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Achieving energy self-sufficiency is a major challenge for remote areas, especially islands. Various technologies have recently been developed to exploit renewable resources in such areas in order to reduce dependency on fossil fuels. This work focuses on ...

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On the probabilistic nature of the species-area relation

Andrea Rinaldo, Andrea Giometto, Jonathan Giezendanner, Silvia Zaoli, Amos Maritan

The Species-Area Relation (SAR), which describes the increase in the number of species S with increasing area A, is under intense scrutiny in contemporary ecology, in particular to probe its reliability in predicting the number of species going extinct as ...

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The WORLD6 Integrated System Dynamics Model: Examples of Results from Simulations

The WORLD6 model is a fully integrated dynamic world systems model. It includes a biophysical global economic model, based on first principles of physics and thermodynamics, forcing it to be fully consistent with the underlying mass- and energy balances. T ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

A methodology for measurement-system design combining information from static and dynamic excitations for bridge load testing

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Managing infrastructure assets is challenging for developed countries because of demand for increases in capacity, the scarcity of economic and environmental resources as well as ageing. Due to conservative approaches to construction design and practice, i ...

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A conceptual framework to study the dynamics of routine practice transitions

Franziska Meinherz

Actors from academia, politics, and the civil society increasingly acknowledge that to address our current unsustainable regimes of resource and energy demand, we need to redefine our ways of being and doing. Everyday practices are a key driver of energy a ...

2018

Articulating natural resources and sustainable development goals through green economy indicators: A systematic analysis

Albert Merino, Marta Giulia Baldi, Bruno Maria Camelo Oberle, Ian Gunderson

Natural Resources are essential inputs for economic and social development. However, unsustainable resource use has led to environmental degradation and resource depletion, endangering the well-being of humanity and the environment. The 2030 Agenda for Sus ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Decoupling of economic growth and environmental impacts in Germany

The paper highlights in which regard economic growth has been decoupled from environmental impacts in Germany. It is based on extensive desk research and six expert interviews. The answer to the question if Germany can serve as an example for successful an ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

APPLICABILITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT INDICATORS ON THE USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

The paper addresses the outcomes of the analysis of state-of-the-art indicator-based approaches for the environmental impact assessment to quantify the impact of natural resources consumption. Life cycle based assessment methods are applied on the case of ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Ecosystem services and federalism: a case study of Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

A fundamental element of a federated state is the division of power between a central government and the component states. Switzerland is a federation consisting of twenty-six sovereign states named canton. Each canton has its own government and parliament ...

2017

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