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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

Resilience and agency in mature sustainability transitions. Theoretical conceptualisation and empirical analysis of actor- & system-level dynamics in sociotechnical energy systems

In Switzerland, Germany and Austria, as in many European countries, the transition of the energy sector towards more sustainability is a long-term transition process, unfolding since decades. It however only reached the regime level in recent years and the ...

EPFL2019

Participation-effect pathways in transdisciplinary sustainability research: An empirical analysis of researchers’ and practitioners’ perceptions using a systems approach

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Thorsten Schilling

In sustainability research, transdisciplinary (TD) approaches that involve practitioners in the research process have emerged as promising tools for enhancing real-world knowledge and engendering societal change. However, empirical insights into how such p ...

2019

Optimizing neighborhood-scale walkability

Andrew James Sonta

Many designers and researchers have grappled with the problem of optimally locating buildings and use types in a neighborhood-scale development. But little work has used data-driven optimization to aid in creating urban design schemes. The paradigm of sing ...

2019

Conceptualising urban systems for sustainability assessment

Pekka Jaakko Halla

In the context of sustainable urban development, methodologies under the banner of sustainability assessment have the potential to contribute to the systematic operationalisation of sustainability as a decision-making strategy. To adequately capture the sy ...

2018

Participation as Relational Space: A Critical Approach to Analysing Participation in Sustainability Research

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz

In the field of sustainability, scholars, and policy-makers herald the transformative power of participation in knowledge production. However, a discrepancy between these expectations and the limited understanding of the complex interactions constituting p ...

2018

An operational monitoring tool facilitating the transformation of urban brownfields into sustainable neighborhoods

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

The regeneration of urban brownfields is a relevant strategy to limit the sprawling of post-industrial European cities. However, the integration of sustainability issues in urban brownfield regeneration projects is not a spontaneous process, remaining in m ...

2018

The contours of participation spaces: an empirical enquiry into the making of participation in sustainability research

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz

Confronted with complex societal problems, science funding bodies have been calling for the participation of non-scientific actors in the production of allegedly more ‘robust’ knowledge. While in the field of sustainability these trends in science policy h ...

2018

Monitoring Tool for Urban Brownfield Regeneration Projects Interaction with Stakeholders

Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Urban brownfield regeneration projects are complex operations that are not automatically sustainable. To facilitate the integration of sustainability issues in these projects, a recent research project led to the creation of an operational monitoring tool ...

2018

Governance Strategies for a Sustainable Digital World

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Digitalization is changing society by the increased connectivity and networking that digital technologies enable, such as enhancing communication, services, and trade. Increasingly, policymakers within various national governments and international organiz ...

2018

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