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Utilisation des outils du système modulaire gradué (SMG) pour estimer les impacts des rejets pluviaux urbains: Avantages et limitations

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Kathrin Schneider

Today water bodies are suffering from numerous anthropogenic impacts. One of the key players is urban drainage. The directive STORM published by the VSA in 2007 proposes a procedure for an immission oriented strategy for remediation of urban drainage. At t ...

2009

Chemical, Biological and Ecotoxicological Assessment of Pesticides and Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Bahlui River, in Romania

Kristin Becker van Slooten, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro

Background, aim, and scope Current knowledge on environmental impacts of industrial activities in Romania, particularly persistent organic pollutants (POPs), indicates that environmental standards of the European Union are not systematically met. In our st ...

2009

Assessment of European Union transition scenarios with a special focus on the issue of carbon leakage

Marc Vielle, Alain Bernard

This paper uses the model GEMINI-E3 to simulate and assess the transition scenario to 2020 framed by the European Union in its “Energy–Climate” Directive, and it raises several issues in this connection. After a brief description of the model, the paper pr ...

Elsevier2009

Water sector evolution scenarios: the case of Europe

Matthias Finger, Patricia Alves Luis Manso

The purpose of this article is to identify possible scenarios for the evolution of the European water supply and sanitation sectors (WSS) in the next 15 years, on the basis of empirical knowledge of its dynamics. These are: tendered market, tendered market ...

2008

The electric power industry in European Union is undergoing profound regulatory and operational changes. The underlying rationale behind these transformations is to move only highly monopolized vertically-integrated industry from a centralized operation ap ...

2008

This paper presents a new research project of EPFL REME that aims to assess the influence of firms on climate policy. Firms do not form a solid block of opponents to climate policy regulation. As they face different incentives towards climate policy their ...

2008

Dialogue social dans les transports en Suisse

Tristan Chevroulet, Aymeric Sevestre

In Switzerland there are single bodies for both trade union organisations (SEV, VHTL, SSP, USS) and professional organisations (Economie Suisse being the peak association combining all the employer organisations: the Public Transport Union, CFF, BLS, Sped ...

2007

Review of Eurotunnel’s Decision-Making Process A critical appraisal of Ex-ante vs. Ex-post studies

Tristan Chevroulet, Aymeric Sevestre, Georgeta Geambasu, Christian Reynaud

This document provides a methodical investigation of the main assessment steps that have led to the construction of Eurotunnel and it compares the results of the analyses that were achieved before the key decisions with the results of studies that have bee ...

2007

The European Union (EU) has adopted directives requiring that Member States take measures to reach a “good” chemical status of water resources by the year 2015 (Water Framework Directive: WFD). In order to achieve the environmental objectives for groundwat ...

2007