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Anna Pagani, Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Garance Clément, Claudine Bettina Karlen

Entre mai et juin 2020, des citoyen.ne.s scientifiques de toute la Suisse ont répondu à cette question dans des groupes de réflexion : les Citizen Think Tanks. Avec des chercheuses et chercheurs de l’EPFL, ils ont élaboré des scénarios pour l’avenir après ...

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A field-based modelling framework of the ecohydrology of schistosomiasis

Francisco Javier Perez Saez

Successful control of schistosomiasis, a water-borne parasitic disease, is challenged by the intricacy of the wormâ s lifecycle, which depends on aquatic snail intermediate hosts, and involves environmental, ecologic, and socio-economic factors. Current s ...

EPFL2018

Assessment of water resource contamination by pesticides in vegetable-producing areas in Burkina Faso

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Edouard René Gilbert Lehmann

This study proposes a comprehensive approach to investigate water resource contamination by pesticides under the specific climatic and hydrological conditions of the Sudano-Sahelian climate. Samples were collected from tradi- tional wells, boreholes, and a ...

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Evaporation from cultivated and semi-wild Sudanian Savanna in west Africa

Marc Parlange, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande, Nicolaas Cornelis van de Giesen

Rain-fed farming is the primary livelihood of semi-arid west Africa. Changes in land cover have the potential to affect precipitation, the critical resource for production. Turbulent flux measurements from two eddy-covariance towers and additional observat ...

European Geosciences Union2017

Classification and prediction of river network ephemerality and its relevance for waterborne disease epidemiology

Andrea Rinaldo, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Theophile Mande

The transmission of waterborne diseases hinges on the interactions between hydrology and ecology of hosts, vectors and parasites, with the long-term absence of water constituting a strict lower bound. However, the link between spatio-temporal patterns of h ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2017

Sustainable Architecture for Educational Space in Africa and China

Ning Liu

Countries in the Global South are producing the most important educational needs of the 21st century. Fast-growing cities can provide the most striking examples of these current tendencies. Just over a decade after the start of the new millennium, the need ...

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Suppressed convective rainfall by agricultural expansion in southeastern Burkina Faso

Marc Parlange, Gabriel George Katul, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande

With the green economy being promoted as a path to sustainable development and food security within the African continent, the influx of agricultural land is proliferating at a rapid pace often replacing natural savannah forests. Where agriculture is prima ...

American Geophysical Union2015

Coûts de la regulation des industries des réseaux: Enseignements du réseau postal

Matthias Finger, Martin Maegli

La régulation joue un rôle important dans la mise en œuvre de la libéralisation des industries de réseau. Si elle vise à favoriser une certaine prospérité de l’économie et de la société, cette intervention de l’Etat présente certaines limites. Les procédur ...

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