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Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Participatory Modeling to Elicit Behavioral Drivers in Environmental Dilemmas: the Case of Air Pollution in Talca, Chile

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the exploration of environmental modeling methods based on the elicitation of stakeholders’ mental models. This aim is motivated by the necessity to understand the dilemmas and behavioral rationales of individuals ...

2018

Societal impacts through participation: a critical investigation of participation as an enabler of societal impact of sustainability research

Livia Bianca Fritz, Thorsten Schilling

In this contribution we focus on the interlinkages between participatory knowledge production and sustainability transformations by proposing an empirical enquiry into transdisciplinary (TD) research projects. With hindsight to (un)sustainability the limit ...

2017

How do participation of practice partners and societal impacts interrelate? Perspectives from sci- ence and practice actors in transdisciplinary sustainability research projects

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Thorsten Schilling

In this contribution, we put the spotlight on the interlinkages between participatory knowledge production and sustainabili ty transformations by proposing an empirical enquiry into transdisciplinary (TD) research projects. With regard to (un)sustainab le ...

2017

Data Management in Participatory Sensing

Mehdi Riahi

In recent years there has been a proliferation of privately owned sensing devices such as GPS devices, cameras, home weather stations and, more importantly, smart-phones. Most of these devices are either intrinsically mobile, e.g., smart-phones and GPS dev ...

EPFL2015

Incentivizing Truthful Responses with the Logarithmic Peer Truth Serum

Boi Faltings, Goran Radanovic

We consider a participatory sensing scenario where a group of private sensors observes the same phenomenon, such as air pollution. We design a novel payment mechanism that incentivizes participation and honest behavior using the peer prediction approach, i ...

2015

Scenarios for vulnerability: opportunities and constraints in the context of climate change and disaster risk

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Most scientific assessments for climate change adaptation and risk reduction are based on scenarios for climatic change. Scenarios for socio-economic development, partic- ularly in terms of vulnerability and adaptive capacity, are largely lacking. This pap ...

Springer Verlag2015

Stream flow velocity measurement with smartphones: a technique for citizen observatories, decision-making, and water management

Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Steven Vincent Weijs, Tristan Jonas Brauchli, Zichong Chen

Stream flow velocity may be used for estimating discharge. Given the relative scarcity of direct stream flow and discharge measurements, surface velocity measurements can provide useful information for flood warning, hydropower production, hydrological sci ...

2015

Participatory Processes in Urban Planning Projects in China: The Example of Caoyang Village, Shanghai

Jean-Claude Bolay, Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

In order to provide the first elements of a participatory process initiated and led by Chinese authorities, this paper will look at the citizen’s involvement in an urban planning project in China and discuss possible avenues to sustain the process in a spe ...

Springer2014

Participatory Language Technologies as Core Systems for Sustainable Development Activities

Martin Benjamin

Introduction and purpose: Language is the medium by which people interact with all aspects of their worlds, whether economics, health, the environment, or technology. In both development programs and technology, however, language is usually given secondary ...

2014

Radical urban movements and the participatory city

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

This paper is based on an interdisciplinary study – mixing sociology, anthropology, urban planning and architecture - of 40 years of urban struggles in a small neighborhood of Geneva called Les Grottes. In the 70’s, Les Grottes was the place of birth of Ge ...

2013

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