Long-Term Farming Systems Research - Chapter 1: Long-term experiments in agriculture: stages, challenges, and precautions

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Ensuring Food Security in Changing Scenarios, 2020, Pages 3-12
Advancing SDGs 2, 12 and 15, this chapter contributes to an understanding of the long-term impacts, challenges and benefits of agronomic practices impacts.
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Water Conservation and Wastewater Treatment in BRICS Nations - Chapter 16 - Indigenous knowledge systems in sustainable water conservation and management

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Water Conservation and Wastewater Treatment in BRICS Nations, Technologies, Challenges, Strategies and Policies, 2020, Pages 321-328
Considering the significance of the indigenous knowledge systems toward addressing key environmental concerns, in this chapter, an attempt has been undertaken to address the indigenous knowledge system for water conservation and management.
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National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS); Sustainable consumption and production; Water and sanitation; Energy Conservation; Water Conservation; Indigenous Knowledge; Sustainable Water Management, Global

A Practical Guide to Plastics Sustainability: Chapter 11 - Plastics Sustainability: Drivers and Obstacles

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Biron, A Practical Guide to Sustainability, 2020, pages 557-593
This book chapter advances SDGs 11, 12, and 15 by discussing the key drivers, obstacles, and opportunities in plastics sustainability, offering a balanced analysis of current challenges and solutions supporting the more sustainable production, use, and re-use of plastics, which are valuable materials with critical applications across civilization.
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Sustainable consumption and production; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Green economy, Global

Remote Sensing of Geomorphology - Chapter 9: Remote sensing for the analysis of anthropogenic geomorphology: Potential responses to sediment dynamics in the agricultural landscapes

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Paolo Tarolli, Giulia Sofia, Chapter 9 - Remote sensing for the analysis of anthropogenic geomorphology: Potential responses to sediment dynamics in the agricultural landscapes, Editor(s): Paolo Tarolli, Simon M. Mudd, Developments in Earth Surface Processes, Elsevier, Volume 23, 2020, Pages 255-269, ISSN 0928-2025, ISBN 9780444641779, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-64177-9.00009-6.
This chapter advances UN SDG goal 12 by enabling the quantification of geomorphological changes in response to agricultural activities
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Climate Change and Food Security with Emphasis on Wheat - Chapter 1: Better farming practices to combat climate change

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Climate Change and Food Security with Emphasis on Wheat, 2020, Pages 1-29
As climate impacts farming, so does farming impact climate change. Identifying best-practices that optimise food security while protecting the environment is a key to sustainable food security. This chapter contributes to SDGs 2, 3 and 12.
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Sustainable consumption and production; Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Health and wellbeing; Health and population; Climate Change, Global

Towards Sustainable Chemical Processes: Chapter 1 - Sustainability assessment for chemical product and process design during early design stages

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Towards Sustainable Chemical Processes, 2020, Pages 3-41
Sustainability assessment of chemical product and process design is essential to reducing waste and improving industrial sustainability. This book chapter advances SDGs 9 and 12.
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Climate Change and Food Security with Emphasis on Wheat - Chapter 1: Better farming practices to combat climate change

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Climate Change and Food Security with Emphasis on Wheat, 2020, Pages 1-29
This book chapter addresses SDGs 12 and 13 by explaining how agricultural machinery has lead to negative environmental impacts and that there are sustainable production methods to create a whole-farm management approach.
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Climate Change and Soil Interactions - Chapter 24: Plant–soil interactions as a restoration tool

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Climate Change and Soil Interactions, 2020.
This book chapter advances SDGs 15 and 12 by studying plant–soil interactions in mine degraded reclaimed land which provides an important foundation for restoration ecology.
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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture, Global

Plastic Waste and Recycling - Chapter 9: Microplastics: from origin to impacts

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Plastic Waste and Recycling, Environmental Impact, Societal Issues, Prevention, and Solutions, 2020, pages 223 - 249
This book chapter addresses goals 14, 15, and 12 by exploring the origins of microplastics (relating to our society, production and consumption) and the diverse and harmful impacts of microplastics in the marine environment on life underwater, as well as interactions with humans and other life on land at the end of the cycle.
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Oceans & Seas; Sustainable consumption and production; Chemicals and waste; Biodiversity and ecosystems, Global

Food and Society - Chapter 12: Food: natural and environmental considerations

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Food and Society, 2020, Pages 247-255

Environmentalism and sustainability are two buzzwords that have come to represent an awakening of the people's collective conscience over the last two decades or so.

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