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  • Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighbourhoods

    Towards Local Energy Self-Sufficiency

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Utilizing the results of a case study on the Gare-Lac sector in the city of Yverdon-les-Bains – the site is currently a large urban brownfield, intended to host ca. 3,800 additional inhabitants and 1,200 jobs upon completion – this work examines how to design attractive urban neighbourhoods that generate endogenous economic activity and foster socio-cultural dynamics, while moving towards local ... Leer más

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  • Perspectives on Industrial Ecology

    Edición de Dominique Bourg, Suren Erkman ...
    Business-as-usual in terms of industrial and technological development – even if based on a growing fear of pollution and shortages of natural resources – will never deliver sustainable development. However, the growing interest in recent years in the new science of industrial ecology (IE), and the idea that industrial systems should mimic the quasi-cyclical functions of natural ecosystems in an ... Leer más

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  • Food Consumption in the City

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
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