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Impact environnemental de l'agriculture

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Cascading as a suitable strategy to improve the resource efficiency of wood consumption?

Increasing the efficiency of resource use has become a major strategy in the pursuit to limit the impacts of resource utilization on the environment. A cascading utilization of resources is generally regarded as a suitable means to achieve such a limitatio ...

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

Altitudinal patterns of diversity and functional traits of metabolically active microorganisms in stream biofilms

Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter

Resources structure ecological communities and potentially link biodiversity to energy flow. It is commonly believed that functional traits (generalists versus specialists) involved in the exploitation of resources depend on resource availability and envir ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Proposal of a Closed Loop Framework for the Improvement of Industrial Systems' Life Cycle Performances: Experiences from the LinkedDesign Project

Ana Milicic

The context where European manufacturers of industrial systems operate has dramatically changed over recent years: the pressure of emerging countries they have to face, policy makers' environmental laws and industrial companies' interests are pushing towar ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Perception and use of landscape concepts in the procedure of Environmental Impact Assessment: Case study-Switzerland and Romania

Alexandre Buttler, Andreea Nita

The European Landscape Convention (ELC) defines landscape as "an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors". Because all aspects linked to landscape are evaluated during the En ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2015

Analytical hill chart towards the maximisation of energy recovery on water utility networks with counter rotating micro-turbine

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Cécile Münch-Alligné, Loïc Andolfatto, João Nuno Gomes Borga Delgado

Existing water utility networks provides a wide, distributed and unexploited hydropower potential. The installation of energy recovery stations on existing infrastructures limits both the required investment and the environmental impact. The counter-rotati ...

2015

Life cycle environmental impacts of a prospective palm-based biorefinery in Parà State-Brazil

Edgard Gnansounou

The availability of about 18 million hectares of grassland in Para State, Brazil, and the possibility of increasing the livestock density display a good perspective for the oil palm expansion in pasture land. A life cycle assessment is performed for a pros ...

Elsevier2013

Use of bench-top NMR to measure the density, composition and desorption isotherm of C-S-H in cement paste

Karen Scrivener, Arnaud Charles Albert Muller

H-1 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), supported by a measurement of the degree of hydration using X-ray diffraction, has been used to fully characterise the nano-scale porosity and composition of calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H), the active component of ce ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Process engineering method for systematically comparing CO2 capture options

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

In the context of greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, CO2 capture and storage is regarded as a promising alternative for fossil fuel fed power plants. In order to design and evaluate the competitiveness of such complex integrated energy conversion systems ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Road Construction with Reduced Environmental Impacts: Performances and Innovative Evaluation Method

André-Gilles Dumont, Nicolas Bueche

As a substantial source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy consumption, the road construction domain has to bring a contribution to the reduction of the environmental impacts. Indeed, an important part of the energy consumption and consequently e ...

2012

Comparative study of environmental impacts of imported organic products and regional conventional products – Geneva's case

Florence Escalera

Nowadays, the consumer is worried by his health and by the environmental protection. Two interesting groups, among the others, can be distinguished : persons worried of eating organic products and persons who consume regional products. What about imported ...

2009

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