A5021283244- Water resources management and optimization
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Water Systems and Optimization
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Water management and technologies
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Adaptive Dynamic Programming Control
- Advanced Control Systems Optimization
- Mine drainage and remediation techniques
- Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Agriculture, Plant Science, Crop Management
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Electric Power System Optimization
- Optimization and Variational Analysis
- Environmental Science and Water Management
- Risk and Portfolio Optimization
- International Environmental Law and Policies
Fondazione Politecnico di Milano
2014-2023
ETH Zurich
2021
Politecnico di Milano
2000-2014
The integration of quality and quantity issues in the management water resources systems is key to meet society's long-term needs for freshwater while maintaining essential ecological services economic benefits. Current practices are mostly targeted towards quantitative uses, usually addressed separately as an independent problem. One reasons lack lies inadequacy optimization techniques nowadays available cope with large, distributed, simulation models adopted characterize coupled...
Water storing facilities in a watershed are very often operated independently one to another meet specific operating objectives, with no information sharing among the operators. This uncoordinated approach might result upstream-downstream disputes and conflicts different water users or inefficiencies management when looked at from viewpoint of an ideal central decision-maker. In this paper, authors propose two steps design coordination mechanisms scale ultimate goal enlarging space for...
The Mediterranean region faces critical challenges related to land degradation, requiring innovative and harmonized approaches for assessment restoration. To address these challenges, the Land Degradation Decision-Support Toolbox (LanDS) has been developed as part of REACT4MED project (https://react4med.eu/), funded by PRIMA (https://prima-med.org/). LanDS serves a comprehensive adaptable platform designed evaluate degradation assess impacts restoration measures across diverse contexts.LanDS...
How can we scale local knowledge and sustainable solutions to broader territories without losing their contextual relevance? Land degradation is a pressing issue in the Mediterranean, where diverse environmental socio-economic conditions exacerbate its impacts. While bottom-up approaches excel leveraging existing skills, knowledge, practical problem-solving, results often remain tied specific territorial contexts. The challenge lies generalising extending these insights new regions, enabling...
A spatially distributed trace metal transport and transformation module was developed implemented within the hydrological model TOPKAPI-ETH. The new can be used to better understand, at high spatial temporal resolution, reactions of metals as they move through a catchment from upland sources downstream areas water bodies. newly takes into consideration solid in multiple chemical phases with different reactivity simulates their mutual over time, which gives possibility analyze fraction...
AbstractAbstractA software tool, which implements a Decision Support System (DSS) for management of water reservoirs, is presented. It designed to be used both at the planning level, by agencies, generate policies and release plans over various time horizons, decision makers, take daily decisions, also using real-time information provided telemetering network. The DSS algorithm presents multiple choices helping them in assessing their impact, thus integrating, not substituting, human...
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTQuality of Plant Proteins, Protein Quality Oat VarietiesE. B. Weber, J. P. Thomas, Ruth Reder, A. M. Schlehuber, and D. BentonCite this: Agric. Food Chem. 1957, 5, 12, 926–928Publication Date (Print):December 1, 1957Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 December 1957https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jf60082a003https://doi.org/10.1021/jf60082a003research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle...
The management of a water reservoir can be improved thanks to the use stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) generate policies which are efficient with respect objectives (flood protection, supply for irrigation and hydropower generation, minimum environmental flows, etc.). improvement in efficiency is even more remarkable when problem involves network, that set reservoirs interconnected. Unfortunately, SDP affected by “curse dimensionality” computing time computer memory occupation quickly...
The integrated management of water reuse technologies and their coordination with the operations other system components are fundamental to fully exploit potential. Yet, these usually designed considering individual parameters (e.g., efficiency, durability, maintenance costs, energy consumption), more than integration traditional practices, impacts on final users at scale.Here, we adopt a portable framework based optimal control methods machine learning evaluate cross-sector loops. is...
Abstract Lake Verbano, located in Northern Italy on the Swiss-Italian border, is a natural lake used as multipurpose reservoir. Its management aims at satisfaction of downstream water supply for hydropower generation and irrigation, control floods, both shores outflowing river. Since these objectives are conflicting, this paper explores methodology aimed solving conflict, by structural modification outlet scheme.
Current water management practices are mostly targeted toward quantitative uses, while quality is usually addressed separately as an independent problem. In this work, a novel reinforcement learning approach proposed for designing Pareto-optimal operating policies reservoirs equipped with selective withdrawal systems (SWSs). This exploits the feedback between selection of outlet locations quantity demands and patterns within reservoir, making it possible to satisfy downstream objectives and,...
Integrated management of water reuse technologies and coordinated operations with other system components is fundamental to fully exploiting potential. Yet, these are primarily designed considering their individual efficiency more than possible synergies traditional practices. In this paper, we introduce a general-purpose framework that couples physical surrogate modelling optimal control methods support policy-makers in selecting robust efficient planning portfolios, integrating strategies...
Abstract. Water resources planning processes involve different kinds of decisions that are generally evaluated under a stationary climate scenario assumption. In general, the possible combinations interventions mutually compared as single alternatives. However, ongoing change requires us to reconsider this approach. Indeed, what have be not individual alternatives, but families characterized by same structural decisions, i.e. actions long-term effects and entail irrevocable changes in...