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What are the likely changes in mercury concentration in the Arctic atmosphere and ocean under future emissions scenarios?

Arctic mercury (Hg) concentrations respond to changes in anthropogenic Hg emissions and environmental change. This manuscript, prepared for the 2021 Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Mercury Assessment, explores the response of Arctic Ocean Hg con ...

2022

Predicting the impact of climate change on the glacier-fed streams microbiome

Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter, Susheel Bhanu Busi, Grégoire Marie Octave Edouard Michoud, Leïla Ezzat, Massimo Bourquin, Andrew Lean Robison, Tyler Joe Kohler, Stylianos Fodelianakis

Glacier shrinkage is among the most conspicuous impacts of climate change with numerous effects on downstream ecosystems. Lying at the glacier forefront, glacier-fed streams represent important headwaters in high-mountain regions across the world. Owing to ...

2022

The shaping effects of innovation and technology: from micro business model evolution to macro environment sustainability

Qinli Lu

Innovation is a prerequisite guarantee for the development of a country in this new era. It is an important driver not just for corporate growth but also for national social and economic transformation. Considering the strategic supporting role of innovati ...

EPFL2020

Potential Integration of Chinese and European Emissions Trading Market: Welfare Distribution Analysis

Marc Vielle, Sigit Pria Perdana, Ru Li

Central to the aims of the Paris Agreement, a multilateral coordinated action through integrated carbon markets has been a practical bottom up option for effective and efficient mitigation. This paper quantifies the welfare effects of potential integration ...

2020

Intermediate Cities

Jean-Claude Bolay, Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

Cities are defined mainly based on spatial and demographic criteria. The criteria of intermediation helps in identifying current urban dynamics, in relation to surrounding suburban/rural areas or in national and international environments. Medium‐sized cit ...

2019

Introduction to the smart living building concept

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

Constructing the smart living building means producing a building ahead of its time, since it will respond to goals set for the year 2050. Nowadays, a person consumes in average 5,500 watts. The goal is to reduce this consumption to 3,500 watts by 2050. Li ...

2016

Monitoring of plastics in freshwater environments in Switzerland

Florian Faure

The German Environment Agency (UBA) and the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) organ- ised a conference on plastics in freshwater environments on behalf of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety ...

2016

Comparison Between Reconstructions of Global Anthropogenic Land Cover Change over Past Two Millennia

Jed Oliver Kaplan, Jian Liu

Three global datasets, the History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE), Kaplan and Krumhardt (KK) and Pongratz of reconstructed anthropogenic land cover change (ALCC) were introduced and compared in this paper. The HYDE dataset was reconstructed by G ...

Springer2013

Empirical Performance Evaluation of Data Dissemination Mechanisms for Spot Applications

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Alaeddine El Fawal, Adel Aziz

We evaluate, by measurements on a real testbed, the performance of networking services required for spot applications. We call a “spot application” an application for smartphones (such as “Ad-hoc Flash Sales”) that disseminates information in a local neigh ...

2012

De la construction en brique massive. Le cas du logement urbain à Winterthur (ZH)

Reto Hinden

La brique est un matériau dont on sous-estime le potentiel et qui est d'ailleurs souvent mis en œuvre sans que toutes ses qualités soient exploitées. Solide, avec des grandes qualités formelles, disponible presque partout, la brique est un matériau local q ...

2007

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