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- Dymitrow, Mirek, et al.
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Crossing dichotomies and breaking mental patterns: Green business development when all else fails?
- 2017
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Ingår i: 8th International Scientific Conference “Rural Development 2017: Bioeconomy Challenges”, 23–24 November, 2017 Kaunas, Lithuania.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Obtaining sustainable and inclusive societal organization is not merely a simple matter of ‘doing it’ by subscribing to some winning formula. Given that conceptual frameworks always guide our thoughts, judgments and actions (Latour, 2013; Harvey, 1996; Dennett, 1993), the ways in which we relate to concepts chosen to serve as guiding forces for future development will eventually determine its outcome. As scholarly evidence continuously suggests the concepts ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ are increasingly recognized as artificial barriers for conducting sound and integrated development endeavors in a globalized reality of interconnectedness. In line with the Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to eradicate poverty, shield the planet and safeguard prosperity for all, commitment to universal access to healthy food year round has become an important agenda point. This, however, has been exacerbated by binary thinking and separate ways of doing policy. This paper aims to share experiences from a unique project launched in the northern parts of Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city. While the area offers ample resources and immense opportunities for areal economies, it at the same time remains one of Gothenburg’s most segregated, with high levels of unemployment, ill health and crime. The uniqueness of the project lies not only in its way of abridging the rural-urban divide, but also by consciously deferring from the debilitating rhetoric of previous ‘immigrant policies’, and instead focusing on agricultural productivity, small-scale food producers and sustainable food strategies. Such exhortations to bridge between philosophical and material polarities, however, have not come without conceptual and practical challenges, something this paper aims to subsume and open up to debate.
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- Gren, Åsa, et al.
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How smart is smart growth? : Examining the environmental validation behind city compaction
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Ingår i: Ambio. - : Springer Netherlands. - 0044-7447 .- 1654-7209. ; 48:6, s. 580-589
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Smart growth (SG) is widely adopted by planners and policy makers as an environmentally friendly way of building cities. In this paper, we analyze the environmental validity of the SG-approach based on a review of the scientific literature. We found a lack of proof of environmental gains, in combination with a great inconsistency in the measurements of different SG attributes. We found that a surprisingly limited number of studies have actually examined the environmental rationales behind SG, with 34% of those studies displaying negative environmental outcomes of SG. Based on the insights from the review, we propose that research within this context must first be founded in more advanced and consistent knowledge of geographic and spatial analyses. Second, it needs to a greater degree be based on a system's understanding of urban processes. Third, it needs to aim at making cities more resilient, e.g., against climate-change effects.
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- Kurdve, Martin, et al.
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Can Social Sustainability Values be Incorporated in a Product Service System for Temporary Public Building Modules?
- 2017
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Ingår i: Procedia CIRP. - : Elsevier. - 2212-8271 .- 2212-8271. ; 64, s. 193-198
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The temporary constructions industry has cost efficiency and sustainability challenges that may require new innovative business models as well as product and processes. This paperaims to discuss how social sustainability services can be included in product service system (PSS)by investigating a case where employment is offered in distributed temporary building module manufacturing in the PSS context. The case has been evaluated against PSS literature. Recent reviews and literature on inclusion of social sustainability and PSS for buildings were used. It is concluded that the current concept fits basic definitions of PSS although it is not typical. The social value of employment is difficult to evaluate and inclusion in PSS needs further research. Design practice could be used to further develop the services in the studied concept. © 2017 The Authors.
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- Mocholí Montañés, Rubén, 1990
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Emissions reduction and flexible operation of energy-intensive industrial processes and power plants
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Every year, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) hosts the prestigious ”Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development” to promote the international exchange of innovative green ideas. The award, under the patronage of Minister Anja Karliczek, honours young researchers each year. The winners come from numerous countries and scientific disciplines and are recognised for their outstanding achievements in making our societies more sustainable. Selected by a jury of German experts, the award winners are granted unique access to the country’s research community
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- Femenias, Paula, 1966, et al.
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Från omfattande till varsam renovering
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Ingår i: Hållbar renovering ur ett helhetsperspektiv: En antologi från forskningsmiljön SIRen. - 9789188722652 ; , s. 47-54
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- Boyraz Baykas, Pinar, 1981
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Semantic Analysis of Driver Behavior by Data Fusion
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Ingår i: Vehicles, Drivers, and Safety, Edited by: Huseyin Abut, Kazuya Takeda, Gerhard Schmidt and John H.L. Hansen, (Intelligent Vehicles and Transportation, 2). - 9783110666472
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Behavioral signal processing and data-fusion have been two important components of the analytical toolbox that is used to understand driver behavior and implement advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The recent need for quantitative analysis of driver behavior is now driven by a new revelation that incorporating human-like behavior and control strategies in the autonomous vehicles can increase their safety and acceptability in a mixed-fleet traffic environment. In addition to that, the overall safety and efficiency of the driver-vehicle system in a conditional or partial automation (Level 2–4) can be leveraged if the perception, cognition, and action capabilities of driver are enhanced based on driving-task or traffic-scenario. Motivated by this new interest, this work attempts to define a highlevel semantic analysis framework incorporating eye-motion, road-scene, and vehicle dynamics data. The study aims to identify general trends or patterns in driver behavior, especially concerning focus of attention (FoA), based on two categories: traffic scenario and complexity. To perform semantic analysis, open database from DR(eye)VE Project is used. First, the road-scene video and vehicle dynamics data are used together to obtain a complexity measure in addition to automatic recognition of the traffic-scenario. Next, the raw eye-movement data is processed to obtain gaze distribution maps and metrics. Then, a support vector machine (SVM) is trained using gaze metrics to infer the complexity level or the traffic-scenario. To obtain better separation between two classes (i.e., low vs high complexity or urban vs highway scenarios), the SVM is trained using Bayesian optimization. The results showed that based on the gaze distribution, it is possible to distinguish between urban and highway scenarios (85% accuracy), while this distinction between complexity levels can be even stronger (98% accuracy). The framework can be used as a high-level analysis and inference tool to discover behavioral characteristics of drivers and their relation to FoA patterns.
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