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Bangari, S. (author)The city of Bengaluru in Southern India, like many other large South Asian cities, has undergone expansion at an exponential rate in the past few decades leading to rapid transformation of its urban landscape. This has also involved a drastic change in the forms of nature in the city, and a change in the attitude and relationship of people in...student report 2024
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Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Qiu, Yangzi (author), Jafarinejad, Shahryar (author)Energy, water, and the environment have remarkably complex interrelationships, with these linkages being both direct and indirect. The innovative development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies brings significant opportunities for investigating renewable energy (RE), water, and the environment and presents a multitude of challenges....book chapter 2023
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Koutamanis, A. (author)Categorization of technologies by the order of their inbetweenness is a useful device for parsing complex structures info fundamental parts and understanding the application of a technology. This promises a coherent foundation for explaining how we deploy technologies in design, in particular with respect to the affordances they create. By...journal article 2023
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Sangiorgio, Matteo (author), Cananzi, Davide (author), Weber, Enrico (author), Zatarain Salazar, J. (author), Castelletti, Andrea (author)Integrated management of water reuse technologies and coordinated operations with other water system components is fundamental to fully exploiting reuse potential. Yet, these technologies are primarily designed considering their individual efficiency more than possible synergies with traditional water management practices. In this paper, we...journal article 2022
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Hauser, S.J. (author)Seaports are vital nodes connecting the hinterlands of countries and continents with the rest of the world, attracting industries and people. This nodal function, however, is incompatible or even in conflict with other uses: port activities affect the entire region of a port city and not just the area administrated by the port. Despite several...report 2021
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Wysocki, Jakub (author)Residents typically have a negligible impact on their living units spatial layout in mass housing projects. Building industry lacks tools for users to create space tailored to their needs. The purpose of this work is facilitate co-creation by providing a pre-configured and engineered set of spatial units corresponding to human activities, in...master thesis 2021
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Khakzad, N. (author), Dadashzadeh, Mohammad (author), Abbassi, Rouzbeh (author), Yang, M. (author)The present study aims to investigate the impacts of oil sands development in Canada on the economy, society and the environment as the three pillars of sustainability. Factors such as aquatic ecosystems, land disturbance and reclamation, air quality, public health, safety, aboriginal and local communities, gross domestic product, employment...journal article 2021
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Poppe, Richard (author)The research focuses on sedimentation in reservoirs. Subjects include settling distribution in a reservoir, dredging and flushing of sediment in reservoirs, impact of sedimentation on reservoir performance and financial effects of long term sedimentation in reservoirs.master thesis 2020
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Aquilina, Emily (author)Through the synthesis of a speculative design project I explore the meditative process of working together with earth forces to create alternative ways of valuing the Arctic and its critic yet fragile environments. Emerging as a response to the changing global trends of climate change, territorial claims and rapid melting of ice in the Arctic...master thesis 2019
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van Baaren, Edzard (author)Operational towing is a taxiing strategy to reduce the fuel consumption during the taxiing phase of a flight, which decreases the cost and environmental impact of taxiing. Currently, no operational electric towing systems are available that are fully electric, independent from the APU and are capable of towing both narrow- and wide-bodied...master thesis 2019
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Hauser, S.J. (author)Port authorities who once considered the inclusion of local actors in the decision-making process a threat to efficiency have begun to see their inclusion as an opportunity. The notion of inclusion can bring together the sometimes diverging objectives of port and city actors. In the Northern Range – the most important European ports between Le...journal article 2019
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Zhu, P. (author), Hein, C.M. (author)The Chinese government is heavily investing in trade-related infrastructure with its One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR), a proposal to build a new Silk Road or network of trade routes. This infrastructure-driven innovation will have a large economic, spatial and environmental impact on China; it is also likely to transform entire regions...journal article 2019
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Agusdinata, Datu Buyung (author), Lukosch, H.K. (author)Background. Designing interventions for conserving the food, energy, and water nexus at household level poses a significant challenge due to the complex interplay between human behaviors, technologies, and policies. Games show potential to increase awareness for environmental issues and influence behaviors towards more sustainable practices....journal article 2019
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Nijgh, M.P. (author)Steel-concrete composite beams are widely used in practice because of the simple construction sequence and the economic cross-section design. The application of welded headed studs in composite beams prevents the non-destructive separation of the composite beam, which leads to a very low scoring in the sustainability assessment in terms of the...poster 2018
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Redert, Roel (author)The critical care environment has been witnessed to be one that is unsuitable for sleeping in during day time. Auditory disturbances happen approximately every 12 to 15 minutes, and this is preventing patients to get into their deep sleep during for example the nurse's lunch break. Being able to get into deep sleep has been proven to be very...master thesis 2018
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Saâdi, Skander (author)By establishing a phenomenological frame, this research paper demonstrates that the feeling of alienation towards the modern built environment originates from the failure of this built environment to allow man to identify himself with his own human condition, abstract ideas and natural environment. The study focuses on materials as primary...student report 2018
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Bal, Frans (author), Vleugel, J (author)Overland transport of goods mainly goes by road. Road freight transport, trucking in particular, has a large share in the energy consumption, CO2-emissions and air pollution by human activities. This will become an even bigger issue with the expected massive growth of road freight transport.<br/>Climate change mitigation asks for a major...conference paper 2017
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Zuccaro Marchi, Leonardo (author)Victor Gruen is the pioneer of the regional shopping centre, he is the “Mall Maker”, which, is also the title of a book by M. Jeffrey Hartwick about this Austrian-born architect. Well known for his first commercial projects, which have been copied and analysed worldwide, mostly negatively influencing the structure of cities and societies, Gruen...journal article 2017
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Araghi, Y. (author), van Wee, G.P. (author), Kroesen, M. (author)Historic vehicles (HVs) are the heritage of road transport that have surprisingly received little attention in the academic literature. This study presents an overview of the literature on HVs, focusing on the three topics that dominate the policy debate on transport: environmental, safety and congestion impacts. We observed that polluting...journal article 2017
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de Boer, G.G. (author)This thesis report considers the topic of sustainable marina development. This term can be understood to be a combination of two terms; “sustainable development” and “marina”. Sustainable development in this research study has been considered in relation to the coastal zone and basically entails an approach to ensure a balance between the...master thesis 2016