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Jingxuan Zhang, Sarah Fernando, David W. Law, Chamila Gunasekara, Sujeeva Setunge, Malindu Sandanayake and Guomin Zhang
Traditionally, the construction industry has predominantly used Portland cement (PC) to manufacture bricks, as it is one of the most-commonly available building materials. However, the employment of waste industrial material for brick production can lead...
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Selim Karkour, Tomohiko Ihara, Tadahiro Kuwayama, Kazuki Yamaguchi and Norihiro Itsubo
The global demand for air conditioners (ACs) has more than tripled since 1990, with 1.6 billion units currently in use. With the rapid economic and population growth of countries located in the hottest parts in the world, this trend is likely to continue...
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Carlos Coelho, Pedro Narra, Bárbara Marinho and Márcia Lima
There are no sequential and integrated approaches that include the steps needed to perform an adequate management and planning of the coastal zones to mitigate coastal erosion problems and climate change effects. Important numerical model packs are avail...
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Susanna Andreasi Bassi, Iskandar Tange, Benjamin Holm, Alessio Boldrin and Martin Rygaard
Water supply challenges in emergency situations have increased in recent years and there is a need for analyses targeting economic and environmental sustainability. Our study investigated the end-user water demand, the capital and operational costs, the ...
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Xiangzheng Deng, Jianzhi Han and Fang Yin
Bioenergy is currently regarded as a renewable energy source with a high growth potential. Forest-based biodiesel, with the significant advantage of not competing with grain production on cultivated land, has been considered as a promising substitute for...
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Xiangzheng Deng, Jianzhi Han and Fang Yin
Bioenergy is currently regarded as a renewable energy source with a high growth potential. Forest-based biodiesel, with the significant advantage of not competing with grain production on cultivated land, has been considered as a promising substitute for...
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Stefano Manzo, Kim Bang Salling
Pág. 273 - 282
Traditional transport Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) commonly ignores the indirect environmental impacts of an infrastructure project deriving from the overall life-cycle of the different project components. Such indirect impacts are instead of key importan...
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Massimo Craglia,Michele Campagna
Pág. 145 - 167
This paper reports the findings of two studies on the socio-economic impacts of the regional spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) in Catalonia, and Lombardia, and then compares the developments in these two regions with those in other nine advanced region...
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Michael Ahlheim, Oliver Frör, Jing Luo, Sonna Pelz and Tong Jiang
In this paper we deal with the problem of missing data in environmental cost-benefit analysis. If government pursues the goal of maximizing social welfare, this implies that public funds should be allocated to those uses where they generate the highest n...
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Johan Scholliers, Martijn van Noort, Charlotta Johansson, Dick Mans, ... Kerry Malone
Pág. 4515 - 4524
The EU-sponsored VRUITS project has prioritized ITS applications which have a potential to improve the safety, mobility and comfort of vulnerable road users (VRUs) and performed a quantitative safety, mobility and comfort assessment for the 10 most promi...
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Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, Rashid Farooq and Nick van de Giesen
All over the world, probability-based flood protection designs are the ones most commonly used. Different return-period design floods are standard criteria for designing structural measures. Recently, risk-based flood management has received a significan...
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Martina Caruso, Rui Pinho, Federica Bianchi, Francesco Cavalieri and Maria Teresa Lemmo
It is well-known that the existing building stock is responsible for non-renewable resource depletion, energy and material consumption, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Life cycle analysis (LCA) procedures have thus been developed, in recent years, to...
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Johannes Thema, Felix Suerkemper, Johan Couder, Nora Mzavanadze, Souran Chatterjee, Jens Teubler, Stefan Thomas, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Martin Bo Hansen, Stefan Bouzarovski, Jana Rasch and Sabine Wilke
The implementation of energy efficiency improvement actions not only yields energy and greenhouse gas emission savings, but also leads to other multiple impacts such as air pollution reductions and subsequent health and eco-system effects, resource impac...
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Subhash C. Bhatnagar,Nupur Singh
Pág. pp. 109 - 127 pgs.
In recent years, there has been extensive investment in e-government throughout the developing world. Still, little is known about the impact of those investments, partly due to a lack of assessment guidance. This paper reports development of an assessme...
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Borja Badenes, Miguel Ángel Mateo Pla, Teresa Magraner, Javier Soriano and Javier F. Urchueguía
In ground-source heat-pump systems, the heat exchange rate is influenced by various design and operational parameters that condition the thermal performance of the heat pump and the running costs during exploitation. One less-studied area is the relation...
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Mohammad Abdul Mottalib,Mohammed Ayub Hossain,Mohammad Israil Hossain,Mohammad Nurul Amin,Mohammad Monjurul Alam,Chayan Kumer Saha
Pág. 94 - 103
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Bruno Mazzorana, Laura Levaggi, Omar Formaggioni and Claudio Volcan
The impacts of flood events that occurred in autumn 2011 in the Italian regions of Liguria and Tuscany revived the engagement of the public decision-maker to enhance the synergy of flood control and land use planning. In this context, the design of effic...
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P. Nitsche, J. Olstam, N. Taylor, M. Reinthaler, ... E. van Dam
Pág. 3360 - 3369
This paper presents the results of the assessment phase of the project PRIMA (Pro-Active Incident Management), where the benefits, costs and risks of novel traffic incident management techniques are investigated. The project targets the enhancement of cu...
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Sokratis Mamarikas, Panagiotis Iordanopoulos, Evangelos Mitsakis
Pág. 4486 - 4494
Evaluation and assessment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) is a crucial parameter for future development and further deployment of ITS applications in an area (city, region, country etc.). However, in order to shape an Action Plan for coordinated f...
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Francesco Galioto, Valentina Marconi, Meri Raggi and Davide Viaggi
This study develops a methodology for the assessment of disproportionate costs according to the Water Framework Directive guidelines. The originality of the approach lies in the focus on the interdependencies between water bodies and the consideration of...
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