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Stougie, L. (author), van der Kooi, H.J. (author), Valero Delgado, A. (author)
The selection of power generation systems is important when striving for a more sustainable society. However, the results of environmental, economic and social sustainability assessments are subject to new insights into the calculation methods and to changing needs, economic conditions and societal preferences. Researchers active in the field of...
conference paper 2015
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Balkenende, R. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author)
Sustainability of electronic products until recently mainly focused on improving the energy efficiency. Recently, resource efficiency has become of growing importance. Due to the use of relatively small amounts of many valuable and scarce materials, often intimately mixed, the design of electronic products deserves specific attention. From a...
conference paper 2015
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Isabella, O. (author), Ganesan Nair, G. (author), Tozzi, A (author), Hernandez Castro Barreto, J (author), Chandra Mouli, G.R. (author), Lantsheer, F (author), van Berkel, S (author), Zeman, M. (author)
Photovoltaic (PV) systems are progressively used for decentralized electricity generation. To obtain the maximum yield from such systems, optimisation of all components is essential. In this contribution, we provide a comprehensive modelling and sizing of PV systems for any location. Three applications are here presented providing real time...
conference paper 2015
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Prins, M. (author), Mohammadi, S. (author), Slob, N. (author)
Recently the Circular Economy (CE) concept has gained momentum in the Netherlands, propounding that environmental impact reduction can provide a significant positive economical impulse. The government, larger parts of the industry as a whole, as well as the construction industry, has warmly received this approach. At first sight the CE concept...
conference paper 2015
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Martin, C.L. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author), Keeffe, Greg (author)
Sustainability needs professionals and methodologies that can bring the architecturally qualitative and scientifically quantitative together to reveal the latent potential of our cities and people. These experts must have the necessary communication skills, personalities and backgrounds to firmly place city stakeholders at the heart of this...
conference paper 2017
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Heurkens, E.W.T.M. (author)
Strategies and partnerships for delivering sustainable private sector-led urban development projects are yet to be effectuated. Despite the fact that actors in real estate development increasingly incorporate sustainability features into decision-making, it seems that developing sustainable urban areas – taking into account more complex social,...
conference paper 2017
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Sauerwein, M. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author), Balkenende, R. (author)
Circular product design is a relatively new approach to design suitable strategies to realize circular products. Additive manufacturing (AM) is seen as a promising enabling production process. It has digital and additive characteristics, which makes AM different from conventional production techniques. However, it is yet unclear how this...
conference paper 2017
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Rieck, F.G. (author), Machielsen, C. (author), van Duin, Ron (author)
Will the Automotive era come to an end in the 21th century? Looking at today’s environmental and economic challenges of the use of cars based on last century technology and listening to some trend watchers one could think so. Cars can be regarded, as an old school status product indeed, for which there is no use, no place, no money and no...
conference paper 2017
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Castro, Maria F. (author), Mateus, Ricardo (author), Bragança, Luís (author)
The health sector has a strong influence on the economy of nations and their policies and is based in a group of buildings where the quality of the indoor and outdoor environment is quite important. The impacts of these buildings are relevant compared to other buildings because they are directly related to human health. The healthcare providers...
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Marrero, Madelyn (author), Martin, C.L. (author), Muntean, Radu (author), González-Vallejo, Patricia (author), Rodríguez-Alba, MD (author)
Several strategies are presented to teach university students and professionals in the sector how to reduce the environmental impact of our cities. First, the European City-zen project is summarized and its application to the city of Seville, more specifically to Tiro de Linea, a working class neighborhood, is described; the viability and...
conference paper 2018
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Bekebrede, G. (author), van Bueren, Ellen (author), Wenzler, I. (author), van Veen, A.J. (author)
Cities face a challenging task in reducing CO2 emissions. Multiple technical solutions on district level as well as household level are available; multiple stakeholders with different values and possibilities to intervene are involved; and their actions highly influence the performance. To get a better understanding of these complexities and to...
conference paper 2018
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Ter Hofstede, R. (author), Elzinga, J. (author), Carr, H. (author), van Koningsveld, M (author)
Traditionally, marine infrastructure development is regarded to have a negative impact on the ecosystem in or near which it occurs. As a consequence, a whole industry has been treated as a threat and the ingenuity of companies in this industry was forced to focus on minimizing potential negative impacts. Recent trends are to also consider...
conference paper 2019
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Baldassarre, B.R. (author), Calabretta, G. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Diehl, J.C. (author), Duygu, Keskin (author)
Design for Sustainable Development refers to the application of a design process to solve a problem related to sustainability, such as creating a pair of shoes that can be recycled or managing waste collection in a large city. Since the origins of this concept in the 1960s, Design for Sustainable Development has been evolving, gradually...
conference paper 2019
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de Koning, J.I.J.C. (author)
This paper aims to understand the value of synergy between the field of design and that of transition management for sustainability. Six potential values of synergy are identified: (1) enriched methods of retrieving knowledge of current objects and current systems; (2) providing boundary objects in transition arenas beyond language games; (3)...
conference paper 2019
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Kapetanović, M. (author), van Oort, N. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)
This paper presents a review of research and models regarding sustainability of railway passenger services. In order to take into account all relevant aspects in terms of environmental impacts of a railway passenger service, a holistic system perspective is required, that includes a whole life cycle assessment. A life cycle approach is important...
conference paper 2019
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Krah, S.C. (author), Todorovic, T. (author), Magnier, L.B.M. (author)
The environmental burden of packaging is huge. However, redesigning packaging to make it more sustainable without damaging its other functions is not always easy and can have a negative impact on consumers’ choice. In this paper, we adopt a user-perspective and test the effects of packaging appearance and a better eco-label on consumers’...
conference paper 2019
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Kiel, Jan (author), Taale, Henk (author)
In Europe, different road authorities have to face the ever increasing pressure to integrate their road network service provision with - often conflicting - different trends and conditions such as congestion, climate change, individualism, urbanization, safety, environmental issues and economic growth. There is also a need to cooperate with...
conference paper 2019
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Pruyn, J.F.J. (author), van Grootheest, I.V. (author), Lafeber, Frans Hendrik (author), Scholtens, Marco (author)
Stricter regulations for shipping on theemission to air and waterare introduced. To deal with this,a part of the Horizon2020 NAVAIS project is devoted to the identification of relevant regulations and the design of a tool to select the optimal combination of abatement options to achieve or go beyond the limits set by these regulations. Itis an...
conference paper 2020
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Coutinho, Felipe Mariz (author), van Oort, N. (author), Christoforou, Zoi (author), Alonso González, M.J. (author), Cats, O. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author)
The diffusion of the smartphone and the urban sprawl is pushing both private and public actors to revisit the concept of the demand-responsive transit (DRT). Mokumflex is a DRT pilot program that replaced the regular bus service in low-density areas of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for 12 months. The close collaboration with the private enterprise...
conference paper 2020
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Anagni, G.M. (author), Bristogianni, T. (author), Oikonomopoulou, F. (author), Rigone, Paolo (author), Mazzucchelli, Enrico Sergio (author)
The problem of sustainability represents one of the most important issues that the world has to face nowadays, not only in terms of energy consumption and of the consequent CO2 emissions, but also in terms of material waste streams that end in landfill. 38 million tons of glass waste are produced every year in the European Union and new targets...
conference paper 2020
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