Ricerc@Sapienza

Many scholars have focused on how the concepts of vulnerability and resilience may be employed in the analysis of sustainability. Different approaches have been proposed, concerning different fields of application (from environmental to financial settings). While much of the existing literature on vulnerability and resilience is sector-specific, we propose a more holistic approach that allows the sustainability of human well-being to be analyzed as a whole. In particular we apply those concepts to BES (Benessere, Equo e Sostenibile) framework, where 12 domains are included.

In this study a seismic risk analysis of masonry buildings based on damage data of L’Aquila 2009 earthquake is presented. Typological loss curves and Expected Annualized Losses (EAL) values are presented, starting from the data collected into AeDES forms available in the Da.D.O. database. A completion is proposed for improving the sample statistical significance, and correctly including undamaged and not surveyed buildings that suffered low shaking values.

Although several studies have been performed in rodents, non-human primates and humans, the biological basis of vulnerability to develop cocaine addiction remains largely unknown. Exposure to critical early events (as Repeated Cross Fostering (RCF)) has been reported to increase sensitivity to cocaine effects in adult C57BL/6J female mice. Using a microarray approach, here we report data showing a strong engagement of X-linked lymphocyte-regulated 4a and 4b (Xlr4) genes in cocaine effects.

Once again Italy has become the testing grounds for processes and experiences that have become global. The coronavirus has given rise to a completely novel phenomenon, which is not just a political or economic event in itself, but a pandemic whose ferocity and rapid transmission requires extraordinary measures. Italy has become the avant-garde of the West, the first to be fully implicated after the initial outbreak in China. Italy is the “laboratory” of the West.

Being in common at a distance is the practice that makes it possible to invent new words, new positions, new horizons. It instills something that is already occurring. But it is a practice which requires much patience.

Dans cet article, je propose quelques brèves considérations en marge du chef-d’œuvre de Michel Foucault, Surveiller et punir.

In her recent Etica e politica dell’ordinario (2015), Sandra Laugier has developed an interesting reconceptualization of ethics as connected to the ordinary dimensions of our lives, understood mainly in terms of ordinary language. The paper aims at showing the richness of such a proposal, mostly in relation to the transformation it offers of the well known paradigm of care ethics. A few critical remarks are offered in the conclusion.

As rates of global warming increase rapidly, identifying species at risk of decline dueto climate impacts and the factors affecting this risk have become key challenges inecology and conservation biology. Here, we present a framework for assessing threecomponents of climate-related risk for species: vulnerability, exposure and hazard.We used the relationship between the observed response of species to climatechange and a set of intrinsic traits (e.g. weaning age) and extrinsic factors (e.g.

Although it is widely accepted that future climatic change-if unabated-is likely to have major impacts on biodiversity(1,2), few studies have attempted to quantify the number of species whose populations have already been impacted by climate change(3,4). Using a systematic review of published literature, we identified mammals and birds for which there is evidence that they have already been impacted by climate change.

Aim: Human activities have led to hundreds of species extinctions and have narrowed the distribution of many of the remaining species. These changes influence our understanding of global macroecological patterns, but their effects have been rarely explored. One of these patterns, the Bergmann's rule, has been largely investigated in macroecology, but often under the assumption that observed patterns reflect “natural” processes.