Territorial Transformation: Comparative Urban and Rural Studies explores key drivers of spatial change including globalization, technological innovation, demographic shifts, and environmental pressures reshaping territories. Through comparative analysis of urban and rural transformation processes, the text examines how economic restructuring, policy interventions, and social movements reconfigure spatial organization and territorial identities. The material demonstrates diverse transformat...

Urban-Rural Dynamics: Transition Challenges and Opportunities examines interconnections between urban and rural areas through migration, economic linkages, and spatial transformation processes. The text blends theoretical perspectives with case studies tracing how education, employment, infrastructure, and social networks shape rural-urban transitions. Through systematic analysis, the material demonstrates how urbanization processes create both challenges and opportunities for rural and ur...

Rural Development: Livelihoods and Policy Analysis explores contemporary rural development challenges through livelihood and policy perspectives. The text examines themes including livelihood diversification strategies, rural-urban migration patterns, health service access, education provision, and agricultural transformation. Through systematic analysis, the material demonstrates how economic, social, and environmental factors shape rural development trajectories. A key strength lies in p...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping global legal systems, redefining how laws are enforced and practiced across jurisdictions. From predictive analytics in judicial decision-making to cross-border compliance, AI technologies are challenging the legal norms while offering efficiencies and insights. As governments, courts, and legal professionals grapple with these innovations, questions emerge around accountability, bias, and the rule of law. Understanding how AI is transforming legal...

Both wheat and barley are two of the most important food and industrial crops in the world. Wheat and barley cultivation has experienced changes in practices due to factors such as methods of conservation agriculture, cropping systems, wheat varieties, changes in weather patterns, and international trade, necessitating new and different approaches for the successful management of emerging diseases and new pathotypes of pathogens. This valuable volume explores a multitude of new approaches ...

Climate change has intensified in recent decades, which has affected crop production as well as facilitated the emergence of new diseases and insect pests, causing serious threats to agriculture. Farmers have mostly taken a crop-based approach to insect pest management (IPM); the authors of this new volume, however, take the unique approach that IPM based on specific cropping systems is more efficient, resulting in reduced cultivation costs, increased yield and profitability, and decreased...

In recent years, the convergence of biotechnology and manufacturing has ushered in a new era of sustainable innovation and efficiency. Incorporating bio-based materials into smart manufacturing processes has become a crucial strategy to minimize environmental impact, promote circularity, and propel technological advancements across various industries. This handbook, divided into four key sections, is a comprehensive overview and a holistic approach to the principles, applications, challeng...

This book presents a thorough review of the state-of-knowledge and recent innovations in the synthesis of pure and improved grades of fly ash zeolites (FAZ). Addressing improvements to conventional methods, it also showcases a novel technique for the synthesis of high cation exchangers from fly ash and detailed characterization techniques for the products obtained. In addition, it examines in detail various areas of specific applications of fly ash zeolites.Over the years, several ...

This book highlights the environmental applications of plant-mediated carbon quantum dots, i.e., detection of heavy metals, sensing of toxic organic compounds, degradation of dyes and other toxic compounds, antioxidant activity, antimicrobial activity, detection of drugs, etc. This book presents the chemistry and mechanism behind the synthesis and various environmental applications of QDs. This book is beneficial for researchers, professionals and students working in the fields of environm...

The rise of rapid and uncontrolled industrialization, its alarming levels of hazardous waste produced, and their negative contribution to the international environmental epidemic of global warming — in addition to the decrease in room to dispose of these wastes safely — have put the pressure for many engineers, researchers, and key decision-makers to find the answers to the constant tussle between progress and sustainability — and quickly.Environmental Geotechnology revisits existing conce...

This book showcases advances in composite materials, hybrid systems, and additive manufacturing, connecting scientific principles with practical industrial applications. Authored by specialists from both academia and industry, it merges foundational knowledge with practical insights. The text commences with the development of metal matrix composites and progresses to advances in additive manufacturing within the framework of industry 5.0. The discussion extends to chemical treatments of na...

The progress of composite materials and material science has transformed several sectors, including aviation, biomedicine, aerospace and automotive industry, medicine, and manufacturing. These advancements have opened the path for the creation of innovative hybrid materials and biomaterials that will greatly improve performance, durability, and sustainability. The introduction of 3D printing and additive manufacturing methods, notably Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), has catapulted these a...