The Institute for BioEconomy – IBE – was born on June 1, 2019 from the merger of Biometeorology Institute (IBIMET) and Trees and Timber Institute (IVALSA), which over the years have developed and complementarity in the strategic sector of the bioeconomy. This discipline, including the activities that use the bio-renewable resources of the terrestrial biosphere to produce food, materials and energy, therefore includes the comparison of primary production (agriculture, forests, fishing), as well as the industrial sectors of use and transformation of resources, the agri-food sector, the wood sector, part of the chemical industry, biotechnology and industry. Environmental sustainability strategies and the use of resources, the reduction of impacts, the strengthening of resilience and the support to mitigation are included in this theme, which therefore has a strong interdisciplinary value. A bioeconomy worthy of this name and location in this historical moment of change cannot be separated from the knowledge of the factors that regulate the function and survival of man-made systems, therefore from meteorology, climatology and oceanography, which belong to members of the Institute .
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Work in progress” at the Ponte Vecchio in Florence
The preparatory works for the restoration of Ponte Vecchio have begun, one of the symbols of Florence and the world; it is an unprecedented construction site because never in its centenary history has the bridge been the subject of a conservative restoration. The investigations are carried out by a specially set up floating platform on …
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The Second Edition of the International Advanced School in Agricultural Meteorology
The Second Edition of the International Advanced School in Agricultural Meteorology, “Agricultural Meteorology for a Sustainable Water Management in Agroecosystems” will take place from 5 to 9 September 2022. The 2022 edition, co-organized with WMO and technical support of FAO, with the collaboration CREA-Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy, CNR-IBE, and other national and …
Wood in Sport Equipment – Heritage, present, perspective: a new book on wood in sports have been published
The book on wood in sports has been published, edited by Francesco Negro of the University of Turin. The book is the result of the project “Wood in Sport Equipment – Heritage, present, perspective” funded in 2021 by the World Wood Day Foundation – www.worldwoodday.org. port plays an important role in human culture. Wood has …