Research sectors
LAND MANAGEMENTThe management of land physical and natural ecosystem resources requires the application of suitable monitoring and control methodologies to detect and provide, through specific measurements of environmental parameters and factors, information on the status, phenomena and dynamics. Land dynamics can be due either to processes caused by humans, such as crops, irrigation, deforestation and other environmental impacts, or natural phenomena, i.e., fires, erosion, landslides, floods, coastline alterations, etc.. |
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CLIMATOLOGY AND BIOMETEOBiometeorology is a discipline directed towards the studies and the applied research on interactions between environmental parameters and biological organisms, in terms of analyses of population dynamics. A specific sector deals with parametrisation of human comfort conditions in indoor as well in outdoor environments and in relationship with person standard characteristics (weight, height, etc.), but also, individual characteristics and the activities one is carrying on. |
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AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTIn order to investigate the physiological mechanisms regulating the response to stress, and also the adaptation to climate change, the interactions between meteorological/climate factors and vegetation (agricultural and natural ecosystems) need to be studied at different scales. |
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RURAL DEVELOPMENTThe role of rural areas in food and non-food production has changed dramatically: agriculture is increasingly considered as a multifunctional and diversified activity that can assume different functions, for example, in environmental protection, landscape maintenance, preservation of cultural traditions, tourist hospitality and, more recently, also in supporting social activities. The research activities on the exploitation and development of food and non-food supply chains follow rural development strategies for the integration of agriculture with other sectors. |
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