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. .

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: Introduction -- Brief History of South American Biogeography -- Short summary on main Cenozoic Fossiliferous Localities and South American Land Mammal Ages -- Major clades of South American Mammals -- Spendid Isolation Revisited: The Entente Cordiale Model.

Description / Table of Contents: 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.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: City Planning: Urbanization and Development -- Part 2: Enhancing Urban Environments: Open Spaces and Community Interactions -- Part 3: Past and Future: City's Image and Preservation -- Part 4: Evolving Architecture and Rethinking Cities.

Description / Table of Contents: 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.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction -- Part 2: Sustainability in the Fashion Industry -- Part 3: Design Innovations and Cultural Sustainability -- Part 4: Explorations of Multi-Dimensional Advocacy through Media and Design.

Description / Table of Contents: Fundamentals of geophysics, the Earth in the universe, its material composition, and its internal structure -- Radioactive decay and rock ages -- Earthquakes and Earth's structure -- Gravity field and figure of the Earth -- Earth's magnetic field and magnetosphere -- Earth's heat and temperature field.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Foreword -- Section I – A Regional Overview -- Reginal Issues -- Section III Cross Cutting Themes for Nexus Security -- Section IV – An Integral Narrative -- Case Studies -- List of Countries Involved.