The tourism industry is undergoing a deep transformation due to new and different activities that people are willing to perform. This trend is called experiential tourism, since travellers are increasingly organizing their holidays looking for an occasion to try and discover something new, rather than a full week relax. Nevertheless, relax is not completely excluded […]
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The ZEGODI project involved the analysis of the goods display sector: these are marketing tools that you can find in stores and that help to highlight promotion. The main issue is that environmental and economic impact of goods displays is strongly underestimated both by companies and stores. Thus, P&G, our industrial partner in the project,
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The aim of the project is to achieve CO2 negative emissions in an affordable manner. CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is one of the important environmental problems of this era, as testified also by international treaties like the Paris agreement: the aim of the project is to take away CO2 from the atmosphere combining different
In a period of rapid urbanization and population growth, buildings play an increasingly critical role in sustaining the health of people and the planet. In light of this, much emphasis has been placed on the design of smarter and more energy-efficient buildings. Yet, new and renovated structures represents just 4% of building stock in the
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The main goal of DR.BEAR project is to develop a Business Model to harness the potential flexibility coming from load shifting at household level, designing an appropriate customer engagement strategy and incentive scheme to involve them in such programs. The project will be particularly innovative for the Italian case, as in this country few projects
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Agriculture is facing many challenges, such as the growth in the world population, resource shortages, the increasing demand for energy, dietary changes and the increase in competition on world markets. Traditional agricultural methods are not able to sustain all these changes, so technology comes to the rescue. Precision agriculture (PA), or precision farming, is a
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The project aims to provide an innovative planning strategy suitable to different degree of governance, on the basis of the analysis of Rio de Janeiro at the metropolitan scale. The selected site of study is the area of Tinguà, in the region of Nuova Iguaçu, which provides to the city of Rio a large part
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The challenging goal of the project is designing infrastructures to provide fundamental services in developing countries, in complex situations such as slums or bidonvilles, inserting buildings able to produce energy where it is needed without transportation. The practical idea is to implement several small, prefabricated clinics to have a fast, cheap and sustainable solution but
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Water is the most precious although most threatened resource on earth: environmental, economic and social factors are posing serious risks to its availability. Many projects concerning the domestic saving of water have been developed, but the fact that the majority of human water footprint is linked to the consumption of agricultural products is not fully
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In the context of the development of the future mobility models it is necessary to consider the different aspects that may determine the feasibility of a proposed solution. For sure, the need to reduce the emissions and energetic consumption associated to the movement of people and goods has become a major issue of the policy
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