University of Brescia - Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics
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Risk Perception and Community Networks for Community Resilience
This article looks at the role that perception, local knowledge, and social networks play in community resilience in the alpine community of Badia, which experienced a large landslide in 2012.
Framing Community Disaster Resilience: Resources, Capacities, Learning, and Action
Framing Community Disaster Resilience (textbook) offers a guide to the theories, research and approaches for addressing the complexity of community resilience towards hazardous events or disasters.
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center and a think tank, focused on fostering a better understanding of sustainable development and providing timely and obj
Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)
The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change is a non-profit research institution established in 2005, with the financial support of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.
emBRACE Flyover South Tyrol
Check out this Google Earth Flyover video for the emBRACE case study South Tyrol, Italy.
Alpine Hazards in South Tyrol in Italy
This case study is part of the emBRACE project. In an interdisciplinary, socially inclusive and collaborative context, emBRACE aims to improve the framing of resilience in the context of...
Methods for Community Resilience
The paper links inter- and trans-disciplinary methodologies to map stakeholders’ knowledge and combine this with the best available data for disaster resilience planning.
Bologna Local Urban Environment Adaptation Plan for a Resilient City (BLUE AP)
The City of Bologna covers an area of approximately 14 hectares, has a population of about 380,000 inhabitants, and is a strategic hub of the national road and rail...
E-VitiClimate
The Lifelong learning project E-VitiClimate aims to address the challenges that climate change poses for European wine producers.Changes in temperature and rainfall are already...
Mobile Monitoring System
The...
ENPI CBC MED
The multilateral cross-border cooperation "Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme" is part of the new European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and of its financing instrument (European Neighbourhood and Part
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
REEEP is a market catalyst for renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries and emerging markets.
Review of perceived policy needs
Adaptation to climate change is a new challenge for existing institutions and decision-making processes. In order to assess what form this challenge takes for decision-makers, we...
Viticulture
This project will try to explore the best adaptation options and strategies for Tuscan viticulture given its particularities, constraints, weaknesses and strengths, in a climate change...
STAR-AgroEnergy
Funded under the EU FP7 Research Potential theme (Unlocking the potentials of the EU's Convergence regions and Outermost regions) the University of Foggia will target its research towards Agro-...
Institute of Biometeorology (National Research Council)
The Institute of Biometeorology (IBIMET) of the National Research Council (CNR), Italy, is engaged in a wide spectrum of research activities in basic and applied meteorology, climatology, ecosystem
Università del Salento
The Università del Salento was established in 1955. It presently includes 703 faculty members, a total of 519 employees in the technical and administrative personnel and 27.000 students.
Case studies analytical scope
This page is part of the Mediation Adaptation Pathfinder and documents case studies of some of the adaptation tools and appraoches featured in the Mediation project.
Summary methods to identifying climate vulnerability and exposure
I: Focus on key hazards or opportunities through a livelihood-exposure sensitivity matrix
A livelihood sensitivity matrix provides a starting point for determining which livelihoods are...
Macedonia
This report was written to form part of an Environment and Climate Change Policy Brief for Macedonia written by Sida's Environmental Economics helpdesk at the University of Gothenburg. These...
Adaptation tools, Case study: SMCE/NAIADE, Water Sector, Troina, Italy
NAIADE is a multi-criteria analysis tool applied within a broader social multi-criteria evaluation (SMCE) method that combines quantitative and qualitative...
Mediation
Assessment of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation requires a combination of generic and context-specific knowledge. Currently, the availability of such knowledge in Europe is...
