3rd free webinar on COVID-19 control

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Building and Environment will host a series of free webinars on COVID-19 Control. The third webinar of the series will feature 2 presentations from experts in the field on the following topics: Continuum of airborne transmission of respiratory infection, and implication to ventilation requirements, presented by Prof. Yuguo Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. The second presentation will be on the Occupational exposure risk of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, presented by Prof. Li Liu, Department of Building Science, Tsinghua University, China.
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Feed-in tariff policy in Hong Kong: Is it efficient?

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City and Environment Interactions, Volume 10, April 2021, 100056
The research investigates whether the current feed-in tariff (FIT) policy in Hong Kong SAR can ensure the development of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.
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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Energy, Asia

Handbook of Water Purity and Quality, Second Edition - Chapter 1: Overview: modern water purity and quality

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Handbook of Water Purity and Quality, Second Edition, 2021.
This book chapter advances SDGs 6 and 11 by providing information on various sources of pollution and ways to monitor them. Assuring water quality and purity is extremely important because water is an essential material for human survival.
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Water and sanitation; Health and wellbeing; Rain Water Harvesting, Global

Bioenergy, Second Edition: Chapter 41 - Integrated agroecological technology networks for food, bioenergy, and biomaterial production "

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Samuel M. Gorton, Chapter 41 - Integrated agroecological technology networks for food, bioenergy, and biomaterial production, Editor(s): Anju Dahiya, Bioenergy (Second Edition), Academic Press, 2020, Pages 767-788, ISBN 9780128154977, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-815497-7.00041-5.
This book chapter advances SDGs 6, 7 and 11 by discussing how we can create integrated ecological technologies that transform natural resources into anthropocentric goods and services, while restoring the land and reducing pollution by returning beneficial materials or energy to the ecosystem.
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Sustainable consumption and production; Technology; Green economy, Global

Public support for air travel restrictions to address COVID-19 or climate change

Elsevier, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 93, April 2021
An improved understanding of public support is essential to design effective and feasible climate policies for aviation.
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Sharing is caring: How non-financial incentives drive sustainable e-commerce delivery

Elsevier, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 93, April 2021
As more and more people are buying more and more items online, limiting the ecological footprint of e-commerce deliveries is pressing.
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Supply chain; Sustainable consumption and production; Sustainable transport, Global

Understanding the path towards a clean energy transition and post-electrification patterns of rural households

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Energy for Sustainable Development, Volume 61, April 2021

This paper presents an analysis of the path towards a clean energy transition in rural areas, from the time that households do not have electricity access from any source, to when they get access t

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Energy; Industry; Rural Electrification, Global

Earth Day 2021

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Earth Day is widely recognised as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behaviour and provoke policy changes. This day recognises and celebrates the Earth and its ecosystems as our home and highlights the need to protect earth to enhance people’s livelihoods, counteract climate change, and stop the collapse of biodiversity. To raise awareness of Earth Day 2021, Elsevier presents a curated list of free access journal articles and book chapters in support of this year's theme - Restore our Earth.
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Global; Health and wellbeing; Oceans & Seas; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Climate change; Health and population, Global

How urban social movements are leveraging social media to promote dignified mobility as a basic human right

Elsevier, Case Studies on Transport Policy, Volume 9, March 2021
We study how two mobility social movements with online leverage (namely AltMobility PH and Friends of Pearl Drive) attempt to reorient the trajectory of transport development in favor of commuters and
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Sustainable transport; Human rights, Global

Sustainable Technologies for Textile Wastewater Treatments - Chapter 1: Nanotechnologies for wastewater treatment

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Kunal Singha, Subhankar Maity, Pintu Pandit, Saptarshi Maiti, Shanmugasundaram O. Lakshmanan, Chapter One - Nanotechnologies for wastewater treatment, Editor(s): Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, In The Textile Institute Book Series, Sustainable Technologies for Textile Wastewater Treatments, Woodhead Publishing, 2021, Pages 1-12, ISBN 9780323858298, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85829-8.00009-2.
This chapter advances UN SDG goal 12 by ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns
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