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Tenable Engineering for a Sustainable Future: Integrating SDGs and Natural Resource Utilization offers a comprehensive exploration of sustainable resource management. It delves into how natural resources can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This book highlights innovative ideas and technologies to encourage sustainable development and responsible resource utilization. To offer innovative solutions, each chapter will include experts from diverse disciplines as they examine eco-friendly practices across various global regions.
List of contents
1. Finite Natural Resources & Tenable Engineering
2. Natural resources and the sustainable development drive in Central Africa
3. Meeting the SDGs in West Africa: What role can natural resources play?
4. Natural resources and the need to achieve sustainable development in North Africa: A difficult compromise
5. Attaining sustainable development in Southern Africa: what is the place of Natural resources?
6. Is East Africa’s development tied to its natural resource potential? A critical analysis
7. Reconciling the need for sustainable development and the exploitation of natural resources in the Amazon Rainforest regions, South America
8. Natural resource abundance in the Middle East: Blessing or curse for the sub-region?
9. Reconciling natural resource exploitation and the need for sustainable development and environmental protection in the Caribbean
10. Rapid growth and economic development of countries in south, southeast Asia and Oceania: Driven by human resources or abundant natural resources?
About the author
David S.-K. Ting is the founder of the Turbulence and Energy Laboratory at the University of Windsor, through which he supervises students primarily on energy and thermofluids. He is a prolific author/editor and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta (APPEGA); Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO); the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE); the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); the Engineering Society for Advancing Mobility Land Sea Air and Space (SAE). He has edited several books for Elsevier, the most recent ones especially focused on sustainable engineering and development practices.Nyong Princely is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Forestry and Wildlife Technology, College of Technology, The University of Bamenda, Cameroon. Dr. Awazi has been involved in research and consultancy on the cross-cutting themes of agroforestry, forestry, ecotourism, climate change mitigation and adaptation, natural resource management, and biodiversity conservation. He has (co)authored over 80 publications in journal and books. He serves as a Climate Change Consultant for FOKABS Canada, and a Biodiversity Conservation and Ecotourism Consultant for LEORON Institute, Saudi Arabia.
