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Landscape persistence and stakeholder perspectives: The case of Romania's Carpathians

Alexandre Buttler, Alexander Ludwig Johannes Peringer

The traditional use of land for food, fuel and wood created cultural landscapes, which are threatened across Europe. The factors which contributed to their endangerment need to be identified to achieve effective preservation of such landscapes. The aim of ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

A Theoretical Analysis of the Geography of Schistosomiasis in Burkina Faso Highlights the Roles of Human Mobility and Water Resources Development in Disease Transmission

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Yeli Mariam Sou, Marino Gatto

We study the geography of schistosomiasis across Burkina Faso by means of a spatially explicit model of water-based disease dynamics. The model quantitatively addresses the geographic stratification of disease burden in a novel framework by explicitly acco ...

Public Library of Science2015

Translating the City: Interdisciplinarity in urban studies

Yves Pedrazzini, Stéphanie Vincent, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy, Yafiza Zorro Maldonado

Cities are a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, ana- lyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise. How is a dialogue built between heterogeneous urban contexts and urb ...

EPFL Press / Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group2015

How a Complete Pesticide Screening Changes the Assessment of Surface Water Quality

Juliane Hollender

A comprehensive assessment of pesticides in surface waters is challenging due to the large number of potential contaminants. Most scientific studies and routine monitoring programs include only 15-40 pesticides, which leads to error-prone interpretations. ...

American Chemical Society2014

Spatially resolved magnetization in the Bose-Einstein condensed state of BaCuSi2O6: Evidence for imperfect frustration

Frédéric Mila, Nicolas Laflorencie

In order to understand the nature of the two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensed (BEC) phase in BaCuSi2O6, we performed detailed Cu-63 and Si-29 NMR above the critical magnetic field, H-c1 = 23.4 T. The two different alternating layers present in the syste ...

2013

Suburban Dystopia And Shopping As A Soap Opera

Selena Savic, Gordan Savicic

With an approach between theatre, urban analysis, mapping and deconstruction, this 'glide' through Brasilia is an attempt to understand its urban tissue, formed through architectural action and spontaneous appropriation. In the city laid out between a mode ...

2012

New Vernacular Architecture as Appropriate Strategy for Housing the Poor

Sytse de Maat

Improving living conditions of the poor often involves a drastic change in lifestyle, in order to fit daily life into industrially produced dwellings. Slum rehabilitation programs replacing informal settlements with standardized mass housing, have often re ...

Springer Verlag2012

New Vernacular Architecture as Appropriate Strategy for Housing the Poor

Sytse de Maat

Springer Verlag2012

Management of the bedload transport of the Milibach torrent for flood protection purpose – physical model based study

Anton Schleiss, Fadi Hachem

The Milibach River between Hasliberg-Reuti and Meiringen agglomerations in Switzerland has a limited hydraulic capacity leading to frequent flooding. During the 2005 flood event, large populated areas were inundated and damages exceeding many millions of S ...

International Research Society Interpraevent2012

En quête d'habitat

Marie-Paule Thomas

This doctoral thesis is based on the observation that the individualization of society that is taking place today has led to new differentiations within the domains of lifestyle and residential choice. Our main hypothesis was that lifestyle influences resi ...

EPFL2011

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