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More than 59 million people reside in the six member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) (the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia). The rate of urbanization is more than 80% in each of these countries. To better ...
MDPI2022Seasonal phytoplankton and geochemical shifts in the subsurface chlorophyll maximum layer of a dimictic ferruginous lake
Subsurface chlorophyll maxima layers (SCML) are ubiquitous features of stratified aquatic systems. Availability of the micronutrient iron is known to influence marine SCML, but iron has not been explored in detail as a factor in the development of freshwat ...
2022Life cycle environmental assessment of retaining walls in unsaturated soils
Alessio Ferrari, Gianluca Speranza
Retaining structures above groundwater level support soils that are usually in a state of partial saturation and subject to the actions of atmospheric agents. The current design approach considers the possible extremes of soil conditions - either totally d ...
ELSEVIER2022Polar rover mission: Preliminary concept study
As part of their development towards the deployment of an autonomous lunar rover, EPFL Xplore is looking to build and deploy a more polar-focused model in the coming years. The objective of this document is to serve as a preliminary concept study to ease t ...
2021Conduit, Patio, Waste: Mapping Environmental Relations in Bairro da Malagueira
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 ...
EPFL2021The Links between ALS and NF-κB
Bernard Schneider, Emma Charlotta Källstig
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease wherein motor neu-ron degeneration leads to muscle weakness, progressive paralysis, and death within 3–5 years ofdiagnosis. Currently, the cause of ALS is unknown but, as with several neuro ...
2021Manor Lessons: Commons Revisited
Harry Gugger, Amy Faith Perkins
Our contemporary condition, governed by the abstract apparatus of the capitalist market, demands a critical reading of the distribution, ownership, and use of common resources, especially on an island that has experienced a long history of privatization st ...
Park Books2021From ‘hippies’ to “How dare you!” and beyond..
In 1971 a group of environmental activists set sail from Canada to protest nuclear testing. With this journey the organization Greenpeace was born. 50 years old this year, Greenpeace and other organizations like it have seen environmental concerns move fro ...
2021The influence of façade and space design on building occupants’ indoor experience
Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore
Existing research on user’s satisfaction at the workplace have shown that occupants’ perceived comfort depends on a number of environmental and non-environmental factors and that forgiveness, meant as the indulgent attitude towards inadequate indoor enviro ...
2021Applying the IHA Hydropower Sustainability ESG Gap Analysis Tool (HESG) to the Planning and Implementation Phases
Hydropower has a long track record of providing affordable and reliable electricity to various regions of the world throughout the decades. However, diversity in the type of hydropower plant installations results in an array of social, environmental and ec ...
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