Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Sustainability & Green Design

This book explores recycling and reusing construction wastes as alternative coarse aggregates and presents this as a possible solution for the major challenge of making sustainable concrete. It explores the reduction of cement use and the overcoming of some inferiorities in recycled coarse aggregate through the partial substitution of cement with supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs). The book evaluates the effect of low-volume SCMs (mainly fly ash) in 100% recycled coarse aggregate based concrete and comprehensively investigates this sustainable concrete for strength, safety,...

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam. The theme of the conference is “innovative and inclusive growth models for sustainable urban development”. Articles in this book present major issues that cities and regions around the world are facing these days to adapt to new, unexpected, and profound challenges.

Over past few years, the world has been observing meaningful reactions to crises. From the pandemic to war, energy, and food...

The book brings together rural scholars from the Global North and the Global South, who have contributed chapters based on their own contexts. The book aims to provide a general picture of how rural communities are responding to challenges in a global context. This general picture can be presented through three specific research questions, namely (1) What is the socio-economic status of rural development in the country? This research question tends to explore the socio-economic status of rural development in the contributor's country or in the country of study. It highlights the challenges...