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Territory Subject: Designing Human-Environment Interactions in Cities and Territories

Paola Viganò, Sylvie Tram Nguyen, Qinyi Zhang

A brief critique of the evolution of ecological perspectives surrounding the current environmental crises in the age of climate age and Anthropogenic impacts is highlighted across the inter-disciplinary fields of landscape, urbanism, and ecology. First, re ...

Springer Cham2023

Quartiers rhodaniens en transition: vers de nouveaux équilibres?

Sara Sonia Formery Regazzoni

A travers l’étude du territoire traversé par le fleuve Rhône, la recherche doctorale « Quartiers rhodaniens en transition » propose le concept de nouveaux équilibres ville-fleuve, entendus comme des stratégies urbaines résilientes dans un cadre de transiti ...

2021

Wirkungskontrolle einer Sedimentzugabe: Habitatvielfalt und Kolmation ||| Eco-morphological evaluation of a sediment augmentation measure

Giovanni De Cesare, Christian Mörtl, Robin Schroff

In einer Restwasserstrecke der Saane wurde 2016 zur Sanierung der kolmatierten Gewässersohle und zur Aufwertung der Lebensräume ein künstliches Hochwasser ausgelöst und mit einer Sedimentzugabe gekoppelt. Die mittelfristigen Wirkungen der Sedimentzugabe wu ...

2021

Eco-morphological evaluation of a sediment augmentation measure

Giovanni De Cesare, Robin Schroff

In the residual flow reach of the Sarine river (Switzerland), downstream of the Rossens dam, the low discharge regime and deficient bed load dynamics impact the riverscape habitat mosaic and cause substrate degradation by colmation. In 2016, an artificial ...

SPRINGER VIEWEG-SPRINGER FACHMEDIEN WIESBADEN GMBH2021

Adapt or Perish: Evolutionary Rescue in a Gradually Deteriorating Environment

Anne-Florence Raphaëlle Bitbol, Loïc Marrec

We investigate the evolutionary rescue of a microbial population in a gradually deteriorating environment, through a combination of analytical calculations and stochastic simulations. We consider a population destined for extinction in the absence of mutan ...

2020

A Structural Design Methodology for Freeform Timber Plate Structures Using Wood-Wood Connections

Anh Chi Nguyen

Over the past decades, timber has gained popularity as a sustainable building material because of the rising environmental awareness. Furthermore, the resurgence of timber has also been encouraged by the advent of the digital age during the 21st century. T ...

EPFL2020

Earth and field observations underpin metapopulation dynamics in complex landscapes: Near-term study on carabids

Andrea Rinaldo, Damiano Pasetto, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Jonathan Giezendanner

Understanding risks to biodiversity requires predictions of the spatial distribution of species adapting to changing ecosystems and, to that end, Earth observations integrating field surveys prove essential as they provide key numbers for assessing landsca ...

2020

Accurate and efficient interpretation of load-test data for asset-management

Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai

Increasing demand for new infrastructure and ageing of existing infrastructure has made management of infrastructure a key challenge of this century. Replacement of all ageing civil infrastructure is economically and environmentally unsustainable. Civil in ...

EPFL2019

The Long View Exploring Product Lifetime Extension

Feng Wang

Less than nine months into 2017, more resources than our planet produces over the whole year were consumed globally, marked by Earth Overshoot Day. Short use and fast replacement of products increasingly dictates consumption patterns in many regions. As fa ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Exploring potential benefits of bridge condition assessment in highway operations

Ian Smith

In recent years, an increasing number of private firms are involved in public works using the funding strategy of public-private partnerships (PPPs), especially for civil infrastructure projects such as highways and bridges. In this paper, a framework is p ...

IABSE2019

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