Nicolas Merveille

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at University of Quebec in Montreal

Cet ouvrage collectif est le fruit des travaux de la Chaire internationale sur les usa- ges et pratiques de la ville intelligente (Cit.Us), chaire rassemblant depuis 2019 des chercheurs de l’École des sciences de la gestion de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG UQAM) et Montpellier Management de l’université de Montpellier1. Cette chaire a un t...

This study explores the transition toward sustainable economic models through the circular economy (CE) in Mexico. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, this research incorporates a comprehensive literature review and analyzes responses from 42 stakeholders, gathered through surveys and focus groups. These stakeholders comprise a diverse group includ...

Agriculture is often considered a major factor in environmental degradation. This case study delves into the use of sociotechnical experiments—and, more specifically, agroecosystem living labs (ALLs)—to facilitate the transition of conventional agricultural practices toward heightened sustainability. Our research indicates that achieving successful...

While an increasing number of telecommunications firms are adopting green innovation (GI), research on the conditions under which innovation and collaboration decisions are made is still lacking. This paper proposes a mathematical model integrating innovation level, trust, and knowledge investment dimensions. Innovation and collaboration behaviors...

In the rapidly evolving domain of the Internet of Things (IoT), devices play an instrumental role in high-stakes scenarios like search and rescue (SAR) operations. Traditional decision-making processes within SAR missions often struggle to cope with the dynamic and unpredictable nature of such environments, leading to inefficiencies and delayed res...

La ville intelligente est le produit du déploiement d’une infrastructure numérique au sein de l’environnement urbain. C’est un spectacle créé par l’industrie 4.0 et qui est promu par des municipalités d’ici et d’ailleurs. Les gains potentiels pour les gestionnaires des villes sont présentés aux citadins dans un registre émotif. Dans cet article est...

The resource curse haunts countries whose economies have become dangerously specialized in the exploitation of a single resource. This curse threatens countries whose economies are poorly diversified and oriented mainly towards the export of their non-renewable natural resources, such as oil. What about the exploitation of an abundant renewable nat...

A waste biorefinery is a facility aimed to use a wide variety of biogenic waste to produce value-added products and energy. Moreover, they arise as a cornerstone in the global sphere, fostering fossil-based resources substitution. In this perspective, biorefineries have the capacity of achieving a circular economy within a sustainability context, b...

With the development of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), end devices (EDs) are equipped with more functions to capture information. Therefore, a large amount of data is generated at the edge of the network and needs to be processed. However, no matter whether these computing tasks are offloaded to traditional central clusters or mobile edg...

Indigenous peoples in Canada continue to experience substantially higher rates of cardiovascular disease compared to non-Indigenous Canadians. Herein, we 1) identify upstream factors contributing to the current state of Indigenous cardiovascular health, 2) suggest culturally responsive approaches to engage Indigenous patients and communities, and 3...

Within the context of the rise of the Internet of Things, blockchain, and other new technologies, telecommunications operators are committed to applying technologies to promote business transformation and upgrading. The government also actively applies technologies to traditional fields to promote social progress. In agriculture, the agricultural s...

The United Nations has identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that need to be addressed to ensure a peaceful and sustainable existence for all living species on planet earth. To a large extent, the SDGs are interconnected, so that addressing one can simultaneously influence another; here, we explore the role of photovoltaic energy techn...

Resumen La pandemia nos propone una prueba a tamaño real de inmovilidad de un gran número de las personas. Este texto propone una breve inmersión, en Montreal, en el universo de la prohibición de desplazamiento. El texto describe los desafíos de movilidad en Montreal antes de la pandemia y luego precisa los nuevos retos que surgen de la vida confin...

Blockchain is an emerging decentralized distributed technology that can cross the boundaries and guarantee safe and trustworthy value transfers between participants. Combining the blockchain technology with the Internet of Things (IoT) technology to enhance the transparency and sustainability of agricultural supply chains, has attracted researchers...

Among renewable energies, photovoltaic solar energy has a prominent place with a 25% increase in installed capacity worldwide in 2018, including the development of grid-connected photovoltaic solar power plants. These new technological tools promise to supply populations with clean energy and to fight climate change by reducing CO2 emissions, in pe...

Circular economy (CE) promotes better resource use by reducing waste and keeping products and materials in use and supports natural system regeneration. However, the social dimension of CE is virtually non-existent. Moreover, there is no holistic framework to select the social indicators to be used to assess the positive or negative impacts of CE s...

Circular Economy (CE) is a growing topic among scholars, industries, and governments, and is aimed at decoupling economic growth and development from the consumption of finite resources. CE incorporates different meanings, from reduce, reuse, and recycle activities, to environmental degradation or resource scarcity, and is supported by specific ind...

In a context of energy transition towards renewable energies, this case study situated in Madagascar allows us to verify the extent to which an on-grid photovoltaic solar power plant represents a vector for sustainable development. The article proposes a model for assessing sustainability from a qualitative multi-criteria perspective. This analysis...

Circular Economy (CE) is a growing topic among scholars, industry and government aiming at decoupling economic growth and development from the consumption of finite resources. CE incorporates different meanings, from reduce, reuse and recycle activities to environmental degradation or resource scarcity, and supported by specific indicators to attai...

The growing importance of the concept of the circular economy as a way to attain sustainable development has encouraged scholars to propose different ways to understand it. So far, there has been much focus on the environmental benefits of the circular economy, but, less attention has been paid to how the circular economy can boost and guaranty pos...

Decreasing the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the residential sector is critical to the low-carbon transition. Applying information and communication technologies to power systems makes it possible to reduce GHG emissions in the residential sector, for example through the development of smart homes. Smart homes are more energy efficient and th...

L’espace urbain a toujours été synonyme de densité, de vitesse et de foisonnement. Toutefois, le phénomène d’urbanisation qui s’intensifie depuis la révolution industrielle s’étend aujourd’hui à une échelle inédite. Alors qu’elle semble se déployer sans fin, cette urbanisation produit en même temps les limites de sa propre expansion – pollution des...

The inclusion of temporal aspects in the environmental assessment of complex socio-technical systems is crucial. For power systems, such considerations allow computing the environmental impacts related to demand-side management strategies which could not be assessed with static data, such as temporal shifts of part of the demand from one period of...

To truly reduce environmental impacts in sustainable consumption, lifestyle assessments should be performed for all areas of protection and because human behaviours drive lifestyles, they must be accurately accounted for. Life cycle analysis (LCA) computes environmental impacts across several indicators and throughout the life cycle stages of a pro...

Including dynamic aspects in the environmental assessment of power systems allows computing the environmental benefits of demand-side management strategies for the smart grid which could not be assessed with static data such as shifting part of the demand from one period to another. Several methodological approaches have been developed in life cycl...

Le présent article s’intéresse au vertige identitaire des professions d’ingénieur, et à la science-fiction en tant que voie possible d’ouverture épistémologique face à la crise. Bien qu’elle participe à la construction de l’inéluctable technologique, la littérature de science-fiction peut aussi concourir à son dépassement, tout comme à un véritable...

L'amour pour un animal ou un objet a toujours existé. Mais l'arrivée de robots capables de simuler l'affection et même le plaisir suscite bien des remises en questions chez les penseurs contemporains.

This report seeks to lay a to guide Montréal in developing for defining a conceptual framework that can guide Montréal in establishing a program for considering and managing issues of ethics and social acceptability associated with the technological and analytical systems of an urban Internet of things. These systems are responsible for collecting...

Information and communication technologies are believed to contribute to reduce environmental impacts in other economic sectors. Smart homes aim to this purpose through improved resource management, but actual environmental benefits are uncertain. Indeed, an increase in efficiency may lead to an increase in consumption and thus in environmental imp...

En narrant une série d’épisodes du processus de contextualisation de La main à la pâte (LAMAP), une approche de l’enseignement des sciences basée sur l’investigation, au Pérou, nous souhaitons expliciter l’intérêt que présente cette démarche pour la transmission de contenus scientifiques à un public d’enseignants de trois écoles primaires rurales m...

Au Pérou, l’insuffisance de l’investissement dans les activités de recherche scientifique complique l’exercice d’évaluation et de prospective des impacts générés par les projets d’aménagement. Pour la dernière décennie, la Defensoria del Pueblo a constaté l’accroissement du nombre des conflits sociaux engendrés, en grande partie, par une méconnaiss...

Que se cache-t-il derrière la notion d’impact ? La détermination et le prévisible. Or, c’est justement ce qui pose problème. A partir d’une enquête sur les dynamiques sociales reconfigurée, en grande partie, par un mégaprojet minier dans la région Ancash au Pérou, l’auteur propose d’abandonner la représentation des incidences des activités extracti...

Cet article, qui mêle matériaux ethnographiques et apports philosophiques, propose une critique du processus de marchandisation de la solidarité entre les entités du monde. Le projet moderne repose sur la pratique de la mesure : l’intention est de rendre tout mesurable. Ainsi, ce que l’on reçoit de la nature n’est pas ce qu’elle nous donne puisque...

Adaptation to global change of Bedouin societies in the North West Coastal Zone, Egypt In this new millennium, with an annual population growth of 1.9% encroaching on rural land (around 250.000 ha urbanized in twenty years) and less than 3.5% agricultural land, Egypt faces important challenges. Although affected by climatic change, the arid zones (...

Through six chapters, this thesis calls to learn the work situation of a NGO’s practitioners whose aim is to care for the world’s most representative mountain ecosystem and to appreciate the local population’s way of life. Following the renowned International Summits Institution from Huaraz (Peru) to Franklin (West Virginia), this ethnographic stud...

Cette thèse invite, au travers de six chapitres, à se familiariser avec les situations de travail de praticiens d'une organisation non gouvernementale qui se sont fixés comme objectif de protéger les écosystèmes de montagne les plus représentatifs du globe ainsi que valoriser les modes de vie des populations qui y vivent. En retraçant des trajectoi...