Publications associées à Canton de Berne

Streamlining the regionalization of economy-wide material flow accounts (EW-MFA): The case of swiss cantons

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, Nicole Sophie Wiedmann

Current levels of resource use and pollution emissions are responsible for the trespassing of most planetary boundaries. As such, operational and contextual analysis is needed to provide mitigation strategies and policies. This article aims to streamline E ...

ELSEVIER2023

Experimental characterization of root-reinforced riparian sediment deposits in a restored and widened river course

Giovanni De Cesare, Paolo Perona

The Arbogne River is located mainly in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. The River was meandering through the plane at a very low gradient and several exceptional historic floods with large sediment accumulation are mentioned. After important river training wo ...

2023

The rationales that underlie modal practices

Vincent Kaufmann

Encouraging a modal shift from individual transportation to less polluting modes such as public transport, walking and cycling, is now a key recommendation of the UN to reach the goals set by the Paris Agreement. Achieving this ambitious goal requires a de ...

2022

Emergency adaptation to distance learning: no magic bullet, but where there’s a will, there’s a way

Caroline Pulfrey

Whilst, in many countries, the sudden enforced transfer to large-scale distance learning in state schools as a result of COVID_19 lockdown measures caused turmoil, it also provided an unprecedented opportunity to understand more about key factors associate ...

2022

Quantification of existing rooftop PV hourly generation capacity and validation against measurement data

Roberto Castello, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Alina Ursula Rosa Walch

The spatio-temporal patterns of the existing rooftop photovoltaic (PV) production can provide valuable insights for the design of effective strategies for PV integration at large scale. In this work, we quantify the hourly production of existing rooftop PV ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

The invention of the Swiss house: engineers, ethnographers and artists to the discovery of the Alpine vernacular construction / L’invenzione della casa svizzera: ingegneri, etnografi e artisti alla scoperta della costruzione vernacolare alpina

Nicola Braghieri

At the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900, Switzerland presented itself to the world by exhibiting an imaginary synthetic village, making the conflicting features of the various Cantons – which for a few decades gathered under the flag of the Confederat ...

2021

Climate change effects on groundwater recharge and temperatures in Swiss alluvial aquifers

Adrien Michel

Climate change will have both quantitative and qualitative effects on groundwater resources. These impacts differ for aquifers in solid and unconsolidated rock, in urban or rural locations, and in the principal processes of groundwater recharge. Having kno ...

2021

New perspectives for spatial planning in Switzerland: the role of ecosystem services

Rémi Jaligot

Spatial planning deals with the spatial expression of human activities in an integrated way to minimize their negative impacts on the natural and land systems. Rapid land use and land cover changes are important drivers of change of the benefits people der ...

EPFL2020

Assessing the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Switzerland

Andrea Rinaldo, Jacques Fellay, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Joseph Chadi Benoit Lemaitre

Following the rapid dissemination of COVID-19 cases in Switzerland, large-scale non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were implemented by the cantons and the federal government between 28 February and 20 March 2020. Estimates of the impact of these inter ...

2020

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

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani

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

Historical dynamics of ecosystem services and land management policies in Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Martí Bosch Padrós, Stéphanie Aline Hasler, Rémi Jaligot

Ecosystem services (ES) are dynamic over space and time. Understanding and quantifying spatio-temporal trade-offs and synergies among multiples ES, as well identifying the drivers of change provides an opportunity to make the link between ecosystems, polic ...

2019

Aufwertung der Habitatvielfalt in einer Restwasserstrecke mittels eines künstlichen Hochwassers und Geschiebebeigaben - Vergleich von Feldversuchen mit Laborexperimenten

Anton Schleiss, Severin Stähly, Christopher Robinson

Die Wasserkraft ist die wichtigste Säule der heutigen Schweizer Stromproduktion und deren Ausbau ist in den nächsten Jahrzehnten im Rahmen der Energiestrategie 2050 geplant. Deshalb ist ein auch nachhaltiger Betrieb der Wasserkraftwerke erforderlich. Gesch ...

2018

Künstliches Hochwasser an der Saane - Eine Massnahme zum nachhaltigen Auenmanagement

Anton Schleiss, Severin Stähly, Christopher Robinson

Durch Wasserkraft genutzte Flüsse und Auenlandschaften sind in ihrem Abfluss- und Geschieberegime und damit in ihrer Morphologie und Ökologie oft stark beeinträchtigt. In der Saane unterhalb der Staumauer Rossens führten eine jahrzehntelange Restwasserbewi ...

2018

Decoupling municipal solid waste generation and economic growth in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

Switzerland is one of the largest producers of municipal solid waste (MSW) per capita. The principle of decoupling attempts to evaluate the relationship between consumption and production, and to measure the relationship between an activity and its impact ...

2018

Establishing links for the planning of sustainable districts

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Sébastien Cajot, Nils Christian Schüler

Cities can play a key role in mitigating climate change impacts, as they represent two thirds of the world’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents a model-based approach to support cities in the challenge of including energy ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG2016

Heat demand estimation for different building types at regional scale considering building parameters and urban topography

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Alexandre Suzanne Jean-Marie Bertrand, Nils Christian Schüler

This study aims towards an improved estimation of annual heat demand of the building stock for an entire region. This requires the holistic representation of aspects influencing the heat demand of buildings, namely their geometry, fabric, users and surroun ...

Elsevier2015

On quantifying ecologically sustainable flow releases in a diverted river reach

Paolo Perona, Lorenzo Gorla

Water demand for hydropower production has been increasing along with a growing awareness of the importance of preserving riparian ecosystems and their biodiversity. Some Cantons in Switzerland have begun replacing the inadequate concept of Minimum Flow Re ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland

Michael Lehning, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay, Thomas Grünewald

A model study on the impact of climate change on snow cover and runoff has been conducted for the Swiss Canton of Graubünden. The model Alpine3D has been forced with the data from 35 Automatic Weather Stations in order to investigate snow and runoff dynami ...

2013

Promotion of Science among Youngsters: Chemistry Outreach Initiatives at EPFL

At EPFL, a strategy for organising scientific outreach activities has been developed and a programme comprising various measures and actions elaborated to promote science and technology among youngsters, especially young girls. As part of this programme, w ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2012

Sensitivity of road safety indicators in normal and crash cases

Edward Chung, Minh Hai Pham

Road traffic safety is receiving increasing attention. Different real-time safety indicators relying on traffic sensor data can be found in the literature. Some are based on the posterior analysis of crash and traffic data; while others are based on real t ...

2008