Search Results - "Viviano, Gaetano"
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Urbanization and climate change impacts on surface water quality: Enhancing the resilience by reducing impervious surfaces
Published in Water research (Oxford) (01-11-2018)“…Climate change and urbanization are key factors affecting the future of water quality in urbanized catchments. The work reported in this paper is an evaluation…”
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Surrogate measures for providing high frequency estimates of total phosphorus concentrations in urban watersheds
Published in Water research (Oxford) (01-11-2014)“…Until robust in situ sensors for total phosphorus (TP) are developed, continuous water quality measurements have the potential to be used as surrogates for…”
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Multiple Carrying Capacities from a management-oriented perspective to operationalize sustainable tourism in protected areas
Published in Journal of environmental management (15-10-2013)“…This article describes how the concept of Tourism Carrying Capacity (TCC) has shifted from a uni-dimensional approach to incorporating environmental, social…”
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Glacial lake distribution in the Mount Everest region: Uncertainty of measurement and conditions of formation
Published in Global and planetary change (01-07-2012)“…This study provides a complete mapping (October 2008) of glacial lakes and debris-covered glaciers in the Mount Everest region. These types of analyses are…”
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Glacier melting and precipitation trends detected by surface area changes in Himalayan ponds
Published in The cryosphere (11-07-2016)“…Climatic time series for high-elevation Himalayan regions are decidedly scarce. Although glacier shrinkage is now sufficiently well described, the changes in…”
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High alpine ponds shift upwards as average temperatures increase: A case study of the Ortles–Cevedale mountain group (Southern Alps, Italy) over the last 50years
Published in Global and planetary change (01-09-2014)“…Alpine ecosystems are especially vulnerable to climate change, and lakes and ponds act as early indicators. Here, we describe our findings for the…”
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Solid Waste and Water Quality Management Models for Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal: Implementation of a Participatory Modeling Framework
Published in Mountain research and development (01-05-2010)“…The problem of supporting decision- and policy-makers in managing issues related to solid waste and water quality was addressed within the context of a…”
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Experience With a Hard and Soft Participatory Modeling Framework for Social-ecological System Management in Mount Everest (Nepal) and K2 (Pakistan) Protected Areas
Published in Mountain research and development (01-05-2010)“…High mountains have sensitive social-ecological systems (SESs) characterized by fragility, complexity, and marginality. The local economies of these…”
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Energy, Forest, and Indoor Air Pollution Models for Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal: Implementation of a Participatory Modeling Framework
Published in Mountain research and development (01-05-2010)“…This paper presents the results of management-oriented research on energy, forest, and human health issues in a remote mountain area, the Sagarmatha National…”
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Occurrence and sources of perfluoroalkyl acids in Italian river basins
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (01-06-2015)“…[Display omitted] •PFAA concentrations and loads of the main Italian river basins, 40% of Italian area.•Total concentrations of PFAA ranged from<LOD to…”
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Organic persistent toxic substances in soils, waters and sediments along an altitudinal gradient at Mt. Sagarmatha, Himalayas, Nepal
Published in Environmental pollution (1987) (01-10-2011)“…Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are important classes of compounds of serious environmental concern. These…”
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Future hydrological regimes and glacier cover in the Everest region: The case study of the upper Dudh Koshi basin
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-09-2016)“…Assessment of future water resources under climate change is required in the Himalayas, where hydrological cycle is poorly studied and little understood. This…”
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Phosphorus content in a deep river sediment core as a tracer of long-term (1962–2011) anthropogenic impacts: A lesson from the Milan metropolitan area
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-01-2019)“…Reconstructions of past fluvial contamination through the analysis of deep sediment cores are rarely reported in literature. We examined the phosphorus…”
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Soil properties and trace elements distribution along an altitudinal gradient on the southern slope of Mt. Everest, Nepal
Published in Catena (Giessen) (01-03-2018)“…The absence of significant local inputs of pollution makes remote mountain ecosystems suitable to assess the atmospheric deposition of contaminants, such as…”
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Mechanisms linking active rock glaciers and impounded surface water formation in high‐mountain areas
Published in Earth surface processes and landforms (01-02-2018)“…Rock glaciers are slowly flowing mixtures of debris and ice occurring in mountains. They can represent a reservoir of water, and melting ice inside them can…”
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Chemical characterization of biomass fuel particulate deposits and ashes in households of Mt. Everest region (NEPAL)
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-12-2016)“…During a sampling campaign, carried out during June 2012, inside some traditional households located in four villages (Phakding, Namche, Pangboche and Tukla)…”
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Total phosphorus reference condition for subalpine lakes: A comparison among traditional methods and a new process-based watershed approach
Published in Journal of environmental management (01-12-2014)“…Different methods for estimating the total phosphorus (TP) reference conditions of lakes have rarely been compared. This work tests the uncertainty and…”
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Coupling high-resolution measurements to a three-dimensional lake model to assess the spatial and temporal dynamics of the cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens in a medium-sized lake
Published in Hydrobiologia (01-11-2012)“…In a medium-sized pre-alpine lake (North Italy) the cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens has strongly dominated the phytoplankton assemblage since 2000,…”
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Solid Waste and Water Quality Management Models for Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal
Published in Mountain research and development (01-05-2010)“…The problem of supporting decision- and policy-makers in managing issues related to solid waste and water quality was addressed within the context of a…”
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