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Changes in Employment Localization and Accessibility

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Until about the end of WWII, the territorial organization of the economy could be expressed along a very strong center-periphery gradient, with industries and services concentrated in cities while the countryside supplied agricultural products. Since the i ...

EPFL2011

Information and Communication Technology for Industrial Symbiosis

Guillaume Bastien Massard

Industrial symbiosis describes the mutualistic interaction of dif- ferent industries for beneficial reuse of waste flows or energy cascading that results in a more resource-efficient production system and fewer adverse environmental impacts. Research shows ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2010

Waste management policies for industrial symbiosis development: case studies in European countries

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Industrial symbiosis (IS) emerged as a self-organizing business strategy among firms that are willing to cooperate to improve their economic and environmental performance. The adoption of such cooperative strategies relates to increasing costs of waste man ...

Elsevier2010

Introduction to the special issue on Advances in Life-Cycle Approachesto Business and Resource Management in the Asia-Pacific Region

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This special issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production was initiated as a result of the 5th and 6th meetings of the Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production (APRSCP), which were held in Melbourne, Australia and Hanoi, Vietnam, re ...

Elsevier2009

Principe d'alimentation par convertisseurs multiniveaux à stockage intégré

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Facilities operating in cycles, such as particles accelerators, require pulsed power. Directly drawing this pulsed power from the industrial network is generally not acceptable. A system with a local energy storage system lessens the impact on the network. ...

EPFL2008

A 3D Shape Optimization Problem in Heat Transfer: Analysis and Approximation via BEM

Carlo D'Angelo

In this paper an optimal shape control problem dealing with heat transfer in enclosures is studied. We have considered an enclosure heated by a flame surface (taking into account radiation, conduction and convection effects), and we look for an optimal fla ...

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