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IX International Symposium “The Mediterranean Coastal Monitoring: Problems and Measurement Techniques”

The Institute for Bioeconomy of the National Research Council (CNR-IBE) in collaboration with the Foundation for Climate and Sustainability organizes the International SymposiumThe Mediterranean Coastal Monitoring: Problems and Measurement Techniques” to be held in Livorno in the second half of June 2022 at theNatural History Museum of the Mediterranean.
The event, now in its ninth edition, is addressed, every two years, to all scholars of the coastal areas of the coastal towns. In particular, as in previous editions, it is proposed as a place to make known the research work carried out in recent years on the theme of Mediterranean monitoring, and therefore an opportunity to present new proposals and promote actions in favor of the protection of marine and coastal environment.

The Symposium will focus on the discussion of issues related to the coastal areas of the Mediterranean and the search for technical and instrumental solutions to problems relating to energy production in the coastal area, to the morphology and evolution of the coastline, to the flora and fauna of the coastal system. , the legal and economic aspects, the management of integrated coastal protection, the geography and architecture of the coastal strip, the safeguarding and protection of cultural heritage.
The event will be divided into the following sessions:

  • FLORA AND FAUNA OF THE LITORAL SYSTEM: DYNAMICS AND PROTECTION
  • MORPHOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF COASTALS AND ITS BOTTOMS
  • COASTAL ENVIRONMENT ENGINEERING: POLLUTION, ENERGY PRODUCTION, ECONOMIC-ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND EVALUATION, REGULATORY CONTEXT
  • COASTAL AND UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE
  • GEOGRAPHY AND LANDSCAPE OF THE COASTAL STRIP: DYNAMICS OF THE TERRITORY AND INTEGRATED PROTECTION

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The Reuters Hot List: Dr. Marco Moriondo IBE on the top list of the 1000 world scientists on climate change

Reuters, one of the largest and most famous news agencies in the world, has released the list of the 1000 most important and influential climate scientists decisive for the “challenge to global warming”.
This list sees a majority presence of the best European minds within which we find as many as 20 Italian excellences. Ibe is proud of its presence within these excellences thanks to the studies and work carried out by Dr. Marco Moriondo.

the Republica newspaper pays tribute to all of them with a nice article published on their web page.

“Above all, Europe is leading with hundreds of brilliant minds the difficult fight against the greatest challenge of our times and of the future, the one against the advancing climate crisis. A Europe in which there is also a great recognition for Italy, which has about twenty “influential” scientists among the first thousand in the world, among which Massimo Tavoni is in first place among those who work and do research in Italy. Tavoni, professor of Climate Change Economics at the Politecnico di Milano, director of EIEE (RFF-CMCC) European Institute on Economics and the Environment and signature of Green & Blue with the column “A country under the microscope”. [continue reading on the Republica webpage…..]

Read the article in full format of
The Reuters Hot List
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Share the beans: a Citizen Science experiment

Science is not limited to scientists. Everyone can be involved.
Public participation in scientific research is becoming increasingly crucial to increasing everyone’s understanding of science and its benefits to society. More importantly, it advances scientific research itself. … And, likewise, plays a crucial role in INCREASE. Here, we study all the beans! The Citizen Science Experiment, conducted as part of the project, invites all interested citizens to voluntarily contribute and test an innovative decentralized approach to the conservation, multiplication and sharing of seeds in order to preserve agro-biodiversity.
All you need is a field, garden, terrace or balcony.

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BIKE&SOCIETY

Starting from this month, a cycle of seminars will begin consisting of 11 meetings which will end next January 2022. During this cycle, promoted by CNR IRPPS, CNR IBE, Department of Social Sciences of the University of Naples, the University of Turin , Siena, Padua and the FIAB Research Center, the new season that THE BICYCLE is going through will be taken into consideration. On 22 p.v. the first meeting entitled “Road users, fluid and conflicting identities” will be held starting from 4 pm until 6 pm and it will be possible to follow it through the appropriate Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/events/ 445013193620389 / or by registering for free on Everbrite at the web address https://bit.ly/2PUIZuH“The need for an ecological transition towards less polluting transport models, the growing awareness of the importance of intervening to make our cities more liveable, the policy of incentives towards two-wheelers are opening, in the scenario of the pandemic, unprecedented perspectives of transformation in the models of mobility that tend to favor cycling. “

learn more by downloading the entire program of the event