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Historical dynamics of ecosystem services and land management policies in Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Martí Bosch Padrós, Stéphanie Aline Hasler, Rémi Jaligot

Ecosystem services (ES) are dynamic over space and time. Understanding and quantifying spatio-temporal trade-offs and synergies among multiples ES, as well identifying the drivers of change provides an opportunity to make the link between ecosystems, polic ...

2019

Aufwertung der Habitatvielfalt in einer Restwasserstrecke mittels eines künstlichen Hochwassers und Geschiebebeigaben - Vergleich von Feldversuchen mit Laborexperimenten

Anton Schleiss, Severin Stähly, Christopher Robinson

Die Wasserkraft ist die wichtigste Säule der heutigen Schweizer Stromproduktion und deren Ausbau ist in den nächsten Jahrzehnten im Rahmen der Energiestrategie 2050 geplant. Deshalb ist ein auch nachhaltiger Betrieb der Wasserkraftwerke erforderlich. Gesch ...

2018

Künstliches Hochwasser an der Saane - Eine Massnahme zum nachhaltigen Auenmanagement

Anton Schleiss, Severin Stähly, Christopher Robinson

Durch Wasserkraft genutzte Flüsse und Auenlandschaften sind in ihrem Abfluss- und Geschieberegime und damit in ihrer Morphologie und Ökologie oft stark beeinträchtigt. In der Saane unterhalb der Staumauer Rossens führten eine jahrzehntelange Restwasserbewi ...

2018

Decoupling municipal solid waste generation and economic growth in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

Switzerland is one of the largest producers of municipal solid waste (MSW) per capita. The principle of decoupling attempts to evaluate the relationship between consumption and production, and to measure the relationship between an activity and its impact ...

2018

Global and local anthropogenic effects on hydrodynamics of lakes

Carl Love Mikael Råman Vinnå

In many countries water quality is a major concern for drinking water management authorities. Freshwater is a limited resource and the demand for good-quality water from natural aquatic systems is therefore high. Additional stress arises from anthropogenic ...

EPFL2018

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

Electricity supply and hydropower development in Switzerland

François Avellan, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso

The authors present the current context for energy transition and hydropower development in Switzerland, summarizing the activities in the field of hydropower infrastructure research carried out over the past three years and presenting the development obje ...

2016

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

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

Référence naturelle pédologique pour la revitalisation des rivières, le cas de la Singine (FR)

Claire Guenat, Géraldine Michèle Bullinger, Pauline Aelvoet

Présentation des sols et de la végétation d'une zone alluviale d'importance nationale (Singine, FR). ...

2014

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