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Sandstone and Plastic: Smart Slab Switzerland
(2024)3D Printing and Material Extrusion in ArchitectureBook Chapter -
Laurent Stalder in Conversation with Petra Blaisse
(2024)Art Applied: Inside Outside / Petra BlaisseBook Chapter -
Soil Hydraulic Constraints on Stomatal Regulation of Plant Gas Exchange
(2024)Progress in Botany ~ Progress in BotanyTerrestrial water fluxes are dominated by transpiration, with stomata exerting an important control by regulating transpirational water loss. Transpiration and stomatal conductance are in turn constrained by the hydraulic properties of the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, thus providing a link between the physics of water flow (soil-plant hydraulics) and the gas exchange between vegetation and atmosphere (via stomatal regulation). In this ...Book Chapter -
Chasing Darkness: Night and the Performance of Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century Rome
(2024)Column ~ A Nocturnal History of ArchitectureBook Chapter -
Biological transformations of mineral nutrients in soils and their role in soil biogeochemistry
(2024)Soil Microbiology, Ecology and BiochemistryMineral nutrients in soils include phosphorus (required for synthesis of nucleic acids and phospholipids), sulfur (proteins and co-enzymes), iron (redox systems), and many trace elements (specific enzymes). Many of these nutrient elements are largely unavailable in soils, as they are either immobilized physically or by incorporation into soil organic matter. Biological transformations of these elements make them available for assimilation ...Book Chapter -
Mega-events and triple-baseline (un)sustainability
(2024)Research Handbook on Major Sporting EventsIn the face of the climate crisis and societal pressure, mega-event organizers and their international rights holders increasingly promote their sustainable credentials. Sustainability is now a commonplace term in mega-events, from the introduction of an environmental dimension into the planning of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, to the varying definitions of sustainability baked into the guiding principles of the IOC and the ...Book Chapter -
Making connections for our changing mountains: the Mountain Research Initiative
(2024)Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological SystemsThe Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) is a research coordination network promoting global change research in mountains and connecting a diverse and globally distributed community of scientists and practitioners. Since the 1990s, and with the establishment of its Coordination Office in July 2001 at the Swiss Academy of Sciences as a joint initiative of the then International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the International Human ...Book Chapter -
Achieving social justice and environmental justice in safe affordable housing through a materials-centered, multi-level, transdisciplinary approach
(2024)The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built EnvironmentOur world and society are facing contingent challenges, these being the need of dignified housing for the present and raising population, and immediate solutions in response to the climate crises. The two are critically intertwined, with the construction sectoring significantly impacting on the environmental crises. This is done at the expenses of the most vulnerable, embracing the informal population of the Global South. A reflection on ...Book Chapter -
Global carbon budgets for the built environment
(2024)The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built EnvironmentStringent limits and reduction strategies paths on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are being defined at different levels to limit global warming. Carbon budgets and impact reduction targets are the main instruments used today to set goals and follow progress across industrial sectors and countries (e.g.: IPCC, Paris Agreement, science-based targets, etc.). In this context, translating global goals to local realities implicates a set of ...Book Chapter -
Climate-neutral and circular built environment – right here, right now –
(2024)The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built EnvironmentInternational Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) recommends reaching carbon neutrality in the next 20 years. The challenge seems gigantic, and to be honest, out of reach. The built environment is under high pressure as it represents 40% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and embodied emissions coming from building materials production are considered among the most difficult industrial sector to decarbonize. What should we do? What if we ...Book Chapter