Sustainable Resource Management: Modern Approaches and Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780128243428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 472 str.

Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain; Juan F. Velasco-Munoz

Spis treści

PART 1 Sustainability and Resources Management 1. Evolution of the Concept of Sustainability. From Brundtland Report to Sustainable Development Goals 2. Areas of Sustainability. Environment, Economy, Society 3. Evolution and Trends of Sustainable Approaches 4. Modern Age of Sustainability: Supply chain resource management

PART 2 Sustainable Resource Management in Different Contexts 5. Agricultural Resources 6. Animal Resources. Farm, Fisheries, and Hunting 7. Forest Resources 8. Water Resources 9. Mineral and Metals 10. Land as a Resource 11. Energy Resources 12. Waste Resources 13. Wind Resources 14. Comprehensive management of natural resources. A holistic vision

PART 3 Indicators of Sustainable Resource Management 15. Environmental indicators 16. Social indicators 17. Economic indicators 18. Indicators of Sustainability

PART 4 Innovation, I+D, Future Society Challenges and Resource Management Practices 19. Smart management of plastics 20. Regenerative management of soils in agriculture 21. Circular Economy of Urban Water 22. Innovation for new resources development 23. Future of Sustainability and Resources Management 

O autorze

Dr. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an adjunct professor and director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research is focused on the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of several books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. Juan F. Velasco-Muñoz, is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Almería, Spain. He is a member of the research group "Environmental and Natural Resources Economics". His research is focused on the sustainable management of resources, especially natural resources, socio-economic valuation of ecosystem services, and development of circular economy systems. Dr. Velasco-Muñoz has numerous publications on these topics in peer-reviewed journals, as well as book chapters, and contributions to conferences. In addition, he is the editor of several scientific monographs, he directs several doctoral theses on resource management and circular economy and he has been Guest Editor of the Special Issue Sustainability journal 'Environmental Economics. Contributions to Sustainability of Agricultural Ecosystems'.