Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Diversität spiegelt sich in einer großen Anzahl von neuen Wörtern. Sie begegnen uns in Gesprächen, Diskussionen, in den Medien und sind Ausdruck unserer sich dynamisch verändernden Gesellschaft. Woher kommen diese Begriffe und wie werden sie verwendet? Anhand von 100 Wörtern gibt dieses Buch nicht nur Auskunft über ihre Schreibung und Bedeutung. Es versteht sich als "anderes Wörterbuch", indem es 100 namhafte Persönlichkeiten mit Diskussionsbeiträgen zu Wort kommen lässt. Zusätzliche Orientierung und Hintergrundwissen bieten 29 Infografiken sowie mehr als 1100 Quellen und Medienhinweise

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 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.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 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. .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 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.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 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 .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: 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. .

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: A Comprehensive Survey on IIoT solutions: Challenges and issues -- A review of machine learning for smart building energy management -- A Review of the Artificial Neural Network Models for Water Quality Prediction -- Air Pollution Analysis based Raspberry Pi -- An overview of security and privacy in smart grids based IoT solutions -- Application of artificial neural network modeling for the forecast wastewater treatment -- Big Data for Internet of Things: a comparative study Decision Support System for Water Resources Management -- Edge-based Infrared-ultrasonic Radar System for Robotic Obstacle Tracking, Avoidance and Out-of-Sight Remote Control Applications.-Energy Management for Werless sensors -- Intelligent Urban Transport Decision Analysis System Based Big Data -- IoT and Reality Mining for Real-Time flood Prediction -- IoT based WSN for Air Pollution Monitoring -- IoT solutions for smart irrigation monitoring -- SMART Agriculture using IoT -- Thermochemical study of the degradation of the panels of wings in a space shuttle by utilization of HSC Chemistry Software and its database.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: An Approach to Cultural Landscapes in the Age of Resilience -- Resilience: a co-evolutionary concept -- Landscape: definitions and operational concepts -- The “Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato”: a UNESCO case study between persistence and change -- The “Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato”: new identities and continuation of a cultural landscape -- The “Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato”: strategies and objectives for a resilient planning -- The “Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces”: a UNESCO case study between persistence and change -- The “Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces”: new identities and continuation of a cultural landscape -- An integrated management and governance for a productive UNESCO cultural landscape.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Preface -- Land in Economic Theory -- Empires & Colonialism : Indigenous Land Claims -- Plantations -- Religious Trusts: Waqf Lands -- Dispossession due to War and Conflict: Palestine and Cyprus -- Claim Settlement: International Land Commission -- Sustainable Tourism Development -- Land for Sustainable Industrial Development -- Foreign Ownership and Investment Incentives for Sustainable Development -- Sustainable Land Development: Urbanization, Water & Food Security.

Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction: The embeddedness of circularity in everyday slum living in Global South cities -- Linking informal settler practices and circular principles in Global South: Lessons from Asian and Latin American Cities -- Modern Vernacular Architecture and Circular Economy in Informal Settlements -- Exploring Circular Economy Awareness, Perceptions and Practices in Selected Urban Slums in Kigali City of Rwanda -- Recycling from Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste: Exploring the Scope of Circular Management in Constructing Slum Dwellings of Dhaka -- Circularities in Housing Transformation Practices: A Synergetic Review -- Circular economy in Africa’s informal cities: A review of residents' value retention practices and their implications for participatory urban planning -- Circularizing livelihoods: Transforming agricultural residues to electricity in low-income periurban areas of Uganda -- Metropolitan Cartography: A novel approach for assessing how new morpho-types solutions impact the circular city agenda. The Ouagadougou Case Study -- Closing the policy-implementation gaps in e-waste management: Implications for circular economy and sustainability in urban Ghana -- Towards Just Circular Transitions in the of Slums Global South Cities.