Description / Table of Contents: A comprehensive review on the development of zero waste management -- Crop residue management practices for sustaining soil health -- Biostimulation of microbes for enhanced oil removal from petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils: A zero waste remediation approach.

Description / Table of Contents: This book presents short papers of participants of the 9th International Scientific Conference-School for Young Scientists «Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes. A special focus is given to the extraction of hydrocarbon resources, including from unconventional sources. An alternative to the use of hydrocarbons as a main source of energy on the Planet in the coming decades is unlikely to be found. At the same time, the resource base of hydrocarbons is quickly depleted, in particularly, large and accessible oil and gas fields. The shale oil and gas, Arctic hydrocarbon stocks, gas hydrates, coal bed methane, oil and gas from deep horizons can become new sources. "Deep oil" may be the most promising source of expanding the resource base of hydrocarbons according to many experts. New technologies are required to their development. Efficient low-cost technologies can be created on the basis of geomechanical approach, i.e., through the use of a huge elastic energy stored in the rock massif due to rock pressure. The creation of new breakthrough approaches to the development of hydrocarbon fields is very important in today's geopolitical conditions and requires the involvement of young minds and strength. International activities, including the youth scientific schools, can become an effective tool for exchange of information and the organizing of interdisciplinary research of processes in geo-environment. The book presents the new results of the experimental and theoretical modeling of deformation, fracture, and filtration processes in the rocks in connection to issues of creating scientific fundamentals for new hydrocarbon production technologies. The investigations of the dependence of well stability and permeability of rocks on the stress-strain state in conditions of deep horizons and high rock pressure are also represented.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Urban Green Infrastructure and Climate Mitigation -- Part 2: Human Experience and Well-being in Urban Environments -- Part 3: Adaptation, Livelihood, and Social Dynamics.

Description / Table of Contents: Environmental Science -- Exploration of Resources and Environmental Protection -- Energy Economics and Management.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Fundamentals of industrial sludge -- Chapter 2 Management of textile industry sludge for environmental sustainability -- Chapter 3 Sustainable management of oily petroleum refinery sludge through anaerobic digestion with bioenergy production -- Chapter 4 Hydrothermal carbonization of industrial sludge -- Chapter 5 Sustainable management of industrial sludge through vermistabilization utilizing pollutants loaded spent biochar produced from wastewater treatment process -- Chapter 6 Production of microbial fuel cell material from industrial wastewater sludge -- Chapter 7 Industrial sludge as adsorbent for wastewater treatment and reclamation -- Chapter 8 Sustainable utilization of industrial sludge in the construction industry -- Chapter 9 Utilization of waste sludge and poplar trees for remediation -- Chapter 10 Sustainable production of enzymes using industrial sludge -- Chapter 11 Sustainable application of industrial sludge in agriculture land -- Chapter 12 Production of biodiesel from industrial sludge -- Chapter 13 Advancement in sustainable management and valorization of solid waste through composting and vermitechnology.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Urbanization and urban climate in high-density cities -- Chapter 2. Origins and evolution of the Local Climate Zone classification system -- Chapter 3. Current popular methods for LCZ mapping -- Chapter 4. Recent improvements in supervised pixel-based LCZ classification -- Chapter 5. Application of LCZ to urban heat island studies -- Chapter 6. Application of LCZ to land use and land cover studies -- Chapter 7. Application of LCZ to wind environment studies -- Chapter 8. Application of LCZ to energy consumption and carbon emission modeling -- Chapter 9. Application of LCZ to thermal comfort and health-related studies -- Chapter 10. Application of LCZ to time-series urban morphology detection -- Chapter 11. Application of LCZ in mesoscale meteorological model simulations and climate projection -- Chapter 12. Integration of LCZ to planning strategies -- Chapter 13. Conclusions and outlook.

Description / Table of Contents: Quantifying species responses to the effects of changing environmental conditions is critical for a better understanding of how climate change affects invasion, expansion, and contraction of marine coastal species. Climate change is leading to modifications in the marine coastal environment, to conditions not experienced before; climate change results in that marine organisms experience simultaneous changes in several environmental variables (=drivers: e.g. temperature, salinity, food). How simultaneous changes in multiple drivers are experienced depend on species-specific traits (e.g. physiological tolerance, developmental time); for instance, co-occurring native and non-native species may experience and respond to climate change in different ways. In addition, within species, responses to multiple drivers may vary across populations and environmental gradients. The general objective of this thesis was to quantify the effects of environmental drivers (temperature, salinity and food limitation) on performance of native and non-native species with focus on larval stages and using crabs as model systems. There were two main objectives, first to compare native and non-native species in the responses to multiple environmental drivers and to quantify larval responses to temperature across their distribution range. I focused on larvae because they play a critical role in population dynamics: larvae are important for the dispersion and connectivity of populations, and are more sensitive to changes in environmental conditions than adults. I used three ecologically relevant species of coastal areas of the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean as models: Hemigrapsus sanguineus, Carcinus maenas and Hemigrapsus takanoi. C. maenas is native to Europe; Hemigrapsus spp. are both non-native species in the European coast, where they coexist with C. maenas as juveniles and adults in the benthos. I used factorial experiments rearing larvae from hatching to megalopae at different combinations of temperature and other environmental drivers (salinity, food limitation). Larval performance was quantified as survival, duration of development, and growth. The first series of result show that both non-native (Hemigrapsus spp) species had higher performance (high survival, shorter duration of development and high growth rates) than the native C. maenas at higher temperatures and at moderately low salinities (18 – 24 °C, 20 – 25 ‰). These results are comparable to another non-native species in Europe, the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis. In H. sanguineus, larvae show moderate level of tolerance to limited access to food at high temperature, which contrasted to the low tolerance shown in native C. maenas. Experiments and modelling show that the nature of the multiple driver response depends strongly on the metric used to measure time, where my emphasis is on biological time (time to metamorphosis). The results from the populations comparisons showed species and gradient-specific responses. For H. takanoi, distributed over a salinity gradient (North Sea -Baltic Sea), larvae from the North Sea populations always showed higher survival and faster development compared with those from the Baltic Sea. The population near the limit of the distribution showed very low survival, suggesting that subsidies or complex ontogenetic migration patterns are needed for population persistence. Results did not show genetic differentiation among the studied populations in the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit one gene (COI) suggesting that there is high connectivity among populations. For C. maenas distributed across a latitudinal gradient (South: Vigo, Spain; North: Bergen and Trondheim, Norway) and reared under different temperatures (range 6 to 27 °C in steps of 3 °C), there was little variation in survival and growth among populations. However, larvae from the Norwegian populations had a slightly shorter duration of development at low temperatures than those from Vigo, this response has an adaptive value in that it could sustain survival in scenarios of reduced temperature, by shortening the larval phase, when mortality rates are high. Besides, results from this experiment (as well as for the mentioned above) showed high intrapopulation variability in larval performance which has a potential to affect range expansion of the above-mentioned species. Variation in the responses of larval stages to the effects of different environmental drivers highlights the importance of using physiological descriptors to quantify the performance of marine invertebrates to changing environments. Larval responses vary in rates of survival but also in the duration of time to achieve metamorphosis, as well as the rate at which the organisms grow, with concomitant effects on post-metamorphic success, which in seasonal habitats may strongly depend on temperature. The results from the thesis highlight the importance of quantifying the responses of marine invertebrates to changing environmental conditions, considering different species and species distributed across different gradients as well as variations among and within species.

Description / Table of Contents: The Third-year publication of the Open Access Book Series “Progress in Landslide Research and Technology” -- Part I: ICL Landslide Lesson -- Interpretation and mapping for the prediction of sites at risk of landslide disasters: from aerial photography to detection by DTMs -- Part II: Original Articles -- Observation of seismic ground motion and pore water pressure in lineated valley fill of Wakayama, southwest Japan -- Global warming may accelerate submarine landslides in the oceans -Possible disaster chain reactions -- Landslide hazard evaluation of a large waste landfill in Bogotá city -- Multiple Landslides in an Area Draped in Volcanic Matters: The Dual Impacts of Rains and Earthquakes -- Loess Landslides - Peculiarities of Deformation Mechanism -- Spatio-temporal distribution of rainfall-induced landslides in Nicaragua (2000-2022): Preliminary insights to communicate landslide disaster risk -- Emerging Seismicity Trends Linked to Catastrophic Landslides Behavior in Sri Lanka -- Centrifugemodeling of slopes subjected to groundwater flow and rainfall infiltration -- Evaluation of Assessment Models for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in Permafrost Areas -- The slope monitoring using embedded system with optical-thermal image fusion and machine learning -- Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments: Monitoring Landslide Stakeholders' Contributions -- Influence of intra-particle saturation ratio on strength degradation of pumice soil -- Regional debris flow hazard assessment of the Grdelica Gorge (Serbia) -- Introducing Japanese Landslide Warning and Evacuation System to Sri Lanka: Field Survey of Social Aspect in the Arayanake Area -- Towards An Optimization of Foundation Anchors of Landslide-resisting Flexible Barriers: Dynamic Pullout Resistance of Anchors -- Part III: Review Articles -- Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk: Two years on P-LRT -- Landslide prediction model based upon intelligent processing of multi‐point monitoring information: A review -- Mud-mark-based Estimations of Mass-wasting Processes Caused by the 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku Earthquake, Japan -- Assessment of the Structural Geological, Hydrogeological, and Geomorphological Relationships of the Athwelthota Landslide, Sri Lanka -- Part IV: IPL Projects, World Centres of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction, and Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 -- Increasing the local road network resilience from natural hazards in municipalities in Serbia -- Recent UL FGG contributions to the 2020 Kyoto Commitment -- The integrated Landslides Monitoring System of Gimigliano Municipality, Southern Italy -- Part V: Technical Notes and Case sturdies -- Assessing landslide distribution for landform hazard zoning purposes: A case study on the western flank of Iztaccíhuatl volcano, Puebla, México -- Identification of potential natural slope failure zones by geomorphological analyses using raster slope shading of LiDAR; case study from Kegalle, Sri Lanka -- Assessing the potential rapidand long travelling landslides in Sri Lanka – A case study of Athwelthota landslide -- Experimental Study on Residual Shear Strength of Soil Using Undrained Ring Shear Apparatus -- Part VI: World Landslide Reports -- Physical mechanism and numerical simulation of landslide dam formation -- An integration of the Fractal method and the Statistical Index method for mapping landslide susceptibility.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Digital Competencies within Non-Profit Organizations: A Preliminary Study -- Chapter 2: Designing a personalized learning journey for the promotion of smart and sustainable cities -- Chapter 3: Recycling: an optimization with machine learning -- Chapter 4: An AI analysis on the circular economy value chain. A Portuguese perspective of evaluation business models -- Chapter 5: Cybersecurity in Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 6: Some Ethical and Legal Implications of Artificial Intelligence -- Chapter 7: Digital Transformation of Entrepreneurship Education on a Global Scale using a Technological Platform -- Chapter 8: From Digital Sustainability to Sustainable Development of Agriculture -- Chapter 9: Digital city and the objectives of sustainable development -- Chapter 10: Agriculture 4.0 and the challenges of Sustainable Development: a bibliometric analysis -- Chapter 11: Urinary Incontinence Detector for MS patients - A Blended Intensive Program Project -- Chapter 12: Intermediaries in Socio-Technical Transitions to Sustainability: An Analytical Model Grounded on Corporate Strategy, Niche Technologies and ESG -- Chapter 13: Co-creation and citizen satisfaction with the quality of public services -- Chapter 14: The influence of sociodemographic variables on worker satisfaction -- Chapter 15: The Leadership and Employee Satisfaction -- Chapter 16: Leveraging Cross-Regional Synergies: Unpacking Successful Partnerships between Incumbent European Finance Firms & Asian Fintech Pioneers Advancing Sustainable Finance Products/Services -- Chapter 17: Practices of circular economy in the Textile and Clothing Industry in Portugal: an exploratory study -- Chapter 18: Diversity in tourism demand and the revisiting of sustainable and pilgrimage destinations: an approach to the Ways of St. James -- Chapter 19: The impact of leadership in times of pandemic on the performance of commercial teams study of tourism sectos in Portugal -- Chapter 20: Digitization in the hotel industry - sustainability of contactless communication -- Chapter 21: Nomophobia and Its Consequences: An Experimental Study to Measure the Experiences of Museum Visitors -- Chapter 22: Comparative Analysis of Squirrel-Cage Induction and Synchronous Reluctance Rotors in a Three-Phase Stator: Evaluating Performance and Efficiency -- Chapter 23: Toolset for the development of a power driver with arbitrary current waveform for a permanent magnet synchronous motor -- Chapter 24: Simulation of a Three-phase Reluctance Motor in a Python Environment -- Chapter 25: Wireless charging technology for UAV applications -- Chapter 26: IoT and AI as a lever for a sustainable public lightning solution with Second Life Electric Vehicle Batteries -- Chapter 27: Battery durability assessment and repurposing as second-life batteries for renewable energy -- Chapter 28: Understanding the constructs related to customer experience in online stores -- Chapter 29: Citybranding: Generation of brands in the cities of Mindelo and Praia – Cape Verde -- Chapter 30: Purchase Intention Determinants of Green Cosmetics -- Chapter 31: Fundamentals of education for sustainable development: the challenges of teachers.