Empowering Resilient Communities Through Climate Action, Renewable Energy, and Waste Management

Communities around the world are facing growing challenges from climate change and increasing waste, yet these challenges also present powerful opportunities for transformation. Improving resilient communities means equipping people with the knowledge and systems needed to adapt and lead sustainable change. By integrating renewable energy solutions and effective waste management, communities can reduce environmental impacts and enhance social well-being. Empowering Resilient Communities Through Climate Action, Renewable Energy, and Waste Management explores how climate change and its consequences affect citizens and governments. It examines global sustainable policies and strategies that could be implemented to combat climate change. Covering topics such as renewable energy, climate change, and waste management, this book is an excellent resource for academicians, researchers, policy makers, climate researchers, and graduate students.

Seda Yıldırım currently works at Tekirdag Namık Kemal University in Turkey. She has a doctoral degree (PhD) in marketing. She studies on sustainable development, 2030 sustainable development goals, sustainable consumption patterns, consumption patterns, environmental quality and food security. She is married and has two children. She has over a thousand citations by Google scholar. She has many publications in journals indexed by Web of Science (SSCI, SCI-Exp, ESCI and others) and SCOPUS. She published several book chapters in IGI Global publishing. She won Emerald literati award-Outstanding Paper award 2022.

Valentin Vasilev is a professor of "National Security" ("Crisis Situations and Human Resource Management") at the Higher School of Security and Economics /HSSE/, city of Plovdiv and head of the "Center for Leadership and Public Policies" at the same educational institution. In the period from 2000 to 2021, he was part of the South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Blagoevgrad, being the deputy dean of the Faculty of Law and History from 2010 to 2019. He is the author of more than a hundred publications in scientific publications in Bulgaria and abroad, as well as seven monographic publications in the field of human resources management, crisis situations; the team form of work; motivation and organizational behavior; public management and public policies and others.Professor Vasilev has extensive practical experience in the public sector, such as: Deputy Mayor of Blagoevgrad Municipality /2007-2010/; Public Mediator /Ombudsman/ of the Municipality of Blagoevgrad.