A5058592909- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Water resources management and optimization
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Climate variability and models
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Educational and Social Studies
- Diverse academic and cultural studies
CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
2018-2024
Barilla (Italy)
2018-2024
National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
2020-2024
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System
2020
University of Siena
2018
Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'ambiente ligure
2017
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
2017
University of Buenos Aires
2017
Università Iuav di Venezia
2014-2015
Roma Tre University
2015
International food trade entails virtual water flows across trading partners. It has been proposed to attenuate regional scarcity by importing water‐intensive commodities from water‐abundant regions. In addition alleviating in countries, existing studies have reported that also generates global savings. However, little is known how these savings may alleviate scarcity, which more relevant the sustainable use of resources than only assessing this paper, we conducted a comprehensive review on...
Abstract Informing and engaging citizens to adopt sustainable diets is a key strategy for reducing global environmental impacts of the agricultural food sectors. In this respect, first requisite support actors sector provide them publicly available, reliable ready use synthesis pressures associated commodities. Here we introduce SU-EATABLE LIFE database, multilevel database carbon (CF) water (WF) footprint values commodities, based on standardized methodology extract information assign...
Abstract The European Union (EU) plans to decarbonize the region by 2050. As highlighted Green Deal and Farm Fork Strategy, food systems are essential for this transition. Here we investigate resource dependence carbon emissions of EU-27’s from 2004 2014 via an ecological footprint (EF)-extended multi-regional input–output approach, accounting demand supply (including trade), considering multiple externalities. Food contributes towards almost a third region’s EF, appropriates over half its...
Abstract In the framework of coordinated regional modeling initiative Med-CORDEX (Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment), we present an updated version Earth System Model ENEA-REG designed to downscale, over Mediterranean basin, models used in Coupled Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6). The ESM includes coupled atmosphere (WRF), ocean (MITgcm), land (Noah-MP, embedded within WRF), and river (HD) components with spatial resolution 12 km for atmosphere, 1/12° 0.5° rooting...
The purpose of this study is to analyze the political economy food-water security in water-scarce Middle East and North Africa region. deploys lens virtual water trade determine how region's economies have met their rising requirements over past three decades. It shown that food currently depend a considerable extent on from outside region, ‘embedded’ imports accessed through trade. analysis includes blue (surface groundwater) green resources.
Abstract Since 2020, the progress towards achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2– Zero Hunger has faced a sudden stall due to an ongoing “polycrisis”. While some countries are on track, great effort is still globally necessary achieve SDG2 targets. Here we provide brief background about SDG2, including its synergies and trade-offs with other SDGs. We then identify discuss main challenges that pathway zero hunger will have tackle. The lack systemic approach, together complex,...
Food waste policy analysis has traditionally concentrated on supranational or national policies and paid little attention to the role of cities in tackling this phenomenon. Nevertheless, have proved be crucial actors food waste, launching effective initiatives address it. By looking at 40 across 16 European countries, study aims present a new framework for assessing urban initiatives. The proposed identifies sheds light links between different types launched, main areas interventions...
Abstract The Mediterranean diet (MD) is a world-renowned healthy dietary pattern. In the present study we analyse climate sustainability of MD and greenhouse gas emissions (E GHG ) associated with current patterns in non-Mediterranean EU countries, focusing on major deviations from health environmental targets countries. E were calculated for seven countries (Cyprus, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain Malta, referred to as 7MED) other 21 28 (referred 21OTHER), using 2017 reference year....
The Mediterranean region is widely acknowledged as one of the most exposed in world to effects climate change, water scarcity, biodiversity loss and land degradation, coupled with a nutrition transition its populations. In such context, explore evolution both political theoretical interest. This study presents result scenario-building exercise, based on Delphi method – an interactive forecasting technique relying upon about 60 practitioners, experts academics representing 19 countries wide...
Abstract. We present the results of downscaling CMIP6 global climate projections to local scales for Mediterranean and Italian regions, aiming produce high-resolution information assessment change signals, with a focus on precipitation extreme events. performed hindcast (i.e. ERA5-driven) historical simulations (driven by MPI-ESM1-2-HR model) simulate (1980–2014) future (2015–2100) under three different emission scenarios (SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP5-8.5). For each experiment, double nesting...
The increasing availability of reliable climate-change information at the regional scales is prompting an ever-growing demand for impact and risk indicators suitable policy planning implementation. As highlighted in IPCC AR6, latter also benefit from recent advances attribution sectoral vulnerability studies, which now enable to identify most relevant climatic variables investigate their past future trends, characterizing response both environmental socio-economic systems climate-induced...
Similarly to weather forecasting techniques, climate projections also aim achieve very high spatial and temporal resolutions, which are needed both as inputs impact models perform reliable risk assessment studies. This is all the more true for Mediterranean region Italian territory in particular, whose heterogeneous complex morphology do affect local (highly sensitive global warming), making this area particularly vulnerable hydrogeological risks, such heavy rainfall, landslides flooding...
Abstract This paper describes results from a large-eddy simulation (LES) model used in an idealized setting to simulate the onset of sea breeze. As LES is capable simulating boundary layer–scale, three-dimensional turbulence along with mesoscale sea-breeze circulation, parameterization planetary layer was unnecessary. The basic experimental design considers rotating, uniformly stratified, resting atmosphere that suddenly heated at surface over “land” half domain. To focus on simplest...
The direct observation of a thermoelectric magnetohydrodynamic (TEMHD) flow has been achieved and is reported here. origin the identified based on series qualitative tests corresponds, quantitatively, with swirling TEMHD model. A theory for determining dominant driver free-surface flow, or thermocapillary (TC), found to be consistent experimental results. use analytical form an open geometry develops new dimensionless parameter describing ratio TC generated flows.