Sustainable Resource Management
Modern Approaches and Contexts
- 1st Edition - June 20, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Juan F. Velasco-Munoz, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 3 4 2 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 3 4 3 - 5
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Request a sales quoteSustainable Resource Management: Modern Approaches and Contexts presents the application of the current concept of sustainability to the management of natural resources, such as water, land, minerals and metals using theoretical field knowledge and illustrative real-world examples. Initially, the book defines sustainability, detailing its evolution and how it has been adapted to each of the contexts in which it is used. Furthermore, sustainability is made up of three main areas of science—environmental, social and economic—which are rarely considered together. This book is a complete reference guide to sustainability of natural resources for academics, researchers, practitioners and postgraduate-level students, and more.
As sustainability is an interdisciplinary field, linked to most sciences, it is also of use to all fields of science that need to maintain sustainable practices and specific details on the methodologies and techniques needed for sustainable resource management.
- Provides an integrated approach for modern tools, methodologies and indicators for sustainable resource management
- Evaluates emerging trends and advanced approaches in sustainable resource management, detailing the most up-to-date research and management considerations
- Describes advanced sustainable resource management technologies and presents case studies where applicable
Academics, researchers, practitioners and postgraduate level students of any related sustainability field, predominantly environmental science. Academics, researchers and industry practitioners in the field of social sciences, life and physical sciences and engineering
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Editors' biography
- Preface
- 1. Evolution of the concept of sustainability. From Brundtland Report to sustainable development goals
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The concept of sustainable development
- 3. The definition of sustainable development
- 4. The trend of sustainable development
- 5. The evolution of sustainable development concept
- 6. Indicator development
- 7. Environmental sustainability
- 8. Sustainable development goals
- 9. Conclusions
- 2. Areas of sustainability: environment, economy, and society
- 1. Areas of sustainability: environment, economy, and society
- 2. Conclusion
- 3. Evolution and trends of sustainable approaches
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Emergence of sustainable development
- 3. Approaches to sustainability assessment: sustainability indicators and assessment based on life cycles
- 4. Approaches to sustainable solutions
- 5. Conclusions
- 4. Modern age of sustainability: supply chain resource management
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sustainable supply chain management
- 3. Practices for a greener and more sustainable supply chain
- 4. Sustainability evaluation methods
- 5. Conclusions
- 5. Sustainable management of agricultural resources (agricultural crops and animals)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sustainable management of agrobiodiversity
- 3. Sustainable management of agricultural species
- 4. Sustainable management of agroecosystems
- 5. Sustainable management of agricultural landscapes
- 6. Sustainable agriculture
- 7. Sustainable rural development
- 8. Conclusions
- 9. Metascientific approach to sustainable management of agricultural resources
- 10. Covid-19 pandemic impacts on agriculture, food security and nutrition
- 6. Sustainable water resources
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Water resource management system
- 3. Water resource management: an integrated approach
- 4. Interventions of modern computation techniques for sustainable water management
- 5. Concluding remarks
- 7. Minerals and metal Industry in the global scenario and environmental sustainability
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The vision of this study
- 3. The vast scientific doctrine of environmental sustainability
- 4. Sustainable resource management, integrated water resource management, and the vast vision for the future
- 5. Today’s mineral and metal industry and the needs of environmental sustainability
- 6. Recent scientific advancements in the field of environmental sustainability
- 7. Recent scientific prowess and research endeavor in the field of environmental sustainability, wastewater treatment, and mineral and metal industry
- 8. Industrial wastewater treatment and mineral and metal industry
- 9. Heavy metal and arsenic groundwater remediation and the future of mineral and metal industry
- 10. Future scientific recommendations and the future flow of scientific thoughts
- 11. Conclusion, summary, and scientific perspectives
- 8. Sustainable land use and management
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Land uses and changes
- 3. Impacts of land use changes
- 4. Sustainable land management
- 5. Sustainable land management practices
- 6. Barriers to sustainable management
- 7. Future lines of research
- 8. Conclusions
- 9. Solid wastes: alternative materials for cementitious composites production
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Wastes used in cementitious composites
- 3. Construction and demolition solid wastes
- 4. Conclusions
- 10. Comprehensive management of natural resources: a holistic vision
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Natural resources
- 3. Summary
- 11. Shades of green: HOPF for standardized environmental performance indicators
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Review
- 3. Methodology
- 4. Data
- 5. Results
- 6. Implications
- 7. Conclusions and future research
- Appendix 1: Environmental costs estimated in Puma EP&L
- Appendix 2: GRI environmental disclosures (with adapted disclosures highlighted in gray)
- Appendix 3: SASB environmental issue categories
- Appendix 4: GRI versus SASB
- Appendix 5: Generic environmental performance indicators
- 12. Social indicators of sustainable resource management
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Measuring sustainability
- 3. How can the social dimension be measured?
- 4. Iuuses and problems inherent in social indicators
- 5. Conclusions
- 13. Economic indicators of sustainable resource management
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Economic indicators of sustainable resource management
- 3. Criticism of monetary sustainability indicators
- 4. Conclusions
- 14. Indicators of sustainability
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Concept of sustainable development
- 3. Indicator development
- 4. Environmental sustainability
- 5. Sustainable agriculture
- 6. Benefits of sustainable agriculture
- 7. Social sustainability
- 8. Economic sustainable development
- 9. Income and wealth distribution
- 15. To measure the performance of sustainable food supply chain
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The background theory
- 3. Research methodology and model building
- 4. Result analysis
- 5. Discussion and conclusion
- 16. Sustainable plastic materials management
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methodology
- 3. Results and discussion
- 4. Conclusions
- 17. Innovation for new resources development
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Hydrogen
- 3. Microalgae
- 4. Biofuels
- 5. Heat pump ice storage
- 6. Biomaterials
- 7. Nanotechnologies
- Summary
- 18. Development of nanomaterials: valorization of metallic solid waste from copper-based components
- 1. Introductory remark: on the origin of metal waste and scrap metals
- 2. Major components of metal waste
- 3. Examples of recyclable metals and alloys
- 4. Case studies of nonferrous alloys waste
- 5. Nanofluid fabrication from metallic waste and their potential applications
- 19. Future of sustainability and resources management
- 1. Priorities of social responsibility—from social, economic, and environmental sustainability viewpoint
- 2. Sustainable development and growth
- 3. Ecological growth
- 4. Zero growth—economic stagnation
- 5. Circular economy
- 6. Low-carbon economy
- 7. Implementation of social responsibility in the organization’s activities
- 8. Industry and waste
- 9. Sustainable scientific and technological progress and implementation of innovation technologies in energetics
- 10. Implementation of innovation technologies and macroeconomic feedback
- 11. Conclusion
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 20, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 470
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128243428
- eBook ISBN: 9780128243435
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Juan F. Velasco-Munoz
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’.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Almeria, SpainCM
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
Dr. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, PhD, 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 around One hundred and fifty (150) books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. He has published with ELSEVIER, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.
Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor & Director of Laboratories, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USARead Sustainable Resource Management on ScienceDirect