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Architecture --- France --- Historic building --- Memorials --- Monuments commémoratifs --- 721.05 <44> --- 351.853 <44> --- Monuments --- Public sculpture --- Monuments commémoratifs --- Histoire --- History --- Histoire. --- History.

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The overall energy sector calls for a transformation from a fossil-based system to a low-carbon one. At a technology level, significant efforts have been made to provide energy solutions that contribute to a sustainable energy system. However, the actual suitability of these solutions is often not checked. In this sense, the assessment of energy systems from a life-cycle perspective is of paramount importance when it comes to effectively planning the energy sector. While environmental issues are commonly addressed through the use of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, the comprehensive evaluation of the economic and social aspects of energy systems often remains ignored or underdeveloped. This book consists of a set of scientific works addressing the analysis of energy systems from a (life-cycle) technical, economic, environmental and/or social standpoint. Case studies at and beyond the technology level are included, some of them involving a combination of life cycle and non-life cycle approaches for the thorough evaluation of energy systems under the umbrella of sustainability.

Research & information: general --- zinc (Zn) --- electrowinning (EW) --- activated Carbons (ACs) --- adsorbate --- liquid phase space velocity (LHSV) --- temperature --- bioeconomy --- life cycle assessment --- multi-criteria decision analysis --- sustainability --- thermal energy --- wood --- LCC optimization --- building energy simulation --- energy system optimization --- energy renovation --- historic building district --- district heating system --- biobutanol --- clean combustion --- Scilab simulations --- SimaPro --- CO2 emission --- fuel production management --- environmental impact --- non-edible resources for biofuel production --- GIS --- concentrated solar power --- solar thermochemistry --- life-cycle costs --- cost supply --- geographical potential --- sustainable --- alternative

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue titled “Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Urban Cultural Heritage” hosted at the Atmosphere journal. This topic has been chosen in light of cities’ ever-growing role and immense potential in the climate adaptation and mitigation discourse and the particular challenges regarding urban heritage making and conservation. It is critical to recognise the complex set of factors governing the physical, social and political future of urban heritage in cityscapes in constant transformation and in an era of planetary urbanisation. The 10 papers (seven research papers, two reviews and one opinion piece) that comprise the issue give a broad cross-section of the issues pertinent to this important topic – accounts on practices and conceptual/methodological improvements in energy retrofit and reuse, risk mapping, urban planning, climate vulnerability assessment, and community engagement by 38 authors from seven countries are used to delineate the implications of current and likely future climates on heritage materials and systems, knowledge and practice gaps, as well as steps that need to be taken to ensure both their safeguarding and their valorisation to achieve climate resiliency.

The arts --- historic buildings --- risk assessment --- WDR --- resilience --- sustainability --- extreme value analysis --- heritage values --- energy efficiency --- thermal comfort --- heritage conservation --- original features --- system dynamics --- social practices --- decision-making --- historic building --- durability --- performance --- life cycle analysis --- land-use --- tropics --- urban microclimate --- built heritage retrofit --- energy-efficient retrofit policy --- conservation policy --- UK --- Turkey --- earthquakes --- fire --- floods --- historic sites --- landslides --- museums --- insects --- sea level rise --- typhoons --- visitors --- extreme events --- climate projection --- Central Europe --- ProteCHt2save --- climate risk indices --- heritage climatology --- cultural heritage safeguarding --- preparedness --- energy-efficient retrofit --- historic residential buildings --- energy consumption prediction --- heritage buildings --- lithotype --- salt weathering --- kaolinisation --- microcracking --- weather events --- cultural heritage --- urban planning --- climate change --- n/a

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A collaboration between Belgian artist François Schuiten and French writer Benoît Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental in form and content. Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive city-states, The Obscure Cities also represents one of the most impressive pieces of world-building in any form of literature. Rebuilding Story Worlds offers the first full-length study of this seminal series, exploring both the artistic traditions from which it emerges and the innovative ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space. Comics scholar Jan Baetens examines how Schuiten’s work as an architectural designer informs the series’ concerns with the preservation of historic buildings. He also includes an original interview with Peeters, which reveals how poststructuralist critical theory influenced their construction of a rhizomatic fictional world, one which has made space for fan contributions through the Alta Plana website. Synthesizing cutting-edge approaches from both literary and visual studies, Rebuilding Story Worlds will give readers a new appreciation for both the aesthetic ingenuity of The Obscure Cities and its nuanced conception of politics.

Graphic novels --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Comic strips --- Comics --- Funnies --- Manga (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Manhua (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Manhwa (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Serial picture books --- Caricatures and cartoons --- Wit and humor, Pictorial --- Comic book novels --- Fiction graphic novels --- Fictive graphic novels --- Graphic albums --- Graphic fiction --- Graphic nonfiction --- Graphic novellas --- Nonfiction graphic novels --- Fiction --- Popular literature --- History and criticism. --- Schuiten, François. --- Schuiten, François --- Peeters, Benoît, --- Schuiten --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Peeters, Benoît --- Manhua (Comic books) --- Manhwa (Comic books) --- Belgium, Belgian art, François Schuiten, French, Benoît Peeters, comics, comic books, parallel world, architecture, city-state, genre, gender, urban space, urban development, designer, historic building, poststructuralist critical theory, fictional world, visual studies, literary studies, The Obscure Cities.

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Rising pollution, climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels are leading many countries to focus on renewable-based energy conversion systems. In particular, recently introduced energy policies are giving high priority to increasing the use of renewable energy sources, the improvement of energy systems’ security, the minimization of greenhouse gas effect, and social and economic cohesion. Renewable energies’ availability varies during the day and the seasons and so their use must be accurately predicted in conjunction with the management strategies based on load shifting and energy storage. Thus, in order to reduce the criticalities of this uncertainty, the exploitation of more flexible and stable renewable energies, such as the geothermal one, is necessary. Geothermal energy is an abundant renewable source with significant potential in direct use applications, such as in district heating systems, in indirect use ones to produce electricity, and in cogeneration and polygeneration systems for the combined production of power, heating, and cooling energy. This Special Issue includes geothermal energy utilization and the technologies used for its exploitation considering both the direct and indirect use applications.

geothermal power production --- abandoned oil reservoirs --- in situ combustion --- organic Rankine cycle (ORC) --- plunger pump --- centrifugal pump --- pressure drop --- temperature utilization rate --- system generating efficiency --- carbonate geothermal reservoirs --- sustainable geothermal energy exploitation --- southern Italy --- numerical simulation --- dual-loop ORC --- mixture working fluids --- entropy generation --- entransy loss --- exergy loss --- Ground source heat pump --- oval cross-section --- groundwater --- borehole heat exchanger --- CFD --- Sandtank --- granite --- physical characteristics --- cyclic --- thermal treatment --- water cooling --- hybrid renewable polygeneration plant --- micro organic Rankine cycle --- evacuated solar thermal collectors --- photovoltaic panels --- plastic heat exchanger --- Organic Rankine Cycle --- geothermal energy --- shell and tube heat exchanger --- fouling resistance --- mobile thermal energy storage (M-TES) --- phase change material (PCM) --- LCOH --- heat transport --- renewable energy source --- household hybrid system --- dynamic simulation --- economic analysis --- TRNSYS software --- heating and cooling network --- polygeneration system --- geothermal energy community --- ORC --- energy district --- heat pump --- R1234ze --- CO2 --- geothermal --- renewable energy --- historic building --- energy saving --- earth-to-air --- horizontal pipe --- 2D model --- air conditioning --- renewable energy sources --- thermal performances --- energy efficiency --- parametric study --- geothermal resource --- Monte Carlo simulation --- assessment --- thermal reservoir --- North Jiangsu Basin