Sustainable Water Management: Understanding the Socioeconomic and Cultural Dimensions

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(17), P. 13074 - 13074

Published: Aug. 30, 2023

With the pressing challenges of water scarcity and pollution, achieving sustainable management is imperative for promoting long-term development. Therefore, this paper aims to examine socio-economic cultural factors that shape sustainability strategies in Brazil Portugal. This study highlights various influence management, including robust legal frameworks, disparities, practices, agricultural usage, knowledge sharing, public participation, climate change resilience, risks, industrial consumption, urbanization. By conducting a SWOT analysis strategies, research synthesizes information through an extensive literature review, encompassing policies, implemented both countries. Additionally, it investigates comparative studies among Brazil, Portugal, other European nations facilitate exchange experiences practices. The findings offer valuable insights into strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats associated with thereby guiding development tailored policies foster resource management. role digital transformation optimizing integrating socio-economic, cultural, factors, contributes effective ensuring responsible utilization preservation resources.

Language: Английский

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Predictive modeling of land surface temperature (LST) based on Landsat-8 satellite data and machine learning models for sustainable development

Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 444, P. 141035 - 141035

Published: Feb. 8, 2024

Language: Английский

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Adaptive Water Resources Management Under Climate Change: An Introduction

Water Resources Management, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 37(6-7), P. 2221 - 2233

Published: May 1, 2023

Language: Английский

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Long-term restoration with organic amendments is clearer evidenced by soil organic matter composition than by changes in microbial taxonomy and functionality

Applied Soil Ecology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 198, P. 105383 - 105383

Published: March 23, 2024

Here, a degraded soil, located in semi-arid Mediterranean region, was characterized 17 years after organic amendment with sludge or compost (differing their stabilization degree) for restoration purposes. To do this, (i) soil physicochemical properties and plant cover, (ii) matter (SOM) content composition, (iii) basal respiration enzymatic activities, (iv) abundance, taxonomic functionality (shotgun metagenomics) of microbial communities were studied. Increased SOM nutrient contents found from amended plots respect to the control, no differences between types. This is explained by lasting effects amendments higher cover. Thermal pyrolytic analyses showed that process enriched mainly intermediate recalcitrance high chemical diversity. composition did not differ abundances activities plots, without sludge. Shotgun metagenomics changed functional terms unamended but these rather limited. The treatments driven increasing Actinobacteria decreasing Proteobacteria plots. Soil some adaptation increased predominant nutrients forms. This, together detected, conspicuous reported effectiveness studied confirmed here an integrative perspective.

Language: Английский

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Data-Driven Insights into Climate Change Effects on Groundwater Levels Using Machine Learning

Water Resources Management, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 27, 2025

Language: Английский

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Continuous Simulations for Predicting Green Roof Hydrologic Performance for Future Climate Scenarios

Hydrology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 12(2), P. 41 - 41

Published: Feb. 19, 2025

Urban green spaces, including roofs (GRs), are vital infrastructure for climate resilience, retaining water in city landscapes and supporting ecohydrological processes. Quantifying the hydrologic performance of GRs urban environment future scenarios is original contribution this research developed within URCA! project. For purpose, a continuous modelling approach undertaken to evaluate hydrological expressed by means runoff volume peak flow reduction at event scale long data series (at least 20 years). To investigate prediction climates, simple methodological proposed, using monthly projection factors definition rainfall temperature time series, transferring system parametrization current model one. The proposed tested experimental GR sites Genoa Rende, located Northern Southern Italy, respectively. Referring both Rende sites, simulation results analysed demonstrate how varies with respect characteristics, total depth, maximum intensity ADWP scenarios.

Language: Английский

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Projecting Depth-Duration-Frequency Curves for Future Climate: a Case Study in the Mediterranean Area

Water Resources Management, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 12, 2025

Language: Английский

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Climate adaptive urban measures in Mediterranean areas: Thermal effectiveness of an advanced multilayer green roof installed in Palermo (Italy)

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 243, P. 110731 - 110731

Published: Aug. 13, 2023

Several nature based and climate adaptive solutions have been proposed to improve cities resilience the effects of global warming restore natural processes in strongly anthropized areas. Green roofs are among most efficient address recurrent urban challenges, such as pluvial floods heat islands. Various benefits offered by green rather known, their capacity enhance buildings thermal insulation; also favor biodiversity, improving aesthetic value human well being. Multilayer (MGRs) with an additional layer that increases water storage capacity. Deep analyses on MGRs still lacking due recent development, few works literature prevalently focused stormwater retention primary function. This work explores function experimental MGR prototype installed Palermo (Italy), comparing its response local unaltered portion rooftop through analysis surface temperature time series collected over a two years monitoring period. Performances evaluated thought various daily indices, analyzing role stored into system. Results contribute raise awareness about arising from use semi-arid Mediterranean areas, confirming, main advantage, cooling effect, mean reduced 8.4% outdoor 5.8% indoor; performances particularly evident during hot dry summers typically characterize regions.

Language: Английский

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Drivers and barriers to the adoption of precision irrigation technologies in olive and cotton farming—Lessons from Messenia and Thessaly regions in Greece

Smart Agricultural Technology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 7, P. 100401 - 100401

Published: Jan. 9, 2024

Precision irrigation technologies have the ability to increase crop yields and productivity, optimize water use efficiency minimise environmental impact. Despite this, adoption of precision by farmers remains low slow. This research investigated behavioural factors that affect farmers' intention adopt in olive groves cotton production regions Messenia Thessaly Greece respectively. Data were collected through in-depth face-to-face interviews using an extensive questionnaire, involving a sample 82 farmer respondents. The findings reveal consciousness has most substantial impact on technologies. It is followed perceived economic benefits, control, compatibility, all which contribute significantly adopt. Furthermore, risk aversion, although displaying smaller effect, notable consideration analysis. These results offer valuable insights into technology agriculture bear implications for future strategies policy recommendations.

Language: Английский

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Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: The Role and Contribution of CREA (Italy) within the National Program RGV-FAO

Agronomy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(6), P. 1263 - 1263

Published: June 12, 2024

Conservation, characterization and exploitation of agrobiodiversity are key factors to guarantee food security face future challenges such as climate changes. These issues the subject a series international agreements, Convention Biological Diversity, with its Nagoya Protocol, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food Agriculture (ITPGRFA) adopted in 2001 entered into force 2004. Italy ratified 2004 instituted long-lasting program, RGV-FAO, implement it. CREA is one three organizations involved RGV-FAO Program, together National Research Council (CNR) Reti Semi Rurali. maintains total 40,186 accessions including cereals, vegetables, fruits, forages, industrial crops, forest woody medicinal aromatic plants, their wild relatives. Accessions conserved using different ex situ conservation systems (seeds, vivo vegetative organs vitro plantlets), characterized genetic, morpho-phenological and/or biochemical methods. Herein, we will present program some examples use plant genetic resources breeding programs, molecular approaches. Some critical related access benefit sharing PGRFA, Protocol Digital Sequence Information, be discussed, highlighting potential impact advancement knowledge.

Language: Английский

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