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Économie (activité humaine)

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Socio-Economic Assessment of Fusion Energy Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment Programme

Providing safe, clean and affordable energy supply is essential for meeting the basic needs of human society and for supporting economic growth. From the historical perspective, the constantly growing energy use was one of the main factors, which drove the ...

EPFL2010

Thermo-economic modeling of fuel decarbonization processes

François Maréchal, Laurence Tock

A systematic framework is developed for the thermo-environomic modeling, analysis and optimization of fuel decarbonization processes using precombustion routes to decarbonize the fuel by CO2 removal before burning the purified H2-rich gas in a gas turbine ...

2010

Pricing expropriation risk in natural resource contracts – A real options approach

Anders Trolle

We develop a model for pricing expropriation risk in natural resource projects, in particular an oil field. The government is viewed as holding an American-style option to expropriate the oil field, but facing the following three possible expropriation cos ...

MIT press2010

Emerging Risks: Sources, Drivers and Governance Issues (2nd ed.)

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

With this concept note, IRGC intends to help improve the understanding and governance of emerging risks that have impacts on human health and safety, the environment, the economy and society at large. It draws from a roundtable discussion in 2009 about why ...

International Risk Governance Council (IRGC)2010

The PASTO project: an innovative agricultural system of practices for mountain regions

François Frelechoux

Mountain agriculture faces numerous challenges: diminishing number of farms and of animals, advancing of the forest, search for viable economic alternatives and multiple social demands concerning the maintenance of landscapes, of biodiversity and the offer ...

2009

Integration of LCA in a thermo-economic model for multi-objective process optimization of SNG production from woody biomass

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner, Léda Gerber

This paper presents a methodology to integrate life cycle assessment (LCA) in models used to design energy conversion systems. It is illustrated by an application to a thermo-economic model for the multi-objective optimization of synthetic natural gas (SNG ...

2009

Integration of LCA in a thermo-economic model for multi-objective process optimization of SNG production from woody biomass

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner, Léda Gerber

2009

Investigating the Efficiency of ITS Cooperative Systems for a Better Use of Urban Transport Infrastructures: The iTETRIS Simulation Platform

The use of cooperative ITS communication systems, supporting driving through the dynamic exchange of Vehicle-to- Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) messages, is a potential candidate to improve the economical and societal welfare. The applic ...

2009

Water Supply: The cost structure of water utilities in Switzerland

Andrea Baranzini, Anne-Kathrin Faust

This paper estimates a translog cost function for Swiss water utilities. From the cost function, we are able to estimate measures of marginal costs as well as economies of production density, customer density and scale, which are important determinants in ...

HEG2009

Climate Change and Tourism in Switzerland : Impacts, Vulnerability and Possible Adaptation Measures

Cecilia Matasci

This thesis is part of the MIADAC project (Modeling Sectoral Climate Change Policies: Mitigation, Adaptation, and Acceptance) included in Work Package 4 of the NCCR Climate. It deals with adaptation and acceptance of Switzerland for the tourism sector. In ...

2009

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