“ENERGY TRANSITION AND REGIONAL PLANNING” The Departemental Local Authority and the Council for Architecture Urbanism and Environment (CAUE 27) of Eure (Normandy) are jointly organizing a symposium in the city of Evreux on October 17. Lotus intellectual material will be presented in the morning: – Lotus content and partners, – Energy transition […]
Monthly Archives: September 2022
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The case study of Riga, the capital of Latvia, illustrates a planned approach to improving the energy efficiency of the existing building stock. The most significant part of the city’s building stock in terms of numbers is the large-scale housing estates, a legacy of the Soviet era. In contrast, the […]
Kuldiga municipality (in Latvian – Kuldīgas novads) is located in the middle of a vast and very sparsely populated (12.6 people/km2) traditional agricultural and forestry region of Courland (in Latvian – Kurzeme) of Republic of Latvia (hereinafter – Latvia, population -1.89 million). The middle-size (population – 10,710 people) historical regional […]
In this case study, we explore the structuring and implementation of sustainability projects in Malaunay, as an overall top-down strategy, with an initial focus on energy savings and the reduction of energy bills. The scope of actions was gradually expanded to include environmental issues more generally. Malaunay is small a […]
This case study follows the implementation of projects in favour of local energy autonomy in Le Mené, which began as a bottom-up initiative and gradually transformed into a municipal self-sufficiency strategy. Le Mené is a small municipality of 6500 inhabitants, which is located in the Côtes d’Armor department, halfway between […]
On 28th July, the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion created a Local Authorities’ working group as one of the contributors to the national “Energy saving plan” (Plan Sobriété Énergétique), which the government has been preparing since June 2022 as a response to the current geopolitical turmoil and […]
Local energy production and energy saving actions in Drôme department, as part of the “Biovallée” sustainability strategy, have provided the LOTUS project with insights on successful cooperation between local businesses and citizens. Securing access to energy through self-sufficiency is a central topic in the Drôme valley, as well as many […]
Grenoble city in central France has been one of LOTUS case study sites, where we focused specifically on thermal retrofit projects in collective housing estates, carried out by Grenoble-Alpes Metropolitan public authority since 2010 (“MurMur I” project: 2010-2014, “MurMur II” project: 2016-2020). Since the publication of the Climate-Air-Energy Plan in […]
How to handle an environmental/urban decision problem with many alternatives and the presence of several interdependent criteria? A new paper by Francesca Abastante, Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco and Isabella Lami proposes an integrated MCDA (Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding) approach illustrated by the comparison of alternative projects for the reuse of […]
Promoted by CRUI – The Conference of Italian University Rectors – since July 2016, the Italian University Network for Sustainable Development (RUS) mark the first experience of information sharing and coordination among all Italian universities committed to the topic of environmental sustainability and social responsibility. The main goal of RUS is […]