)

Elsevier,

COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals, 2022, Pages 211-234

This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health by discussing the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on achieving SDG 3 targets—with a special focus on SDG 3.4 (NCDs) and SDG 3.8 (UHC).
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Current Directions in Water Scarcity Research, Volume 6 - Chapter 2: Urban water pollution by heavy metals, microplastics, and organic contaminants

Elsevier,

Current Directions in Water Scarcity Research, Volume 6, 2022, Pages 21-43

This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation and Goal 14: Life below water by aiming to critically review previous research on the presence of heavy metals, microplastics, and organic contaminants in urban waters and to synthesize the current knowledge of various urban water pollution sources.
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SDG:

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

Tags:

Biodiversity and ecosystems; Water and sanitation; Water Pollution, Global

Movement Disorders in Childhood (Third Edition) - Chapter 9: Paroxysmal Dyskinesias

Elsevier,

Movement Disorders in Childhood (Third Edition)
2022, Pages 165-180

This content links with Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing information on paroxysmal dyskinesias, a group of uncommon movement disorders that are characterized by episodes of abnormal movements arising from a baseline of normal or nearly normal movement.
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SDG:

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

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

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

Tags:

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

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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

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

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 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

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