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Zürichs Rolle als politische Akteurin und Kooperationspartnerin
(2020)Globale Veränderungen und gesellschaftliche Problemstellungen akzentuieren sich in dichten Räumen und sind deshalb besonders in Städten sichtbar und dringlich. Städte reagieren früher und intensiver auf solche Problemstellungen und sie können Orte sein, in denen innovative und progressive Lösungs-ansätze entwickelt werden. Diese Ausgangslage macht Städte zu wichtigen politischen Akteurinnen der globalen nachhaltigen Entwicklung. Eine ...Report -
Good Practice Guide for Managing Induced Seismicity in Deep Geothermal Energy Projects in Switzerland
(2020)Deep geothermal systems can induce potentially damaging seismicity. How this seismicity should be addressed depends on the geothermal system itself, its operational characteristics, the geological context, the exposed buildings, infrastructure and populations, as well as social concern. After a presentation of the natural and induced seismicity in Switzerland, this report promotes the use of the initial screening tool, called Geothermal ...Report -
Building Anthropogenic heat flux in Singapore
(2020)Technical ReportBuildings are amongst the biggest sources of anthropogenic heat in cities. In Singapore, buildings consume close to 28 TWh/year, which is eventually rejected as heat into the environment. It is believed that this amount may contribute to raising temperatures in the city state and thus urban warming. In order to provide a better understanding this phenomenon, this work characterizes the distribution of anthropogenic heat flux from buildings ...Report -
Masks For Sports
(2020)COVID-19 caused pressure and the uncertainty by the immediate lock-down in sports, this “HelpfulETH” initiative project pursued a fast-track development of a protective respiratory mask tailored to ice hockey. The project defined the requirements of protective gear gathering the information from athletes but also experts in the sport, in medicine and in virology. As project results, commercially available respiratory masks were not found ...Report -
Constructing Europe's Borders Project: Frames definition and Aggregation Protocol
(2020)This document is a supplement to the main codebook developed to code data for the “Constructing Europe’s Borders” project. The project identifies and codes arguments supporting positions about membership in European regional organizations in parliamentary discourses. This document presents the aggregation strategy, developed for comparative analysis of the arguments, based on this inductive coding.Report -
Teamwork in Antarctica
(2020)This document regards the report of the research project "Team Adaptation during Antarctica Summer Campaigns", supported by the Portuguese Polar Program (PROPOLAR). It contains general findings about teamwork in Antarctica and recommendations for practice.Report -