Publications
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Thermophiles and Thermozymes
(2019)
Interest in the study of life in hot environments, both with respect to the inhabiting microorganisms and the enzymes they produce, is currently very high. The biological mechanisms responsible for the resistance to high ...
Surface Modification to Improve Properties of Materials
(2019)
This book contains selected contributions on surface modification to improve the properties of solid materials. The surface properties are tailored either by functionalization, etching, or deposition of a thin coating. ...
Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
(2016)
Summary/Description for Distribution Channels: The present printed edition of the Special Issue “Surface Chemistry and Catalysis” published in Catalysts aims to cover some of the recent advances in the field of heterogeneous ...
Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action
(2015)
China’s road to sustainability has attracted global attention. Since the “Reform & Opening Up” policy, China’s rapid pace of both urbanization and industrialization has made its being the second largest economy but meantime ...
Sustainability Assessments of Buildings
(2017)
International research has confirmed that the built environment is the most promising sector for a rapid transition to sustainability. In this scenario, many examples of sustainable urban environments are showing the ...
Sustainable Built Environment and Urban Growth Management
(2020)
Nowadays, the sustainable built environment planning in most cities has come to a turning point as the growth in traffic and population has become a serious concern and put tremendous pressure on both the environment and ...
Sustainability Transition Towards a Bio-Based Economy: New Technologies, New Products, New Policies
(2018)
This book proposes an array of 11 key papers aimed at investigating the complex and multifaceted nature of the bio-based economy, focusing both on a conceptual understanding of the transition and on the measurement issues ...
Sustainable Agriculture–Beyond Organic Farming
(2016)
The current conception of organic farming is the result of nearly a century of intellectual thought and dialogue, field observations and experiences, systematic experimentation, and codification of rules. Debates on the ...
Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change
(2018)
Sustainability covers environmental, social and economic dimensions, and requires a multi-disciplinary approach in order to examine, explore and critically engage with issues and advances in its related areas. As we are ...
Sustainable Business Models
(2019)
The dynamically changing world economy, in an era of intensive development and globalization, creates new needs in both the theoretical models of management and in the practical discussion related to the perception of ...