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‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility

Reducing the modal share of car travel in commuting implies challenging meanings of everyday mobility that tie commuting to driving. Existing research has focussed on describing ways in which everyday mobility is meaningful. However, why shifts in meanings ...

2021

Nature, Science, and Enterprise: The Origins of the Success of Reinforced Concrete in Switzerland. The Introduction, Diffusion, and Supersedence of the Hennebique System

Salvatore Aprea

This contribution gives an account of how concrete construction developed in French-speaking Switzerland since the end of the nineteenth century. The narrative is based on original sources from the Archives de la construction moderne (Acm) and on data and ...

EPFL Press2021

Impact of Digital and Non-Digital Urban Participatory Approaches on Public Access Conditions: An Evaluation Framework

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

The gradual institutionalization of public participation increasingly compels local authorities to partially share their power over the transformation of urban areas. The smooth running of a participatory session is based on selecting the appropriate type ...

MDPI2021

Environmental preferences of occupants: A multi-domain approach in the Swiss open office case study

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Dusan Licina, Dolaana Khovalyg, Caroline Karmann, Verena Marie Barthelmes, Arnab Chatterjee

Defining indoor environmental conditions that meet the needs and preferences of occupants in open space offices can be challenging since the same space might be occupied by people with different individual needs and preferences regarding what constitutes a ...

IOP Science2021

Wohnungspolitik

Philippe Thalmann

Konzise Darstellung der Wohnungspolitik in der Schweiz ...

Seismo Verlag2020

Le coût de freiner le réchauffement et le coût de ne rien faire / Die Kosten für die Eindämmung der Erwärmung und die Kosten, nichts zu tun

Philippe Thalmann

Il semble très difficile de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Pourquoi? est-ce trop cher? plus cher que les impacts des changements climatiques? Estimations pour la Suisse. ...

2020

Analysis of the Relations Between Daily Space-Time Behaviours and Modal Practices. The Case of Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Alexis Gumy, Armelle Loreline Hausser

Reducing the role of the car in daily mobility practices is still largely a struggle for Switzerland's public transport policies. Adapting transport supply to user demand is the major challenge for this modal shift, the response to which requires a detaile ...

2020

Akzeptanz der CO2-Abgabe in der Schweiz

Philippe Thalmann

Wie hat es die Schweiz, eine der höchsten CO2-Abgabe einzuführen? Wie steht es um die Akzeptanz der CO2-Bepreisung in der Schweiz? ...

2019

The Effect of European Integration on Swiss Energy Policy and Governance

Matthias Finger, Paul Adrianus Van Baal

The unique “Swiss way” of association with the European Union (EU) has received increasing attention in light of recent events such as Brexit as it is based on sectoral agreements without an overarching institutional framework. As such, Europeanization of ...

2019

Integration of ecosystem services in regional spatial plans in Western Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) is regarded as an increasingly important framework and tool to support spatial planning. A limited understanding of how ES knowledge is used in spatial plans constrains our ability to learn from, replicate, and convey ...

2019

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