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Progress in Sustainable Development: Sustainable Engineering Practices provides readers with the latest research and best practices in sustainable engineering in the fields of urban, environmental, energy and sustainability sciences, reflecting a focus on state-of-the art insights and the latest developments. Chapters focus on the key engineering principles of effective resource use, reduction of excess waste, and taking advantage of natural resources to equip readers with the background information and practical considerations of successful implementations of sustainable technical solutions. Each chapter features detailed case studies and figures showing real-world applications of the latest technologies, ensuring they are reproduceable by the reader. The multidisciplinary chapters include environmentally-friendly technologies and the application of novel initiatives in engineering for infrastructure, renewable energy generation, advanced materials and waste, among other areas, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and conservation of resources.

Sustainable engineering.

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Sustainable transportation. --- Sustainable engineering --- Transportation

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The collection is aimed mainly at promoting the development of Green Building, Materials and Civil Engineering, at strengthening international academic cooperation and communication and at exchanging new research ideas. These proceedings will provide readers with a broad overview of the latest advances made in the field of Buildings, Materials and Civil Engineering. Eight volumes hold roughly 1,000 papers (selected from 2,000 submissions) representing the August 2011 conference, which is identified by the acronym GBMCE. Held in Shangri-La, China, the conference attracted participation from 22

Sustainable construction --- Green construction --- Building --- Sustainable engineering

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Sustainable construction. --- Green construction --- Building --- Sustainable engineering

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"Industry 4.0 technologies are expected to have a positive impact on the global economy by promoting autonomous interoperability, agility, flexibility, decision-making, efficiency or cost reduction, which are also expected to be resource efficient. However, new and emerging technologies can also have potentially harmful social and environmental impacts that must be considered. The goal of this book is to provide a deeper understanding of how Industry 4.0 technologies can benefit or harm the environmental sustainability of companies. To this end, it presents a classification of Industry 4.0 technologies and evaluates for each typology the positive and negative aspects of their implementation. Thus, the book considers Industry 4.0 technology and environmental sustainability from the perspective of management on the one hand and from the perspective of technology users on the other. The book is of interest to researchers from various disciplines who approach Industry 4.0 technologies from a business perspective, and on the other hand to managers and strategic consultants who want to promote sustainable change in their companies." -- Publisher's descriptions.

Industry 4.0 --- Sustainable engineering. --- Environmental aspects.