AWWA's Water 2050 initiative seeks to chart the future of water by focusing on five key drivers: sustainability, technology, economics, governance, and social demographic issues. The goal is that each driver, making connections between them, taking intentional action now, result will be better for generations. While drivers integral water's future, technology could have greatest effect. It adva...

Abstract Athens’ extensive urbanisation, lack of green areas and the extreme heat caused by increasingly frequent waves indicate need for actions improving indoor outdoor comfort, which is closely related to energy consumption buildings. This work’s aim create a carbon neutral block in Athens on 2050 horizon. The optimization block’s form based principles environmental design climatic analysis ...

Some people believe that the impact of population ageing on future health care expenditures will be quite moderate due to the high costs of dying. If not age per se but proximity to death determines the bulk of expenditures, a shift in the mortality risk to higher ages will not affect lifetime health care expenditures as death occurs only once in every life. We attempt to take this effect into ...

Urbanization and climate change are amongst the greatest challenges of the 21 st century. In the “Low Carbon Future Cities” project (LCFC), three important problem dimensions are analysed: current and future GHG emissions and their mitigation (up to 2050), resource use and material flows and vulnerability to climate change. The industrial city of Wuxi has been the Chinese pilot city of the proj...

[1] Trends in the position of the DJF Austral jet have been analyzed for multimodel ensemble simulations of a subset of highand low-top models for the periods 1960–2000, 2000–2050, and 2050–2098 under the CMIP5 historical, RCP4.5, and RCP8.5 scenarios. Comparison with ERA-Interim, CFSR and the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis shows that the DJF and annual mean jet positions in CMIP5 models are equatorward ...