Series
Green Sciences
Sciences nowadays are required more than ever to address crucial issues, to tackle current problems and to provide solutions, in all orders and magnitudes from the atomic level to the global scale. Climatic change, shortage of resources, developing countries and industrialization in the context of globalization, starvation and malnutrition versus obesity, agricultural policies, genetically modified systems, environmental issues, increasing population and energy demand, extinction of species - the list of current hot topics cannot even be nearly exhaustive to fully reflect the complexity of a rapidly changing world and describe the intricacy of our rich but increasingly endangered planet.
The book series Green Sciences will provide a platform to leading scientists worldwide to discuss all facets of modern science with an emphasis on sustainable approaches, renewable resources, environmentally benign technologies and ecologically aware economics. This includes natural sciences, technology, environmental sciences, socio-economics and even politics. Thus the attribute “green” in the title series is understood in its broadest and most positive sense.
The series focuses on renewable resources in technology, industry, chemistry and as an increasingly important source of energy. Benign processes, syntheses and technology which aim to lower the impact of chemical processes on environment and resources are central to the definition of green “science”. The series balances the sustainable use of natural resources against the development of new material and energetic uses for those resources, and also reflects on the social, political, economical, educational and cultural ramifications of “green” decisions and technologies.
In each volume, innovative, cutting-edge research is concentrated and presented in a clear, comprehensible fashion to create a valuable reference for all working is this rapidly advancing field, and to provide the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary standard work on contemporary facets of Green Science currently available.
The series is divided into the following topics which might be expanded over time:
- Green Chemistry
- Green Energy
- Green Materials and Construction
- Green Technology in Production and Processing
- Green Economics
- Green Sciences and Society
For further information or submission of manuscripts please contact greensciences@degruyter.com.
Thomas Rosenau, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria; Leopold März, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria; Fumiaki Nakatsubo, Kyoto University, Japan; Christian Patermann, European Research Programme: Environment and Sustainable Development (retired), Brussels, Belgium; Franz Makeschin, Dresden University of Technology, Germany; Seiichi Ohta, Kyoto University, Japan.
