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A novel strategy to guarantee a minimum indoor temperature in social housing buildings
(ELSEVIER, 2023-10)
Energy poverty, along with climate change, is becoming one of the most worrying issues in Europe. Many people live without a minimum thermal comfort in their homes because they are not able to afford high energy bills. In ...
Remaking Urban Divides: Shifting patterns of neighbourhood differentiation in Bilbao (Spain)
(Taylor&Francis, 2022-06-06)
(EN) Intensifying social and spatial divisions have been on the rise in cities since the 1980s. This trend as evolved in a context of increasing socioeconomic inequality and is exacerbated by the effects of the last economic ...
Highs and lows in implementing work-life balance at companies in the Basque Country
(Elsevier, 2019)
(EN) This paper analyses the implementation of work-life balance measures by companies and discusses their links with certain business features (such as area of activity, company size and the proportion of female employees) ...
Biodiversity and Green Infrastructure in Europe: Boundary object or ecological trap?
(Elsevier, 2016-11)
The concept of green infrastructure is widely used in environmental planning, but so far it has no standard definition. Planners, conservationists and scientists tend to welcome the term because it can serve as a boundary ...
Economics and environment: An impossible reconciliation?
(UNIE, 2019-12)
It should be noted that, until now, the relationship between economics and the environment has never
figured as one of mankind’s primary or principal concerns. It presently does. The recent worldwide
student mobilization ...
Analyzing spatial vulnerability in cities by combining the analytic hierarchy process and geographic information systems: the case of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2023-08-03)
Vulnerability in urban areas has been on the rise following the global political and economic restructuring processes that have taken place since the 1980s. This increase in vulnerability has sparked a growing awareness ...
Improving energy poverty measurement in Southern European Regions through equivalisation of theoretical energy costs
(2020-07-16)
In many European countries, energy poverty is measured on the basis of real energy bills, as theoretical energy costs are hard to calculate. The UK is an exception—the data inputs for the Low Income-High Cost (LIHC) indicator ...
Electrochemical behavior of metal-supported SOFCs under high fuel utilization and their durability
(ASME, 2012)
The aim of this project was to study whether the oxidation resistance of cells is affected while working under high fuel utilization. A previous study measured the weak oxidation resistance for very porous samples (measured ...
Moisture dependent thermal properties of hydrophilic mineral wool: application of the effective media theory
(2015-07-27)
Thermal properties of mineral wool based materials appear to be of particular importance for their practical applications because the majority of them is used in the form of thermal insulation boards. Every catalogue list ...
The Adoption of Environmental Management Systems Based on ISO 14001, EMAS, and Alternative Models for SMEs: A Qualitative Empirical Study
(MDPI, 2019-12-09)
The adoption of environmental management systems (EMSs) based on standards such
as ISO 14001 and EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) has become very popular and the
academic literature has studied the adoption of these ...