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Policy packaging in support of absolute decoupling – a conceptual model

Global resource consumption has seen marked increases in the last century, in particular since the 1950s. In transforming these materials into products, food, infrastructure and energy functions for mobility and housing, significant environmental impacts a ...

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Reducing the material footprint of meals

The global use of natural resources has been growing for many decades and has already exceeded a sustainable level. Nutrition is responsible for a significant share of the resource use of a society and results in considerable material footprints. In Europe ...

Villigen PSI, World Resources Forum, printed by Paul Scherrer Institute2015

The nutritional footprint - assessing environmental and health impacts of foodstuffs

The food sector accounts for huge environmental impacts caused by production, processing, final consumption and waste treatment in private households or in out of home catering settings. Further, the field of nutrition inextricably links environmental and ...

Villigen PSI, World Resources Forum, printed by Paul Scherrer Institute2015

Thermo-economic optimisation of large solar tower power plants

Germain Augsburger

Given the growing number of solar tower power plants in operation, under construction and under planning, the assessment and the optimisation of their performance are required both at the energy level and the economic level. In other words, the same way as ...

EPFL2013

Decision support methods for closed-loop conceptual design

Jongho Shin

The dissertation deals with closed-loop product lifecycle management (PLM) approaches for the product conceptual design improvement using gathered data during the usage period of a product. In closed-loop PLM, the data generated in each lifecycle phase can ...

EPFL2009

Brillouin Distributed Fibre Sensing: State of the Art and Perspectives

Luc Thévenaz

Developed societies require more and more information for their safety and for their economic development. Recent disasters due to landslides, fires in tunnels and collapses of bridges are a source of serious concern on the part of the public which seeks f ...

Materials Research Society of Singapore2009

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