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Dinosaurs in transition? A conceptual exploration of local incumbents in the swiss and German energy transition

The understanding of incumbents' behaviour in sustainability transitions in the energy sector is gaining increasing scholarly attention. However, two key structural characteristics of many incumbents in the energy sector are hardly taken into account: they ...

2019

Linking Neighborhoods into Sustainable Energy Systems

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Silvia Coccolo, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik, Pietro Florio

Improving the energy efficiency and sustainability in the urban sector plays a vital role in the energy transition. Hence, it is important to consider promising ways to design sustainable urban energy hubs linking neighborhoods into energy systems. Improvi ...

Springer2019

The Role of Research and Innovation for the Transition to a Circular Economy in Europe. Evidence from the Community Innovation Survey 2014

The signature of international commitments such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the COP21 Paris Agreement in 2015 demonstrates a current favourable policy context to address environmental issues. These engagements have been endorsed by the ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Implementation of a constructed wetland for the sustainable treatment of water in shrimp farming activities, Mekong delta, Vietnam

Pierre Rossi, Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Vincent Jean Jacques Marie Cochevelou

In the Mekong delta, inland-based shrimp breeding is a profitable activity requiring significant inflow of high quality freshwater. In turn, discharge of substantial loads of poor quality effluents causes salinization and eutrophication of adjacent water b ...

2019

EXPLORING. Research-driven Building Design

Marilyne Andersen

Product of a research cooperation between three Swiss universities - the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne's School of Architecture, the School of Architecture and Technology in Fribourg, and the University of Fribourg - the Smart Living Lab is a re ...

Park Books2019

Cu–Al Spinel as a Highly Active and Stable Catalyst for the Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction

Ursula Röthlisberger, Jeremy Luterbacher, Oliver Kröcher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Alimohammad Bahmanpour, Christophe Jean Baranowski

The reverse water gas shift reaction is considered to be a highly attractive catalytic route for CO2 recycling in a future sustainable economy. Copperbased catalysts are commonly used for this reaction due to their high activity and selectivity. However, t ...

2019

Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Resource Recovery from Wastes

Edgard Gnansounou

Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Resource Recovery from Wastes includes the latest and innovative research and technological developments in the biotechnology and bioengineering pertaining to various resource(s) recovery from waste ...

Elsevier2019

Community-based landslide risk reduction: a review of a Red Cross soil bioengineering for resilience program in Honduras

Silvia Hostettler, Antonio D'Acunzi

Effective long-term participation of communities in disaster risk reduction measures in landslide-prone areas continues to be a challenge. This study aims to evaluate the extent to which community-based soil-bioengineering techniques allow for effective mi ...

2019

Nouvelles polarités suburbaines : comment comparer des visions projectuelles sous l'angle de leur profil de durabilité ?

Sophie Lufkin

La dimension holistique inhérente au concept de durabilité a induit des transformations radicales dans les pratiques architecturales et urbanistiques. La complexité croissante qui en découle entraîne la nécessité, pour les professionnels de l'espace, de di ...

2019

Exergetic, environmental and economic assessment of sugarcane first-generation biorefineries

François Maréchal

First generation ethanol (1G) contributes to the majority of the ethanol produced worldwide, predominantly centered on corn and sugarcane. Nevertheless, several issues are regularly highlighted concerning the long-term sustainability of this technology, in ...

WARSAW UNIV TECHNOLOGY, INST HEAT ENGINEERING2019

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