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This version of Quakeledger (V.1.0) is a Python3 program that can also be used as a WPS (Web Processing Service). It returns the available earthquake events contained within a given local database (so called catalogue) that must be customised beforehand (e.g. historical, expert and/or stochastic events). This is a rewrite from: https://github.com/GFZ-Centre-for-Early-Warning/quakeledger and https://github.com/bpross-52n/quakeledger. In these original codes, an earthquake catalogue had to be initially provided in .CSV format. The main difference with this version is that, this code is refactored and uses a SQLITE database. The user can find the parser code in: “quakeledger/assistance/import_csv_in_sqlite.py”
Objective: ENCOMAR-TRANSPORT aims to improve co-operation between the new member states, applicant countries as well as Russia, Ukraine and Turkey in the maritime fields. ENCOMAR-TRANSPORT has two general strategic objectives:- to support the integration of the new member states, applicant countries, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey into the European Maritime Research Area, thus supporting EU policies and the formation of ERA- to support the goals defined in the maritime part of the Sustainable Surface Priority of the 6 th Framework Programme. To support integration, ENCOMAR-TRANSPORT will help to jointly use R&D potentials and resources.ENCOMAR-TRANSPORT will promote a culture of innovation and fertilize participation of SMEs in European research. Technically, enhan ced exchange of information, technology transfer and research cooperation initiated by the project will help to meet demands of European transport policy and to the objectives of the sustainable surface transportpriority. Particular focus will be on:- S hipbuilding and -repair, including ship equipment manufacturers and maritime service providers,- Waterborne (long-haul, short sea and inland waters) transport in Europe.- Maritime Transport safety will especially focus on transport of dangerous goods to a void environmental- hazards in European waters, the Baltic and Mediterranean and Black Sea.- Efficient transport of marine natural resources is in the focus as well. The following activities will be undertaken:- Creation of a Network of Maritime R&D N ational Contact Points.- Inform about potentials and activities of European research in the new member states and neighbours of the EU by workshops in those countries. Inform research community and industry about the potential of countries not yet integra ted in European research.
Am Interdisziplinären Institut für Umwelt und Wirtschaft der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien wurde im Jahr 1996 eine sozialwissenschaftliche Begleitforschung des ersten Jahrganges von ÖKOPROFIT-Dornbirn durchgeführt. Dazu wurden über den Zeitraum eines Jahres mehr als 40 beteiligte Akteuren persönlich befragt, der Projektforschritt mittels regelmäßiger schriftlicher Fragebögen erhoben und die durchgeführten Workshops und Veranstaltungen beobachtet. Die vorliegende vom Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie geförderte Arbeit dokumentiert die Erfahrungen aus der Sichtweise der beteiligten Akteure und identifiziert die wichtigsten Erfolgsfaktoren für die Übertragbarkeit des ÖKOPROFIT-Konzepts auf andere Gemeinden bzw. Regionen. Ein Vergleich mit den in Graz und Klagenfurt durchgeführten ÖKOPROFIT-Projekten zeigt den Gestaltungsspielraum und die Flexibilität des Konzepts auf. Im Jahre 1998 wurde aufbauend auf den Arbeiten zuvor eine Langfrist-Evaluation durchgeführt, die aufzeigen sollte, ob das ÖKOPROFIT-Konzept geeignet ist, eine dauerhafte Etablierung des betrieblichen Umweltschutzes zu garantieren.
Die zunehmende Notwendigkeit zum Umweltschutz, insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund, dass der Verknappung natürlicher Ressourcen und dem Klimawandel begegnet und der wachsenden Erdbevölkerung ein gesunder Lebensraum mit ausreichend trinkbarem Wasser, fruchtbaren Böden und sauberer Luft gesichert werden muss, erhöht auch die Anforderungen an eine effektive und nachhaltige Abfallwirtschaft. Dies betrifft alle Länder unabhängig vom jeweiligen Entwicklungsstand gleichermaßen. Eine Vielzahl von Ländern steht deshalb derzeit vor der Aufgabe, einen Transformationsprozess einleiten zu müssen, welcher von der einfachen Ablagerung schrittweise zu einer Bewirtschaftung von Abfällen führen soll. Deutschland hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten diesen Prozess bereits durchlaufen und sich weltweit einen hervorragenden Ruf bei der Umsetzung einer modernen, zukunftsorientierten Abfallwirtschaft erarbeitet. Selten sind in Deutschland technische, organisatorische oder rechtliche Bestimmungen für die Abfallwirtschaft verfasst worden, ohne dass diese die Entwicklung von Abfallbehandlungstechnologien erheblich vorangebracht haben. Die für die Abfallentsorgung zuständigen Akteure wurden damit im Verlauf der Jahre immer besser befähigt, sich der Herausforderungen und Bedürfnisse, welche durch die neue Orientierung und später insbesondere auch die EU Gesetzgebung entstanden, anzunehmen und geeignete Maßnahmen und Lösungsansätze dafür zu entwickeln. Deutsche Technologieanbieter gelangten auf diesem Weg in eine Vorreiterrolle, welche bis heute nicht nur auf der Innovation, Verlässlichkeit und Wirksamkeit ihrer Technologie fußt sondern auch darauf, dass jahrzehntelange Anwendungserfahrungen bewirkt haben, dass deutsche Hersteller- und Dienstleistungsunternehmen die Notwendigkeit zu Einführung einer bestimmten Technologie einzuschätzen gelernt haben, deren Einschränkungen kennen und auf dieser Basis ein effektives Abfallmanagement zu planen in der Lage sind. Vor dem Hintergrund der globalen Herausforderungen und des hohen Bedarfes beim Umweltschutz in vielen Ländern ist es ein Ziel Deutschlands, den Wissens- und Technologietransfer und damit den Export bewährter und leistungsfähiger Umwelttechnik im Allgemeinen und von Abfallbehandlungstechnik im Besonderen zu unterstützen. Wesentlicher Bestandteil des Wissens- und Technologietransfers ist die Information über den Stand der Abfalltechnik in Deutschland und über die von deutschen Firmen zur Bewirtschaftung von Abfällen angebotenen Verfahren, Maschinen, Anlagen, Container oder Fahrzeuge. Die vorliegende Informationssammlung soll die in Deutschland erfolgreich eingesetzten abfallwirtschaftlichen Verfahren und Techniken in einer komprimierten, systematischen Art dokumentieren, ihre Anwendungsmöglichkeiten skizzieren und Interessenten aus dem In- und Ausland in einer benutzerfreundlichen elektronischen Form die Möglichkeit eröffnen, wesentliche Einblick in die technologischen Rahmendatenzu erhalten sowie Anbieter der jeweiligen
A sustainable and efficient freight transport in Europe plays a vital role in having a successful and competitive economy. Freight transport is expected to grow by some 50 % (in tonne-kilometres) by 2020. However rail has, in many areas, been displaced from a dominant position as road transport services have grown and developed in capability and levels of sophistication that have not been matched by rail service providers. SUSTRAIL aims to contribute to the rail freight system to allow it to regain position and market and the proposed solution is based on a combined improvement in both freight vehicle and track components in a holistic approach aimed at achieving a higher reliability and increased performance of the rail freight system as a whole and profitability for all the stakeholders. The SUSTRAIL integrated approach is based on innovations in rolling stock and freight vehicles (with a targeted increased in speed and axle-load) combined with innovations in the track components (for higher reliability and reduced maintenance), whose benefits to freight and passenger users (since mixed routes are considered) are quantified through the development of an appropriate business case with estimation of cost savings on a life cycle basis. In fact, a holistic approach to vehicle and track sustainability has to be taken, since improvements in track design and materials alone are not enough as demands on the rail system increase. Contributions from the different topic areas (vehicles, track, operations) will be demonstrated on real routes, offering geographic dispersion as well as differences in type, speed, and frequency of traffic. A strong multidisciplinary consortium committed to concrete actions aligned toward a common outcome has been grouped for the achievement of the challenging objectives of the project with a balanced combination of Infrastructure managers, freight operators and Industry, including Large and Small enterprises, with support from Academia.
The IMG4 project CRESCENDO addresses the Vision 2020 objectives for the aeronautical industry by contributing significantly to the fulfilment of three specific targets of the aeronautical industry s Strategic Research Agenda. CRESCENDO will develop the foundations for the Behavioural Digital Aircraft (BDA), taking experience and results from VIVACE, and integrating these into a federative system and building the BDA on top of them. Main components of the BDA are: the Model Store, the Simulation Factory, the Quality Laboratory, and the Enterprise Collaboration Capabilities. It will be validated through use cases and test cases concerning Power Plant Integration , Energy Aircraft , Thermal Aircraft and Value Generation design problems and viewpoints during the preliminary design, detailed design, and test and certification phases of a generic aircraft product life-cycle. The BDA will become the new backbone for the simulation world, just as the Digital Mock-up (DMU) is today for the Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) world. This is considered a challenging area for research and innovation for the next decade. Hence, the CRESCENDO results will provide the aeronautics supply chain with the means to realistically manage and mature the virtual product in the extended/virtual enterprise with all of the requested functionality and components in each phase of the product engineering life cycle. CRESCENDO will make its approach available to the aeronautics supply chain via existing networks, information dissemination, training and technology transfer actions. The project will last three years and be organised into six subprojects: four technical and business-oriented subprojects, one Enabling Capabilities subproject which will deliver the BDA and a sixth subproject, responsible for consortium management and innovation issues. CRESCENDO will bring together 59 partners from industry, research institutes, universities and technology providers. Prime Contractor: Airbus Operations Ltd.; Bristol; United Kingdom.
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) links ecosystem functioning and human wel-fare to achieve sustainable land use. However, the success of this concept will critically depend on sources to finance the provision of ES (possibly mobilized by means of markets for ES), on credibility of ES values and on willingness of ES providers to ac-cept financial compensation. Our proposal addresses these aspects: The first part investigates how the land use in Ecuador would change if ES were actually acknowl-edged as economic values. We will use and develop a risk sensitive economic modeling approach to integrate the uncertainty of expected economic values for ES. The aim is to explore how the uncertainty of ES values would affect investments into specific ecosystem types and the connected conversion processes from tropical forest lands to other land use types and vice versa. The second proposal part investigates the willing-ness to accept financial compensation for providing ES. In this part we adapt a risk-sensitive bioeconomic farm model that combines various productive but sustainable land management options to real farm situations. The farm level modeling builds upon the effects of risk compensation from diversified land use by means of a land use port-folio approach. It will be used to derive acceptable individual and thus effective conser-vation payments.
Present concepts of industrial management are based on a linear value chain of products and services. Input materials such as raw materials, water and energy are transformed into products and by-products but cogenerating significant amount of wastes and polluting emissions. Cleaner production approach, focusing on single process efficiency within companies, and industrial symbiosis approach, focusing on systemic spatial resource efficiency among different companies, are both contributing to reduce the environmental impact of the industrial production. In this context, different tools to optimize industrial management have been developed, but none of them include both approaches. The aim of the present project is to combine both approaches in order to increase the overall resource efficiency of industrial processes within a system of different factories. Overall goal of the program Ecomanindustry: Development of a universal reproducible software based tool called CPIS for decision support integrating the existing experiences and methodologies of Cleaner Production (CP) and Industrial Symbiosis (IS). The CPIS-tool will facilitate inter-industrial assessment and communication for waste avoidance and reuse of materials based on the Software as a Service (SaaS) principles. Specific goals of the swiss partners: FHNW: FHNW will be the coordinator of the overall Project and lead field tests and case studies. FHNW will collect customer feedback on existing software and test user friendly and failure free functionality of a beta version of the developed CPIS-tool in a field test, and proof customer acceptance of the CPIS-tool application in two case studies. UNIL: UNIL will gather and valorize previous research and experiences of existing GIS-based decision support tools for the development of eco-industrial parks, design the concept, functionalities and boundaries of the software-based CPIS-tool, and choose the appropriate technologies to be implemented in the CPIS-tool. SOFIES: SOFIES will build a community of users and service provider, ensure the long term development of the CPIS-tool, promote the dissemination to other countries and elaborate adequate user guide and training to facilitate dissemination.
The BECA (Balanced European Conservation Approach - ICT services for resource saving in social housing) project addresses the need to reduce energy consumption in European social housing by a very significant amount to meet overall emission reduction targets. To substantially reduce peak and overall demand for energy and water across EU social housing, BECA will develop a full set of innovative services for resource use awareness and resource management. Balance is achieved by addressing not only energy but water, by including all key energy forms - electricity, gas and heating - and by including strong activities in Eastern Europe as well as in the North, South and West of the EU. Social housing organisations in 7 European countries (Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Serbia) and their partners are cooperating in the project to provide ICT-based energy management and energy awareness services directly to social housing tenants and service operators. Services will be piloted by approx. 5,000 social housing tenants across 7 sites in 7 European countries. Sustained reductions in resource use are to be achieved through usable ICT-based services directly to tenants, as well as by effective monitoring and control of local power generation and, for district heating, the full heat delivery chain. Intensive work will be addressed to optimising services for tenants and maximising impact on resource use behaviour. Service requirements will be investigated with tenants and staff and service prototypes based on initial use cases will be subject to user testing within the first year of the project. Results are used to finalise service design in a second iteration of use case definition and service specification lasting some 8 months, cumulating in implementation of operational services at all the 7 pilot sites. Pilots at sites will operate for at least 14 months; lead sites will be identified to being operation early and provide example solutions to others. The consortium, led by social housing providers and public authorities includes global ICT and service providers and distribution network operators working with local consultants and specialist advisors to carry out all steps in service implementation.
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