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The Socio-Economic Embeddedness of the Circular Economy: An Integrative Framework

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Reuse in Architecture & Structural Design

Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

Introduction The construction industry has an extensive impact on the global environment and will be facing three big challenges in the next decades: reducing its resource consumption, decreasing its energy use, and limiting its waste production. This is e ...

2018

Optimization Formulations for the Design of Low Embodied Energy Structures Made from Reused Elements

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Gennaro Senatore, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

The building sector is one of the major contributors to material resource consumption, greenhouse gas emission and waste production. Load-bearing systems have a particularly large environmental impact because of their material and energy intensive manufact ...

Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature2018

Can a circular economy provide a backbone for a more sustainable, fair and social market economy in europe?

Most of us would readily subscribe the statement that our planet needs a transition towards a circular economy decoupling raw material use from economic growth. In a circular economy deserving this label, pressure on our earth’s natural resources will defi ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Destroying the circular economy in order to save it - three challenges for accurate investment decisions that have emerged in recent years

The circular economy concept, as presented by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF), together with many other organisations, could be threatened by opportunists and fantasists. In essence, anyone with an aversion to seek to scientifically clarify the presen ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Polynomial models in finance

Damien Edouard Ackerer

This thesis presents new flexible dynamic stochastic models for the evolution of market prices and new methods for the valuation of derivatives. These models and methods build on the recently characterized class of polynomial jump-diffusion processes for w ...

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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

Three Essays on Corporate Disclosure

Evgeny Petrov

Corporate disclosure is the most important source of information about the firm for the outside investors. While some disclosure of public firms is mandated by regulation, firm managers can provide extra information at their discretion by making voluntary ...

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Towards responsible prosperity: progressing a circular economy in Australia

In China, Japan and Europe circular economy concepts are being adopted as a mechanism for utilising resources to support long term economic, social and environmental benefit. Australia’s unique economic environment will affect the way circular economy conc ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

A unified framework for rich routing problems with stochastic demands

Michel Bierlaire, Sacha Varone, Mohammad Yousef Maknoon, Iliya Dimitrov Markov

We introduce a unified framework for rich vehicle and inventory routing problems with complex physical and temporal constraints. Demands are stochastic, can be non-stationary, and are forecast using any model that provides the expected demands and their er ...

2017

ON THE ROAD TO A RESOURCE EFFICIENT EUROPE: RECENT FINDINGS FROM POLFREE RESEARCH

Concerning the use of natural resources in terms of raw materials, water, land and soil as well as with regards to CO2 emissions, the European Union (EU) aims at achieving ambitious targets (European Commission 2011). It is rather unambiguous that a socio- ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017