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Producing and Consuming the Craft Beer Movement is an ethnographic analysis of the craft beer movement and its rapid development as an industry that articulated a different set of values: celebrating, quality, community, and good taste.

This volume is collection of chapters on the exploration, research and potential of various vegetation types. The book aims to provide in-depth information on carbon confiscation focused to deal with clean development mechanism and green economy.

This book is the first to address the important interrelationship between second homes and climate change, which has become an increasingly relevant issue for many regions around the world.

This book focuses on making the environment sustainable by employing engineering aspects and green computing through concepts of modern education and solutions. It visualizes the potential of artificial intelligence in manufacturing and green technology, enhanced by business activities and strategies for rapid implementation.

This book comprehensively describes the depositional environments, current status and future prospect of the potential natural resources of Bangladesh. Individual chapters outline potential resources, including metallic minerals, coal, limestone, hydrocarbon, peat, placer deposits, surface and groundwater, and provide relevant references.

The ever-increasing use of plastics has created areas of floating plastic waste in the oceans. Nanoplastics and microplastics have made their way into food, particularly marine organisms This book describes the fate of microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment and discusses sampling and analysis methods to detect and identify them.

This book provides a detailed review of extraction techniques for urban mining of precious metals like gold, silver and platinum groups. Periodical growth levels of spent sources, management necessities and correlation with circular economy, merits and demerits of methods, and environmental impact of every process is described.

This book presents a fresh perspective into the nuances of ECSRS education especially with reference to the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) pedagogy and framework in a novel context; the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

This book brings together all the latest methodologies, tools and techniques related to the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence in a single volume to build insight into their use in sustainable living.

This book covers the response of the seabird research community to a biodiversity crisis aiming to contribute towards environmental sustainability. It should provide inspiration to a wide range of professionals and students, including the much needed world-wide collaboration between research groups and practitioners.

This book highlights the complex area of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and deals with the fundamentals of the chemicals, their sources, and impacts on human health. With its comprehensive approach, this book is an indispensable source of knowledge for those studying and working to mitigate the effect of POPs in the environment.

Sustainable computing is considered multi-disciplinary field encompassing advanced computational techniques across several domains and the core idea is to deploy algorithms, models, policies and protocols to improve energy efficiency and management of resources, recycling, ecological balance, biological sustenance on societal contexts

This book describes how Human Factors and Sensemaking can be used as part of the concept and design of safety critical systems, in order to improve safety and resilience.

An exploration of a unique pilgrimage garden designed to mirror the Christian life and its connection to the environment.

This book aims to show the social and economic consequences of a model of economic growth based on massive investments by financial capital on real-state dvelopments as well as some urban proposals and policies that have been put into practice along the last decade.This book was published a sa special issue of Urban Research and Pract

This book contributes to cross-world dialogue on Childhood Studies by focusing on children's relationships across Majority and Minority World contexts. It explores the ways that social, material and spatial relations can assist in reconsidering the opportunities and limitations of children and young people's agency.This book was published

Broadening the Debate on EU-Africa Relations is designed to broaden the scope of our understanding of the multi-layered relationship between the European Union and African political actors in order to shape both the academic and policy level discourse.

The competitiveness of local and regional clusters vis-à-vis the challenge set by increasing globalization. The global dispersion of production is currently increased by formation of global business networks that can make regional and national innovation systems replaceable. All this weakens the resilience of clusters. What solution may be envis