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Biomimicry as a Sustainable Design Methodology—Introducing the ‘Biomimicry for Sustainability’ Framework [PDF]
Biomimetics, 2022 Biomimicry is an interdisciplinary approach to study and transfer principles or mechanisms from nature to solve design challenges, frequently differentiated from other design disciplines by its particular focus on and promise of sustainability.
Lazaara Ilieva +4 more
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Sustainable by design: An organizational design tool for sustainable business model innovation
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 When firms want to meet ambitious sustainability targets, they often fail to deliver on more radical innovation at the level of the business model. They often struggle to design and successfully implement new, sustainable business models in practice. While sustainability tools might help bridge the design-implementation gap in business, they often lack
Nancy Bocken, Matthew Coffay
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Probing Climate Change in Greece with a 2m dish radio telescope [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 We study the effect of solar activity on the climate in Greece. We search for correlations between solar and terrestrial indicators. The solar proxies which are representative of the activity of our star include the number of sunspots, the intensity of ...
Gizani Nectaria A.B. +5 more
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Sustainable Design: Aspects of Sustainable Product Development
BioResources, 2021 When NC State University recently hired me to lead a course concentration in sustainable design, I began to hone in on what sustainable product development and design translate to and its actionable applications.
Rico Ruffino
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Regional analysis of climate variability in Greece based on six temperature variability indicators – A cluster analysis [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 In this paper, a comparative analysis of climate variability between different regions of Greece based on some temperature variability indicators, is performed, in order to find out which areas have similar climate variability over time in the context of
Rapsomanikis Nikolaos +2 more
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Design for Financial Sustainability
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 The 1987 United Nations Brundtland Report established the vision of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." How might we anticipate the requirements of future custodians of vast, continuously morphing socio-technical-ecological systems ...
John Thomas, Pam Mantri
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Road network, CO2 emissions, linked to sustainable development: A European analysis [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The issue of road transport and the environment is paradoxical. Road mobility provides substantial socioeconomic benefits, supporting the mobility demands of passengers and freight.
Asimakopoulou Maria Nikoletta +1 more
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Sustainable Design Masters: Increasing the Sustainability Literacy of Designers [PDF]
Sustainability, 2022 This paper examines student learning in the Master of Arts in Sustainable Design course at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London. It considers what designers learn, how they learn and where they learn, in a postgraduate course that seeks to enable them to direct their practice towards sustainability by increasing their sustainability ...
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Buildings, 2021 National design guides provide essential guidance for the design of building drainage systems, which primarily ensure the basic objectives of preventing odor ingress and cross-transmission of disease through water-trap seal retention.
Michael Gormley +4 more
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Steady-State Hydraulic Analysis of High-Rise Building Wastewater Drainage Networks: Modelling Basis
Buildings, 2021 A model is presented which allows steady-state pressure profiles in high-rise wastewater drainage networks to be related to intake air flowrates and discharge water flowrates.
Colin Stewart +4 more
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