362 research outputs found
Aurona and Leone Glaciers and Proglacial areas
No full textThe dataset contains the elaborated file related to the evolution of Aurona and Leone Glaciers in the Piedmont Region (Italian Alps) and the relative proglacial areas. In particular, the file contains
1. Shape files of the glacial and proglacial historical monitoring (1872-2020)
2. CSV files of the Leone and Aurona moraines crests displacement (1958-1981)
3. CSV file of the boulder displacement in the Leone proglacial area (1958-2020)
4. Tif files of the DOD respectively for glaciers (2010-2021), Aurona (2000-2010; 2010-2021; 2021-2023) and Leone (2000-2010; 2010-2021) proglacial areas.
5. .bin files related to the cloud-to-cloud comparisons for the Aurona proglacial area and two sub zones (debris flow-APA 1; subsiding zone-APA 2)
Soil Trail as a Tool to Promote Cultural and Geoheritage: The Case Study of Mount Cusna Geosite (Northern Italian Apennines)
No full textThe soil is a component of geodiversity, a geoheritage element providing knowledge of how the geosphere works and interacts with other Earth subsystems. To promote soil as a geoheritage element, we aim to create a geotouristic trail focused on soil, geomorphology, and geoarcheology in the area of Mt. Cusna (Tuscan-Emilian Apennine National Park, Northern Italy), where there is a 20-years long-lasting history of research on geopedology, geoarcheology, and geomorphology. Along existing hiking paths, five soil profiles are identified as sites of potential pedological interest, whereas three more sites are selected to show the geomorphological context of the area and one the geoarcheological evidence. The soil evidence allows for the reconstruction of paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic conditions, and/or retraction of the human impact that has affected the area over time. In order to communicate the information about the geotouristic trail, illustrative panels were prepared for each trail site and underwent a formative evaluation by students attending academic courses in Natural Sciences to improve the offer. Through the trail, it will be possible to enable the visitor to discover the soil concept, which is often poorly known or even underestimated in its scientific and cultural value. Moreover, the cultural opportunities of the Mt. Cusna geosite will be enhanced
O sujeito e o campo: reflexões sobre o direito e a crise da subjetividade moderna
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito.Esta dissertação propõe-se a traçar um caminho que proporcione visualizar e discutir os dilemas propostos à subjetividade e ao direito dentro do cenário político da modernidade
Earth sciences on the field: educational applications for the comprehension of landscape evolution
No full textThe aim of this paper is to collect and present some educational applications dedicated to the observation and comprehension of the relief and physical landscape evolution at different temporal and spatial scales. The activities were based on the direct contact with the geological-geomorphological contexts. The presented proposals, some of which have been already tested on students of the secondary school of first level, concern: i) the realization of open-air laboratory activities in the alpine environment; in particular simplified dendrochronological procedures were used on scanned wood samples of trees located on deposits and landforms from different origin, to achieve a better comprehension of the modelling process and evolution during time of the physical landscape; ii) the analysis of the fluvial landforms and deposits in educational valued sites to highlight concepts of structural control on fluvial landscape and paleogeography; iii) the observation of sport-climbing walls and of the dependence of progression on the geological and geomorphological structures in order to approach lithotypes and glacial erosion landforms. The link with the concept of geomorphological hazard represented finally an occasion for education to risk. The educational activities herein illustrated represent pilot proposals where fieldwork demonstrated to be essential to fix geological and geomorphological concepts
ProGEO – The International Association for the Conservation of Geological Heritage e il ruolo dell’Italia nelle attività del Gruppo regionale dell’Europa Sudoccidentale.
No full textAn Assessment of Coordinate Rotation Methods in Sonic Anemometer Measurements of Turbulent Fluxes over Complex Mountainous Terrain
No full textThe measurement of turbulent fluxes in the atmospheric boundary layer is usually performed using fast anemometers and the Eddy Covariance technique. This method has been applied here and investigated in a complex mountainous terrain. A field campaign has recently been conducted at Alpe Veglia (the Central-Western Italian Alps, 1746 m a.s.l.) where both standard and micrometeorological data were collected. The measured values obtained from an ultrasonic anemometer were analysed using a filtering procedure and three different coordinate rotation procedures: Double (DR), Triple Rotation (TR) and Planar Fit (PF) on moving temporal windows of 30 and 60 min. A quality assessment was performed on the sensible heat and momentum fluxes and the results show that the measured turbulent fluxes at Alpe Veglia were of a medium-high quality level and rarely passed the stationary flow test. A comparison of the three coordinate procedures, using quality assessment and sensible heat flux standard deviations, revealed that DR and TR were comparable, with significant differences, mainly under low-wind conditions. The PF method failed to satisfy the physical requirement for the multiple planarity of the flow, due to the complexity of the mountainous terrain
Geomorphological mapping as enrichment of cultural heritage: multitemporal data collection of quarry dump deposits of the Apuan Alps
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Quantitative analysis of an accelerated glacial decline in the Gran Paradiso Group since the Little Ice Age (Western Italian Alps)
No full textAlpine glaciers are very sensitive to climate variations that modify their shape and size in response to changes in their mass balance. Here we present new data on recent glacier changes in the Gran Paradiso Group and we provide quantitative data documenting a glacial decline since the Little Ice Age accelerated during the last three decades. Through detailed geomorphological and glacial geological field surveys and photointerpretation, we reconstructed the Little Ice Age glacial limits; glacier limits were outlined from multitemporal aerial photographs. The collected dataset was organized in a dynamic glaciological database organized in GIS environment.
Based on annual glaciological surveys (conducted since the beginning of the 20th century by the Italian Glaciological Committee) we reconstructed time-distance curves since the end of the 19th centuries. The curves were validated also on the basis of multitemporal aerial photographs.
The results, useful to understand the loss of water resources stored in the Italian glaciers and to create model of their future behaviour, underlined the strong imbalance of the glaciers in the study area and highlighted the rapid increase in their reduction rate during the last years. These changes are leading to impressive change in glacier shapes and dimensions and lead to an increase of the geomorphological hazard, due to the creation of new ice-free area
The Mothers of Srebrenica Case before the European Court of Human Rights. United Nations Immunity versus Right of Access to a Court
No full textIn its 11 June 2013 decision in Stichting Mothers of Srebrenica and Others v. the
Netherlands, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) unanimously declared
the application inadmissible, ruling that the Dutch court’s grant of immunity to the
United Nations (UN) did not constitute a violation by The Netherlands of the applicants’
right of access to a court. The author provides a critical overview of the case,
situating it within the jurisprudence of the ECtHR and the International Court of
Justice concerning immunities. The author concludes that the ECtHR should have
applied the presumption of consistency with human rights obligations to the interpretation
of the immunity rules of the UN. This could have led the Court to require
the availability of alternative dispute-settlement mechanisms as a prerequisite for
immunity
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