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This article examines the role that geo-engineering has taken on the political agenda. The relevance of these choices for the everyday life of people should prompt us to reflect on the dynamics of climate governance not only with respect to the various responsibilities, but also with attention to the distribution of the impacts of the damage caused by changes. Reflections and concerns that geography deals with in the debate on human-environment relationships. Relations also transformed by increased knowledge on Nature but, paradoxically, by increased uncertainty

Nell’articolo si esamina la relazione tra la finanza, la tecnologia e il cambiamento climatico con attenzione al ruolo che la geoingegneria ha assunto nell'agenda politica. L'importanza di queste scelte per la vita quotidiana delle persone dovrebbe spingerci a riflettere sulle dinamiche della governance climatica.

This study aims to address the issue of water scarcity taking into account different stakeholders’perspectives (public administration, water system operator and general population) and putting considerable weight on sustainability point-of-view.

Determining food web architecture and its seasonal cycles is a precondition for making predictions about Antarctic marine biodiversity under varying climate change scenarios. However, few scientific data concerning Antarctic food web structure, the species playing key roles in web stability and the community responses to changes in sea-ice dynamics are available. Based on C and N stable isotope analysis, we describe Antarctic benthic food webs and the diet of species occurring in shallow waters (Tethys Bay, Ross Sea) before and after seasonal sea-ice break-up.

Il piano di sviluppo dell’area Vassara-Sandviken di War in the Winter introduce una serie di principi progettuali che mirano a rendere il paesaggio urbano particolarmente adattabile alle inondazioni, alle rigide temperature del circolo polare artico, alle nevicate e agli squilibri ambientali indotti dal riscaldamento climatico.

Background: The impact of seasonal changes on the incidence of acute myocardial infarction has been incompletely appraised, especially in the modern era of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). We aimed to appraise the overall and season-specific impact of climate changes on the daily rate of PCCI. Methods: Details on PPCI and climate changes were retrospectively collected in three high-volume Italian institutions with different geographical features.

The province of Macerata, Italy, is a topographically complex region which has been little studied in terms of its temperature and precipitation climatology. Temperature data from 81 weather stations and precipitation data from 55 rain gauges were obtained, and, following quality control procedures, were investigated on the basis of 3 standard periods: 1931-1960, 1961-1990 and 1991-2014.

Extreme precipitation trends and events are fundamental for the definition of the region's climate and allow the subsequent analysis of the risk for the territory and the possible countermeasures. This study takes into account the Marche Region (Central Italy) with 128 rain gauges from 1921 to 2017. Initially, in order to obtain a rainfall overview, the dominant trend of the period 1921-2017 was evaluated. Initially, in order to obtain a rainfall overview, the dominant trend of the period 1921-2017 was evaluated.

Although shared consensus in the scientific community confirms the reality of climate change and the likelihood of its anthropogenic causes, denial of this phenomenon, its anthropogenic causes, and its consequences still is widespread. This denial consistently has been associated with conservative ideology and related individual differences at the psychological level, but little is known about the mechanisms that explain this relationship.

In recent years, mindfulness has been considered as a potential source of proenvironmental attitudes and behavior. Present research is aimed at consolidating and expanding previous knowledge by proposing that mindfulness is related to both proenvironmental behavior and belief in global climate change through social dominance orientation (SDO). A first study was conducted on undergraduate students (n = 279) and found, as expected, that trait mindfulness was related to proenvironmental behavior through SDO.