Environmental Sustainability and Economy: Chapter 3 - Interconnecting the environment with economic development of a nation

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Environmental Sustainability and Economy, 2021, Pages 35-60
This book chapter advances SDGs 9, 13, and 11 by exploring the relationship between environmental quality and economic development to help policymakers design and implement effective policies in order to achieve sustainability goals.
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Green Chemistry for Sustainable Textiles - Chapter 1: Mapping and management of urban shade assets: a novel approach for promoting climatic urban action

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Or Aleksandrowicz, Chapter 1 - Mapping and management of urban shade assets: a novel approach for promoting climatic urban action, Editor(s): Ansar Khan, Hashem Akbari, Francesco Fiorito, Sk Mithun, Dev Niyogi, Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Elsevier, 2022, Pages 1-27, ISBN 9780323855396, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85539-6.00003-2
This chapter advances UN SDG goal 12 by ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns
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Chapter 12 - The health secure city: cities as conquerors of disease

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Inoculating Cities, Case Studies of Urban Pandemic Preparedness, 2021, Pages 227-233
Cities around the world are treasures. They are centers of creativity, hubs of intellect, and economic powerhouses. But the COVID-19 pandemic has undeniably reminded us that, in our globalized world, cities can also pose unique challenges and act as incubators of disease – effectively pushing society to its limits.
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Nuclear Decommissioning Case Studies - Chapter 2 - The concept of sustainability as applicable to nuclear decommissioning

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Nuclear Decommissioning Case Studies, Volume Two - Policies, Strategies, Planning and Knowledge Management, 2021, Pages 3-7
This book chapter advances SDG 7 and 11 by highlighting the concepts of policy, strategy, early and detailed planning, Life Cycle Management, and poor or good practices associated with nuclear decommissioning.
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Chemicals and waste; Energy; Industry, Global

Disaster Resilience and Sustainability: Chapter 1 - Toward sustainable development: Risk-informed and disaster-resilient development in Asia

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Disaster Resilience and Sustainability, Adaptation for Sustainable Development, 2021, Pages 1-20
This book chapter advances SDGs 9 and 11 by explaining how increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters in Asia have become a huge challenge to achieve sustainable development. The main purpose of this chapter is to capture the multidisciplinary and multisectoral aspects of disaster resilience, adaptation strategy, and sustainability, and connect existing data, research, conceptual work, and practical cases on disaster risk management and its linkage with sustainable development under a common umbrella.
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Disaster Resilience and Sustainability - Chapter 1: Toward sustainable development: Risk-informed and disaster-resilient development in Asia

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Disaster Resilience and Sustainability, Adaptation for Sustainable Development, 2021, Pages 1-20
This book chapter addresses SDGs 11 and 13 by focusing on disasters in Asia and how building disaster resilience is a multi-faceted challenge that takes partnership, data, work, and past case studies to navigate towards solutions.
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Threats to the Arctic: Chapter 15 - Threats to Native Ways of Life

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Threats to the Arctic, 2021, Pages 481-520
This book chapter advances SDGs 11, 13 and 15 by discussing how arctic natives learned to cope with their environments but are now faced with the threat of the climate crisis.
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Earthquakes and Sustainable Infrastructure - Chapter 4: Disaster prediction and civil preparedness

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Earthquakes and Sustainable Infrastructure, Neodeterministic (NDSHA) Approach Guarantees Prevention Rather Than Cure, 2022, Pages 77-95
This book chapter addresses SDGs 9 and 11 by explaining how prediction and prevention of earthquake-related disasters are key to creating sustainable cities.
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Environmental Resilience and Transformation in Times of COVID-19 - Chapter 24: Impacts and implications of the COVID-19 crisis and its recovery for achieving sustainable development goals in Asia A review from an SDG interlinkage perspective

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Environmental Resilience and Transformation in Times of COVID-19, Climate Change Effects on Environmental Functionality, 2021, Pages 273-288
This book chapter addresses SDG 11 and 13 by showcasing the existing gaps in SDG progress in Asia and how this has challenged the region to hardly achieve the 2030 targets for any of the 17 Goals.
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Health and wellbeing, Asia

International Environmental Cooperation and The Global Sustainability Capital Framework: 1 - Introduction

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International Environmental Cooperation and The Global Sustainability Capital Framework, 2021, Pages 1-15
This chapter discusses the need for international environmental cooperation (IEC) in a context of our common vulnerabilities and contingent survivability. It also introduces the Sustainability Capital Framework (SCF) as a core framework for guiding sustainable development, and for delimiting the boundaries of global sustainability.
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