Elsevier, Future Forests: Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change, 2024, Pages 49-64
This chapter aligns with Goals 13 and 15 by providing a reminder of the wide range of essential ecological benefits of forests and of the many products and services humans derive from forests, and then summarize three hallmarks of healthy forests across ecosystems and conclude by leveraging what we know about forests in the past to propose five key principles for future forest management.
Elsevier, Oceans and Human Health, Second Edition, 2024, pp 1-20
This chapter aligns with Goals 3 and 14 by explaining the connection between the health of global oceans and the health and wellbeing of human populations increasingly reliant on ocean ecosystem services.
Elsevier, Earth Observation in Urban Monitoring Techniques and Challenges, 2024, Pages 339-358
This chapter aligns with Goals 6, 9 and 11 by detailing remote sensing for environmental considerations, water resource management, land use changes on urban heat islands, urban growth modeling and ecological monitoring
Elsevier, Artificial Intelligence Applications for Sustainable Construction, 2024, pages 93-121
This chapter aligns with Goals 9, 11, and 13 by focusing on the use of renewable and recyclable materials, as well as adoption of methods to reduce energy consumption and waste.
Elsevier, Advances in Bionanocomposites, 2023, pages 55-90
This chapter aligns with goals 6 and 9 by highlighting improved sustainability practices in terms of preparation, lifecycle, and application of bionanocomposites, including their application in wastewater remediation, biomedicine, and agriculture.
Elsevier, Sustainablility and Toxicity of Building Materials, 2024, pages 3-14
This chapter aligns with Goals 9, 11, 12 by emphasizing the responsible disposal of toxic building materials and providing guidance on selecting materials that have a positive effect on the health of occupants and the environment.
Elsevier, Unraveling Environmental Disasters, Second Edition, 2024, pp 469-509
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 13 and 14 by reviewing the impact of habitat degradation on local biodiversity and species invasions, particularly in the context of climate change and shifting habitat ranges.
Elsevier, Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological Systems, A Global Challenge: Facing Emerging Risks, Adapting to Changing Environments and Building Transformative Resilience in Mountain Regions Worldwide, 2024, pp 11-15
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 13 and 15 by reviewing the unique species assemblages of high-elevation ecosystems and biodiversity trends in the context of climate change.
Elsevier, Wetzel's Limnology, Fourth Edition: Lake and River Ecosystems, 2024, pp 859-892
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 11, 13, and 14 by reviewing the role of lakes and ponds in maintaining critical aquatic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the context of growing urbanization and climate change.
This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 13 and 15 by reviewing the biodiversity of soil fauna, they key roles these taxa play in ecosystem functioning, and their importance in the context of climate change.