This edited volume focuses on how we can protect our environment and enhance environmental sustainability when faced with changes and pressures imposed by our expansive needs. The volume unites multiple subject areas within sustainability, enabling the techniques and philosophy in the chapters to be applied to research areas in environmental science, plant sciences, energy, biodiversity and conservation. The chapters from expert contributors cover topics such as mathematical modelling tools used to monitor diversity of plant species, and the stability of ecosystem services such as biogeochemical cycling. Empirical research presented here also brings together mathematical developments in the important fields of robotics including kinematics, dynamics, path planning, control, vision, and swarmanoids.  

James N. Furze is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Environment and Technology at the University of the West of England.

Kelly Swing is a Professor of Environmental Science at the University of San Francisco de Quito and Director of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Quito, Ecuador.

Anil K. Gupta is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. He is the Coordinator of the Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI), Founder of the Honey Bee Network and Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation based in India.

Richard H. McClatchey is a Professor and Research Center Director at the Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems, University of the West of England, UK.