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Environmental Sustainability and Sustainable Development Goals

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Editors:
  1. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

    1. Head of Sustainability, SgT and API, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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  • Highlights the impact of COVID-19 on environmental sustainability and SDG’s, using various case studies
  • Discusses the impact on climate change due to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Presents an interesting case study of COVID-19 impact on responsible production and consumption

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Sustainability in Covid-19 Times: A Human Development Perspective

    • Carla Patricia Finatto, Camilla Gomes da Silva, Ana Regina de Aguiar Dutra, André Borchardt Deggau, Anelise Leal Vieira Cubas, Elisa Helena Siegel Moecke et al.
    Pages 1-34

  3. COVID-19 and Sustainable Development Goal 12: What Are the Impacts of the Pandemic on Responsible Production and Consumption?

    • Ritanara Tayane Bianchet, Ana Paula Provin, Valeria Isabela Beattie, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra
    Pages 35-71

  4. Traffic Incidents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Step Towards Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals

    • Marina Leite de Barros Baltar, Victor Hugo Souza de Abreu, Glaydston Mattos Ribeiro, Fábio Ramos
    Pages 73-91

  5. Impact of COVID-19 on Sustainability in Textile & Clothing Sectors

    • Bhagyashri N. Annaldewar, Nilesh C. Jadhav, Akshay C. Jadhav
    Pages 93-116

  6. Environmental Sustainability and COVID-19 Pandemic: An Overview Review on New Opportunities and Challenges

    • Bassazin Ayalew Mekonnen, Tadele Assefa Aragaw
    Pages 117-140

  7. Healthy Sustainable Cities and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Sustainable Development Goals Perspective

    • Stephane Louise Boca Santa, Graziela Oste Graziano Cremonezi, Thiago Coelho Soares, André Borchardt Deggau, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra
    Pages 141-167

  8. Climate Change and COVID-19: Crisis Within Crises for Eradication of Poverty in Bangladesh

    • Shamima Ferdousi Sifa, Rukhsar Sultana, Md. Bodrud-Doza
    Pages 169-188
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Head of Sustainability, SgT and API, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

About the editor

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.

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