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Streamlining the regionalization of economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA): The case of swiss cantons

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, Nicole Sophie Wiedmann

Current levels of resource use and pollution emissions are responsible for the trespassing of most planetary boundaries. As such, operational and contextual analysis is needed to provide mitigation strategies and policies. This article aims to streamline E ...

ELSEVIER2023

Global sustainability relies on our capacity of understanding and guiding urban systems and their metabolism adequately. It has been proposed that bigger and denser cities are more resource-efficient than smaller ones because they tend to demand less infra ...

2021

Analysis of Resource Productivity and Decoupling in Nepal and Bangladesh

Developing Asian countries such as Nepal and Bangladesh have been doing well in recent years in terms of achieving improved economic growth and environmental performance. This study makes an inventory of historical data on energy and material use/intensiti ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Assessing the contribution of Circular Economy to Urban Sustainability: an analysis based on the use of indicators

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur, Valeria Superti

Currently our world is becoming increasingly urban, with around 50% of its population living in cities. Whereas cities produce 80% of the worldwide GDP and are places with high innovation, they also consume 75% of worldwide resources and produce 80% of CO2 ...

2019

Articulating natural resources and sustainable development goals through green economy indicators: A systematic analysis

Albert Merino, Marta Giulia Baldi, Bruno Maria Camelo Oberle, Ian Gunderson

Natural Resources are essential inputs for economic and social development. However, unsustainable resource use has led to environmental degradation and resource depletion, endangering the well-being of humanity and the environment. The 2030 Agenda for Sus ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Essays in Financial Economics

Christoph Helmut Peter Herpfer

This thesis contains four chapters, each of which utilizes new or unusual data sources to analyze a different area of financial economics. In the first chapter, I construct a novel dataset linking individual bankers to large borrowers in the U.S. syndicate ...

EPFL2017

Building a new coupled techno-economic model framework for analyzing internationally integrated electricity markets

Sophie Maire

The Swiss Energy Strategy 2050 pursues an ambitious transition to a more renew- able and efficient energy future, combining CO2 and energy saving targets with a phase-out of nuclear electricity generation. This transition poses challenges not only for the ...

2013

Structure and Controls of the Global Virtual Water Trade Network

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis

Recurrent or ephemeral water shortages are a crucial global challenge, in particular because of their impacts on food production. The global character of this challenge is reflected in the trade among nations of virtual water, i.e. the amount of water used ...

2011

Explanatory Variables for per Capita Stocks and Flows of Copper and Zinc

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

A number of potential explanatory variables for the stocks and flows of copper and zinc in contemporary technological societies are co-analyzed with the tools of exploratory data analysis. A one-year analysis (circa 1994) is performed for 50 countries that ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2008

Effects of alpine hydropower operations on primary production in a downstream lake

Alfred Johny Wüest, Beat Mueller, Martin Schmid

During the past century, the construction of hydropower dams in the watershed of Lake Brienz has significantly altered the dynamics of turbidity, which has important implications for lake productivity. To assess these effects, we measured in situ carbon as ...

Birkhauser Verlag Ag2007

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