The Challenge of Environmental Sustainability

Polar ice caps and mountain glaciers are experiencing rapidly increasing temperature and as a result are melting at an accelerating rate. The Arctic Climate 

PRODUCT ANNUAL EXPENDITURE (IN BILLION DOLLARS) SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC GOAL ADDITIONAL ANNUAL INVESTMENT NEEDED TO ACHIEVE GOAL (IN BILLION DOLLARS) 

Pet food in Europe and United States 17 Elimination of hunger and malnutrition 19 

Off the coast of Nova Scotia, ice on Northumberland Strait has been so thin and unstable during the past few winters that thousands of gray seals crawled on unaccustomed islands to give birth. Storms and high tides washed 1500 newborn seal pups out to sea last year. 

According to a new study funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, 75 percent of the farmland in sub-Saharan Africa is severely degraded and is being depleted of basic soil nutrients at an ominous rate, deepening a food production crisis that 

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Sisal fiber has very important contribution to meet the future challenges of environmental sustainability in the packaging market. This has further mass scope when it combined with bio-based polymers in developing composite materials to use as packaging materials in the future. The packaging materials for bags, boxes, crates, containers, which are now made of wood can be replaced by cost-effective sisal fiber reinforced composites [17]. The estimated demand for the package materials works out to 93 lakh tons. 

Adhesion science and technology are deeply involved in contemporary industrial culture. The question of environmental sustainability presents a major challenge to this culture. It is, therefore, a relevant subject for this volume. 

Arthington AH, Bunn SE, LeRoy Poff N et al (2006) The challenge of providing environmental flow rules to sustain river ecosystems. Ecol Appl 16 1311-1318... 

It also aims at the utilization of renewable resources with the challenge of replacing oil-based chemicals and fuels. Environmental processes play a major role in industrial biotechnology, enabling clean and sustainable production and, furthermore, providing a safe environment most notably in crowded areas, big cities, and industrial areas. These technologies represent big business. 

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