Determination of organic fluorinated compounds content in complex samples through combustion ion chromatography methods: a way to define a “Total Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)” parameter?

Emerging contaminants are a growing concern for scientists and public authorities. The group of per-polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as ‘forever chemicals', in complex environmental liquid and solid matrices was analysed in this study. The development of global analytical methods based on combustion ion chromatography (CIC) is...

Designing for Urban Health and Well-being by Revisiting Proximity, Walkability, and Accessibility

Can planning and design influence health and well-being in urban settings? Even though it was the public health issues faced by industrial cities that originally gave rise to the field of city planning, their paths have diverged over the years.However, how human settlements are planned, designed, and built can drastically improve or harm human...

Glancing into Future Cities—City Futures

Future Cities—City Futures: Emerging Urban Perspectives

The book is about future cities and possible scenarios for city futures. A question central to this book is how to face urban challenges while providing and safeguarding positive outcomes, concerned with the improvement of the quality of urban life: How can future cities be made more liveable, sustainable, and resilient? How can cities continue...

Prologue - Future Cities - City Futures

Overview - Emerging Urban Perspectives

Epilogue—Towards a Transdisciplinary Discussion on Future Cities and City Futures

Life in changing environments: The intriguing cycles of Polyphosphate Accumulating Organisms

Cells are complex systems continuously exposed to changing, dynamic environments. Understanding how cells respond and adapt is of great interest not only from a fundamental viewpoint but also for the development of solutions for current challenges in medical, industrial and environmental research fields.<br/><br/>In this thesis, the bacterial...

Cycling Economics

Cycling is increasingly receiving attention in research and policy and practice, in many cities and regions in the world. The focus is mainly on cycling infrastructure and effects on travel behavior and health. The economics of cycling have not received a lot of attention yet. This chapter gives an overview of the current state of knowledge...

Policy implications of the potential carbon dioxide (CO₂) emission and energy impacts of highly automated vehicles

This chapter explores the extent to which the adoption of highly automated vehicles (AVs) will lead to carbon dioxide (CO₂) emission reduction in the future. Additionally, policy implications are given. Based on existing literature, this chapter shows that the adoption of AVs will result in a modest improvement of CO₂...

Simultaneous design of different aircraft departure routes taking community noise exposure events into account

At many airports, ground track segments may be shared by different departure routes, and the population living underneath these segments is exposed to all aircraft movements which are sent to these routes. This may cause negative community reaction to authorities and policymakers, leading to objections against the expansion of airport and...

University Campuses in Saudi Arabia: Sustainability Challenges and Potential Solutions

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has experienced a huge investment from the government in many sectors such as health, education, infrastructure, and so on. A special focus has been given to the higher education sector. This is because education, and higher education in particular, is key for the development of any country. To realise this, the...

Quantification of the impact of the built environment: Project City-zen and HEREVEA as teaching tools

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...

Proceedings of the PowerSkin Conference: January 19th 2017, Munich

The Building Skin has evolved enormously over the past decades. Energy performance and environmental quality of buildings are significantly determined by the building envelope. The façade has experienced a change in its role as an adaptive climate control system that leverages the synergies between form, material, mechanical and energy systems...

The effects of floods and flood-induced pollution on ecosystem health

Flooding not only induces a risk which is related to direct loss of life for humans, animals and plants. During flooding, toxicants which are normally stored or otherwise unavailable might be released. The spreading of these pollutants during the flooding or, often more important, the persistent presence of toxicants in the soil or sediment...

Preliminary conceptual framework of integration ("Dresden Paper")

The report follows the answers to the main goals of the study conducted by CTU. The first part review flood defence structures on the Stropnice River. The second part identifies changes in detention capacity. The detention capacity of the watershed has not change during last century, due to minimal changes in land-use. The third part identifies...