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Book Construction d un outil d   valuation environnementale des   coquartiers

Download or read book Construction d un outil d valuation environnementale des coquartiers written by Grace Yepez Salmon and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce travail s'inscrit dans les enjeux actuels liés à l'environnement urbain ; il vise à définir ce qu'est un écoquartier, à partir de l'étude de projets de référence en premier lieu mais surtout à partir de l'opérationnalité et ses contraintes spécifiques; Dans ce cadre pratique l'évaluation environnementale se positionne au cœur de l'opérationnalité comme un outil d'aide à la décision essentiel pour les acteurs de la conception de la ville face aux préoccupations du développement urbain durable. La finalité est de proposer une méthode d'évaluation environnementale des écoquartiers pour un projet urbain en phase esquisse (AVP).Cette thèse, encadrée dans une convention CIFRE avec l'entreprise Nobatek (Centre technologique sur la construction et l'aménagement durable) et le laboratoire GRECAU (Groupe de recherche environnement conception architecturale et urbaine), propose une analyse de la pratique urbaine, l'identification des besoins en termes d'outils pour la construction d'un projet urbain à l'échelle du quartier et propose un outil d'évaluation environnementale. L'objectif est une recherche appliquée à l'opérationnalité du projet urbain.La première partie établit les enjeux liés à l'urbanisme et propose une étude historique des modèles urbains pour la ville idéale. Il y est proposé un regard sur les principes et évolutions de la notion de ville idéale afin de situer et comprendre la notion de ville durable. La deuxième partie établit la pertinence du quartier comme une échelle d'expérimentation, propose une définition de l'écoquartier et analyse certains cas de référence à travers leurs typologies, leur forme urbaine et leurs réponses techniques. La troisième partie propose un éclairage général sur différents outils d'analyse des processus de conception et d'évaluation des écoquartiers. Cette analyse souligne notamment la non existence de l'outil absolu, et conclue au besoin de développer des outils d'évaluation en complément des outils d'aide à la conception déjà existant. Une analyse des systèmes d'indicateurs est proposée, elle permet de montrer l'utilité de ces approches dans le contexte d'un projet urbain. La quatrième partie propose une analyse de la pratique opérationnelle du contexte français et propose une approche opérationnelle de mise en œuvre d'un écoquartier. Cette dernière introduit le développement de l'outil d'évaluation NEST qui a constitué la partie finale de ce travail. L'outil s'appuie sur la technique d'analyse de cycle de vie (ACV) pour évaluer les impacts environnementaux du quartier. Pour cela les éléments physiques du quartier (bâtiments, espaces publics, espaces verts, infrastructure), tels que définis dans une phase précoce du projet urbain (phase AVP), sont intégrés dans l'outil. Il calcule alors 7 indicateurs environnementaux pour évaluer le projet, ces résultats étant rapportés à l'usager du quartier pour en assimiler toute l'importance. Dans cette dernière partie une expérimentation opérationnelle de la démarche proposée et de l'outil d'évaluation est présentée sur la ZAC de Kleber à Biarritz pour montrer l'apport de l'outil pour une conception des projets urbains dans l'objectif de constituer un écoquartier. Introduire le concept de développement durable dans l'urbanisme demande, en plus d'une approche environnementale, sociale et économique, une compréhension technique de la ville et de ses composants urbains, comme un système fermé qui consomme des ressources et en cela génère un impact. Comprendre la ville comme un système pour établir des objectifs et des stratégies pour arriver à transformer la ville en une ville durable demande l'implication des acteurs de la décision, de la conception et de l'usage de la ville.

Book Proceedings of the International Symposium on Lightweight and Sustainable Polymeric Materials  LSPM23

Download or read book Proceedings of the International Symposium on Lightweight and Sustainable Polymeric Materials LSPM23 written by Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-12 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings book contains papers presented at the International Symposium on Lightweight and Sustainable Polymeric Materials (LSPM23) held on February 17, 2023, and organized by King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand. The papers in this book are presented by academics and industrial practitioners showcasing the latest technological advancements and applications of environmentally friendly polymeric materials with the emphasis on the production of lightweight, low-cost, low-energy-consuming materials with competitive performance. The content of this book appeals to academia and industrial researchers from the fields of polymer chemistry, physics, and materials science.

Book La participation de la communaut      la gestion de l information environnementale  ressource   lectronique    recherche des outils pour   laborer un programme de pr  paration aux   tudes d impact environnemental

Download or read book La participation de la communaut la gestion de l information environnementale ressource lectronique recherche des outils pour laborer un programme de pr paration aux tudes d impact environnemental written by Meredith, Thomas C and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contribution    l   valuation des impacts environnementaux des quartiers

Download or read book Contribution l valuation des impacts environnementaux des quartiers written by Grégory Herfray and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'Analyse de Cycle de Vie a été appliquée pour évaluer les impacts environnementaux d'un quartier, sur une durée permettant d'intégrer des phases de construction et de fin de vie des bâtiments. Afin d'éviter le déplacement de pollution, cette méthode prend en compte les impacts générés par le quartier dans d'autres territoire, par exemple pour la fabrication de matériaux de construction ou la production d'électricité. L'échelle du quartier offre des degrés de liberté supplémentaires en termes d'éco-conception par rapport à celle du bâtiment, en intégrant les interactions entre constituants du système urbain étudié ainsi que la mutualisation éventuelle d'infrastructures (réseau de chaleur, production locale d'électricité, parkings...). L'évaluation environnementale du système complexe formé par un quartier nécessite de comprendre son fonctionnement. Les travaux présentés dans cette thèse visent à contribuer au développement de connaissances dans cet objectif, au moyen de la simulation numérique. Un quartier est considéré comme un système faisant intervenir de nombreux composants interagissant à des échelles variables, impliquant une modélisation multi-échelles. Parmi ces interactions, au sein du quartier mais aussi avec le territoire dans lequel il s'intègre, la forte variabilité temporelle des caractéristiques de la production et de l'usage de l'électricité met en avant l'importance d'une analyse détaillée : des variations horaires des impacts sont alors considérées au lieu d'une moyenne annuelle utilisée classiquement. La simplification de la structure des bases de données facilite la collecte des données servant à l'évaluation des impacts. Les conséquences de ces hypothèses simplificatrices sur les résultats d'ACV ont alors été évaluées. Enfin ces développements ont été mis en œuvre en s'appuyant sur des outils préexistants, appliqués à une étude de cas.

Book Powerskin Conference

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  • Author : Thomas Auer
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  • Release : 2016-12-28
  • ISBN : 9789492516299
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Powerskin Conference written by Thomas Auer and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The PowerSkin Conference aims to address the role of building skinsto accomplish a carbon neutral building stock. Topics such as buildingoperation, embodied energy, energy generation and storage in context offacades, structure and environment are considered."

Book Developing National Urban Policies

Download or read book Developing National Urban Policies written by Debolina Kundu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses and analyzes past and ongoing national urban policy development efforts from around the globe, particularly those that can lead the way toward smart and green cities. In view of the adoption of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, especially the goal to have cities that are inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, urban policies that can help achieve this goal are urgently needed. The UN-Habitat (HABITAT III) puts national urban policies at the heart of implementing and rethinking the urban agenda, and identifies them as being integral to the equitable and sustainable development of nations. Against this background, this important book, which gathers contributions from academics, planners and urban specialists, reviews existing urban policies from developing and developed nations, discusses various countries’ smart and green urban policies, and outlines the way forward. As such, it is essential reading for all social scientists, planners, designers, architects, and policymakers working on urban development around the world.

Book Planning Sustainability

Download or read book Planning Sustainability written by Michael Kenny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental sustainability has become one of the most salient issues on the policy agenda of nation-states. This book argues that planning is seldom credited by advocates of environmental politics. The authors, leading scholars in the field, explore the relationship between environmental sustainability - one of the most important innovations in recent political discourse and planning, an idea which has slipped from public attention recently.

Book Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

Download or read book Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty written by Vincent A. W. J. Marchau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools to include the analysis of actors and networks related to the problem at hand. It also shows how lessons learned in the application process can be used to improve the approaches and tools used in the design process. The book offers guidance in identifying and applying appropriate approaches and tools to design plans, as well as advice on implementing these plans in the real world. For decisionmakers and practitioners, the book includes realistic examples and practical guidelines that should help them understand what decisionmaking under deep uncertainty is and how it may be of assistance to them. Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty: From Theory to Practice is divided into four parts. Part I presents five approaches for designing strategic plans under deep uncertainty: Robust Decision Making, Dynamic Adaptive Planning, Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways, Info-Gap Decision Theory, and Engineering Options Analysis. Each approach is worked out in terms of its theoretical foundations, methodological steps to follow when using the approach, latest methodological insights, and challenges for improvement. In Part II, applications of each of these approaches are presented. Based on recent case studies, the practical implications of applying each approach are discussed in depth. Part III focuses on using the approaches and tools in real-world contexts, based on insights from real-world cases. Part IV contains conclusions and a synthesis of the lessons that can be drawn for designing, applying, and implementing strategic plans under deep uncertainty, as well as recommendations for future work. The publication of this book has been funded by the Radboud University, the RAND Corporation, Delft University of Technology, and Deltares.

Book Beyond Mechanical Markets

Download or read book Beyond Mechanical Markets written by Roman Frydman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful challenge to contemporary economics and a new agenda for global finance In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem, Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue, is that both the rational and behavioral theories of the market rest on the same fatal assumption—that markets act mechanically and economic change is fully predictable. In Beyond Mechanical Markets, Frydman and Goldberg show how the failure to abandon this assumption hinders our understanding of how markets work, why price swings help allocate capital to worthy companies, and what role government can and can't play. The financial crisis, Frydman and Goldberg argue, was made more likely, if not inevitable, by contemporary economic theory, yet its core tenets remain unchanged today. In response, the authors show how imperfect knowledge economics, an approach they pioneered, provides a better understanding of markets and the financial crisis. Frydman and Goldberg deliver a withering critique of the widely accepted view that the boom in equity prices that ended in 2007 was a bubble fueled by herd psychology. They argue, instead, that price swings are driven by individuals' ever-imperfect interpretations of the significance of economic fundamentals for future prices and risk. Because swings are at the heart of a dynamic economy, reforms should aim only to curb their excesses. Showing why we are being dangerously led astray by thinking of markets as predictably rational or irrational, Beyond Mechanical Markets presents a powerful challenge to conventional economic wisdom that we can't afford to ignore.

Book Global Networks  Linked Cities

Download or read book Global Networks Linked Cities written by Saskia Sassen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Badlands of the Republic

Download or read book Badlands of the Republic written by Mustafa Dikec and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Rancière, this book proposes a new agenda for analyses of urban policy, and provides the first comprehensive account of French urban policy in English. Essential resource for contextualizing and understanding the revolts occurring in the French 'badland' neighbourhoods in autumn 2005 Challenges overarching generalizations about urban policy and contributes new research data to the wider body of urban policy literature Identifies a strong urban and spatial dimension within the shift towards more nationalistic and authoritarian policy governing French citizenship and immigration

Book The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism

Download or read book The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism written by Steven Bernstein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most significant shift in environmental governance over the last thirty years has been the convergence of environmental and liberal economic norms toward "liberal environmentalism"—which predicates environmental protection on the promotion and maintenance of a liberal economic order. Steven Bernstein assesses the reasons for this historical shift, introduces a socio-evolutionary explanation for the selection of international norms, and considers the implications for our ability to address global environmental problems. The author maintains that the institutionalization of "sustainable development" at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) legitimized the evolution toward liberal environmentalism. Arguing that most of the literature on international environmental politics is too rationalist and problem-specific, Bernstein challenges the mainstream thinking on international cooperation by showing that it is always for some purpose or goal. His analysis of the norms that guide global environmental policy also challenges the often-presumed primacy of science in environmental governance.

Book A Contribution to the Pure Theory of Taxation

Download or read book A Contribution to the Pure Theory of Taxation written by Roger Guesnerie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the way in which tax systems affect economic efficiency and the distribution of welfare. It examines within a unified framework questions that are usually treated in different areas of the literature: institutional economics, positive economics, normative economics, and political economics. It adheres to the rigorous standards of pure theory while paying careful attention to the policy relevance of the arguments. Tax systems are viewed as information extracting devices that generate sets of equilibria of complex geometry. A tax reform methodology is proposed that sheds light on optimal taxes. Social conflicts in the determination of taxes are shown to have effects on social cohesion.

Book Transitions to Sustainability

Download or read book Transitions to Sustainability written by François Mancebo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book calls for the conditions of transition to sustainability: How to take into consideration new global phenomena such as and of the dimension of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, financial crises, demographic dynamics, global urbanization, migrations and mobility, while bearing in mind short-term or local place-based issues, such as social justice or quality of life? Meeting this challenge requires an inclusive approach of sustainability. It is a matter of designing a new social contract: Sustainability requires more than developing the right markets, institutions and metrics, it requires social momentum. To do so, many issues need a clear and complete answer: How to link social justice with sustainability policies? What governance tools to do so? What linkage between one decision-making level and the other? These are major issues to design sound transitions to sustainability.

Book Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change

Download or read book Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change written by Graciela Chichilnisky and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Handbook recognises the emergence of climate change as the defining topic of our time. With public climate discourse growing more urgent every year, this Handbook brings together international experts from different economic disciplines to answer critical climate policy questions.

Book Models as Mediators

Download or read book Models as Mediators written by Mary S. Morgan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited collection examining the ways in which models are used in modern science.