COVID-19

Environmental Sustainability and Sustainable Development Goals
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-981-16-3862-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 306 g

Reihe: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes

This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on environmental sustainability and SDG’s, using various case studies. The year 2020 was a historical year mainly due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19 and it influenced or affected the global economy, business models and the industrial sectors, thus impacting sustainability in various ways. Given that sustainability has many faces and facets, it is worthwhile to deal with the relation (or impact) of COVID-19 on various elements of sustainability. This book presents how COVID-19 has influenced Environmental Sustainability along with the SDG’s.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muthu, Subramanian Senthilkannan

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Sustainability In Covid-19 Times: A Human Development Perspective.- COVID-19 and Sustainable Development Goal 12.- Traffic Incidents During The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Step Towards Meeting The Sustainable Development Goals.- Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainability in Textile & Clothing Sectors.- Environmental sustainability and COVID-19 pandemics: an overview review on new opportunities and challenges.- Healthy Sustainable Cities and the COVID-19 pandemic: A Sustainable Development Goals perspective.- Climate Change and COVID-19: Crisis within Crises for Eradication of Poverty in Bangladesh.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Ecological Footprint and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decades of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.