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Renderings. STOÀ, Strumenti per l'insegnamento della progettazione architettonica
No full textA thorough examination of the effects of architectural renderings in the context of didactics and pedagogy for architectural design has not been systematically conducted so far. This is perhaps due to the short time since this tool has become commonplace in the academic setting. Although the critical scope of architectural renderings has not yet been fully grasped, the composition of images using digital graphics has been too quickly relegated – at least in the context of European teaching practices – as one of the causes of a particular degeneration of a certain know-how, and therefore of a loss of architectural knowledge. Renderings stand accused of being tools that are primarily aimed at the production of images that satisfy only at a superficial and retinal level. The collected essays outline – through the investigation of some current teaching practices and pedagogical experiences – the potentialities and critical points of this instrument, reflecting on how renderings can perform as signifiers
Stato e prospettive della ricerca nel settore idraulica agraria e sistemazioni idraulico-forestali
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Climate change risk and farmers' behavior: Testing main driving factors from social learning in northern Italy
No full textBecause climate change is both a physical and social phenomenon, personal experience has been considered the first step to entail how individuals perceive climate change risk and which actions can be promoted to reduce their vulnerability. Considering that agriculture is affected by climate change in several ways, farmers can provide first-hand observations of climate change impacts and suggest better adaptation options. However, modeling farmers’ behavior is a non-trivial task: personal experience is well recognized as a complex non-linear, multi-variate process due to the high heterogeneity and uncertainties in human cognition and decision-making processes. Furthermore, individual understandings of climate change are always contextualized within broader considerations, meaning that farmers are not ‘blank slates’ receiving information about climate change, but that information is always and inevitably filtered through values and worldviews. Despite the burgeoning of research on climate change, information about farmers’ awareness and risk perception is not geographically homogenized and varies substantially among countries and regions. For example, studies from Global North regions are scarce and emphasize how farmers characterize themselves rather than how they perceive and react to climate change. Drawing on farmers’ surveys in the Lombardy region (Italy), we provide an empirical study to pre-test the triple-loop analysis of farmers’ behavior regarding climate change: awareness, perceived impacts, and adaptation measures and barriers. Applying descriptive statistics and considering socio-economic data and farm characteristics, we address two main research questions: 1) What are farmers’ perceptions of climatic impacts and which responses do they promote? 2) How do personal experience and attitude change is conditioning farmers’ adaptation capacity? Obtained results from accurate bottom-up knowledge on farmers’ behavior may increase policy-makers’ and managers’ understanding of climate change and re-think local policies, which is essential to address agricultural risks in climate change hotspots
Combining farmers and irrigation consortia’s perspectives on climate change to reduce risk aversion and reinforce policy making at the regional scale
No full textThe physical dimension of climate change tends to be addressed by accurate statistics and modeling. However, it remains challenging to delve into its social dimension because climate change is generally perceived abstractly, being difficult to discern changes as they occur. Furthermore, climate change observations are spaced over time, and individual and collective memory of past events can be faulty or uncertain, distinguishing between knowing facts (semantic) versus reliving events or experiences (episodic). Over the past decades social and behavioral sciences have investigated the influence of the personal experience of climate change to understand how it affects adaptive capacity, that is, the ability to moderate impacts and cope with their consequences. As farmers develop their activity supporting the complexity of interrelated nature and human systems characterized by biophysical conditions and socioeconomic transformations, they are in a favorable position to provide first-hand observations of climate change manifestation, relevance, effects, and to indicate possible actions. Extensive research has been carried out to deepen farmers’ awareness, perceived impacts, and associated adaptive capacity. However, less attention was paid to irrigation consortia’s experiences, even their relevance in water and farming systems management and climate change adaptation policy. This proposal follows a triple focus on climate change awareness, perceived impacts, and adaptation measures and barriers, combining farmers and irrigation consortia portfolios. We surveyed 460 farmers and 13 consortia in northern Italy to compare both narratives while clustering their profiles, identifying common patterns and driving factors influencing adaptive capacity, and testing local and regional adaptation policies. A better understanding of farmers’ and consortia’s perspectives is indeed fundamental to reinforcing policy making and promoting accurate actions as it allows (i) focusing on the specific behaviors to be changed, (ii) examining the driving factors motivating those behaviors, (iii) defining and applying different interventions, and (iv) systematically evaluating the effects of these interventions on the resulting behaviors
Identification and Analysis of Natural Channel Networks from Digital Elevation Models, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
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