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Seeking methods for improving sustainability in the extractive sector
Extractive resources are indisputably a necessary component of international sustainable development. Despite current advancements in the circular economy, world production needs for raw materials are ever increasing, and still a long way remains for it to ...
EPFL2021Environmental Reporting, Between Strategic Management and "Greenwashing"?
Environmental reporting as part of Corporate Social Responsibility reporting (CSR) is one of the governance tools increasingly used by companies to measure, analyse and communicate on their ecological information. The rules and standards governing their en ...
Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019A collaborative platform to empower local actions against energy poverty
Energy Poverty alleviation measures often require large public investments. However, successfully targeting the beneficiaries can be hard due to the territorial specificity of the issue. Decentralized collective impact ecosystems leveraging on social innov ...
2019The Significance of Corporate Social Disclosure for High-Tech Manufacturing Companies: Focus on Employee and Community Aspects of Sustainable Development
Addressing a global key sector area - the high technology manufacturing sector - we examine if there is truly a benefit of corporate social disclosure to the bottom line of organizations within this sector and if stakeholders should devote more attention t ...
Wiley2017Kinetics, Mechanics and Micro-structure of Bio-cemented Soils
The quest for novel, performant materials and methods in the engineering practice is driven nowadays by the need to offer solutions to complex problems by coupling technical innovation with environmental responsibility. Such problems emerge in the geo-tech ...
EPFL2017Management, Organizational and Sociomateriality Issues in The Social Intranet Adoption at Pirelli
The increasing adoption of Social Intranets and other social technologies in organizations are transforming how people work together, share knowledge and learn. This, however, does not come without challenges since the impacts can be heterogeneous: employe ...
2016The Formal and Hidden Curricula of Ethics in Engineering Education
Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Cécile Hardebolle, Ingrid Le Duc
In recent years, a commitment to professional ethics and professional responsibility has been included among the learning outcomes required of engineering education programmes in many counties. So, how should engineering ethics be taught? There is evidence ...
2015When Others Impinge upon Your Privacy
Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert
Privacy is defined as the right to control, edit, manage, and delete information about oneself and decide when, how, and to what extent this information is communicated to others. Therefore, every person should ideally be empowered to manage and protect hi ...
EPFL2015The usability of green building rating systems in hot arid climates: A case study in Siwa, Egypt
In the last three years there has been a proliferation of regional building rating systems across the Middle East. Most those emerging rating systems and labels imitate the British and American rating systems BREEAM and LEED that emerge from an impact redu ...
2013The political economy of climate policy
Implementation of policies and measures is an important feature of effective climate policy design. In the political decision process, implementation depends to some extent on interest group influence. This project deals with business interest groups influ ...
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