The role of artificial intelligence in environmental sustainability [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThe climate change is the most important challenge of the 21st-century, worldwide. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a key role in achieving environmental sustainability.
Patoucha Areti, Gareiou Zoe
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‘Future Bathroom’, What to make? Or How to Make? Challenges in meeting sustainable needs. [PDF]
, 2011 This paper is a case study that describes a design research programme, ‘the future bathroom’, undertaken by the authors which illuminates both challenges and solutions for inclusive and sustainable design. A co-design research methodology was adopted and
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Nature-Based SolutionsRising sea levels and stormwater flooding threaten coastal ecosystems like wetlands, exacerbating urban sustainability challenges. Urban Living Labs and NBS propose decentralised, community-driven approaches emphasising resilience, circularity, symbiosis,
Manuel Higgs Morgado +3 more
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Integrated Regression and Cluster Analysis for Cost Benefit Evaluation of Energy Retrofit Interventions in Hellenic Schools [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThis study introduces and explains a methodology that integrates regression and cluster analysis of Energy Performance Certificates data to evaluate the cost effectiveness of energy retrofit measures in Greek school buildings.
Petroliagki Margarita, Giannarou Sophia
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Integrating Thermodynamics and Biology for Sustainable Product Lifecycle Design [PDF]
, 2011 The linkage between raw resources consumption and economic growth through product manufacture and disposal is creating an untenable pressure on the planet’s natural systems; therefore understanding and embracing the mechanics of the biology and physics ...
Conti, Matteo +3 more
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Towards Sustainable Building Design [PDF]
Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal—Annual Review, 2009 Work recently undertaken at the University of Strathclyde, Department of Architecture, is concerned with the articulation of a management system that might support sustainable design. Aligned with the international standard ISO 14001, a system has been piloted in housing development projects around Glasgow, and offers a supporting framework for the ...
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Design interventions, prediction and science in the sustainable transition of large, complex systems, [PDF]
, 2010 The way that human beings live and consume the natural and environmental resources of the planet are not sustainable. Sustainability involves changes in individual beliefs, expectations, values and behaviours at the microlevel, changes in policy at the ...
Dewberry, Emma, Johnson, Jeffrey
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Opinion of citizens about home composting [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesWaste management is a global environmental problem, forcing modern cities to turn to waste management policies. A modern sustainable waste management policy of is home composting by producing home compost.
Kotrotsou Magdalene, Gareiou Zoe
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Biodiversity offsets can be a valuable tool in achieving sustainable development: Developing a holistic model for biodiversity offsets that incorporates environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable development [PDF]
, 2019 The interpretation and use of biodiversity offsets in planning and development is a contentious issue because they rarely encompass each of the environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable development.
Abdo, Linda +3 more
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Design drivers for affordable and sustainable housing in developing countries [PDF]
, 2017 Current demand for housing worldwide has reached unprecedented levels due to factors such as human population growth, natural disasters and conflict. This is felt no more so than in developing countries which have experienced disproportionate levels of ...
Bruen, J., Hadjri, Karim, von Meding, J.
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