Publications associées à Rural economics

Urban boundary-layer flows in complex terrain: Dynamic interactions during a hot and dry summer season in Phoenix, Arizona

Anthropogenic modification of natural landscapes to urban environments impacts land-atmosphere interactions in the boundary layer. Ample research has demonstrated the effect of such landscape transitions on development of the urban heat island (UHI), but c ...

Wiley2024

Dalmine: From Company Town to Hybridized Productive Habitat

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

The establishment of company towns played a significant role in developing both urban and rural areas in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By combining historical and urban research, this study provides findings about the industry's pol ...

Louvain research institute for Landscape, Archi- tecture, Built environment, UCLouvain2023

Assessment of water, sanitation, and hygiene services in district health care facilities in rural area of Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Solomzi Makohliso

Access to sufficient water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services is a crucial requirement for patients during therapy and general well-being in the hospital. However, in low- and middle-income countries, these services are often inadequate, resulting in ...

SPRINGER2022

China’s extended urbanization driven by the 'consumption city' in the context of financialized ecological civilization

Florence Graezer Bideau, Thierry Marcel Theurillat

This article seeks to address current debates on ongoing China’s urban development and makes a theoretical proposal that links financialization and ecological civilization through the perspective of the increasing role of consumption in today’s transition ...

2022

Environmental impact assessment of Swiss residential archetypes: a comparison of construction and mobility scenarios

Sophie Lufkin, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Judith Elisa Drouilles, Emmanuel Rey, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha

Environmental performance assessment of the built environment tends to focus mostly on operational final energy consumption of buildings located within a specific context. Such a limited scope prevents broader usability of findings in practice. In Switzerl ...

2019

A machine learning approach for mapping the very shallow theoretical geothermal potential

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dan Assouline, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

The very shallow geothermal potential (vSGP) is increasingly recognized as a viable resource for providing clean thermal energy in urban and rural areas. This is primarily due to its reliability, low-cost installation, easy maintenance, and little constrai ...

2019

Regional variation in the rural-urban fertility gradient in the developing world

Mathias Lerch

The study of regional trends in the rural-urban fertility gradient helps us to understand the pace of completion of the fertility transition and the geography of urban growth in the global South. We question whether the hypothesized inverted U-shaped evolu ...

2019

Sustainable Development, Planning and Poverty Alleviation

Jean-Claude Bolay, Eléonore Labattut

In 2018, the world population is around 7.6 billion, 4.2 billion in urban settlements and 3.4 billion in rural areas. Of this total, according to UN-Habitat, 3.2 billion of urban inhabitants live in southern countries. Of them, one billion, or nearly a thi ...

2019

Quartiers résidentiels périurbains en transition : Comparaison multicritère de scénarios prospectifs à l'horizon 2050

Judith Elisa Drouilles

Since the Industrial Revolution, urban spaces have undergone a profound reorganisation in parallel with a transformation of society and lifestyles. Urban sprawl has become widespread in Switzerland, as in countless countries, due to continuous innovations ...

EPFL2019

Machine learning and geographic information systems for large-scale wind energy potential estimation in rural areas

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Dasaraden Mauree, Dan Assouline, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

Clean, safe, affordable and available in the long-term, wind is one of the most promising sources of renewable energy. Its optimized and profitable use, however, requires an estimation of the potential in locations of interest, given its very volatile beha ...

IOP2019

Transition of a South African sugar mill towards a biorefinery. A feasibility assessment

Edgard Gnansounou, Jegannathan Kenthorai Raman, Elia Mercedes Ruiz Pachon, Pavel Vaskan

The survival of the sugar industry in South Africa is under threat due to an unstable and low sugar price, high production cost and old infrastructure. At present, coal and sugarcane bagasse are used as fuels in an inefficient boiler to generate the heat a ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2018

Urbaniser la campagne : la Chine, entre croissance massive et réalité du territoire

Marlène Audrey Bertille Leroux

The primary goal of this research is to undertake an analytical study addressing the urbanisation of rural areas as a major territorial, environmental and cultural challenge. The new relations that have developed between urban and rural areas clearly signa ...

EPFL2017

Impact Assessment of Pesticides Applied in Vegetable-Producing Areas in the Saharan Zone : the Case of Burkina Faso

Edouard René Gilbert Lehmann

The present thesis aimed at characterizing the extent of the pesticide contamination and resulting impacts on the environment and the human health in market garden-ing areas in Burkina Faso. Analytical procedures were developed and validated for multi-clas ...

EPFL2017

Demo: Efficient Delay and Apodization for on-FPGA 3D Ultrasound

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler

In medical diagnosis, ultrasound (US) imaging is one of the most common, safe, and powerful techniques. Volumetric (3D) US is potentially very attractive, compared to 2D US, because it might enable telesonography - decoupling the local image acquisition, b ...

2016

Metrics of Utopia: Optionality, Aesthetics and Patrick Geddes’ Ideal of Synoptic Utopia

Matthew Skjonsberg

My dissertation, ‘Periodicity and Rural Urban Dynamics’, hypothesizes that the simultaneous experience of strongly contrasting sensations is pleasurable, and that ‘abrupt urbanism’ can enhance both rural and urban experience. This article investigates the ...

EPFL Press2015

How green are British cities? Scaling relations and CO2 emissions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

How green or environmentally friendly urban areas are in comparison with rural areas is a topic that has received much attention in recent years. This is understandable because urban areas already emit around 70% of the global greenhouse gases. This percen ...

2015

Parsimonious hydrological modelling in urban areas: Towards integrated modelling

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Sylvain Coutu, Dario Del Giudice

Most popular urban hydrological model used in research and engineering (e.g. MOUSE, SWMM, MUSIC,P8) are spatially distributed with linknode drainage network. If some of them (e.g. PURPS, RUNQUAL, SLAMM, StormTac and WBM) treat the catchment in a lumped fas ...

International Water Association2012