This book is essential reading for anyone engaged in the multi-billion dollar marina industry. Everyone, whether experienced marina operator, designer, developer or indeed anyone with an interest in refurbishing an existing property will find a wealth of information within the chapters. Readers are provided with a snapshot of the marina industry today and a look at tomorrow's information technology developments that will be pivotal to the success of the marina of the future. It gives detailed information on what a marina developer/designer should consider, when designing a new marina. In addition to compiling data that will be not found elsewhere - including global marina maps (showing 17300 marinas), the book explores in some depth the environmental issues in siting and designing marinas. This Book is been used as the primary textbook, by the University of IZMIR, for the 2 year course Marina Management and Sustainability.

MARINAS-Sustainable Solutions for a Profitable Business deserves a place on the desk and is essential reading material for any marina developer or operator. It gives a take on today's thought leadership that will become the benchmark for tomorrow's new and refurbished marinas.The first in a series, this book examines what is happening in today's marinas and explores the horizons of new technology and how they can be successfully applied to the business model.The authors demonstrate throughout the book how marinas that embrace the ethos of hospitality and design their facilities to provide an exceptional customer will be those that succeed.The book examines how marinas impact the environment, how they can be designed to blend with ecologically sensitive sites and the advent of the "green and clean" marina.It contains hitherto uncollected information and maps showing the location of the world's 17,300 marinas. With levels of detailed information not to be found anywhere in a single source, this book is one that no serious marina developer, owner or operator can afford to leave out of their library.

Supply chains are significant in improving business efficiency. Sustainable supply chains help industries enhance their ecological, monetary, and social performance. Innovative research frameworks as well as the modelling of sustainability issues are significant to different stakeholder’s perspectives. This book guides researchers and practitioners through developing effective sustainable supply chains to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book highlights the vital necessity for combining sustainable development processes from different areas, with applications in areas such as science, education and production sectors. These sectors have previously been separated by linguistic and technological barriers. Breaking down these barriers will allow an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary flow of information, leading to greater efficiency, and towards a more real resilient and sustainable economy development. This book fills in the gap in respect of publications addressing aspects of innovation and sustainable development and focuses on a range of areas, such as I. Gradual transition to innovative development; II. Continuity of technology in education, science and industry; III. Convergency directions, interdisciplinary relations in scientific research; IV. Digital technologies for sustainable development; V. Global trends and regional aspects of innovation and traditions in environmental management; VI. International legal regulations and environmental and economic relations among business communities. The publication fosters the global efforts towards taking better advantage of the many opportunities which innovation in specific areas may offer.

This book features the second volume of the proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism (IACuDiT). Held at the Syros Island in Greece in September 2022, the conference's lead theme was ‘Tourism, Travel, and Hospitality in a Smart and Sustainable World’. With a full appreciation of the contributions made by numerous writers toward the progress in tourism research, this book presents a critical academic discourse on sustainable practices in a smart tourism context, stimulating future debates and advancing knowledge and understanding in this critical area of knowledge. It also puts emphasis on the knowledge economy and smart destinations notion. It enacts new modes of tourism management and development and presents chapters on emerging technologies, such as location-based services, Internet of Things, smart cities, mobile services, gamification, digital collections and the virtual visitor, social media, social networking, and augmented reality

The 8th International Symposium "Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas. Problems and Measurements Techniques" was organized by CNR-IBE in collaboration with FCS Foundation, and Natural History Museum of the Mediterranean and under the patronage of University of Florence, Accademia dei Geogofili, Tuscany Region and Livorno Province. It is the occasion in which scholars can illustrate and exchange their activities and innovative proposals, with common aims to promote actions to preserve coastal marine environment. Considering Symposium interdisciplinary nature, the Scientific Committee, underlining this holistic view of Nature, decided to celebrate Alexander von Humboldt; a nature scholar that proposed the organic and inorganic nature’s aspects as a single system. It represents a sign of continuity considering that in-presence Symposium could not be carried out due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Subjects are related to coastal topics: morphology; flora and fauna; energy production; management and integrated protection; geography and landscape, cultural heritage and environmental assets, legal and economic aspects.

In this book, I simplify and operationalize the concept of sustainability. I demonstrate how embracing the tenets of sustainable solutions in an organization can lead to profitability while ensuring the needs of future generations are protected. Several companies have implemented sustainable solutions in their daily business operations. Microsoft, Trane, Cisco, Coca-Cola, and Nissan North America are some of the companies that have incorporated sustainable technologies such as using solar power, fuel-efficient vehicles, going paperless, lean workforce among others to stay profitable. I integrate the concept of sustainability by identifying key stakeholders of sustainable solutions. Additionally, there is an in-depth analysis of value chain and fitness landscape analyses of business operations, including a Boid analysis, General force matrix analysis, SWOT analysis, and Life cycle analysis assessment. The conclusions are geared towards providing an understanding of how these concepts fit together. This book is for advanced learners who are interested in business strategy and innovation that incorporates sustainable solutions as part of their strategic competitive advantage.