Sustainable energy systems is a crucial designing factor for environmentally responsible and resource efficient buildings.

The new Springer book series called "Urban Computing" is a joint initiative with the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). This series addresses issues and new developments in urban environments such as: city life improvement through Mobile Services and Big Data, crowdsourced data acquisition in urban environments, cyber-physical systems, e-Health and m-Health, e-Government, green computing in urban environments and human mobility.

Transdisciplinary systems engineering incorporates human and social sciences as well as traditional systems engineering methods to design today's complex systems.

If designed using systems thinking, a sustainable city can be more than the sum of its parts.

Headwater streams are crucial in securing global freshwater resources, but they remain poorly understood and even more poorly protected.

A new Springer textbook lays the technical foundations for the Internet of Things.

China has embarked on a major program to build green, low-carbon and livable cities whose design is modeled on the function of the human body.