Advances in Botanical Research - Chapter 12: Epigenetics in Forest Trees: State of the Art and Potential Implications for Breeding and Management in a Context of Climate Change

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Advances in Botanical Research, Volume 88, 2018
This book chapter advances SDGs 13 and 12 through its discussion of the potential contributions of epigenetics to cope with global climate change and regulate various developmental processes.
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Approaches to Water Sensitive Urban Design - Chapter 2: Water sensitive urban design approaches and their description

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Approaches to Water Sensitive Urban Design: Potential, Design, Ecological Health, Urban Greening, Economics, Policies, and Community Perceptions, Volume , 1 January 2018
This book chapter advances SDGs 13, 12, and 15 by outlining some of the key approaches used in water sensitive urban design and provides a summary of current knowledge about practical application and performance.
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Sustainable consumption and production; Water and sanitation; Rain Water Harvesting; Sustainable Urban Design, Global

Comprehensive Energy Systems - 3.2 Ammonia Production

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Comprehensive Energy Systems, Volume 3, 2018, Pages 41-94
This book chapter addresses goals 7, 9 and 13 by exploring how various ammonia synthesisation methods could see ammonia becoming a significant contributor to clean and affordable energy production.
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Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, The Impact of Climate Change on Public Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice

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Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, Volume 2, 2018, Pages 435-439
This book chapter ties into SDG10 and 13 by investigating how climate change is causing environmental issues, has direct consequences on public health and indirect consequences due to food insecurity, stress migration, and collective violence. There is substantial social injustice both at global and local level, with climate change having a disproportionate adverse effect on poor people, minorities, women, children and older people.
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Global; Health and population; Social Justice, Global

Social Ecology in the Digital Age: 7 - Managing Global Environmental Change

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Social Ecology in the Digital Age, Solving Complex Problems in a Globalized World, 2018, Pages 223-264
This book chapter advances SDGs 13 and 15 by confronting what many scientists and policymakers regard as our gravest existential threats today—global climate change and its impacts on groundwater and food supplies, sea level rise and coastal flooding, ocean acidification extreme weather events, biodiversity loss, violent conflict over scarce resources, and disease pandemics.
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Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies: Including Nature in Engineering Decisions for Sustainability

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Gopalakrishnan, Varsha and Bakshi, Bhavik R., "Including Nature in Engineering Decisions for Sustainability", Editor(s): Martin A. Abraham, Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies, Elsevier (2017), Pages 107-116
Through the practice of biomimicry, engineering can both emulate and conserve the natural world. In this chapter, the author notes that our development practices have often "ignored or undervalued" nature, and describes the ways in which we can aim to build systems that are self-sustaining and resilient, much like earth's ecosystems. This chapter advances SDGs 7, 11 and 13.
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Agricultural Systems - Agroecology: Principles and Practice

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Agricultural Systems (Second Edition), Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development, 2017, Pages 33-72
This book chapter addresses goals 11, 15, 12 and 13 by examining the ecological principles that provide a foundation for resilient and sustainable agriculture that supports rural livelihoods.
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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Sustainable consumption and production; Biodiversity and ecosystems, Africa

Sustainable Shale Oil and Gas - Chapter 3: Detection of Methane and Amelioration

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Sustainable Shale Oil and Gas, Chapter 3, 2017, Pages 29–43
This chapter advances SDGs 7 and 13 by discussing detection methods for fugitive methane and whether these gases can be captured and used for commercial opportunity.
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Smart Technologies for Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture - Chapter 15: Delivering Integrated Climate-Smart Agricultural Technologies for Wider Utilization in Southern Africa

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Smart Technologies for Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture, Chapter 15, 2017, Pages 295–306
This chapter considers the developments in agricultural technology required to fully achieve SDG 2 (zero hunger) can sometimes be detrimental to the environment. Climate smart technologies are needed.
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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Sustainable consumption and production; Technology, Africa

Sustainable Mass Transit - Chapter 7: Future Challenges and Sustainability Opportunities

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Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation, Chapter 7, 2017, Pages 95–107
Green innovations will be significant in reducing climate change impacts and contributing to goals 9 (industry, innovation and infrastructure), 11 (sustainable cities and communities) and 13 (climate action). This chapter considers a number of sustainable and innovative transport and infrastructure options to support these goals.
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