Air Pollution Calculations: Chapter 13 - Air pollution control technologies

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Daniel A. Vallero, Chapter 13 - Air pollution control technologies, Editor(s): Daniel A. Vallero, Air Pollution Calculations, Elsevier, 2019, Pages 377-428, 9780128149348
This book chapter advances SDGs 3, 13 and 15 by discussing various sources of air pollution and technologies to remove and treat pollutants.
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Inorganic Pollutants; Clean Air, Global

Freshwater Ecology (Third Edition). Aquatic Ecology - Chapter 4: The Hydrologic Cycle and Physiography of Groundwater Habitats

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Freshwater Ecology (Third Edition), Aquatic Ecology, 2020, Pages 73-93
Provides some details about the hydrologic cycle and then discusses the physical geology of groundwaters.
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Water and sanitation; Sustainable consumption and production; Hydrological Cycle, Global

Climate change, environmental health, and human rights

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Encyclopedia of Environmental Health (Second Edition), 2019, Pages 653-660
Explores the links between climate change, human health, and human rights—focusing on the human right to health. Examines the current state of the international debate surrounding the human right to health. The goal of SDG target 13 is to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
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Design and Operation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells - Chapter 12: Mobile applications: Cars, trucks, locomotives, marine vehicles, and aircraft

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Design and Operation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: The Systems Engineering Vision for Industrial Application, Volume , 1 January 2019
This book chapter advances SDG goals 7, 13, and 11 by examining the use of solid oxide fuel cells in land, marine, and aerial vehicles as a replacement for carbon emitting fossil fuel engines.
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Energy; Sustainable transport; Technology, Global

Foundations for Sustainability - Chapter 1: To solve a difficult problem, enlarge it

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Foundations for Sustainability, A Coherent Framework of Life-Environment Relations, 2019, Pages 1-25
Contributing to SDGs 13, 14 and 15, this introductory chapter presents theory and applications rigorously rooted in science, and we modify the foundations of science so the ground is fertile to nurture the roots of the theory and actions the authors see as necessary to solve the human-environment crisis.
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Foundations for Sustainability - Chapter 2: Life as the basis of value

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Foundations for Sustainability, A Coherent Framework of Life-Environment Relations, 2019, Pages 27-47
Contributing to SDGs 13, 14 and 15, the authors describe a set of principles, and related goals, mission, and ultimate purpose, for a new science that serves life and humanity.
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Foundations for Sustainability - Chapter 8: Technology and applications in the context of holistic life–environment

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Foundations for Sustainability, A Coherent Framework of Life-Environment Relations, 2019, Pages 205-230
Contributing to SDGs 13, 14 and 15, this chapter explores technology and applications with break-through capacity to contribute solutions to the systemic human-environment problem.
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Drought Challenges - Chapter 21: Drought adaptation when irrigation is not an option: the case of Lincoln Co., Colorado, USA

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Current Directions in Water Scarcity Research, Volume 2, 2019, Pages 311-323
This book chapter addresses goals 6, 8 and 13 by documenting experiences that many dryland agricultural regions can expect to encounter in coming decades as changing climate, demographic characteristics, and socioeconomic factors take hold.
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Water and sanitation; Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Employment decent work for all and social protection, Global

Biodiversity of Pantepui - Chapter 17: Pantepui and global warming

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Biodiversity of Pantepui: The Pristine “Lost World” of the Neotropical Guiana Highlands, 2019, Pages 403-417
This book chapter addresses goals 13 and 15 by summarising studies carried out to date aimed at estimating the potential impact of the projected global warming by the end of this century on the Pantepui biota, particularly on vascular plants.
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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Rural development; Science, South America

Foundations for Sustainability: A Coherent Framework of Life-Environment Relations: Chapter 8 - Technology and applications in the context of holistic life–environment

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Daniel A. Fiscus, Brian D. Fath, Chapter 8 - Technology and applications in the context of holistic life–environment, Editor(s): Daniel A. Fiscus, Brian D. Fath, Foundations for Sustainability, Academic Press, 2019, Pages 205-230
This chapter contributes to SDGs 15, 13, and 11 by presenting technologies and applications for addressing climate change as a result of human activity on land.
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Sustainable cities and human settlements, Global

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