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A Digital Platform connecting Academia and Small Businesses: An opportunity for Knowledge Management Experiments

Digital transformation is one of the biggest phenomena of this decade. One enabler of this revolution was cloud computing. Today, software engineers can deliver software as a service (SaaS), which is accessible to users through the Internet. Slack, Shopify ...

EPFL2019

Life Cycle Assessment of Dry Parchment Coffee in Two Coffee Crops in Cundinamarca, Colombia

The coffee sector is one of the pillars of the colombian economy. It generates nearly 800 thousand directs jobs at the rural sector and about 1,6 million indirect jobs. Although its social value, the coffee is going over a crisis where it opens a considera ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

The Role of Environmental Variables in Waste Stabilization Ponds' Morphodynamics

Paolo Perona

In management of helminth infections and transmission, the correct prediction of sludge accumulation patterns in waste stabilization ponds (WSP) is important as sedimented eggs are associated with sludge depth. However, sedimentation in WSP is complicated ...

2019

PROGRESS TOWARDS THE RESOURCE REVOLUTION

Based on the key outputs of the WRF 2017 conference and the work performed during and after the review process in 2018 we are proud to announce this book entitled ‘Progress Towards the Resource Revolution’ which presents innovations and approaches that sup ...

World Resources Forum2019

Environmental impact assessment of Swiss residential archetypes: a comparison of construction and mobility scenarios

Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha

Environmental performance assessment of the built environment tends to focus mostly on operational final energy consumption of buildings located within a specific context. Such a limited scope prevents broader usability of findings in practice. In Switzerl ...

2019

An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions

Research on sustainability transitions has expanded rapidly in the last ten years, diversified in terms of topics and geographical applications, and deepened with respect to theories and methods. This article provides an extensive review and an updated res ...

2019

Articulating natural resources and sustainable development goals through green economy indicators: A systematic analysis

Albert Merino, Marta Giulia Baldi, Bruno Maria Camelo Oberle, Ian Gunderson

Natural Resources are essential inputs for economic and social development. However, unsustainable resource use has led to environmental degradation and resource depletion, endangering the well-being of humanity and the environment. The 2030 Agenda for Sus ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Development and implementation of eco-genomic tools for aquatic ecosystem biomonitoring: the SYNAQUA French-Swiss program

Régis Lionel Vivien

The effectiveness of environmental protection measures is based on the early identification and diagnosis of anthropogenic pressures. Similarly, restoration actions require precise monitoring of changes in the ecological quality of ecosystems, in order to ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2018

Generative Models for Learning Robot Manipulation Skills from Humans

Ajay Kumar Tanwani

A long standing goal in artificial intelligence is to make robots seamlessly interact with humans in performing everyday manipulation skills. Learning from demonstrations or imitation learning provides a promising route to bridge this gap. In contrast to d ...

EPFL2018

Cultural ecosystem services provision in response to urbanization in Cameroon

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Rémi Jaligot

In Africa, cities are unable to accommodate population growth within their current administrative limits, putting pressure on ecosystem services (ES) in peripheral areas. Existing ES related studies in the region were conducted in East and South Africa, an ...

2018

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