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Streamlining the regionalization of economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA): The case of swiss cantons
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Current levels of resource use and pollution emissions are responsible for the trespassing of most planetary boundaries. As such, operational and contextual analysis is needed to provide mitigation strategies and policies. This article aims to streamline E ...
ELSEVIER2023Potentiel de transition énergétique du renouvellement périurbain
Ce chapitre s’appuie sur les résultats d’une recherche doctorale réalisée dans le cadre du projet Living Peripheries dont l’objet était l’étude du potentiel de renouvellement des quartiers périurbains de maisons individuelles, afin de constituer une aide ...
Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes2022Policy analysis during socio-technical energy transitions: three essays on the Swiss electricity sector
Global energy systems are changing rapidly. This energy transition complicates the use of traditional policy analysis methods. However, proper policy analysis and design is essential in managing the transition. This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approa ...
EPFL2019The geographic evolution of political cleavages in Switzerland: A network approach to assessing levels and dynamics of polarization between local populations
Scholarly studies and common accounts of national politics enjoy pointing out the resilience of ideological divides among populations. Building on the image of political cleavages and geographic polarization, the regionalization of politics has become a tr ...
2018We say we are fine. They say we are not.
Slender yet densely packed with images, this 44-page publication presents items discovered during an artistic research project that investigated various relationships between Swiss people and the South African apartheid regime in the 1980s and 1990s. Adver ...
Auto-édité par Denise Bertschi2018Moral Matrices
In this dissertation, I address the political and moral geography of Swiss federal participatory votes for the period between 1981 and 2014 to re-investigate some of the fundamental questions left open in urban sciences: how and why socio-ethical, moral an ...
EPFL2017Switzerland and the Digital Health Revolution
New technologies in life sciences are helping to revolutionize health management with the objective to move towards personalized healthcare. The Swiss Federal government is investing in multidisciplinary, countrywide initiatives such as Health 2030 to meet ...
Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2016Direct democracy and metropolitan fragmentation in Switzerland and in California
Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle
In the beginning of the 20th century, many states in the USA, and especially California among them, implemented semi-direct democracy instruments that were directly inspired by the 1848 Swiss constitution—referendum, popular initiative, recall–to fight ext ...
2013Climate Policy Making for Enhanced Technological and Institutional Innovation
Within the framework of the CCES1 project ‘Climate Policy making for enhanced technological and institutional innovation’ (ClimPol) we are investigating the role of firms in climate policy making. The aim of this research is to give recommendations for eff ...
2009Szenarien für die nachhaltige Siedlungs- und Infrastrukturentwicklung in der Schweiz (2005-2030)
Martin Schuler, Alain Nicolas Jarne
Spatial development patterns in Switzerland and future development trends and infrastructure requirements are not only the result of decisions at Swiss federal or cantonal levels, but also considerably influenced by developments in the EU. In the collabora ...
Nationales Forschungsprogramm NFP 54 (PNR54)2008