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Workshop Outcomes Summary Paper - Space Sustainability: Bridging Initiatives and Perspectives

Emmanuelle Brigitte Marie David, Xiao-Shan Yap

Outer space sustainability is rapidly becoming a major focal area in global politics. Amidst governance challenges ranging from orbital debris over atmospheric pollution up to space resource exploration, policymakers, academics, industry, and civil society ...

Secure World Foundation2025

Resistances to change in urban travel behaviors

Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

The social discourse surrounding the climate emergency progressively infuses the society, transforming into both micro- and macro-social injunctions to change. Yet, society - grounded in a territorial, social, and cultural contingency - appears to resist t ...

EPFL2023

Where is the money ? A decomposition of monetary flows behind fossil fuels

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Xiang Li

Transition from fossils to renewables is leading to radical societal changes. Shifting the capital from fossils to renewables is commonly accompanied with political concerns, such as energy autonomy, domestic employment etc. Despite a decreasing trend in r ...

DTU Construct2022

Measures against the abandonment of common property summer pastures: experimental evidence from joint appropriation-provision games

Ivo Philippe Baur

Common property summer pastures constitute longstanding evidence that the tragedy of the commons can be prevented through self-organization. As a byproduct of their sustainable governance, high nature value farming systems with well-integrated patchy lands ...

RESILIENCE ALLIANCE2021

Bottom-Up Construction of Complex Biomolecular Systems With Cell-Free Synthetic Biology

Sebastian Maerkl, Grégoire Michielin, Barbora Lavickova, Zoe Newell Swank, Laura Sophie Grasemann, Nadanai Laohakunakorn, Amir Shahein

Cell-free systems offer a promising approach to engineer biology since their open nature allows for well-controlled and characterized reaction conditions. In this review, we discuss the history and recent developments in engineering recombinant and crude e ...

2020

An agent-based model framework for understanding the decisions of households and exploring bottom-up effects on housing sustainability

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani

Housing plays a crucial role in the transition towards sustainability. Zero-energy or low-carbon housing solutions are key, but their success depends on their acceptance by the users. We propose a conceptual and an operational framework for understanding h ...

2019

Wastewater management towards a sustainable future. Dairy production: a study case

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Rafael Amorim Leandro De Castro Amoedo, Hür Ebuzer Bütün

The increasing demand for heat, electricity, fuels and chemicals is pushing natural resources towards a non-reversible situation. Current solutions have to be adapted, and alternative (desirably sustainable) sources have to be found. With growth assured du ...

Institute of Thermal Technology, Silesian University of Technology2019

Transition of the Swiss Phosphorus System towards a Circular EconomyPart 2: Socio-Technical Scenarios

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Jonas Ramon Mehr

A transition towards a circular economy of phosphorus (P) in Switzerland is a multi-faceted challenge as P use is subject to a variety of influencing factors comprising policy interventions, consumption trends, or technological innovations on different spa ...

2018

Towards sustainable regeneration of disused urban areas : a monitoring tool to integrate assessment into the projects dynamics

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin, Martine Laprise

Regeneration of disused urban areas, such as industrial brownfields or abandoned infrastructural zones, has received considerable attention in the context of post‐industrial European cities. Due to the inherent complexity of these projects, a holistic inte ...

2015

Sustainability assessment of an urban neighborhood revitalization project in Bogotá by transposition of European indicator systems to the Colombian context

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin

With 80% of its population living in cities, Latin America is one of the most urbanized regions in the planet. Its urban areas are characterized by rapid transformations that entail urban sprawl and the subsequent environmental impacts, social segregation ...

2015