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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”
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.
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.
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
Objective: VIRTUE is an Integrated Project in response to the call on Virtual environment for an integrated fluid dynamic analysis in ship design; Objective 2 Advanced design and production techniques in the Sustainable Surface Transport of the workprogramme Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems. It constitutes an EU-wide initiative of leading marine CFD players to create a 'Virtual Basin' by integrating advanced numerical fluid analysis tools to tackle multi-criteria hydrodynamic performance optimisation of ships in a comprehensive and holistic approach, aiming to complement model testing in real basins and hence substantially enhance the provision of current services to the marine industry and to nurture development of innovative design techniques and concepts. This coherent and all-embracing hydrodynamic analysis system will help increase the competitiveness of the EU shipbuilding and shipping industries, promote a truly European co-operation with strong structuring and integration effects, strengthen SMEs through involvement in leading edge developments as a means to gaining and sustaining competitive advantage and leadership and enhance quality and safety in waterborne transportation. VIRTUE's scientific and technological objectives to achieve these ambitious goals include to: -improve hydrodynamic testing through improved reliability of CFD tools -Enhance existing CFD tools in terms of performance and accuracy and further validation -Formally integrate numerical tools, using proven approaches, into an environment for complete modelling and simulation of ship behaviour at sea- Provide smooth and versatile communication and data exchange link between marine CFD service providers, such as model basins, and the end user -Provide the means - CFD tools, integration platform and optimisation techniques -to cover the whole range of hydrodynamic problems and to facilitate and support multi-disciplinary design
Objective: PROMIT is the European Coordination Action (CA) for inter-modal freight transport initiating, facilitating and supporting the coordination and cooperation of national and European initiatives, projects, promotion centres, technology providers, research institutes and user groups related to this most complex transport form. The strategic PROMIT objective is to contribute to a faster improvement and implementation of inter-modal transport technologies and procedures and to help promoting inter-modal transport and mode shift by creating awareness on innovations, best practices and inter-modal transport opportunities for potential users as well as for politicians and for the research community. Due to the immense size of the inter-modality domain PROMIT has chosen a matrix organisation, where the domain expertise is treated in five parallel clusters: (1) Organisation and business models, (2) Inter-modal infrastructure and equipment, (3) Information and Communication Technologies, (4) Operation and services.
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.
Objective: The GenFC proposal addresses the topic 'Generic tools for FC systems modelling, testing, safety and quality assurance' under the activity code SUSTDEV-1.2.1: Fuel cells including their applications. It falls into research activities having an impact in the medium to long term. The overall goal of GenFC is to provide a generic modelling tool to fuel cell and fuel cell systems developers making fuel cell modelling expert knowledge available to all of them. The fuel cell and fuel cell systems developers can us e this tool to improve and accelerate fuel cell development and to contribute to a future success of the fuel cell technology. It is believed that from the fuel cell (hardware) developer's point of view, a fuel cell modelling environment is desirable which can be used for simulation tasks exactly catering to the demand of the application engineer. The integrated modelling tool will assist fuel cell developers to improve their design- and optimisation processes in terms of accelerating development cycles, l owering costs, improving quality and hence also safety. The user of such a modelling environment will be able to choose through a user friendly interface a model out of a set of different types of fuel cells. Each type of fuel cell will be available in dif ferent implementations and each implementation is suitable for a particular application. The consortium consists of fuel cell technology developers, specific software providers, software engineers and fuel cell model users. Existing and in the course of t he project to be developed models and hardware in the loop systems for different types of fuel cells on all levels from system integration, via stack and cell down to electrode processes, are integrated in the tool and interfaced with a common data-base fo r process and design parameters. GenFC can help establish a competitive fuel cell industry in Europe contributing to the great challenge of migrating from a fossil fuel based economy to a sustainable one.
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.
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