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The sustainability challenges of our time require engagement from all, and the potential for the arts and humanities to contribute has been undervalued and underutilized within sustainability science approaches. UNESCO sees education is seen as a key leverage point to shift society towards sustainability transformations however as with sustainability approaches in general, the potential of creativity and the arts remains untapped as a tool, topic, process, pedagogy and way of thinking. Inspired by a creativity assignment delivered in a Leadership in Sustainability course at Curtin University in Western Australia, this paper describes a Creativity in Action Project which was an assignment within the Advanced Leadership for Sustainability course at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. It was a year long course that ran through 2021. This paper articulates the purpose, design, pedagogy, content and learning process of the Creativity in Action Project and how it integrates the whole course. In brief, the students were invited to: “...explore the role creativity and/or the arts play, or could play, in expanding your thinking and in shifting paradigms that move people towards sustainability” and the intention of the project was to “...explore creative ways to enact change for sustainability in your lives or communities” through taking inspiration from artistic practices and processes. Through a feedback survey from the students, this study evaluates the project as a whole and identifies the key pedagogical elements that supported the students learning; what provided value and impact for the students; as well as discussing the challenges in doing such work. With permission from the students, this paper showcases some of the artistic and creative projects that the students completed. The intention of this paper is to provide educators and learning designers with inspiration and a practical, adaptable, and impactful creativity-based pedagogy for the development of sustainability leadership and key sustainability competencies that could be used and adapted to various contexts. It is hoped this will in turn support societal transition towards sustainability through empowering students to be sustainability change agents by applying their creativity to solve a sustainability challenge in real life.

This chapter draws on Gandhi's interpretation of the Vedic philosophy of living in harmony with Nature in proposing an alternative to the dominant paradigm of economic growth, which is based on the logic of control. The implications of Gandhi's principles of satyagraha (that is, assertive search for truth through dialogue) and swaraj (freedom) are applied in formulating a discursive accountability framework that engages dialectically with the individual and structure through the psychology of fear-reflectivity. It advocates reform in the interest of sustainable development by transcending the logic of control's fragmentation of time and space. The Gandhian-Vedic paradigm enables radical reforms to consumption patterns and production methods by tailoring accountability to local circumstances, and reducing the dichotomisation of means from ends.

The integration of Grid-Connected PV systems into buildings or public areas is one of the most usual applications of the photovoltaic solar energy in developed countries. Since early 2009, the University is working on an ambitious project, the so-called UNIVERSOL project, where its main goal is to convert the University Campus in a big public area which combines the PV electricity generation with the common uses of a university place. The aim of this paper is to show to the scientific community the main results of this project and that the methodology proposed for the “large urban-area photovoltaic potential” estimation can be easily exportable to other locations with similar characteristics, so the photovoltaic generators integration examples proposed in this project, and the software tools used to represent it, can be helpful for other designers, taking into account that this project has been adapted to the new Spanish legislation. 26th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 4068-4072

CAT- El sòl és la part més superficial de l’escorça terrestre que, tot i la seva poca profunditat dona vida als organismes, és reservori d’aigua i font de nutrients per les plantes, té capacitat d'amortiment però no és un recurs renovable a curt termini pel que s’ha de preservar i protegir. El sòl és un organisme viu que funciona com a substrat agrícola per garantir la seguretat alimentària i cos natural que proporciona serveis ecosistèmics a les comunitats. Un dels components més importants del sòl, és el carboni orgànic (SOC) i pot afectar directament la majoria de les propietats físiques, biològiques, químiques i bioquímiques del sòl. Durant les últimes dècades la investigació sobre el SOC s'ha intensificat a causa de la disminució de seu estoc pels efectes de l'ús, canvi d'ús i l'abandonament del sòl. En aquest context, aquesta tesi tenia com a objectiu avaluar les principals propietats del sòl i especialment el potencial d'emmagatzematge de carboni orgànic de tres sòls diferents de la província de Girona, situats a Fornells (Calcixerept format sobre calcaria), Canet d'Adri (Haploxerand format sobre Basanite) i Brunyola (Xeropsamment format sobre granodiorite) i sotmesos a tres tipus d’ús: forestal, pastura i agrícola amb cultiu de colza, i poder establir quines característiques i/o ús del sòl afavoreixen el segrest del carboni. El seguiment de propietats superficial del sòl com la temperatura (T), la humitat (M), la resistència al cisallament (SS), la impedància mecànica (MI), les taxes d'infiltració (IR) i la conductivitat hidràulica (HC) determinades a cada sòl i diferents usos durant el període 2020-2022 van remarcar una variabilitat significativa entre sòls i usos. En particular els valors de SS i MI eren mes elevats en els sòls de pastura i el sòl de Fornells va mostrar valors més alts a causa del sobre pasturatge. Així mateix, els sòls conreats van destacar per valors mes alts de SS, taxa d'infiltració (IR) i conductivitat hidràulica (HC) indicant que aquests sòls poden modificar les seves propietats superficials segons els treballs de camp, com afavorir l'entrada d'aigua després del conreu o estar afectats per segellat superficial (sobretot el sòl de Fornells) en èpoques de sequera ENG- The soil is the upper part of the Earth’s crust that irrespective to its little depth allows the organisms life, is a water reserve and nutrients source for plants, owns high buffer capacity but it is not a short-term renewable resource, hence it must be protected and preserved. The soil is a living organism functioning as a substrate for agricultural activity to secure grocery supply and a natural body delivering ecosystems services to communities. One of the main soil components is the soil organic carbon (SOC), directly influencing most of the physical, biological, chemical and biochemical soil properties. During the last decades an intensification of the research activity on the soil carbon dynamics has occurred because of the decrease of the SOC stocks in soils due to land use, land use change and land abandonment. In this context the objective of this thesis was to evaluate the main soil properties and specially the soil organic carbon storage potential in three different soil types in the Girona province located at Fornells (Calcixerept formed on calcareous materials), Canet d’Adri (Haploxerand formet on Basanite) and Brunyola (Xeropsamment formed on granodiorite) and similar soil use: under forest, pasture and rapeseed cultivation. Physical soil properties at surface such as temperature (T), moisture (M), shear strength (SS), mechanic impedance (MI), infiltration rate (IR), and hydraulic conductivity (HC) were monitored along 2020, 2021 and 2022 and showed significant variability among soils and uses. In particular SS and MI resulted much higher in soils under pasture and Fornells soil showed the highest values according to overgrazing. Likewise, cultivated soils showed high values of SS, IR and HC indicating that these soils may modify surface properties due to field works favouring water entry after ploughing or make it difficult for surface sealing during draught periods Programa de Doctorat en Medi Ambient

Pòster presentat a l'European Energy Research Alliance Conference 2016

This document outlines aspects of innovation considered relevant for HS and proposes general actions for an Exploitation plan. Innovation is an essential component of the strategic objectives of E-RIHS. It encompasses novel research actions, offer of unique access services and provision of smart tools. Exploiting innovation, for the benefit of the E-RIHS ecosystem and the society, requires a number of actions along the innovation chain, including the presence of an efficient monitoring and evaluation system, appropriate knowledge and technology transfer channels, proper IPR protection and efficient communication with key stakeholders both in the public and the private sectors. An overall systematic approach to the above will ensure success and sustainability of ERIHS as an innovator and as a leader in the global HS landscape. This document is Deliverable 6.2, elaborated in the context of project IPERION HS, WP-06: Innovation and Exploitation, Task 6.4: Exploitation Plan. The analysis for the work presented herein was based on extensive interactions between the co-authors and builds upon a number of documents produced in the context of IPERION HS and E-RIHS PP (in particular Deliverable 9.4: Innovation Agenda).

This paper presents a new approach for the determination of underground cable ampacity that considers natural convection of air inside a conduit and heterogeneous soil around the conduit, and compares calculated results with conduit-less considerations. It shows how ampacity of a buried cable is affected by thickness of the soil above it, and by the surrounding soil's heterogeneity and thermo-physical characteristic. Commercial ANSYS software for three-dimensional simulation of a 400kV polyethylene-paper cables with copper segments is used. The investigation yields numerical solutions for Fourier conducting heat transfer, continuity, energy, and momentum equations. Poor convection of air in conduit is shown to result in cable threshold temperature to be greater than that in conduit-less, other conditions being similar. Also results show that the longer the conduit, the lesser the acceptable ampacity. The proposed method gives criterion and flexibility to change strategy for situations which are not discussed in standard literature on cable routing. Refereed/Peer-reviewed

© 2013 Dr. Simon Chun Kwan Chui ; The period of drought from 1997 to 2010 in Melbourne, Australia saw significantly below average inflows into Melbourne’s reservoirs due to persistent high temperatures and low rainfall, conditions that climate change modelling suggest will occur more frequently in the future. In response to a dwindling water supply, water restrictions were enacted by the Victorian government to reduce water demand at the same time as infrastructure projects were commissioned to increase the water supply. These water restrictions limited the use of water outdoors, and had negative impacts on the suburban vegetation. A range of technical and behavioural adaptations could be made to mitigate these negative impacts by reducing the need for the use of potable mains water in the landscape, and this research explored the hypothesis that, over the course of the drought, changing attitudes towards climate change and water use in the suburban landscape resulted in behavioural adaptations by suburban dwellers in Melbourne that led to observable changes to the suburban landscape of Melbourne. Three research methods were used to investigate relationships between changes in Melbourne’s suburban landscapes and people’s attitudes towards water conservation in the context of drought and climate change, namely: (1) a content analysis of newspaper articles related to water restrictions in Melbourne to look at the ways in which the topics of drought and climate change had been addressed within the public discourse; (2) an observation of the suburban landscape of Melbourne using Google Street View and aerial photographs to identify the observable adaptations that have taken place in a sample of 530 front yards; and, (3) a questionnaire survey of households in Melbourne to assess their attitudes towards their own private landscapes, water conservation and restrictions, drought, and climate change and its impacts. It was found that, both in the newspapers and from analysis of the questionnaire data, people generally ...

The need and desire to use renewable, sustainable, and efficient energy have led to increased research in this field as the long term consequences of not doing so will affect the environment. As an alternative to drying particulate materials using gas and electricity we decided to design, manufacture, and evaluate the performance characteristics of two air collectors for a Linear Fresnel Reflector (LFR) prototype, intended to dry ripe coffee beans to a desired temperature of 50 oC. A steady-state thermal network analysis and computational modeling techniques were conducted to predict the thermal performance of the desired collectors. They were manufactured and assembled along with the optical frame of the prototype in order to carry out the required experiments to test the system. The thermal network analysis and that of the computation modeling for one of the designs agreed with one another. The second design was then analyzed by computational model and showed a better performance than the first collector. The experiments showed that both collectors reached the desired air temperature at the outlet with the second collector outperforming the first design demonstrating that the LFR might be a viable system to dry coffee beans. ; La necesidad y el deseo de utilizar la energía renovable de forma eficiente ha dado lugar a un aumento en su investigación ya que las consecuencias a largo plazo de no hacerlo afectará al medio ambiente. Como alternativa al secado de materiales particulados utilizando la quema de gas y la electricidad decidimos diseñar, fabricar y evaluar las características térmicas de dos colectores de aire para un prototipo de un Reflector Linear de Fresnel (LFR) destinado a secar los granos de café maduros a una temperatura deseada de 50 °C. Se llevó a cabo un análisis de la red térmica en estado estacionario a la vez que se utilizó técnicas de modelado computacional para predecir el comportamiento térmico de los colectores deseados. Estos fueron fabricados y montados junto con el marco óptico del ...