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Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring: The SensorScope Experience

Martin Vetterli, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, François Ingelrest

While wireless sensor networks have been extensively studied in the past few years, most results are of theoretical nature and were obtained outside of a practical context. This can be problematic for real applications, especially in the area of environmen ...

2008

Hedonic Methods in Housing Markets. Pricing Environmental Amenities and Segregation

This book provides the most recent advances in and applications of the assessment of environmental amenities or nuisances, land use changes, discrimination and seggregation on the housing market. The emphasis is on problems, practices and innovative soluti ...

Springer2008

On the behaviour and adaptation of office occupants

Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

During the warm summer of 2006 a comprehensive longitudinal field survey of the adaptive actions of occupants, their thermal satisfaction and the coincident environmental conditions was conducted in eight Swiss office buildings. We have applied logistic re ...

2008

Using the hedonic approach to value natural land uses in an urban area: An application to Geneva and Zurich

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini, Caroline Schaerer

We apply the hedonic model to the rental markets of the Geneva and Zurich urban areas, Switzerland, in order to assess the value of natural land uses and land use diversity. In order to construct variables to quantify land uses and patterns in the neighbou ...

2008

Assessing environmental amenities and testing for discrimination in housing markets using hedonic price models

Caroline Schaerer

The present thesis applies the property hedonic price model in order to assess the economic value of environmental amenities and discrimination on the Swiss rental markets of Geneva and Zurich. Indeed, economic textbooks teach that differentials in environ ...

EPFL2008

'I pay enough taxes already!' Applying economic voting models to environmental referendums

Philippe Thalmann, Nicholas Bornstein

Objectives. Models of economic voting have rarely been applied to referendum votes. We fill this gap by testing citizens’ voting behavior on environmental policy in relation to their perception of the business cycle. Thus, the study examines the personal, ...

2008

Optimal process design for thermochemical production of fuels from biomass

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner

Transport applications are a major global source of greenhouse gas emissions and the production of fuels that are renewable and neutral in CO2 is an important issue in chemical process research and development. Contrary to the biological routes that produc ...

2008

Information Theoretical Approach to Attention in Geomagnetic Storm Forecasting: a Tutorial

Arash Arami

Satellites and ground-based stations have recorded various types of data from the solar-terrestrial system during recent decades. The new type of particle detectors in SEVAN (Space Environmental Viewing and Analysis Network) project will be able to measure ...

2008

Impact of abundance weighting on the response of seed traits to climate and land use

Jiri Dolezal, Aurélie Thébault

1.Many studies have identified relationships between plant reproductive behaviour and environmental conditions. However, they have all been based on cross-species analysis and take no account of the relative abundance of species with vegetation. 2.Using tw ...

Wiley-Blackwell2008

The business perspective on climate change: Firms, special interest groups, and their influence on climate policy design

The influence of firms on the elaboration of climate policy in a democratic system is quite controversial. Firms do not form a solid bloc of opponents to environmental regulation. Some firms even expect to gain from such regulation, either because they off ...

2008

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