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Titan’s “Magic Islands”: Transient features in a hydrocarbon sea
(2016)The region of Titan's hydrocarbon sea, Ligeia Mare, where transient bright features were previously discovered, was anomalously bright in the first of two more recent Cassini RADAR observations but not the second. Another ... -
Wicked Problems: Resilience, Adaptation, and Complexity
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)This chapter draws together an overall understanding of the social‐natural‐technical policy frameworks within which emBRACE work can be considered. It explains some of the discursive background to the ideas coalesced within ... -
Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Indicators for Assessing Community Resilience to Natural Hazards
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)A major prerequisite for operationalising resilience is the existence of sound analytical frameworks. The emBRACE project addressed the research needs through the development of an analytical framework of community resilience, ... -
Managing Complex Systems: The Need to Structure Qualitative Data
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)This chapter empirically shows how rigorous and transparent methods can be used to both maintain the integrity of 'softer' data while including it in 'holistic' assessments. It also shows that 'messiness' can be resolved ... -
The role of risk perception and community networks in preparing for and responding to landslides: a Dolomite case study
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)This chapter presents results from the case study in the alpine community Badia (Italy) which was hit by an unusually large landslide in December 2012. The objective of the study was to understand the resilience of the ... -
Framing Community Disaster Resilience: resources, capacities, learning and action
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)Framing Community Disaster Resilience offers a guide to the theories, research and approaches for addressing the complexity of community resilience towards hazardous events or disasters. The text draws on the activities ... -
The Security Dimension of GMES: Network of Excellence GMOSS: A European Think Tank for EO Technologies in Support of Security Issues
(Springer, 2009)The European research landscape has evolved in the 7th framework programme (FWP) to reflect new challenges to human security both at the European and global levels. Today, European security research is designed to address ... -
Final Report: Lemonade project - Landslide monitoring and data integration
(Final report of the Euregio project, 2018)Natural hazards like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, droughts, floods, cyclones and fires threaten people and properties. These events can happen in any moment and need to be studied and monitored. In particular, ... -
Guidelines for climate change adaption at the local level in the Alps
(Italian presidency of the Alpine Convention, 2014)The Summary of the Guidelines presented here is the outcome of the work of the Task Force on Climate Change (CC) of the Italian Presidency of the Alpine Convention. The initiative launched during its mandate (2013-2014) ... -
Weiterentwicklung der Wirkungsketten als Grundlage für die DAS-Indikatorenentwicklung
(Umweltbundesamt, 2016)Um die Ursache-Wirkungsbeziehungen zwischen Klima und möglichen Klimawirkungen darzustellen, wurden im Rahmen des Vorhabens „Netzwerk Vulnerabilität“ in Zusammenarbeit mit den Netzwerkpartnern für 14 Handlungsfelder ... -
Beyond the Expected: Natural Hazards in the Alpine Region - Dealing with Cases of Overload and Residual Risk
(2018)Risk governance of natural hazards in the Alpine region is a sensitive and complex issue. In the context of residual risk and cases of overload, it becomes an even greater challenge. The question of how to provide sufficient ... -
Klimareport Südtirol
(EURAC research, 2011)Der 'Klimareport Südtirol' ist das Ergebnis einer dreijährigen Forschungsarbeit, die von Wissenschaftlern der EURAC-Institute für Angewandte Fernerkundung, Alpine Umwelt, Regionalentwicklung und Standortmanagement und ... -
Rapporto sul clima Alto Adige
(EURAC research, 2011)Il 'Rapporto sul clima' è il risultato di un lavoro di ricerca triennale al quale hanno contribuito i collaboratori scientifici di quattro Istituti dell’EURAC: l’Istituto per il Telerilevamento Applicato, l’Istituto per ... -
Risk & vulnerability to natural hazards: theoretical background and applied methods for the identification of the most endangered populations in two case studies at different scales
(VDM, Müller, 2008)Disasters are of major global concern and reducing disaster risk is an urgent priority for the humanitarian/development community worldwide. Nearly every country in the world is affected by natural hazards but natural ... -
Klimareport Südtirol 2018
(Eurac Research, 2018)Mehr als 20 Wissenschaftler von Eurac Research - Klimaforscher, Biologen, Soziologen und Ingenieure - haben über ein Jahr lang Daten gesammelt und ausgewertet. Dabei arbeiteten sie eng mit mehr als 30 Experten der öffentlichen ... -
Rapporto sul clima Alto Adige 2018
(Eurac Research, 2018)Oltre 20 studiosi di Eurac Research hanno raccolto e interpretato dati per oltre un anno e mezzo. Sono climatologi, biologi, sociologi, ingegneri e hanno collaborato con oltre 30 esperti del settore pubblico e di altre ... -
Sentinel-1 and Ground-Based Sensors for Continuous Monitoring of the Corvara Landslide (South Tyrol, Italy)
(2018)The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission provides synthetic aperture radar (SAR) acquisitions over large areas with high temporal and spatial resolution. This new generation of satellites providing open-data products has enhanced ... -
Drought Impact on Phenology and Green Biomass Production of Alpine Mountain Forest—Case Study of South Tyrol 2001–2012 Inspected with MODIS Time Series
(2018)Ecological balance and biodiversity of the alpine forest is endangered by global and local climatic extremes. It spurs a need for comprehensive forest monitoring, including in depth analyses of drought impact on the ... -
Uncertainty analysis of gross primary production upscaling using Random Forests, remote sensing and eddy covariance data
(2015)The accurate quantification of carbon fluxes at continental spatial scale is important for future policy decisions in the context of global climate change. However, many elements contribute to the uncertainty of such ... -
On the relationship between ecosystem-scale hyperspectral reflectance and CO2 exchange in European mountain grasslands
(2015)In this paper we explore the skill of hyperspectral reflectance measurements and vegetation indices (VIs) derived from these in estimating carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes of grasslands. Hyperspectral reflectance data, CO2 ...
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