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Techno-economic and environmental impact assessment of an olive tree pruning waste multiproduct biorefinery

Elia Mercedes Ruiz Pachon

This work focuses on the economic performance and environmental assessment of two biorefinery schemes using 100 t/day of olive tree pruning waste as feedstock. The first scheme is based on a multiproduct biorefinery producing 6363.64 m3/yr of ethanol, 999. ...

ELSEVIER2022

Stream temperature and discharge evolution in Switzerland over the last 50 years: annual and seasonal behaviour

Michael Lehning, Bettina Schaefli, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Adrien Michel, Tristan Jonas Brauchli

Stream temperature and discharge are key hydro- logical variables for ecosystem and water resource management and are particularly sensitive to climate warming. Despite the wealth of meteorological and hydrological data, few studies have quantified observe ...

2020

GRUN: an observation-based global gridded runoff dataset from 1902 to 2014

Gionata Ghiggi

Freshwater resources are of high societal relevance, and understanding their past variability is vital to water management in the context of ongoing climate change. This study introduces a global gridded monthly reconstruction of runoff covering the period ...

Copernicus GmbH2019

The economic impact of climate driven changes in water availability in Switzerland

Marc Vielle, Camille Gonseth, Anne-Kathrin Faust

The broad objective of this study is to estimate the economic impact of changes in water availability due to climate change in Switzerland with a 2050 time horizon. To do so, the sectoral structure of the computable general equilibrium model GEMINI-E3 is b ...

Iwa Publishing2015

The Economics of Water Distribution in Switzerland : Cost, Efficiency and Climate Change

Anne-Kathrin Faust

This thesis analyses three distinct aspects of the economics of water distribution in Switzerland. Climate change and mounting pressure regarding the performance of network industries command an understanding of the drivers of cost and efficiency of water ...

EPFL2013

From the Cover: Water-controlled wealth of nations

Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan, Samir Suweis

Population growth is in general constrained by food production, which in turn depends on the access to water resources. At a country level, some populations use more water than they control because of their ability to import food and the virtual water requ ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Influence of dam operation on water resources management under different scenarios in the Zambezi River Basin considering environmental objectives and hydropower

Théodora Cohen Liechti

Worldwide, almost 50,000 dams over 15 m height have been built during the last six decades with an aggregated storage capacity of 6,000 km3. The fact that large dams, by increasing irrigation and hydroelectricity production, can sustain development and red ...

EPFL2013

Evolution of the global virtual water trade network

Andrea Rinaldo

Global freshwater resources are under increasing pressure from economic development, population growth, and climate change. The international trade of water-intensive products (e.g., agricultural commodities) or virtual water trade has been suggested as a ...

National Academy of Sciences2012

Temporal dynamics of blue and green virtual water trade networks

Andrea Rinaldo

Global food security increasingly relies on the trade of food commodities. Freshwater resources are essential to agricultural production and are thus embodied in the trade of food commodities, referred to as "virtual water trade." Agricultural production p ...

American Geophysical Union2012

Water for food: The global virtual water trade network

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis

We present a novel conceptual framework and methodology for studying virtual water trade. We utilize complex network theory to analyze the structure of the global virtual water trade associated with the international food trade. In the global virtual water ...

American Geophysical Union2011