Published in Frontiers in Sustainability
Transition can be defined as deep-structural changes in interrelated economic sectors. Climate change issue calls for a transition in which all actors can be involved and where the aim is the global interest rather than individual ones. LCA should be used to assess the environmental impacts of transition solutions, however, existing LCAs are not ad...
Rammed earth (RE) as a construction material fits perfectly into the circular economy concept as the soil is usually taken from excavation works (a waste) and is upcycled to build earthen architecture without adding any other components (unstabilised RE). RE is therefore recoverable at the building end-of-life. For non-common buildings, it is cruci...
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
The need for a vast quantity of new buildings to address the increase in population and living standards is opposed to the need for tackling global warming and the decline in biodiversity. To overcome this twofold challenge, there is a need to move towards a more circular economy by widely using a combination of alternative low-carbon construction ...
Cette étude est essentiellement une synthèse des 29 travaux de recherche disponibles sur la communauté utopique d'Awra Amba en Éthiopie, complétée par l'analyse de données issues de la communauté elle-même. Cela permet de présenter les racines puis l'évolution historique tourmentée de cette communauté créée en 1972 par un petit groupe de paysans an...
The need for a vast quantity of new buildings to address the increase in population and living standards is opposed to the need for tackling global warming and the decline in biodiversity. To overcome this twofold challenge, there is a need to move towards a more circular economy by widely using a combination of alternative low-carbon construction ...
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Le présent guide a pour objectif de donner des méthodes de qualification des travaux et de l'environnement du site, de contrôle et de prévention des émissions de poussières, ainsi que de leur inhibition par arrosage. La méthodologie proposée consiste à évaluer les sols et le matériel d'arrosage du site de travaux. Les propriétés des sols considérée...
The concept of island metabolism strives to implement the principles of social ecology at the island scale. It is, therefore, a question of analyzing the flows of materials and energy passing through these territories, as well as the resource base needed to sustain their activities. We propose to develop a nexus approach to the New Caledonian islan...
En temps de confinement, la logistique devient activité prioritaire. Plus exactement, alors qu'elle a toujours été stratégique pour les villes, elle devient beaucoup plus visible. Désertées par les autres mobilités, les rues font la part belle aux services urbains et aux véhicules de transport de marchandises. Et, pourtant, la mobilité logistique a...
