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Modeling climate change adaptation in a computable general equilibrium model: an application to tourism

The issue of climate change adaptation becomes increasingly important in Switzerland, which has already faced higher than average global warming during the last decades. Winter tourism is expected to be one of the Swiss sectors most at risk from climate ch ...

2011

Modeling Climate Change Adaptation in a Computable General Equilibrium Model: an Application to Tourism

Marc Vielle, Camille Gonseth

2011

Three steps toward modeling Swiss post-2012 climate policies

André Sceia

This thesis presents three steps toward a more precise modeling of climate policies using hybrid models. Specific hybrid models have been devised and used to analyze different post-Kyoto Swiss climate policies. Chapter 1 presents a rather simple hybrid mod ...

EPFL2010

Vulnerability of the economy to the potential disturbances of energy supply: A logic-based model with application to the case of China

Edgard Gnansounou, Jun Dong

The disturbances of energy supply that may result from both external and domestic events create a significant threat for national economy due to potential impacts on the productivity, employment and overall economic growth. Building scenarios of the econom ...

Elsevier2010

The vulnerability of Switzerland towards climate change : the case of tourism

Cecilia Matasci, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

Tourism is one of the main sources of income in many Swiss Alpine regions. But this industry is highly sensitive to climate conditions. Then, tourism in the Alpine region is effectively affected (both positively and negatively) by climate change and people ...

2010

Inkjet printed colorimetric ammonia sensor on plastic foil for low-cost and low-power devices

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Jérôme Courbat, Michael Linder

A polymeric-based colorimetric gas sensor with its associated electronics targeting ammonia detectionat low-cost and low-power is presented. The gas sensitive layer was inkjet printed on a plastic foil used as an optical waveguide. The planarconfiguration ...

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High-speed internal strain measurements in composite structures under dynamic load using embedded FBG sensors

John Botsis, Joël Cugnoni, Dragan Coric, Jeannot Frieden

Internal strain measurements in cross-ply carbon-epoxy composite plates under dynamic loads are carried out using embedded FBG sensors. The principle of the FBG interrogation is based on intensity demodulation achieved via a Fabry-Perot filter. To account ...

2010

Crystal field and low energy excitations measured by high resolution RIXS at the L-3 edge of Cu, Ni and Mn

Marco Grioni, Thorsten Schmitt, Helmuth Berger, Xiao Wang

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering in the soft x-ray regime has been profiting much from technical advances that have lowered considerably the instrumental linewidth. At the ADRESS beam line of the Swiss Light Source the SAXES spectrometer can be used to ...

Springer Verlag2009

Ion-implanted compliant electrodes for mm-size dielectric elastomer actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Muhamed Niklaus

The miniaturization of dielectric elastomer actuators requires compliant electrodes that are clean, reliable, and that can be easily patterned on a mm or μm scale. Carbon-based electrodes, which are commonly used to make large-scale actuators, are not well ...

2009

Coupling GEMINI-E3 and MARKAL-CHRES to Simulate Swiss Climate Policies

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera, André Sceia

This report collects two studies hat have been performed in the Research group on the Economics and Management of the Environment of EPFL to assess the Swiss post-Kyoto climate policy with a focus on the residential sector. We couple two existing top-down ...

2008

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