Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building - Chapter 9: Integrating indigenous knowledge with science to suitably tackle disasters due to climate and environmental change: an overview of the progress and way forward

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Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building: Cross Cutting Issues, 2023, Pages 127-143
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 11 and 10 by developing a practical philosophy that elaborates elements from the Indigenous knowledge system for hybrid epistemologies from which actions can be developed for disaster risk reduction.
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Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building - Chapter 21: Foundation of indigenous knowledge theory for disaster risk reduction

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Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building: Cross Cutting Issues, 2023, Pages 347-361
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 11 and 10 by contextualizing how the integration of indigenous practice and scientific knowledge of DRR can support development organizations and policymakers in planning effective and practical activities to mitigate and manage disaster risk in indigenous communities. This conceptual article argues that indigenous knowledge can assist in becoming more aware of disaster risks, implementing a successful local disaster management plan, and conducting scientific research and training.
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Smart City Planning: Chapter One - A study on the perceptions of officials on their duties and responsibilities at various levels of the organizational structure

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Smart City Planning, 2023, pp 1-10
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 8, 9, and 11 by exploring how AI can be utilized by city officials to improve quality of life in sustainable cities.
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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Employment decent work for all and social protection; Data & Analytics, Global

Monitoring and Control of Electrical Power Systems Using Machine Learning Techniques - Chapter 11: AI application for load forecasting: a comparison of classical and deep learning methodologies

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Monitoring and Control of Electrical Power Systems using Machine Learning Techniques, Volume , 1 January 2023
This chapter advances UN SDG goal 7 as it enables improved energy forecasting, which is a critical technology for distributed generation and renewable energy integration.
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Chapter 5 - Role of nanomaterials in environmental remediation

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Adsorption through Advanced Nanoscale Materials: Applications in Environmental Remediation, Volume , 1 January 2023
This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation by reviewing the role of nanostructured materials as a promising alternative to conventional methods and is effective in eliminating water and wastewater contaminants, such as inorganics (toxic metals), organics, and microorganisms.
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Chapter 1.1 - Introduction and definition of wave energy

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Renewable Energy - Volume 2: Wave, Geothermal, and Bioenergy Definitions, Developments, Applications, Case Studies, and Modelling and Simulation, Volume , 1 January 2023
This chapter aligns with SDGs 7 and 11, by describing the role and possibilities of wave energy to help support global (sustainable) energy systems.
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Energy; Oceans & Seas; Water and sanitation, Global

Chapter 27 - Wastewater treatments using carbon nanotubes: recent developments

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Adsorption through Advanced Nanoscale Materials: Applications in Environmental Remediation, Volume , 1 January 2023
This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation by reviewing the most effective uses of carbon nanotubes for water treatment.
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Chapter 25 - Biobased materials for wastewater treatment

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Advanced Applications of Biobased Materials: Food, Biomedical, and Environmental Applications, Volume , 1 January 2023
This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation by discussing existing knowledge on different categories of biobased materials as biosorbents for wastewater treatment and giving future perspectives for the development of advanced biobased materials capable of overcoming drawbacks from the existing ones.
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Chapter 21 - Management of wastewater and other environmental issues using smart nanomaterials

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Advances in Smart Nanomaterials and their Applications, Volume , 1 January 2023
This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation by discussing different strateties for the treatment of wastewater using a wide range of nanomaterials.
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Intelligent Environments (Second Edition): Chapter 15 - Digital City Science—a platform methodology for sustainable urban development

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Intelligent Environments: Advanced Systems for a Healthy Planet, Second Edition, 2023, pp 475-497
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 9 and 11 by discussing the growing field of Digital City Science and the convergence of digital cities and sustainable urban development.
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