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FUTURE HOUSEHOLDS: SMALLER FOOTPRINT, BETTER LIFE?

The paper presents a project on how to achieve future household consumption already today. The project calculated lifestyle material footprint, developed household-specific roadmaps for halving material footprints by 2030, tested relevant measures towards ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Multiple resources and their sustainable development in Urban Underground Space

Aurèle Parriaux, Chao Liu, Huanqing Li

Traffic congestion and ground space scarcity are increasing the need to find more space in the urban underground. The demand-driven "top-down" planning of Urban Underground Space (UUS) is common worldwide. As natural resource, the endowments of UUS are dif ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Reducing the material footprint of meals

The global use of natural resources has been growing for many decades and has already exceeded a sustainable level. Nutrition is responsible for a significant share of the resource use of a society and results in considerable material footprints. In Europe ...

Villigen PSI, World Resources Forum, printed by Paul Scherrer Institute2015

The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing

Sean Lewis Hill

A central tenet in support of research reproducibility is the ability to uniquely identify research resources, i.e., reagents, tools, and materials that are used to perform experiments. However, current reporting practices for research resources are insuff ...

2015

A global collaborative accounting network to calculate the resource use of products and services

To promote sustainable buying decisions there is the need to better inform consumers about the environmental burden of products. Today, environmental product assessment is mostly conducted by the producer itself or external consultants using life-cycle inv ...

Villigen PSI, World Resources Forum, printed by Paul Scherrer Institute2015

From scarcity to security: a rationale for resources in LCA

In order to tackle the challenges related to natural resources, the European Union has launched the flagship initiative "Resource Efficient Europe", which aims at reducing use of resources and improving the efficiency of their use. Other policy initiatives ...

Villigen PSI, World Resources Forum, printed by Paul Scherrer Institute2015

Methods and tools to evaluate the availability of renewable energy sources

Edgard Gnansounou, Javier Dominguez, Luis Alberto Panichelli

The recent statements of both the European Union and the US Presidency pushed in the direction of using renewable forms of energy, in order to act against climate changes induced by the growing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In this pap ...

Elsevier2011

Strategy for the identification of optimal exploitation schemes of geothermal systems

François Maréchal, Léda Gerber

Shallow or deep geothermal resources can be used to produce different energy services: district heating, electricity and cooling. The combined production of these services is done using conversion technologies, such as flash systems, binary cycles or heat ...

2010

Optimal technologies for the thermochemical production of Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) from lignocellulosic biomass

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner

The conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to methane is a promising way to distribute a renewable resource as a versatile energy vector in an existing grid. Potentially more efficient than the production of liquid fuels, it can be used as Synthetic Natural ...

2010

Technological innovation strategy in natural resource based industries

Bettina Lynda Bastian

This thesis analyses innovation and technology strategy within a primary industry, notably the upstream oil and gas industry. Industries that exploit and produce finite natural resources are challenged by specific external risks that do not receive much at ...

EPFL2009