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Free Download Green and Sustainable Finance: Principles and Practice in Banking, Investment and Insurance by Simon Thompson
English | March 28, 2023 | ISBN: 1398609242 | 664 pages | MOBI | 3.25 Mb
To achieve society’s goals, as set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, the finance sector has a crucial role to play in driving sustainable business and the transition to a net zero economy.

Free Download An Thinh Nguyen, "Global Changes and Sustainable Development in Asian Emerging Market Economies Vol. 2: Proceedings of EDESUS 2019"
English | ISBN: 3030814424 | 2022 | 882 pages | PDF | 31 MB
This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. The collection addresses global changes and sustainable development in Vietnam and other emerging market economies in Asia, and covers wider topics such as economics and business (e.g. economic theory, national and international income distribution, macroeconomic policies, sectors of economy, productivity developments, financial market, business governance, bank financing), development and sustainability (e.g. developing process, development policy, public policy, sustainable growth, sustainability tools, sustainable livelihood, sustainable tourism, green growth), and resources and global change (e.g. human resources, natural resources, climate change, globalization, global challenges). The books are of interest to professors, researchers, lecturers, and students in economics and geography, consultants, and decision makers interested in global changes and sustainable development.

Free Download Circular Economy: Meeting Sustainable Development Goals by Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Gev Eduljee
English | October 13, 2023 | ISBN: 1837670692 | 318 pages | PDF | 7.72 Mb
Sustainability from an economic and environmental perspective is linked to the way we extract and consume the earth’s finite resources and is implicit in the definition of a circular economy (CE) as a model of production and consumption designed to retain value within the economic system. This can include conserving natural resources, making sustainable products by incorporating recyclability in product design, changing consumption behaviour, and adopting more sustainable business models. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of objectives for improving health and education, reducing inequality, and protecting our shared environment globally. The CE is a key enabler to achieving these objectives.

Free Download Business in the 21st Century: A Sustainable Approach by Claudia Nelly Berrones-Flemmig, Francoise Contreras, Utz Dornberger
English | October 31st, 2022 | ISBN: 1803827882 | 280 pages | True EPUB | 6.75 MB
How can businesses around the world incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their models, policies and practices? The editors of Business in the 21st Century help answer this by bringing together scholars from around the world with chapters examining various industries ranging from finance, hospitality, aviation, tourism, food production and more.

Free Download Yong X. Tao, "Analytics for Building-Scale Sustainable Ecosystems"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 156700279X | PDF | pages: 345 | 37.0 mb
This edited volume comprises of research articles primarily resulting from the recent workshop of US-China Workshop on Analytics for Building-Scale Sustainable Ecosystems, sponsored by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and held in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. A group of researchers from both US and China academic institutions present in this volume their views of bottlenecks in engineering, software and social sciences, forming a nexus of critical issues impeding wider application of net-zero-energy (or near zero energy) building technology in the context of defining building-scale sustainable ecosystems. The focus of these investigations is the fundamentals of sciences that lead to a robust, significant improvement towards modelling and predicting building performance indices such as energy usage with user integration and sustainability. Achievements and challenges in research and development initiatives and best-practices from U.S. and China provide a foundation for such development of analytics and possibility of benchmarking and comparability. Intended readers include multidisciplinary researchers in the interested areas, and students in both graduate and senior undergraduate levels. The related disciplines of readers include architecture, sciences (including social and computer sciences), engineering, and public policy.

Free Download AI for Humanity: Building a Sustainable AI for the Future by Andeed Ma, James Ong, Siok Siok Tan
English | April 29, 2024 | ISBN: 1394180306 | 304 pages | MOBI | 9.14 Mb
Capture the value of cutting-edge AI while mitigating its most salient risks

Free Download A Digital Path to Sustainable Infrastructure Management: Emerging Tools for the Construction Industry by Ayodeji E. Oke, Seyi S. Stephen
English | January 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 1837977046 | 168 pages | True EPUB | 2.23 MB
As urbanization, digitalization, rising social expectations, and the quest for greener development become increasingly important and called for, a need to transform infrastructure and its management has become more pronounced. A Digital Path for Sustainable Infrastructure Management delivers the much sought-after guidance that the industry seeks to embrace technological advancements, establish new sustainable working practices, and foster socially valuable collaborations.

Free Download Paul Wheeler, "The Distributed Workplace: Sustainable Work Environments"
English | 2003 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 0415318904, 1138409057 | PDF | 3,0 mb
The Distributed Workplace provides in one volume essential information on sustainable work environments which will be invaluable to those developing workplace strategies for end-user organizations as well as suppliers of office buildings, information and communications technologies and building operation services. Municipal authorities and other organizations concerned with sustainable development and sustainable workplaces will also benefit from this book.

Free Download Paul Wheeler, "The Distributed Workplace: Sustainable Work Environments"
English | 2003 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 0415318904, 1138409057 | PDF | 3,0 mb
The Distributed Workplace provides in one volume essential information on sustainable work environments which will be invaluable to those developing workplace strategies for end-user organizations as well as suppliers of office buildings, information and communications technologies and building operation services. Municipal authorities and other organizations concerned with sustainable development and sustainable workplaces will also benefit from this book.

Free Download René Smits, "Sustainable Finance and Climate Change: Law and Regulation "
English | ISBN: 1800377274 | 2024 | 424 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Sustainable Finance and Climate Change explores the legal and regulatory framework that governs the transition to a carbon free economy, looking in particular at the regulation of the financial sector and corporate liability for climate change and biodiversity loss. In addition, it looks at the effect on general corporate law, environmental law, central bank law, as well as litigation and arbitration.