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Provision of housing services within planetary limits: A methodological framework for the urban circular economy

The provision of decent housing for all is a core sustainable development goal (SDG) and a fundamental human right. However, the construction sector is the world's largest consumer of raw materials, and 40% of global CO2 emissions are attributed to housing ...

2023

Financialized ecological civilization and cultural consumption: Mountain area development driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Mengke Zhang

This presentation examines the paradoxical relationships between land financialization and ecological civilization, focusing on the case of Chongli, a mountain city co-hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics. Formerly a poverty-stricken mountain area, the Olympic ...

2023

Urbanization Paradigm Shift in China’s Mountain Areas Driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: Financialized Ecological Civilization and Cultural Consumption

Mengke Zhang, Thierry Marcel Theurillat

This presentation aims to explore the paradoxical interrelationships between land financialization and ecological civilization, using a Chinese case of mountain urbanization driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Chongli, which is only 200 kilometers ...

2023

Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation

Devis Tuia, Alexander Mathis, Mackenzie Mathis, Benjamin Alexander Kellenberger

Inexpensive and accessible sensors are accelerating data acquisition in animal ecology. These technologies hold great potential for large-scale ecological understanding, but are limited by current processing approaches which inefficiently distill data into ...

2022

China’s extended urbanization driven by the 'consumption city' in the context of financialized ecological civilization

Florence Graezer Bideau, Thierry Marcel Theurillat

This article seeks to address current debates on ongoing China’s urban development and makes a theoretical proposal that links financialization and ecological civilization through the perspective of the increasing role of consumption in today’s transition ...

2022

Conduit, Patio, Waste: Mapping Environmental Relations in Bairro da Malagueira

Bárbara Maçães E Costa

The ongoing ecological crisis is reframing the common binary opposition between architecture and nature and provoking us to ask what kinds of buildings we collectively want to create for the ecosystems that we inhabit. The environment is not a neutral back ...

EPFL2021

Using open-access data to explore the relationship between urban morphology and diarrhoeal diseases in Côte d’Ivoire

Jérôme Chenal, Vitor Pessoa Colombo, Jürg Utzinger

Little is known about the impacts of morphological indicators that can be derived from the physical environment on the risk of diarrhoeal diseases. Given Africa’s recent explosive urbanisation rates and rapid changes in landscape, coupled with a high burde ...

2021

PORTUGAL Lessons

Harry Gugger

The environment is a space that surrounds, encloses, encircles. The object is a thing that limits a place and a point of view. To think of architecture as an “environmental object” means to question this dynamic of separation and imagine a discipline that ...

PARK Books2019

Why Does Material Efficiency Stay in the Shades of Energy Efficiency?

The efficient utilization of raw materials has become a crucial topic for more and more companies in order to assure their existence and competiveness. Therefore, the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg has commissioned the Institute for Industrial E ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

On the probabilistic nature of the species-area relation

Andrea Rinaldo, Andrea Giometto, Jonathan Giezendanner, Silvia Zaoli, Amos Maritan

The Species-Area Relation (SAR), which describes the increase in the number of species S with increasing area A, is under intense scrutiny in contemporary ecology, in particular to probe its reliability in predicting the number of species going extinct as ...

2019

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