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Measuring Urban Resilience to Natural Hazards
Get PDFNatural disaster is an undeniable fact, and preparing to
cope with and respond to it is an essential necessity. A
resilient city can survive after a traumatic blow to its
physical infrastructure, its economy, or its social fabric.
Lahijan City, like other cities, requires resiliency
measurement. Research tries to survey the degree of
resilience of Lahijan encountering natural hazards. The
research method is descriptive-analytic; the descriptive
method is used to develop theories and literature, and
analytical method for the identification of causal
relationships and correlations. The performed analyses
arebased on the combination of inferential statistics
techniques such as one sample t-test and the Delphi
technique. The outcome revealed that Lahijan is totally
in the low spectrum in terms of resilience (5 > 2.72 >
1), with theoretical median of three, which itself is the
result of climate change, urbanization, and
globalization. Support and strengthening of communitybased
activities, disaster risk reduction, and capacity
increase of institutional adaptability can assist Lahijan
residents to encounter to the human hazards, natural
hazards, and increasing risks resulting from change
Credere in un'Invenzione, sostenere l'innovazione. I brevetti DIITET 2018
Get PDFIl Dipartimento di Ingegneria, ICT e Tecnologie per l’Energia e i Trasporti (DIITET) del CNR coinvolge circa 1.700 unità di personale, su tutto il territorio nazionale, impegnate in attività di Ricerca su diversi settori, dall’ingegneria civile e industriale, dei sistemi e delle comunicazioni, all’informatica e alla computer science, alla matematica applicata.
Per sostenere il proprio ruolo di collettore della domanda industriale di tecnologia e di promotore dell’offerta di
competenza dei propri Istituti, il DIITET ha lavorato alla definizione di una matrice che connette ventuno Aree Progettuali, sintetizzate in ulteriori quattro grandi Aree Strategiche, ciascuna delle quali, coordinata da ricercatori, diventa il nodo di una rete virtuale che consente la corretta comprensione della ricchezza di conoscenze e facilita l’accesso da parte del sistema industriale.
Questa pubblicazione raccoglie il portafoglio brevettuale 2018 afferente al Dipartimento, associando ogni brevetto all’Area Progettuale “prevalente”, ma riconoscendo come, di fatto, questi debbano essere considerati frutto di un lavoro interdisciplinare su diverse Aree, soprattutto in relazione alle possibili applicazioni.
Con questa pubblicazione, il DIITET conferma l’impegno nella promozione delle tecnologie tutelate, proponendosi di
continuare a lavorare alla definizione di strumenti e strategie per la valorizzazione dei risultati della Ricerca dei propri Istituti
The Execution Systemic Toolkit for Policy Modelling and Lawmaking
Get PDFThis chapter aims to present the elements that the execution systemic toolkit for policy modelling and lawmaking should contain. The study focuses on America over which the Inter-American System of Human Rights exercises its jurisdiction, given that Human Rights normativism (promoted by the UN and the Human Rights regional systems) prevails at the legislative and public policy agenda of the States. Specifically, it is considered that the doctrine, concepts and principles established by the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), are nowadays the valid patterns to explain the conceptions and reasoning schemes that lead the legislative and public policy activity in America. Additionally, the “control de Convencionalidad” developed in the region, encourages the constitutional judgments issued within the States to reproduce these concepts and principles, which have the effect of the non-application or expulsion of legal rules and, through normative or structural judgements, the courts projects specific public policy, all of which could be considered a morphogenetic system. Thus, the main jurisprudential lines of the IACHR and the México’s Supreme Court will be analyzed in order to extract the elements and their attributes that make up the systemic toolkit for policy modelling and lawmaking and identify which behavioral patterns have been displaced to the environment that affects the system
Observing the Supernational Systemic World Order
Get PDFPenal approaches in transnational law have basically focused on substantial rules and faced serious challenges of which the misleading conceptual agendas, fast and furious shifts in cultural and behavioral patterns of crime, and controversies about global mechanisms of normative description are remarkable. My paper suggests that the existing criminal mechanisms are, basically fostered by procedural policies without further references to the confusingly diversity of new crime patterns. Its central theme is to draw a reliable theoretical framework of a supranational network that acts upon procedural criminal rules. Flexibility and accountability in administrative policies and procedural standards should be patiently developed in relevant with the current penal findings. I argue that the successful implication and institutionalization of substantial norms in the supranational project is positively achievable through network assistance. In other words, the missing theorem or discourses that might address the substantial rules or be directed toward creating a fruitful debate that ends in normative penal standards for dealing global crimes must be reflected in a network of systemic cooperation. There will be also an argumentation regarding the need for a thematic exploration of substantial rules that would form the supranational network as conceptual approaches with priority over procedural mechanisms
Campionamento biologico delle specie demersali e dei piccoli pelagici (GSA16)
Get PDFIn questo rapporto tecnico sono riportate informazioni riguardanti l’esecuzione delle attività di campionamento, la numerosità campionaria delle catture delle specie demersali e dei piccoli pelagici realizzati dal CNR – IRBIM di Mazara del Vallo e CNR – IAS di Capo Granitola (GSA 16) tra Gennaio e Dicembre 2018 nell'ambito della DCF
Valorizzare il paesaggio e i sapori locali dei territori montani in chiave smart: sistemi di Mapping e di Storytelling per la promozione turistica sostenibile dell'altopiano di Bossico nel Bergamasco
Get PDFThe aim of the paper is to investigate a new way of analysing the tourist experience through the use of
smart technologies, considered as systems enabling real and virtual accessibility of territories. In
particular, we focus on mountain territories, to reflect on the possibility of enhancing the importance of
the landscape and the territorial knowledge - orally transferred by local communities - as the engine of
development for areas usually characterized by unattractive adjectives such as " fragile", "marginal" or
"remote". The paper presents a methodology of analysis adopted in the Bossico plateau in the Province of
Bergamo and articulated in modular phases. Through the participation of the inhabitants, it investigates
the peculiarities of the landscape and of the traditional knowledge, in order to suggest their enhancement
by using smart technologies
Linking surface hydrodynamics to planktonic ecosystem: the case study of the ichthyoplanktonic assemblages in the Central Mediterranean Sea
Get PDFOceanographic processes play a key role in influencing the structure of the marine planktonic ecosystems. Taking advantage of the quasi-simulta-neous collection of a large ichthyoplanktonic dataset in different regions of the Central Mediterranean Sea (Italian/Maltese, Tunisian and Libyan waters), this study aimed at the identification of the main environ-mental drivers that control the structure of the larval fish assemblages. Spatial distribution and taxa com-position were related to physical forcings (geostrophic currents and wind stress) and environmental condi-tions (bottom depth, temperature, salinity, chlorophyll-a concentration). ANOSIM and SIMPER identified contribution of fish taxa to the average Bray–Curtis dissimilarity among regions. In Italian and Libyan waters, two assemblages (neritic and oceanic) were identified, while a mixed assemblage characterized only some stations. Two neritic and one oceanic assemblages were discriminated in Tunisian waters. Random Forest classification model high-lighted the essential role of the bathymetry, while Lagrangian simulations evidenced the action of the hydrodynamics in mixing neritic and oceanic assem-blages in the Italian/Maltese and partially in Libyan waters. These findings highlighted the importance of the multidisciplinary approach and shed light on the potential value of the ichthyoplanktonic surveys for the assessment of the state of the marine ecosystem and the conservation of the fishery resources
Geografic determinism VS urban resilience: an italian scenario analysis
Get PDFIt has been for many years that the analysis of the
resilience concept has transversally enriched the
scientific debate, both from the technical-scientific view
to the socio-humanistic one.
In urban areas, particularly, scientific literature offers a
consolidated panorama of theories and applications.
The present work is animated by the objective of
complementing this background with a geographic
approach in which the characteristics of urban
resilience, synthesized by a wide review of scientific
articles, are associated with determinants of geographic
type (urban dimension, latitude, and prevalent urban
attribute).
The proposed analysis introduces methodological
elements of evaluation useful for this topic, as well as
demonstrates, based on the stratification of real data
regarding some main urban variables (Living,
Environment, Mobility and Legality), the scenario of
Italian cities characterized by high, medium and low
resilience actions as a function of their geographical
characteristics. It will try to make clearer the question
regarding the geographic determinism paradigm
respecting the urban frame, analyzing the eventual
geographical influence on the processes of urban
resilienc
The Adapting city. Resilience through water design in Rotterdam
Get PDFThe Netherlands is a fragile and vulnerable land; spatial
planning is very important, just as important is the
resilience of the system and its adaptation to climate
change. Rotterdam is a delta city and, in a period of
heavy climate change, it will experiment more extreme
weather conditions, such as heavier rainstorms, longer
periods of drought and more heat waves, as well as
higher water levels in the river Meuse; so is important to
know that it is a deep vulnerable city and need right
strategies to overcome the problem and to be adapted to
conseguences of climate change. The results presented
in these manuscript were developed through some
academic course at TUDelft; the main aim is to arrive at
shared ambitions for climate proof urban development
and to make specific concrete agreements about this
defining a strategy able to enforce urban beauty and
absorb excess rainwater and improve urban resilience
through the implementation of some adaptive measures
linking this strategy to the whole urban governante of
the city. There is the need to implement a conscious and
smart urban governance and to undertake urban
awareness actions that aim at the awareness of the
communities, which becomes an active part in promoting
urban resilience policies and in creating the sustainable
city. The strategy is characterized by some main
innovation that could be recreated in other countries,
such as the inclusion of resilience’s theme in all levels of
government and in all urban planning instruments and in
spatial and strategic development policies; the deep
cooperation between all stakeholders and public
administrations; and the role of urban design that is able
to create a waterproof city, enhancing the quality of
public space
An Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Intramural Thrombus and Moderate Leak in an Asian Man Presenting with Acute Gastroenteritis
Get PDFIntroduction: Missing a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is common in medical practice because few at-risk patients have a history
of AAA and many have an unusual presentation.
Background: AAA is less common among Asians than white Caucasians of the same age. Our patient had no significant risk factors apart from
age and sex and had an unusual presentation.
Patient and Methods: A 67-year-old Asian man presented to the emergency room (ER) with a 1-day history of nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea,
fever and abdominal pain. He was febrile, dehydrated. and had marked tenderness at the right iliac fossa. Laboratory findings suggested
bacterial gastroenteritis but this did not explain the localized tenderness at the right iliac fossa.
Result and Discussion: A CT scan of the abdomen revealed an AAA arising above the origins of the renal arteries, an intramural thrombus,
a retroperitoneal haematoma and a leak extending to the right iliac fossa. The patient was transferred to another hospital and underwent
exploratory laparotomy, surgical repair of the aneurysm, and aortobi-iliac grafting with removal of the thrombus. The patient was discharged
in good shape 3 weeks after surgery. Without the CT scan of the abdomen, the AAA could have been missed and the patient treated for
severe gastroenteriti