Firenze Climate Change Local Climate Zone Map --- Morabito M. et al, 2024 CNR IBE Climate change (CC) affects cities, as well as agriculture and natural areas. To date we are not able to predict exactly the dramatic impact and the transformations it will cause. According to the scientific community, CC will affect billions of human beings as well as other animal and plant species and habitats as a whole.Cities, the ecological niche of the human species, are particularly affected by the effects of climate change: concrete and asphalt surfaces heat up very much, rainwater cannot penetrate the waterproofed soil, anthropization has almost...
SMART Urban SMART Urban research project, of which Alberto Giuntoli was coordinator and project manager from 2012 to 2015, devised an innovative system for verification of the design of urban and peri-urban spaces. The software, thanks to specific calculation algorithms validated by the world scientific community and a database with variables that can be entered by the user or through a network of sensors or GIS, makes it possible to determine the variations in thermal comfort and the level of pollutants, induced by design choices. The system thus makes it possible to verify ex ante the real effectiveness of a "sustainable design,"...
Tracking pollutants from the Parma waste-to-energy plant The Parma waste-to-energy plant park was designed by studying both the landscape and ecological aspects, which could ensure the adaptation of the planned solutions to the specific pedological, microclimatic and morphological situation of the area, and all those aspects related to the ability of plants to remove pollutants, according to the mitigation objectives set.The biomass required for sampling was collected according to the procedure established in the protocol for monitoring approved by the Province of Parma. Four different samplings (three during the growing season and one in winter) taken from the tree specimens of the various species present in sampled...
FACE Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment project The research was based on free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments conducted on wheat, grapevine, potato and other crops. The tests were conducted with abundant and limited irrigation and fertilizer nitrogen supplies while analyzing the response of plants, soil and microclimatic conditions to elevated CO2 and its interactions with water and nitrogen treatments. The data were then modeled to predict likely future crop productivity with the expected global change. FURTHER INFORMATION, PUBLICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES Miglietta F, Giuntoli A, Hinkson C, The long term response to elevated CO2 of a Mediterranean grassland community growing near natural carbon dioxide vents in central...
