Elena Rapisardi

Italian National Research Council | CNR · Bioeconomy

Drought is a complex phenomenon with multifactorial impacts, requiring a multiscale approach for effective understanding and management. This study presents an innovative operational frame-work, "Drought Scan," designed to deepen drought understanding, improve monitoring, and streamline climate services to support effective adaptation and mitigatio...

Il presente documento descrive l’infrastruttura informativa spaziale del Drought Observatory (DO) IBE-CNR, il suo modello dati, i servizi rilasciati, le procedure di calcolo implementate. Il documento illustra gli aspetti complessivi della struttura del DO senza approfondire quelli riguardanti il Modello Dati implementato e il Riferimento Operativo...

Distance learning is assuming a greater value in professional training both because of its lower cost compared to face-to-face learning and for the opportunities it provides in periods when trainee displacement is hindered by socio-political or health emergencies (e.g. the recent covid-19 pandemic). Moreover, distance learning allows us to create l...

This presentation was offered by Vieri Tarchiani at the 2021 Annual Conference of the European Meteorological Society. The presentation highlights the lessont learnt in the co-development of the Flood Early Warning System on the Sirba River (SLAPIS) in Niger, whithin the ANADIA 2 Project.

During the last 20 years, floods have become a major hazard in West Africa, particularly in the Sahelian belt, affecting livelihoods, infrastructure and production systems, and hence heavily impacting on sustainable development. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 recognized Climate Services (CS) as a powerful tool for more e...

Geosciences are part of a complex network of environmental disciplines of growing importance both for scientific purposes and for social issues. Researchers and geoscientists are called to engage with the public, not only to share their knowledge but also to persuade people and decisionmakers. The authorsbelieve that language is the building block...

In developing countries, and particularly in West Africa, the role of Climate Services (CS) for sustainable development is growing thanks to wide spreading collaboration among European institutions, including National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) research centers, universities, and homologue local institutions. Operationally, the...

Floods have recently become a major hazard in West Africa (WA) in terms of both their magnitude and frequency. They affect livelihoods, infrastructure and production systems, hence impacting on Sustainable Development (SD). Early Warning Systems (EWS) for floods that properly address all four EWS components, while also being community and impact-ba...

Le Rapport décrit l'état d'avancement dans la mise en oeuvre d'un Système Local d'Alerte Précoce contre les Inondations de la Sirba. Cette étude a été réalisée dans le cadre du Projet ANADIA2.0 par une équipe de travail pluridisciplinaire. L'étude a été cofinancée par l'Agence Italienne pour la Coopération au Développement, le Istituto di Biometeor...

Relevant data on hydroclimatic risks collected in LDCs (Least Developed Countries) by intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, university institutes, research organizations, projects and programs funded by national and international institutions often are not shared in interoperable way for further usage. Currently emerging climate ser...

Advances in information and communication technology (ICT), as high-performance computing, processing and storing, new coding standards, the availability of open and costless data, and the strong impulse of the geoinformation technology foster the development of self-sustained monitoring and forecasting systems. All these new technological improvem...

I Servizi Climatici sviluppati dal CNR–IBE nel quadro delle attività di Cooperazione Internazionale sono importanti per sostenere l’adattamento ai rischi climatici e ridurre la vulnerabilità dei Paesi in via di Sviluppo. Le applicazioni web Open Source SLAPIS e 4CROP sono state personalizzate per fornire informazioni in tempo reale ed essere utiliz...

Una delle principali sfide nella lotta alla siccità è ridurre il divario fra l’insorgere e lo svilupparsi di un periodo secco e la risposta nella gestione delle emergenze legate alla siccità. Fornire informazioni tempestive ed affidabili significa potenziare tanto le attività di monitoraggio e previsione quanto la pianificazione di misure di mitiga...

Agro-geoinformation is the key information in the agricultural decision making and policy formulation process, specially in the countries where food security mainly depends on rain-fed crops production. It’s the case of Sudano-Sahel zone where scarce economic resources hamper regular monitoring of crops development; a context that requires new appr...

The drought is a creeping and complex phenomenon with different types of impacts. Drought dynamics reveals a time gap between the onset of a drought event and the management of the drought emergency, but often this gap is too wide to effectively reduce the impacts Drought information is frequently scattered and not enough integrated to support dive...

During the World Climate Conference-3, Capacity Development has been acknowledged as a transversal component underpinning all the other Pillars of the Global Framework for Climate Services. Within the Mediterranean basin, the interest of climate services based on seasonal climate forecasts is rising because they provide an opportunity for developin...

Current IPCC’s climate change projections suggest an increase in frequency and extent of climate extremes. In Mediterranean Basin, and therefore in Italy, one of the primary challenges is related to minimizing drought impacts while increasing environmental resilience (from agricultural production to natural resources conservation, water in particul...

Mediterranean Basin is one of the hot spots of the planet affected by temperature rising and rainfall distribution modifications (IPCC, 2013). Moreover, it is characterized by a strong vulnerability due to centuries of natural resources overexploitation. Climate changes and land mismanagement are exacerbating pressure on natural resources, reducing...

The Mediterranean Basin is characterized by a strong vulnerability due to centuries of natural resources exploitation and it is one of the hot-spots of the planet affected by temperature rising and rainfall distribution modifications. Climate changes and land mismanagement are exacerbating pressure on natural resources, reducing their resilience. U...

In Sub-Saharan Africa analysis tools and models based on meteorological satellites data have been developed within different national and international cooperation initiatives, with the aim of allowing a better monitoring of the cropping season. In most cases, the software was a stand-alone application and the upgrading, in terms of analysis functi...

Accessibility, availability, re-use and re-distribution of scientific data are prerequisites to build climate services across Europe. From this perspective the Institute of Biometeorology of the National Research Council (IBIMET-CNR), aiming at contributing to the sharing and integration of research data, has developed a research data infrastructur...

Data accessibility, discovery, re-use, preservation and, particularly, data sharing are the key to promote the open innovation approach to research studies and enhance interdisciplinary analysis. The CNR-Institute of Biometeorology (CNR-Ibimet) developed an open source and interoperable platform, called Sen-sorWebHub (SWH) to manage both mobile and...

SensorWeb Hub è una piattaforma Open Source, che usa un’approccio Open Innovation, per l’accesso la gestione e condivisione di dati sperimentali da reti meteorologiche e ambientali non convenzionali.

In Sub-Saharan Africa analysis tools and models based on meteorological satellites data have been developed within different national and international cooperation initiatives, with the aim of allowing a better monitoring of the cropping season. In most cases, the software was a stand-alone application and the upgrade, in terms of analysis function...

In Sub-Saharan Africa analysis tools and models based on meteorological satellites data have been developed within different national and international cooperation initiatives, with the aim of allowing a better monitoring of the cropping season. In most cases, the software was a stand-alone application and the upgrading, in terms of analysis functi...

In Sub-Saharan Africa analysis tools and models based on meteorological satellites data have been developed within different national and international cooperation initiatives, with the aim of allowing a better monitoring of the cropping season. In most cases, the software was a stand-alone application and the upgrade, in terms of analysis function...

Food security is still one of the major concerns that Sahelian populations have to face. In the Sahel, agriculture is primarily based on rainfed crops and it is often structurally inadequate to manage the climatic variability. The predominantly rainfed cropping system of Sahel region is dependent on season quality on a year-to-year basis, and susce...

Whenever an emergency happens the sophisticated mechanism of risk communication get jammed. The pervasiveness and speed of information, which runs on web and falls on traditional media, has the effect of a flood, bringing to light fractures and fragilities of the communication. A process that seems difficult to innovate and to reframe, so to respon...

La condivisione dei dati della ricerca costituisce una nuova sfida per la comunità scientifica che può beneficiare di una grande quantità d'informazioni per risolvere problemi ambientali e di sostenibilità dal contesto urbano all'agricoltura. Entrare in una dimensione di collaborazione e condivisione, di accesso e riuso per la comunità scientifica...

A clear and correct information on hazards and in Disaster Resilience (DR) is crucial. But the ''web era'' changed the information models of production and distribution, allowing citizens to take part in the overall process; and this change is having a strong impact also in DR Information. Validated scientific information on natural hazards, far fr...

The web 2.0 revolution is a twofold reality: technological and cultural. The widespread of web 2.0 technologies is changing Disaster Resilience. Information in science communication is the ability and the capacity to transfer scientific knowledge to enable the understanding of communication content. Particularly a clear and correct information on h...

In October 2010 a rainstorm hit some municipalities in Liguria (NW Italy) result-ing in flash floods and debris floods. Rescue operations were carried out without situational awareness due to phone and cellular line failure and civil protection plan deficiency. Relief operations were carried out to recover to previous state with no lesson learned a...

La dialettica tra partecipazione passiva e collaborazione proattiva

In recent years, sustainable development and a more efficient environmental policy have become key issues for the public welfare. The perceived safety by citizens increases if the government adopts policies to a better and transparent management of the environment. From this point of view, urban environmental monitoring is a key tool for the develo...

How web technologies and web collaboration could support Natural Hazards Communication

In the internet and web 2.0 era the need of information is increased. Recent major and minor disasters highlighted that information is a crucial element in emergency management. Informing the population is the focus of any civil protection activity and program. Risk perception and social vulnerability are widely discussed issues "when a disaster oc...

In the Internet and Web 2.0 era, the need of information is increased. Moreover, recent major and minor disasters highlighted that information is a crucial element also in emergency management. Informing the population is now the focal point of any civil protection activity and program. Risk perception and social vulnerability become widely discuss...

The need for a clear, honest and correct information in emergency and hazards matters is crucial and increasingly complex. The Internet and the web 2.0 have augmented the information and data availability, however the post-Gutenberg age arises some critical points, such as easy access to information, precision and reliability, that are at the cente...

Alfabetizzazione sui rischi naturali.

It is acknowledged that major and minor disasters are a "reality" to cope with, as they are part of our environment. In the last 20 years the wider debate on disasters preparedness and relief operations underline that our culture should switch from "war" against hazards to "preparedness" in order to decrease the vulnerability of our societies [Wisn...

Web and mobile emergencies network to real-time information and geodata management