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Économie de l'environnement

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The Role of Research and Innovation for the Transition to a Circular Economy in Europe. Evidence from the Community Innovation Survey 2014

The signature of international commitments such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the COP21 Paris Agreement in 2015 demonstrates a current favourable policy context to address environmental issues. These engagements have been endorsed by the ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Raw Materials and Sustainable Development Goals: the EU Policy Contribution

Many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations for 2030 (UN General Assembly 2015) could not be reached without the contribution of raw materials. Raw materials are fuelling the manufacturing sector and creating jobs and value a ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Mechanical and environmental assessment of Biobricks material

Enio Daniel Zanchetta

Microbial-induced calcite precipitation is a biochemical process of biomineralization. The process form mineral crystals composed of calcium carbonate and if precipitated into a sand matrix can lead to the formation of sandstone. The sandstone created in s ...

2018

Quantifying and allocating net positive environmental externalities from Swiss cleantech innovations

Kristina Carmelita Nangle

This Master thesis is meant to be the first step toward working to quantify the environmental impacts of Swiss cleantech industry when implemented abroad and how this knowledge can help frame new policy approaches to foster this important industry. The red ...

2018

Graphical approach to assess urban quality: Mapping walkability based on the TOD-standard

Gloria Serra Coch

Graphical expression through mapping can be an essential tool to conduct urban analysis, capable of expressing contextual spatial distribution and providing complementary information to numerical analysis. Although urban analytics are central for most issu ...

2018

Environmental Benefits when Reusing Load-Bearing Components in Office Buildings: A Case Study.

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Endrit Hoxha

This case study applies life-cycle assessment methods to the preliminary design of an office building in order to quantify the benefits achieved when reusing its load-bearing components. Results show that the production of the load-bearing system would acc ...

2018

Generative Models for Learning Robot Manipulation Skills from Humans

Ajay Kumar Tanwani

A long standing goal in artificial intelligence is to make robots seamlessly interact with humans in performing everyday manipulation skills. Learning from demonstrations or imitation learning provides a promising route to bridge this gap. In contrast to d ...

EPFL2018

From COP21 pledges to a fair 2°C pathway

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie

At COP21, about 160 countries proposed the so-called INDCs that define GHG abatement objectives by 2030. While encouraging, these commitments are not ambitious enough to achieve the 2°C threshold by 2100, and further negotiations are needed for sharing the ...

2018

A Linear-Quadratic Gaussian Approach to Dynamic Information Acquisition

Thomas Alois Weber, Viet Anh Nguyen

We consider optimal information acquisition for the control of linear discrete-time random systems with noisy observations and apply the findings to the problem of dynamically implementing emissions-reduction targets. The optimal policy, which is provided ...

2018

A Hybrid Methodology for Combined Interplant Heat, Water, and Power Integration

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Maziar Kermani, Anna Sophia Wallerand

The growing desire to improve resource efficiency and environmental impact of industrial processes is directly linked to optimal management of heat, mass and power flows. The concept of industrial symbiosis tackles this issue by proposing interplant heat r ...

Elsevier science2017

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