Author: M. Ziya Sogut
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031301714
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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The International Symposium on Energy Management and Sustainability (ISEMAS) is a multi-disciplinary symposium that presents research on current issues in energy efficiency, social awareness, and global climate change. The conference provides a platform offering insights on the latest trends and innovations in energy management and the impact of sustainability on energy management processes. In this context, it aims to bring together sectoral, scientific, and demand-related elements in the field of energy. ISEMAS allows researchers, scientists, engineers, practitioners, policymakers, and students to exchange information, present new technologies and developments, and discuss future direction, strategies and priorities that improve environmental sustainability.
Author: González-Lezcano, Roberto Alonso
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1668440326
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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Global environmental challenges such as climate change, rapid urbanization, and human influence on the environment continue to grow. Many of these resulting risks lead to diseases and negative impacts on health and quality of life. It is now essential to develop more sustainable and healthy environments with greater focus on prevention by targeting the root causes of disease. Urban communities comprise a high concentration of services, consumption, and waste and represent an unsustainable pattern of urbanization that accelerates the decline of global ecosystems services rather than supporting them through the compensatory contributions of peri-urban and rural areas. By focusing on reducing environmental and social risk factors, almost a quarter of the global burden of disease can be avoided through better health promotion strategies and improved prevention and hygiene measures. Urban Sustainability and Energy Management of Cities for Improved Health and Well-Being highlights the interdisciplinary connections between the environment and human health, focusing on new ideas and suggestions for promoting both sustainable development and human health and well-being. It creates a new approach to the analysis of human impacts on the natural environment and, conversely, determines how the environment can modulate human lifestyles and health. Furthermore, this book explores opportunities and challenges urban communities face as they seek to become sustainable systems embedded in their diverse and complex social and environmental contexts. Covering topics such as affordable housing, ecological waste materials, and urban health, this premier reference source is an essential resource for environmentalists, civil engineers, government officials, architects, libraries, students and educators of higher education, urban planners, researchers, and academicians.
Author: Edoardo Favari
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031308794
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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This book showcases the discussion about megaprojects carried out at the MeRIT (Megaproject Research Interdisciplinary Team) workshop 2022: the crisis, discontinuity, rising prices, and supply chains disruption force radical reflection for those involved in megaprojects. It raises a modern-day challenge, the creation of value for stakeholders. Indeed, the aim of the volume is to encourage readers to think more broadly, articulately and less stringently than the mainstream claims. There is a need to design, implement, and manage megaprojects by abandoning the old paradigm that leveraged solely on time and cost. We need to move beyond that by going to explore the value generated, the positive impact on people, communities and territories. Economic, social and environmental sustainability takes on a new and broader articulation: issues of the circular economy applied to megaprojects are addressed and ample space is ensured for the inclusion of social needs in current practices.
Author: O.V. Gnana Swathika
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0443221863
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Microgrid Systems: A Practical Guide to Communication Technologies and Resilience presents the opportunities and challenges of using communication network technology to integrate distributed generation systems into microgrids. Working their way through case studies and theoretical strategies, the global range of authors analyze the particular needs of different system structures, including DC, AC-DC and hybrid microgrids, island-bound or grid-connected systems, and case studies in wind power and photovoltaic systems. Risks arising from the communication networks are addressed in detail, with strategies covered including modelling, cyber-physical security set-ups, applications of blockchain, demand-response analyses, and the impact and mitigation of cyber-attacks. Power-electronics interfaces for the integration of these technologies are demonstrated and explained. With a wealth of real-world, practical advice for the implementation and protection of these communication strategies, Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Microgrid Systems will be a useful resource for researchers and industry professionals developing the sustainable energy systems of the future. - Provides a practical reference for resilience in the cyber-physical microgrid with distributed and renewable integration - Summarizes the opportunities and challenges arising from the implementation of communication technologies - Includes simulations, models, case studies, and test codes to maximize practical application for students and professionals
Author: Surender Reddy Salkuti
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031183894
Category : Smart power grids
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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This book presents mathematical models of various renewable energy sources (RESs) such as wind energy systems, solar PV systems, battery energy storage systems, pumped-storage hydropower, biomass, and electric vehicles (EVs). It also discusses the challenging task of the integration of high penetration of renewable energies and EVs within existing power systems. The uncertainty related to RESs, electric vehicle charging, and load demands is also modelled. The book provides illustrative and comprehensive practical case studies to enable a complete understanding of the proposed methodologies. This book will consider the nuances of all these new paradigms, smart grid components, technology, and the impact of energy storage, EVs, and distributed energy resources, in the power networks.
Author: Khang, Alex
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1668488531
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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The recent advancements in the field of the internet of things (IoT), AI, big data, blockchain, augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR), cloud platforms, quantum computing, cybersecurity, and telecommunication technology enabled the promotion of conventional computer-aided industry to the metaverse ecosystem that is powered by AR/VR-driven technologies. In this paradigm shift, the integrated technologies of IoT and AI play a vital role to connect the cyberspace of computing systems and virtual environments. AR/VR supports a huge range of industrial applications such as logistics, the food industry, and manufacturing utilities. AI-Based Technologies and Applications in the Era of the Metaverse discusses essential components of the metaverse ecosystem such as concepts, methodologies, technologies, modeling, designs, statistics, implementation, and maintenance. Covering key topics such as machine learning, deep learning, quantum computing, and blockchain, this premier reference source is ideal for computer scientists, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.
Author: Yu-Dong Zhang
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811699674
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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This book gathers high-quality papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Smart Trends in Computing and Communications (SmartCom 2022), organized by Global Knowledge Research Foundation (GR Foundation) in partnership with IFIP InterYIT during January 11–12, 2022. It covers the state of the art and emerging topics in information, computer communications, and effective strategies for their use in engineering and managerial applications. It also explores and discusses the latest technological advances in, and future directions for, information and knowledge computing and its applications.
Author: Eunika Mercier-Laurent
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030965929
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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This book features a selection of extended papers presented at the 9th IFIP WG 12.6 International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management, AI4KM 2021, and the 1st International Workshop on Energy and Sustainability, AIES 2021, named AI4KMES 2021 and held in conjunction with IJCAI 2021 in August 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Montréal, Canada, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 15 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They deal with knowledge management and sustainability challenges, focusing on methodological, technical and organizational aspects of AI used for facing related complex problems. This year's topic was AI for Knowledge Management, Energy and Sustainable Future.
Author: Dinis, Ana Arromba
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 166848594X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Since environmental issues entered the global agenda, governments have directing businesses towards sustainability. The term "sustainability" is commonly associated with a firm’s environmental attentiveness, although there are two other areas in which companies should be sustainable: social, to achieve an adequate relationship and fluid communication with their stakeholders, and economic, to accomplish transparent management and correct distribution of the wealth that is generated. The growing demand for corporate transparency encourages the publication of sustainability or corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports, providing information of a non-financial nature concerning the social and environmental dimensions of business activity, namely relations with local communities, the protection of human rights, corporate governance, and adaptation to climate change. Being no exception, and following the European agenda for sustainability development, several governments have implemented tax measures that promote sustainable consumption and production patterns to reduce energy dependence on external sources and efficiently achieve international targets, among others, within a context of neutrality of the tax system. This is where environmental tax incentives come in, underlying a paradigm shift. The relationship between tax policy and environmental policy is seen by governments as an opportunity to adjust the tax system to a more energy-efficient economy in the use of resources. For instance, green tax incentives motivate investors to invest in green properties, encouraging them to opt for greener solutions. That is, tax incentives should be viewed as a tool to empower taxpayers to change actions that may reduce carbon emissions and contribute to sustainability. Taking on Climate Change Through Green Taxation provides applied research on increasing green tax literacy to build the capacity of companies to adopt sustainable practices in favor of environmental protection, to raise companies' awareness of sustainable reporting, and to increase international discussion on the issue of environmental taxation and its impact on more sustainable business decisions. Led by business experts with over 20 years of experience, this book will cover topics such as corporate social responsibility, environmental tax management, and sustainable tax policy. This resource is ideal for policymakers, corporate governance and social responsibility professionals, and researchers interested in taxation, accounting, auditing, finance, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility.
Author: Elena G. Popkova
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832523722
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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