Search Results - "Attilio Toscano"
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Smart Water Management Platform: IoT-Based Precision Irrigation for Agriculture
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) (11-01-2019)“…The smart management of freshwater for precision irrigation in agriculture is essential for increasing crop yield and decreasing costs, while contributing to…”
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A GIS-Based Model to Assess the Potential of Wastewater Treatment Plants for Enhancing Bioenergy Production within the Context of the Water–Energy Nexus
Published in Energies (Basel) (01-05-2021)“…The necessity of developing renewable energy sources has contributed to increasing interest in developing the anaerobic digestion for producing biomethane…”
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Diffuse Water Pollution from Agriculture: A Review of Nature-Based Solutions for Nitrogen Removal and Recovery
Published in Water (Basel) (01-07-2021)“…The implementation of nature-based solutions (NBSs) can be a suitable and sustainable approach to coping with environmental issues related to diffuse water…”
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A novel smart fertigation system for irrigation with treated wastewater: Effects on nutrient recovery, crop and soil
Published in Agricultural water management (31-05-2024)“…Both southern and northern regions of Italy are experiencing reduced precipitation and increased heat waves due to climate change, negatively affecting…”
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Exploring the Adoption of Precision Agriculture for Irrigation in the Context of Agriculture 4.0: The Key Role of Internet of Things
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) (11-12-2020)“…In recent years, the concept of Agriculture 4.0 has emerged as an evolution of precision agriculture (PA) through the diffusion of the Internet of things…”
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Occurrence, diversity, and persistence of antibiotic resistant enterococci in full-scale constructed wetlands treating urban wastewater in Sicily
Published in Bioresource technology (01-02-2019)“…[Display omitted] •Constructed wetlands showed low efficiency in removing enterococci.•E. faecium was the dominant species in the UWTP system.•High prevalence…”
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Anaerobic co-digestion of multiple agricultural residues to enhance biogas production in southern Italy
Published in Waste management (Elmsford) (01-08-2018)“…•Citrus pulp and olive pomace are beneficial for biogas production.•Anaerobic digestion is a suitable technology to manage agricultural wastes in Sicily.•The…”
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Removal and fate of pesticides in a farm constructed wetland for agricultural drainage water treatment under Mediterranean conditions (Italy)
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international (01-01-2022)“…A non-waterproofed surface flow constructed wetland (SFCW), treating agricultural drainage water in Northern Italy, was investigated to gain information on the…”
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Comparison of simple models for total nitrogen removal from agricultural runoff in FWS wetlands
Published in Water science and technology (01-06-2022)“…Free water surface (FWS) wetlands can be used to treat agricultural runoff, thereby reducing diffuse pollution. However, as these are highly dynamic systems,…”
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SARS-CoV-2 from Urban to Rural Water Environment: Occurrence, Persistence, Fate, and Influence on Agriculture Irrigation. A Review
Published in Water (Basel) (01-03-2021)“…The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), originating from China, has rapidly crossed borders, infecting people worldwide. While its transmission may occur…”
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Comparing the use of ERA5 reanalysis dataset and ground-based agrometeorological data under different climates and topography in Italy
Published in Journal of hydrology. Regional studies (01-08-2022)“…The study region is represented by seven irrigation districts distributed under different climate and topography conditions in Italy. This study explores the…”
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The Long-Term Effects of Land Use and Climate Changes on the Hydro-Morphology of the Reno River Catchment (Northern Italy)
Published in Water (Basel) (01-09-2019)“…Anthropogenic activities, and in particular land use/land cover (LULC) changes, have a considerable effect on rivers’ flow rates and their morphologies. A…”
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Evapotranspiration from Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands Planted with Different Perennial Plant Species
Published in Water (Basel) (01-10-2019)“…This paper presents the results of an experiment carried out in Southern Italy (Sicily) on the estimation evapotranspiration (ET) in pilot constructed wetlands…”
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Evaluation of Sediment Deposition in a Mediterranean Reservoir: Comparison of Long Term Bathymetric Measurements and SWAT Estimations
Published in Land degradation & development (01-02-2017)“…This study aims to demonstrate that the SWAT model can be used to predict discharge and sediment yield values in reservoir contributing catchments helping also…”
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Long-Term Monitoring of a Surface Flow Constructed Wetland Treating Agricultural Drainage Water in Northern Italy
Published in Water (Basel) (01-05-2018)“…Agricultural drainage water that has seeped into tile drainage systems can cause nitrogen and phosphorus pollution of the surface water bodies. Constructed…”
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Hydro-Morphological Assessment of Dittaino River, Eastern Sicily, Italy
Published in Water (Basel) (01-09-2021)“…The present conditions of the Dittaino River were investigated by using tools addressing different components of the IDRAIM (stream hydro-morphological…”
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Exploring the performances of a new integrated approach of grey, green and blue infrastructures for combined sewer overflows remediation in high-density urban areas
Published in Journal of agricultural engineering (Pisa, Italy) (19-12-2018)“…Most sewage collection systems designed between 19th and early to mid-20th century use single-pipe systems that collect both sewage and urban runoff from…”
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A Multi-disciplinary Modelling Approach for Discharge Reconstruction in Irrigation Canals: The Canale Emiliano Romagnolo (Northern Italy) Case Study
Published in Revija za socijalnu politiku (01-08-2018)“…Agriculture is the biggest consumer of water in the world, and therefore, in order to mitigate the effects of climate change, and consequently water scarcity,…”
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Soil Water Balance Model CRITERIA-1D in SWAMP Project: Proof of Concept
Published in Proceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT (01-11-2018)“…The aim of this work is to present the first results obtained by means of the new validation of the water balance and crop development model CRITERIA-1D,…”
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Potential of constructed wetland treatment systems for agricultural wastewater reuse under the EU framework
Published in Journal of environmental management (01-12-2020)“…One of the solutions for the problems regarding increasing water scarcity and pollution of water resources can be wastewater reuse. Constructed wetlands (CWs)…”
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