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Ecosystem services and federalism: a case study of Switzerland

A fundamental element of a federated state is the division of power between a central government and the component states. Switzerland is a federation consisting of twenty-six sovereign states named canton. Each canton has its own government and parliament ...

2017

Establishing links for the planning of sustainable districts

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Nils Christian Schüler, Sébastien Cajot

Cities can play a key role in mitigating climate change impacts, as they represent two thirds of the world’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents a model-based approach to support cities in the challenge of including energy ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG2016

Réaffectation et développement du secteur de la caserne de la Poya, Fribourg

Christophe Waber

Un nouveau pôle multi-fonctionnel se dessine sur le plateau de Saint-Léonard, sportif, commercial mais aussi résidentiel et administratif avec la caserne de la Poya qui se libèrera à l'horizon 2025. Le développement d'un quartier mixte sur cette parcelle, ...

2015

Energy flows monitoring at the Cantonal level

Massimiliano Capezzali, Mélanie Guittet

As an increased number of measures (Swiss or European level) aim at developing more sustainable policies for energy management and reduction of CO2 emissions in particular (for example, the 3x20 policy), very few tools currently exist at the regional/canto ...

LESO-PB, EPFL2015

Geotypen : ein neues Konzept zur Optimierung geologischer Informationen für die Raumplanung

Aurèle Parriaux, Pascal Turberg

When we have to valorise the geological information for land planning or engineering applications, it is difficult to integrate the large complexity of the maps of the Swiss Geological Atlas at the scale of 1:25'000. The heterogeneity of the legends betwee ...

2015

Heat demand estimation for different building types at regional scale considering building parameters and urban topography

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Nils Christian Schüler, Alexandre Suzanne Jean-Marie Bertrand

This study aims towards an improved estimation of annual heat demand of the building stock for an entire region. This requires the holistic representation of aspects influencing the heat demand of buildings, namely their geometry, fabric, users and surroun ...

Elsevier2015

On quantifying ecologically sustainable flow releases in a diverted river reach

Paolo Perona, Lorenzo Gorla

Water demand for hydropower production has been increasing along with a growing awareness of the importance of preserving riparian ecosystems and their biodiversity. Some Cantons in Switzerland have begun replacing the inadequate concept of Minimum Flow Re ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Assessment of future snow pack in two Alpine regions

Michael Lehning, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay, Sebastian Schlögl

The snow cover in the Alps is heavily affected by climate change. In this study we present an assessment of the future snow water equivalent and snow depth for the Swiss Canton of Graubünden and the Aare catchment in the central Swiss Alps. The data of 48 ...

2013

Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland

Michael Lehning, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay, Thomas Grünewald

A model study on the impact of climate change on snow cover and runoff has been conducted for the Swiss Canton of Graubünden. The model Alpine3D has been forced with the data from 35 Automatic Weather Stations in order to investigate snow and runoff dynami ...

2013

EnergyScope Valais - Case study of Regionalisation

Jonas Schnidrig

This document is the report of my second semester project at IPESE. Its objectives were to validate the energetic strategy 2035 of the “Canton du Valais”. The lecturer will see how the Swiss-Energyscope model has been adapted to the canton of Valais to com ...

2013

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