Drawing on almost 20 years of Liam Leonard's research in the field, The Sustainable Nation: Politics, Economy and Justice provides a detailed case study of a modern European state's tumultuous development through first decades of the Millennium. As the Republic of Ireland experienced an initial...

An Approach to Describe Design Pattern Structures for Sustainable Software Products -- A Taxonomy about Information Systems Complexity and Sustainability -- Microservice-based Architecture for the Integration of Data Backends and Dashboard Applications in the Energy and EnvironmentDomains -- A...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Recent Research on Climate Change and Food Security -- Chapter 3. Assessment of Climate Change and Adaptation Policies for Sustainable Food Security -- Chapter 4. Food Security Challenges of Climate Change: An Analysis for Policy Selection in Malaysia --...

This book provides an interdisciplinary account of how technological advances - mainly in the domains of energy and transportation - contribute to the transformation towards a more sustainable economic system. Drawing on methods from engineering, the management sciences and economics, which it...

1. Introduction -- 2. Biophysical Context of the Economy -- 3. Simple Physical Model of Nature and Economy -- 4. Subsystem Model of the Economy -- 5. Rationale for an Economics of a Crowded Planet -- 6. Economic Orthodoxy and Emerging Pluralism -- 7. The Economics of Nature -- 8. Conventional...

Part I. State of the Art -- 1. An Overview of Green Finance -- 2. Defining Green Finance: Existing Standards and Main Challenges -- 3. The Development of Green Finance by Sector -- 4. Sustainable Finance Management -- 5. Financial Performances of Green Securities -- 6. Institutional Initiatives...