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Mercury Rising: Architecture Beyond Greenwashing
“Hot, hot, hot, hot/ Hot, hot, hot, hot” Yeon Kim / Troelsen Thomas / Sigvardt Mikkel Renee, “Hot Summer,” in Strictly Physical, ed. Monrose (Universal Music Publishing Ab, Emi Music Publishing Denmark A/s, Culture Technology Group Asia, S M Entertainment ...
2023Arts and design strategies to address climate emergency and action: the case of electronic waste in Accra, Ghana
This contribution situates the role of public media art, critical making and reappropriation techniques as sociopolitical vehicles for enhancing climate actions and awareness in contexts of technological inequalities and electronic waste in Accra, Ghana. O ...
2023Concrete: Cosmetic and Care
Sarah Nichols, Akshar Shaileshkumar Gajjar, Marion Moutal
‘Concrete: Cosmetic and Care’ focuses on a heavy heritage: the mass of mainly post-war structures in reinforced concrete. The post-war building boom covered the globe with an unprecedented amount of concrete. Production of every ton of cement alone release ...
2023A full year of aerosol size distribution data from the central Arctic under an extreme positive Arctic Oscillation: insights from the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition
Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Jakob Boyd Pernov, Hélène Paule Angot, Lubna Dada, Federico Bianchi
The Arctic environment is rapidly changing due to accelerated warming in the region. The warming trend is driving a decline in sea ice extent, which thereby enhances feedback loops in the surface energy budget in the Arctic. Arctic aerosols play an importa ...
2023Wind, Hail, and Climate Extremes: Modelling and Attribution Studies for Environmental Data
Ophélia Mireille Anna Miralles
This thesis presents work at the junction of statistics and climate science. We first provide methodology for use by climate scientists when performing fast event attribution using extreme value theory, and then describe two interdisciplinary projects in c ...
EPFL2023Perceived impacts of the Fridays for Future climate movement on environmental concern and behaviour in Switzerland
Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Ralph Hansmann
Calling for increased action on climate change, Fridays for Future (FFF) quickly gained momentum around the world and became highly visible through strikes and protests in more than 150 countries. Considering its scale and magnitude, questions about the im ...
2023Towards climate-neutral aviation: fewer flights, benefits for biodiversity and society, and renewed legitimacy for airlines
To play its part in global efforts to solve the climate crisis, global aviation would need to reduce passenger flight volumes to 1984 levels and set up a new fund to finance carbon removal projects. This would require significant adjustments for companies ...
Institute for Management Development2022International PhD Seminar Post-extraction territories in transition: Designing the socio-ecological transition in post carbon marginal spaces
Paola Viganò, Elena Cogato Lanza, Anna Karla De Almeida Milani
The Seminar proposes a European and transatlantic dialogue around the questions of the social and ecological transition (post-carbon) of marginal spaces, and territories of exploitation as the ancient coal territories on the two sides of the Atlantic. Th ...
2022Socio-technical modeling of smart energy systems: a co-simulation design for domestic energy demand
Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Matteo Barsanti, Lionel Guy Gérard Constantin, Pranay Kasturi
To tackle the climate crisis, the European energy strategy relies on consumers taking ownership of the energy transition, accelerating decarbonisation through investments in low-carbon technologies and ensuring system stability and reliability by actively ...
Springer2021What determines the attitude-behavior link when voting on renewable energy policies? The roles of problem perception and policy design
This chapter sheds light on the paradox between the general perception of climate change related problems and resistance to measures addressing it, namely the support of renewable energy policies at the ballot box. Using conjoint analyses, we investigate t ...
Edward Elgar Publishing2021