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Improving the efficiency of water use is usually presented as an opportunity for large water savings, particularly in the agricultural sector. Warnings that this may not translate into reduced consumption is sometimes associated with the rebound effect or Jevons paradox, an appealing concept...
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Abstract: This paper quantifies the direct rebound effects associated with the switch from incandescent lamps (ILs) or halogen bulbs to more energy efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) or light emitting diodes (LEDs) using a large nationally representative survey of German households. The...
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Although the building sector is recognized as having major potential for energy conservation and carbon dioxide emissions mitigation, conventional bottom-up and top-down models are limited in their ability to capture the complex economic and technological dynamics of the sector. This paper...
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Abstract: This paper quantifies the direct rebound effects associated with the switch from incandescent lamps (ILs) or halogen bulbs to more energy efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) or light emitting diodes (LEDs) using a large nationally representative survey of German households. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026204
Although accessibility is usually known by urban planners, it is often applied to only people transport. However …, retailing deployment needs to relate accessibility and attractiveness to both people transport (for shopping purpose) and goods … transport (for delivery purpose to retailers). This paper proposes an exploratory gravity accessibility analysis applied to …
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Major deficiencies in urbanisation and transportation systems are reinforcing patterns of social and urban segregation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city. Analysis of the 1993 Human Resources Development Survey shows that there are numerous obstacles to the daily travel of the city's...
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index and a 'subjective' accessibility index calculated for each zone. The purpose is to find out which of the three …
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: (1) to work at the spatial extent of an entire country, (2) to compute several accessibility measures to all jobs and …
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individuals by the accessibility concept. Accessibility is one of the basic approaches to the question of the social aspects in … transportation policies. In order to take into account for social field and to answer accessibility to what, for whom and how …?” indicators based on a “differentiated accessibility” could be established. These indicators would propose a tool that would make …
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Recent evolutions in French law regarding accessibility of public buildings have prompted a need for methods and tools … accessibility, and describe the basic functionalities of a software tool to assist collaborative engineering in architectural …
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