Description / Table of Contents: From Waste to Wealth: The Impact of Waste Entrepreneurship on the Circular Economy -- Waste entrepreneurship in South Africa: A Review of the Existing Situation -- Bacterial Biofuel Production: An assessment of Machine Learning technologies in valorisation of waste/wastewater and circular economy -- Appendix.

Description / Table of Contents: 1-Microplastics degradation: Macro to Nano scale -- 2-The adsorptive profile of MPs with pharmaceutical compounds -- 3-The adsorptive profile of MPs with textile dyes -- 4-Interaction and adsorption of heavy metal pollutants with microplastics: Causes and consequences in aquatic systems -- 5-Marine MPs and their interactions with living systems: Causes and consequences -- 6-Microalgal interactions with MPs: Merits and demerits -- 7-Qualitative characterization of microplastic and nanoplastics interactions with inorganic and organic pollutants using FTIR, FESEM, Raman and TGA techniques -- 8-The quantitative analysis of monomers and additives in polymers using Pyrolysis GC-ToF-MS technique -- 9-Biotechnological methods for the abatement of microplastics from soil and water systems -- 10-A Sustainable Approach to Reduce Environmental Threats of Microplastics and future research needs.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Uses Of Marginal Lands -- Utilization And Improvement Of Marginal Soils Through Large Stock Grazing In Semi-Arid Summer Rainfall Areas In South Africa -- Optimizing Sweet Sorghum Production In Marginal Lands Through Conservation Agriculture: A Case Study From Eastern Cape, South Africa -- Animal Feed Production And Its Contribution To Sustainability Of Livestock Systems: African Perspective.-Replenishing Marginal Soils Through Use Of Agroforestry Systems In Southern Africa: A Case Study Of Pigeonpea (Cajanus Cajan L. Millsp) Improved Fallows In South Africa -- Climate Change Resilient Crops To Combat Food And Nutrition Insecurity In Marginal Lands -- Part II: Reclamation And Management If Marginal Soils -- Strengthening Crop Production In South African Marginal Land Through Conservation Agriculture:Experiences From Local Research -- Increasing Productivity Through Enhanced Water Use Efficiency In Marginal Soils -- Promoting Low-Input Agricultural Practices To Improve Marginal Lands For Sustainable Crop Production And Food Security In Sub-Saharana African Countries -- Revitalization Of Degraded Soils In The Communal Areas Of Zimbabwe -- Part III: Future Strategies -- Exploring Biotechnological Strategies In The Monitoring Of Soil Quality -- The Use Of Nanofertilizers As Micronutrients To Improve Marginal Soils And Crop Production -- Role Of Targeted Breeding To Improve Wheat Production On The Marginal Lands Of Africa -- Enhancing Above And Below-Soil Arthropods: A Way To Enhance Production On Marginal Lands -- Enhancement To Soil Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: A Step Towards Restoring Marginal Soils -- Sustainable Soilless Recovery Hydroponics For Productive Use Of Marginal Lands: A South African Context -- The Potential Of Black Soldier Fly Frass To Revitalize Marginal Soils -- Vermicomposting For Improved Soil Health: Prospects For Degraded Soils -- Reclamation Technologies For Marginal Soils In Africa: Strategies, Challenges, And Future Directions -- Rainwater Harvesting Technologies And Soil Moisture Conservation In Marginalised Semi-Arid Soils Of Southern Africa. .

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Application of Mutagenesis in food production and sustainable development -- 2. Recent Perspectives of Mutation Breeding for Crop Improvement -- 3. Mutagenesis Breeding for Drought-Tolerance and Improvement of Oil and Seed Quality in Oilseed Crops: Case of Rapeseed and Sesame -- 4. Intellectual property over mutant and gene edited plants -- 5. Genome editing based CRISPR system in crop improvement -- 6. Haploids system in mutation breeding -- 7. Use of chemical mutagens in field crop breeding -- 8. Application of somaclonal variations in crop improvements -- 9. Improvement in fruit crop plants through mutation breeding -- 10. Application of In Vitro Mutagenesis in Plant Tissue Culture for Genetic Improvement of Crop Plants -- 11. Use of Gamma Irradiation in Crop Mutation Breeding -- 12. Genetic Improvement of Rural Landraces through Mutation Research -- 13. Development of Rural Landraces through Mutation Breeding Approaches -- 14. Application of Mutagenesis and Genome editing in crop Plants -- 15. Mutagenesis- A Tool for Improving Rice Landraces -- 16. The development of improved landraces in agriculture for rural development.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- How are mountains defined and why are they so important? -- The changing world of mountains in the long term -- The discovery of mountains: from enigma to exploitation -- The climate of the mountains, originality and spatial variability -- Snow in the mountains -- Ice and glaciers in the mountains -- The main features of mountain vegetation and its altitudinal organization. The timberline -- Hydrology and fluvial morphology in mountains: those special rivers -- Landforms and geomorphological processes: from summits to valley bottoms -- Creation and organization of mountain landscapes by human societies -- Living in the mountains: The wide variety of land uses and their geo-ecological consequences -- Global change in mountains and its consequences at different scales -- Mountains: As difficult to exploit as they are to conserve. An integrative look at mountain landscapes and societies.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Unravelling the Complex Relationships between Aerosol Optical Depth and Temperature -- Chapter 2 Impact Assessments of Aerosol Optical Depth and Lightning on Thunderstorm over the Region of Uttarakhand, India -- Chapter 3 Aerosol Variability and its Impact on Cloud-Precipitation Interaction in Urban Areas of Maharashtra, India -- Chapter 4 Comparative Health Risk Assessment of Black Carbon and Particulate Matter Emissions in East India during the COVID-19 First and Second Waves -- Chapter 5 Source and Risk Assessment of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Ambient Air and its Human Health Implications -- Chapter 6 Air Pollution in the Southern Part of Iraq and Its Health Risks -- Chapter 7 Optical Characteristics and Radiative Effects of Anthropogenic and Natural Aerosols over an Urban Area -- Chapter 8 Innovative Air-Purifying Mask -- Chapter 9 Atmospheric Particulate Matter in Bangladesh -- Chapter 10 Review of the Role of Aerosols in the Spread of COVID-19 -- Chapter 11 Aerosol-Social-Health Nexus -- Chapter 12 Aerosol Optical Depth vs. PM2.5 -- Chapter 13 Monsoon Shifts and Their Impact on Air Quality and Weather -- Chapter 14 Evaluation and Scientometric Analysis of Aerosols and Associated Implications -- Chapter 15 Anthropogenic Influence on Aerosol Optical Depth -- Chapter 16 The Effect of Additives on Particulate Matter Emissions from Biomass Combustion.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Waste management: Innovation and Quality -- Chapter 1. Development of an innovative controlled drying technology for the recovery of waste from the wine chain in a circular-economy perspective -- Chapter 2. Reduction of food waste and donations of surplus food in retail stores: A survey proposal -- Chapter 3. Enhancement of waste from the agri-food chain as innovative ingredients for the formulation of functional foods and their impact in chronic kidney disease -- Part II. Waste management: Circular economy and sustainability -- Chapter 4. The study of variables that influence the implementation of a waste cycle tracking system: a literature review -- Chapter 5. Quantification of fugitive methane emissions from landfills: an open issue -- Chapter 6. Sustainable organic waste management in small communities: evidence from life cycle-based evaluations -- Chapter 7. Valorisation of by-product and industry waste for date palm fruit by recovering bioactive molecules and possible applications: a circular economy model -- Chapter 8. Valorisation of pomegranate waste and by-products for new models of circular economy -- Chapter 9. Carbon, Water and Energy Footprint. A sustainability assessment for fruit & vegetable losses in Italy -- Chapter 10. Green technologies and LCA for the analysis of bioactive compounds in wheat husk: an integrated study for sustainability assessment -- Chapter 11. Modelling the leather industry waste from the circular economy perspective. A depth-review -- Chapter 12. Application of the MFA methodology for the analysis of paper and cardboard waste in Italy and a focus on the waste management in Apulia -- Chapter 13. Material Flow Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment in a Regional Circular Economy Scenario -- Chapter 14. Closing the cycle by reusing treated wastewater: the role of Prato in the European debate on Circular Economy -- Part III. Circular economy and sustainability issues in several sectors: Energy.-Chapter 15. Natural gas supply in Italy: analysis and perspectives -- Chapter 16. The agro-photovoltaic sector as a possible implementation tool in Sicilian energy transition -- Chapter 17. Redevelopment of industrial brownfields through green hydrogen: evolution and criticalities -- Chapter 18. Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing of a unitized regenerative fuel cell stack: a preliminary study -- Part IV. Circular economy and sustainability issues in several sectors: Leather and textile -- Chapter 19. A Hypothesis of a Lean Warehouse Design for an Italian Textile-Apparel Company -- Chapter 20. Textile industry between past and future in the in the New Museum of Commodity Science -- Chapter 21. Production and consumption trends in the European textile sector and main sustainability challenges -- Chapter 22. The future of the Italian tanning industry considering the recent geopolitical crisis -- Chapter 23. Risk assessment and life cycle approach to optimize the sustainability performance of leather products -- Chapter 24. A combined economic-environmental assessment of an innovative chemical formulation for waterproofing applications in the leather manufacturing industry -- Part V. Circular economy and sustainability issues in several sectors: Mobility, Logistics and Transports -- Chapter 25. Mobility Environmental Profile in the Framework of a Research Project: The “CRESTING” Case -- Chapter 26. University students and mobility. A sustainability analysis -- Chapter 27. Life Cycle Costing in the maritime sector: the case of the extraordinary maintenance of a Roll-on/Roll-off ferry -- Chapter 28. The last-mile delivery process from a life cycle perspective -- Part VI. Circular economy and sustainability issues in several sectors: Technical materials and products -- Chapter 29. Concerns deriving from the sand business and potential substitutes for a sustainable construction sector -- Chapter 30. Reshoring and nearshoring of resources towards making the manufacturing chain of the Italian ceramic industry more resilient and sustainable -- Chapter 31. Definition of indicators relating to the extraction of minerals used in the ceramic sector for LCA -- Chapter 32. Personal Protective Equipment recycling scenarios for the production of reinforced bituminous conglomerates -- Chapter 33. Environmental performance and efficiency in the semiconductor fabrication sector -- Chapter 34. The recovery of materials and management at the end-of-life of ships. Models and strategies for a Critical Raw Materials Circular Market in Europe -- Part VII. Quality, circular economy, and sustainability: a miscellaneous of general facts -- Chapter 35. Entropic Limits of Circular Economy -- Chapter 36. Circular Bioeconomy: An analysis of operational principles and limits -- Chapter 37. Comparison and Contrast between Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Social Innovation -- Chapter 38. Transition to Social Organizational Life Cycle Assessment: connections with social responsibility tools -- Chapter 39. A new approach to improve sustainability: the role of Organizational Life Cycle Assessment (O-LCA) -- Chapter 40. The proposal for the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD): towards better environmental data in sustainability reporting -- Chapter 41. ESG indicators and SME: towards a simplified framework for sustainability reporting -- Chapter 42. Women entrepreneurship and new business models for a quality production of Aloe Vera in Jordan -- Chapter 43. Sustainability standards and certifications for the healthcare sector: A literature review on social, economic, and environmental indicators -- Chapter 44. ISO 9001 certification of the Specialization Schools of the Health Area of the University of Padova -- Chapter 45. European University Alliances and good quality assurance practice -- Chapter 46. The inclusion of gender diversity in Italian universities: main priorities and critical issues -- Chapter 47. Patent box as a tax relief tool for companies operating in circular economy context -- Chapter 48. Industrial symbiosis in Sicily: perspectives and criticalities .

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Smart Dubai: A Post-Modern Utopian Model -- 2. A FRAMEWORK OF THE FINANCIAL REPUTATIONAL RISK: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS TO CONVERT RISK INTO OPPORTUNITY -- 3. Carry Trades in the Wake of Modern Financial Crisis -- 4. Exchange Rate and Real Output within a SVAR framework: Empirical Evidence From Egypt -- 5. The Dialectical Relationship Between SMEs Financial Support and Funding Determinants -- 6. Iran grand strategy of multi hemispheric interference. From the Middle East to the West -- 7. The Role of Intelligence in the Confrontation of ISIS 3.0 and Recommendations for UAE -- 8. Redressal of Disputes using Online Dispute Resolution – The way forward -- 9. Juvenile Center Creative Writing Program “Atrab” -- 10. Food security in the United Arab Emirates -- 11. Privacy as Design Element in Traditional Emirati House and Attire.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Neotectonic influence on the geomorphology of the transform boundary between the Scotia and South American plates in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina -- Chapter 2. Glacial and periglacial studies related to rock-glacier evolution in the upper Cochiguás catchment, Coquimbo region, Central Chile -- Chapter 3. Deciphering the megafan responses to paleoenvironmental changes in the late Quaternary: lessons from the Pantanal wetland, Central Brazil -- Chapter 4. Detection of storm events and associated impacts on oceanic beaches between Ilha Grande and Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Chapter 5. Geomorphological effects of tropical cyclones in Costa Rica -- Chapter 6. Illumination condition in Mars and its relationship with water related features.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Gender Budgeting Response in African Economies: Access and Future Matter -- Chapter 2: Gender Budgeting Responses on Gender-based Violence (GBV) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): Lessons from Selected Countries -- Chapter 3: Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Climate Change Financing: A Panacea for Confronting Climate Change Vulnerability in South Africa?- Chapter 4: The Political Economy of Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Nigeria -- Chapter 5: Parliamentary Female Representation and Party Candidate Selection Methods in Zambia -- Chapter 6: The Role of Legislature in Achieving Gender Responsive Budgeting in Nigeria.-Chapter 7: Gender Pay Gap and Pension Fund for Women in South Africa -- Chapter 8: Financial Inclusion for Women in Nigeria: Much Ado About Access -- Chapter 9: Financial Exclusion, Gender, and the Lure of Boko Haram Vesna Markovic and Sven Botha -- Chapter 10: The Role of Gender-budgeting in Mainstreaming Women in Peacebuilding in Africa -- Chapter 11: Can women put their breasts on a hot paraffin lantern and go to sleep? Interrogating the anguish of financing Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) with microcredits in Nigeria. .