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Modelling Urban Transitions: A Social Practice Theoretic Approach to the Urban Metabolism

Urban growth and the increase of the human environmental imprint has led to a growing interest in urban sustainability, a field mainly addressed by urban ecology and urban metabolism studies. The realisation that the urban material and energy flows are mai ...

2017

Cast-on site UHPFRC for improvement of existing structures - achievements over the last 10 years in practice and research

Eugen Brühwiler, Emmanuel Denarié

The first cast-on site application of UHPFRC in Switzerland took place for the rehabilitation and widening of the bridge over river La Morge in 2004. Since then, over the last 10 years, this technology spread successfully in Switzerland for bridges and bui ...

2015

An Agent Operationalization Approach for Context Specific Agent-Based Modeling

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

The potential of agent-based modeling (ABM) has been demonstrated in various research fields. However, three major concerns limit the full exploitation of ABM; (i) agents are too simple and behave unrealistically without any empirical basis, (ii) 'proof of ...

University of Surrey, Department of Sociology2011

From material flow analysis to material flow management Part II: the role of structural agent analysis

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

This paper presents a heuristic for supporting the transition from material flow analysis to material flow management. The heuristic combines material flow analysis with a newly developed method, structural agent analysis (SAA). The latter is based on Gidd ...

2007

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