Antonella Dimotta

• Engineer | Ph.D. - Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Co-Director | Researcher at Earth- & Eco- Systems Expertise for Environmental Modeling & Restoration - EESEEMR

The ever growing and urgent need to be able to recognize and manage-in the best possible way-such a global imbalance in terms of management of natural resources, of environmental changes affecting globally the Earth planet (climate change, pollution by greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions, toxic compounds, excessive consumption of fossil fuels, altera...

The ever growing and urgent need to be able to tackle and manage the well-known negative impacts of the so-colled black pollution-generated by End-of-Life Tyres (ELTs)-, has triggered virtuous and interesting mechanisms aimed at minimizing the abovementioned pollution and further effects by focusing on the End-of-Life Tyres management and applicati...

Focusing on the H2 production for mitigating the negative and dangerous effects and impacts triggered by industrial processes, transport sector and other several scopes around the globe, at different scales, could have a great resonance from different domains, such as environment, economy, global health and social. Since energy is one of the main f...

To date the management of digestate is a crucial task for anaerobic digestion process. In the present work a strategy for digestate management is thermodynamically analyzed by a commercial software for process simulation called CHEMCAD®. Pyrolysis of digestate is simulated by a minimization of the free Gibbs energy. The sequestration of the carbon...

The ever growing and urgent need to be able to tackle and manage the well-known negative impacts of the so-colled black pollution-generated by End-of-Life Tyres (ELTs)-, has triggered virtuous and interesting mechanisms aimed at minimizing the abovementioned pollution and further effects by focusing on the End-of-Life Tyres management and applicati...

The study aimed to evaluate the effects of linseed and oregano supplementation to the diet of goats on fatty acid profile and sensory properties of Padraccio, a typical cheese produced during spring through summer in the Basilicata region (southern Italy). Extruded lin-seed and dried oregano inflorescences were integrated in the pelleted concentrat...

Abstract - Understanding what the main relationships are, defining and regulating the huge scope regarding climate change and human health is the first step enable to individuate the most prominent causes and the related effects of several cancer cases affecting the population around the world. The goal of the present study consists of the observat...

The present paragraph - belonging to Antonella Dimotta's PhD Thesis (defended in February, 2019) - is intended to show a concise comparison between soil erosion impacts and results (obtained through the USPED method application) and soil conumption evaluations - taken from the Italian Institute for the Protection and Environmental Research (ISPRA)...

The present chapter (chapter VIII) belongs to the PhD Thesis entitled << SOIL EROSION INTERDISCIPLINARY OVERVIEW: Modelling approaches, Ecosystem Services Assessment and Soil Quality Restoration. Applications and analyses in the Basilicata region (Italy) >> discussed in February 2019. Such chapter deals with the need for assessing the compost as a...

Such research activity (Antonella Dimotta's PhD Thesis) was aimed at studying soil erosion and focusing on the direct and indirect impacts starting from an analysis at a global scale until to downscaling to assess causes and effects by soil erosion. Several and serious global issues caused by soil erosion (environmental, geological and socio-econ...

This paper presents a review of the most relevant methods used in order to assess the on-and off-site ecological and economic impacts of soil loss by soil erosion process from published studies worldwide from the 1930s to the 2010s. Based on the review, I distinguish between the most important methods used for on-and off-site impacts, by focusing o...

This work provides a critical review of the main global assessment methods to assess the on-and off-site impacts of soil loss by soil erosion, presented into a global climate framework. The review provides a summarized global overview of the most relevant soil erosion models (SEMs) and modelling approaches from 1936 to 2016 according to six model t...

Evaluating the impact and the incidence of the erosive phenomenon affecting the Basilicata region in 2012 - in particular, the agricultural areas used for the arable lands cultivation -, is an important goal aimed at correlating the erosion process – evaluated through the USPED method application (2012) - with the main characteristics related to so...

This paper concerns the trends assessment of the productivity values and croplands values of specific crops (cereals (arable cereals land), vineyards, olive-growing lands) in the Basilicata region at regional scale, from 1980 to 2013, in relation to the soil loss evaluated through the USPED method. The comparative analysis shows the interrelations...