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Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework

Stéphane Joost, Paola Viganò, Catarina Wall Gago, Anna Pagani, Derek Pierre Christie, Dusan Licina, Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Idris Guessous, Mathias Lerch

As the world’s population grows in cities, urban dwellers spend a large amount of time inside their home, making housing health ever more important. Critical for residents’ health, the interactions between indoor residential environments and outdoor enviro ...

2023

Correction to: Obstacles and opportunities for reducing dwelling size to shrink the environmental footprint of housing: Tenants' residential preferences and housing choice (Oct, 10.1007/s10901-021-09884-3, 2021)

Anna Pagani, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Claudine Bettina Karlen

SPRINGER2022

Shrinking Housing's Size: Using Agent-Based Modelling to Explore Measures for a Reduction of Floor Area Per Capita

Anna Pagani, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

To shrink the environmental footprint of housing, reducing dwellings' size is key. There is agreement among scholars on the measures that should be taken to achieve this goal, however their effectiveness and effects have not been sufficiently investigated. ...

SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN2022

Explore, engage, empower: methodological insights into a transformative mixed methods study tackling the COVID-19 lockdown

Vincent Kaufmann, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Garance Clément, Anna Pagani, Melissa Pang, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Laurie Daffe, Ulrike Vilsmaier

Action-oriented, transformative, and transdisciplinary approaches are increasingly heralded as promising tools that enable researchers not only to produce new knowledge about a situation, but also to actively engage in tackling it; however, such approaches ...

2022

Towards sustainability through housing functions: a systems perspective for the study of Swiss tenants' residential mobility

Anna Pagani

Problem. Housing is a major contributor to Switzerland's carbon footprint and energy consumption, but it is also a basic need. Research on climate change mitigation strategies has so far paid insufficient attention to households' preferences and their cont ...

EPFL2022

Obstacles and opportunities for reducing dwelling size to shrink the environmental footprint of housing: Tenants' residential preferences and housing choice

Anna Pagani, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Claudine Bettina Karlen

The environmental footprint of housing is greatly influenced by the size of a dwelling. Housing size is the result of households' dwelling selections; accordingly, it is critical to consider residential preferences and choices to inform efforts towards hou ...

SPRINGER2022

ReMoTe-S. Residential Mobility of Tenants in Switzerland: An Agent-Based Model

Anna Pagani, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Sustainable housing is a key priority for Switzerland. To provide both environmentally and socioculturally sustainable housing, Swiss property owners need to navigate the complex and context-specific system that articulates the match between households' pr ...

J A S S S2022

A systems perspective for residential preferences and dwellings: housing functions and their role in Swiss residential mobility

Anna Pagani, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Worldwide, there is an urgent imperative to provide a housing supply that is environmentally sustainable as well as acceptable and desirable for its users. A holistic and integrative understanding of the relationship between households’ residential prefere ...

2021

Activities, Housing Situation and Other Factors Influencing Psychological Strain Experienced During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Switzerland

Garance Clément, Anna Pagani, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Ralph Hansmann

Background: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis and the corresponding first nationwide lockdown from mid-March to 10 May 2020 engendered considerable psychological strain among people in Switzerland. This study analyzes determinants of changes i ...

Frontiers Media2021

How the first wave of COVID-19 in Switzerland affected residential preferences

Vincent Kaufmann, Anna Pagani, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Ralph Hansmann

During the first wave of COVID-19, residents’ health and well-being were challenged as residential environments suddenly had to accommodate most of the functions of an urban system. Although scholars and practitioners have proposed reconsidering dwelling r ...

2021

Tenants’ residential mobility in Switzerland: the role of housing functions

Anna Pagani, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ivo Philippe Baur

The interaction between residential preferences and dwellings is a complex system whose function thus far remains insufficiently explored. In this paper, we investigate housing functions as orchestrators of households’ residential mobility in the context o ...

2021

Mon logement à l’épreuve du confinement : Quelles orientations pour l’après ?

Garance Clément, Anna Pagani, Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, 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 ...

2021

Sustainability Assessment of the Housing System: Exploring the Interplay between the Material and Social Systems

Niko Heeren, Anna Pagani, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Rafael Laurenti

Cambridge University Press2020

Sustainability Issues in Urban Systems from a Metabolic Perspective

Anna Pagani, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis

Cambridge University Press2020

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

Anna Pagani, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

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

Towards housing sustainability: a framework for the decision-making process of tenants

Anna Pagani, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

The mismatch between the supply and demand of rental apartments in Switzerland represents an obstacle to the transition towards a more sustainable society. The difficulty for the housing providers to accommodate the fast societal change of the demand bring ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019