Sustaining our Environment for Better Future Challenges and Oppo
This book covers a variety of topics regarding environmental practices in our day-to-day lives, as well as topics concerning sustainable development as a broader concept embracing ecological, social, and economic aspects to improve the quality of life for
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Sustaining our Environment for Better Future Challenges and Opportunities
Sustaining our Environment for Better Future
Abdelnaser Omran • Odile Schwarz-Herion Editors
Sustaining our Environment for Better Future Challenges and Opportunities
Editors Abdelnaser Omran Faculty of Engineering Sciences Bright Star University El-brega, Libya
Odile Schwarz-Herion Dres. Schwarz-Herion KG Detective Agency Ettlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
ISBN 978-981-13-7157-8 ISBN 978-981-13-7158-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7158-5
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Preface
Sustaining our environment is the major theme of the book. It provides a foundation for understanding how our unsuspecting practices and activities such as improper waste disposal, polluting water by dumping waste into rivers, littering on the sidewalk, or even in wells or streams, smoke generated by cars and other motor vehicles, burning rubbish, deforestation, etc., in fact, all such unacceptable practices, have harmed the environment in many ways and caused several negative impacts on our lives, natural resources like water, agriculture and food, as well as tourism, etc., many of which are ultimately deemed to be the main reason for climate change by some well-known scholars in the environmental and sustainability sectors. This book was written to help people make sense of the discussion on how to sustain our environment for a better future through the challenges that their respective countries or cities faced or are facing and what would be the best strategies to mitigate, reduce or even entirely eliminate all threats and damages to
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