Jonathan RizziNorwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research | NIBIO
Jonathan Rizzi
PhD
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Introduction
PhD in Environmental Sciences, working since more than 10 years in the GIS sector. Experience as consultant, teacher, researcher and project manager of national and international project.
Worked in several countries, including Italy, Norway, China and Ecuador.
The main research activities include the use of GIS in several environmental sectors, such as climate change, contaminated sites and water quality and the development of GIS-based tools such as a Spatial Decision Support System and WebGIS.
Additional affiliations
March 2017 - present
September 2014 - June 2017
June 2010 - September 2014
Education
January 2010 - February 2014
September 2005 - December 2008
September 1999 - June 2003
Publications
Publications (60)
The Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador) is traditionally considered a living museum and showcase of evolution. The rich biodiversity and distinctive environment attract thousands of visitors every year. However, this tourist flow exerts continuous pressures on the natural environment, and on water resources in particular, to the detriment of the local...
Sustainable water resources management roots in monitoring data reliability and a full engagement of all institutions involved in the water sector. When competences and interests are overlapping, however, coordination may be difficult, thus hampering cooperative actions. This is the case of Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos, Ecuador). A comprehensive as...
Preface: Remote sensing, modelling-based hazard and risk assessment, and management of agro-forested ecosystems
There are neither volume nor velocity thresholds that define big data. Any data ranging from just beyond the capacity of a single personal computer to tera- and petabytes of data can be considered big data. Although it is common to use High Performance Computers (HPCs) and cloud facilities to compute big data, migrating to such facilities is not al...
Rapid technological advances in airborne hyperspectral and lidar systems paved the way for using machine learning algorithms to map urban environments. Both hyperspectral and lidar systems can discriminate among many significant urban structures and materials properties, which are not recognizable by applying conventional RGB cameras. In most recen...
Protected Areas (PAs) in Tanzania had been established originally for the goal of habitat, landscape and biodiversity conservation. However, human activities such as agricultural expansion and wood harvesting pose challenges to the conservation objectives. We monitored a decade of deforestation within 708 PAs and their unprotected buffer areas, ana...
Coastal erosion is an issue of major concern for coastal managers and is expected to increase in magnitude and severity due to global climate change. This paper analyzes the potential consequences of climate change on coastal erosion (e.g., impacts on beaches, wetlands and protected areas) by applying a Regional Risk Assessment (RRA) methodology to...
A recent report written on behalf of the Norwegian government highlights the potential societal benefits for Norway in using big data. In particular, it shows that benefits can be represented by the improvement of the efficiency of decision-making processes and of the quality and timeliness of decisions and by giving actors the opportunity to react...
It is widely recognized that the use of big data can have several societal benefits, such as a more efficient and effective decision making process, or a faster response to emergencies and in general to deviations from normal situations. Examples of areas where this can happen are land use, urban or transport planning, security, or even handling of...
This study evaluates MODIS snow cover characteristics for large number of snowmelt runoff events in 145 catchments from 9 countries in Europe. The analysis is based on open discharge daily time series from the Global Runoff Data Center database and daily MODIS snow cover data. Runoff events are identified by a base flow separation approach. The MOD...
Norway is covered by forests for around one third of its mainland surface (around 120 000 km 2), therefore they represent a very important ecosystem to be preserved and managed. Despite their environmental and economic importance, forest represents also a source of potential risks. During last decades, several cases of treefall driven by wind storm...
Forests, covering large areas in many regions of the world, play an important role in the hydrological cycle and have a strong influence on climate. Their importance is widely recognized and are now integrated into most climate and hydrological models. The calibration of hydrological models require historical data about the spatial distribution of...
Runoff prediction in ungauged catchments has been a challenging topic over recent decades. Much research have been conducted including the intensive studies of the PUB (Prediction in Ungauged Basins) Decade of the International Association for Hydrological Science. Great progress has been made in the field of regionalization study of hydrological m...
Northern latitudes are experiencing faster warming than other regions in the world, which is partly explained by the snow albedo feedback. In Norway, mean temperatures have been increasing since the 1990s, with 2014 being the warmest year on record, 2.2 C above normal (1961–1990). At the same time, a concurrent reduction in the land area covered by...
Low-lying coastal areas are often prone to storm surge flooding that can render severe damages to properties, destruction of habitats, threat to human safety and the environment. The impacts of coastal flooding are also expected to increase in the future as a consequence of global climate change and sea-level rise. This paper presents a comprehensi...
Sound, cost efficient management strategies in developed coastal zones can be reinforced by a thorough understanding of risks associated with the combination of anthropogenic and natural drivers of change. A Regional Risk Assessment (RRA) methodology was developed for the assessment of the potential impacts of climate change in the Tunisian coastal...
Several decision support systems were developed in recent years to encourage climate adaptation planning in coastal areas, especially at a national to global scale. However, few prototypes are easy to use and accessible for decision-makers to evaluate and manage risks locally. DESYCO is a GIS based decision support system specifically designed to b...
Coastal aquifers have been identified as particularly vulnerable to impacts on water quantity and quality due to the high density of socio-economic activities and human assets in coastal regions and to the projected rising sea levels, contributing to the process of saltwater intrusion. This paper proposes a Regional Risk Assessment (RRA) methodolog...
Climate change is posing additional pressures on coastal ecosystems due to variations in water biogeochemical and physico-chemical parameters (e.g., pH, salinity) leading to aquatic ecosystem degradation. With the main aim of analyzing the potential impacts of climate change on marine water quality, a Regional Risk Assessment methodology was develo...
This study makes use of the most current Regional Climate Models (RCMs) forced with CMIP5 climate
projections to quantify the projected change in meteorological drought for Europe during the next
century at a fine gridded scale. Meteorological drought is quantified using the Standardized Precipitation
Index (SPI), which normalizes accumulated preci...
En el debate entre Ecología y Extractivismo, el desarrollo de un turismo sostenible es a
menudo percibido como una estrategia que permite combinar la protección de los recursos
naturales con el desarrollo económico. Pero este modelo no está exento de ambigüedades.
De hecho prevé la transformación de los recursos naturales en capital ecológico que s...
Galapagos islands are one of most important biodiversity hot spot in the world, whose importance was recognized also by UNESCO in the World Heritage list. Despite the great effort for their conservation, the increasing human pressure and the consequent pollution, in particular of the water resources, are threatening the environment and the health o...
Climate change is expected to pose a variety of impacts on natural and human systems worldwide. In particular, accelerated sea level rise, increased storminess, changes in water quality and coastal erosion as a consequence of global warming, are projected to pose increasing threats to coastal resources and related surface and ground environments (e...
Climate-related risks for groundwater and related ecosystems pose great concern to scientists and water authorities involved in the protection of these resources. According to the key principles of EU water policy and the expected effects of global climate change, research is needed to understand how develop suitable adaptation options for the sust...
Climate change is likely to increase the pressure on the environment and on human systems that are requiring new assessment tools aimed at supporting decision-makers and stakeholders towards a more sustainable and effective management of the coastal environment and its resources. This research appraises an ensemble of models that integrates complex...
Climate change will have different impacts on water resources and
water-dependent services worldwide. In particular, climate-related risks
for groundwater and related ecosystems pose great concern to scientists
and water authorities involved in the protection of these valuable
resources. Research is needed to better understand how climate change
wi...
Europe's coast faces a variety of climate change threats from extreme
high tides, storm surges and rising sea levels. In particular, it is
very likely that mean sea level rise will contribute to upward trends in
extreme coastal high water levels, thus posing higher risks to coastal
locations currently experiencing coastal erosion and inundation
pro...
At the international level, the interest for climate services is rising
due to the social and economic benefits that different stakeholders can
achieve to manage climate risks and take advantage of the opportunities
associated with climate change impacts. However, there is a significant
gap of tools aimed at providing information about risks and im...
According to the Water Frameword Directive the classification of water bodies environmental quality and the achievement of "good status" by 2015 are requested for all the European aquatic environment, including transitional waters such as coastal lagoons. Although progresses have been done and many results have been achieved, several aspects of the...
Climate change impact assessment on water resources has received high international attention over the last two decades, due to the observed global warming and its consequences at the global to local scale. In particular, climate-related risks for groundwater and related ecosystems pose a great concern to scientists and water authorities involved i...
Sea level rise, changes in storms and wave climate as a consequence of
global climate change are expected to increase the size and magnitude of
flooded and eroding coastal areas, thus having profound impacts on
coastal communities and ecosystems. River deltas, beaches, estuaries and
lagoons are considered particularly vulnerable to the adverse effe...
Global climate change is likely to pose additional pressures on coastal
ecosystems by accelerating sea level rise, storms, flooding and erosion.
Specifically, coastal erosion is an issue of major concern for estuarine
and deltaic coastal areas and ecosystems and it is expected to increase
in size and magnitude due to climate change forcing. Accordi...
DESYCO (DEcision support SYstem for COastal climate change impact assessment) is a GIS based Decision Support System which has the main aim of assessing the impacts related to climate change in coastal areas and related groundwater systems (e.g. sea level rise, storm surge floodings, changes in water quality, decrease of groundwater level and salt...
At the international level climate services are recognized as innovative tools aimed at providing and distributing climate data and information according to the needs of end-users. Furthermore, needs-based climate services are extremely effective to manage climate risks and take advantage of the opportunities associated with climate change impacts....
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Climate change impacts on hydrological resources can lead to important changes on groundwater quantity and quality. Human activities like water pumping, irrigation, changes on land uses and urbanization represent other pressures that require the implementation of adaptation measures to limit water quality decrease and water scarcity.
With t...
Climate change and consequent impacts on coastal resources and related surface and ground environments (e.g. river basins, groundwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems) are today receiving a high level of national and international attention. According, many of the problems facing surface and ground environments can only be solved through appropr...
Sintesi L'articolo illustra le fasi di definizione di una metodologia e di strumenti per la realizzazione di una piattaforma webgis orientata al monitoraggio energetico degli edifici. Dopo avere presentato il contesto applicativo, elencate in sintesi le esigenze rilevate e le funzionalità richieste al sistema, viene descritto il modello dei dati pr...
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DESYCO (DEcision support SYstem for COastal climate change impact assessment) is a Decision Support System (DSS) integrated with a GIS having the aim of making an assessment of climate change related impacts on coastal areas (e.g. sea level rise, increased strorminess, changes in water quality). The system is composed by several components...
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E-QUALITY is a software for the assessment of the environmental quality of the Lagoon of Venice composed by three modules: the first is the geodatabase, the second is the one for the environmental quality assessment at sampling site scale, the third is the one for the environmental quality assessment at water body scale. The purpose of the...
Recent definition and submission of WFD-compliant River Basin Management Plans requires large efforts of water managers and highlighted a number of data, knowledge and methodological gaps that need to be fulfilled during the next management cycle. The complexity of the WFD implementation process requires easy-to-use, reliable and scientifically sou...
Climate change impacts on coastal zones (e.g. increased erosion, inundation, storm surges and water quality variations) are expected to cause increasing risks to natural and human systems worldwide. Accordingly, it is necessary to develop innovative interdisciplinary approaches to effectively cope with climate related risks and support decision mak...
Projects
Projects (5)
A recent report written on behalf of the Norwegian government highlights the potential societal benefits for Norway in using big data. In particular, it shows that benefits can be represented by the improvement of the efficiency of decision-making processes and of the quality and timeliness of decisions and by giving actors the opportunity to react more quickly to deviations from normal situations. The handling of environmental disasters, planning of transport, security of society and increased business development and innovation are mentioned as concrete examples.
The Big data project has been started in order to increase the competence within NIBIO and take the benefits deriving from the application of new methods, such as machine learning, in the daily activity of the institute. The project is organized in three main Work Packages (WPs):
- WP1: Alliance and networking;
- WP2: Machine learning and remote sensing for automatic map changes;
- WP3: Technology and platforms for convenient big data with geographic data.
Forest areas cover large surfaces over many countries and are a very important resource that need to be protected and managed correctly. Forest have a key role for both the environment and the local communities. From an economical perspective, they represent an important source of income for local communities. At the same time, forests play a major role in the mitigation of climate change, can protect from or mitigate some risks (e.g. floods), but at the same time are exposed to several hazard and can play a role in triggering hazardous events or can contribute to exacerbate hazardous events (e.g. after a forest fires soil erosion is accelerated or even shallow landslide can be generated). Forest fires are the most common hazard, but several other hazard can occur, with impact that can influence the environment and the society. This session do not want to focus on forest fires, rather want to focus on other hazards affecting forest directly (e.g. treefall caused by wind or snow that can affect power lines or other infrastructures) or that occur in forested areas. Several of this impacts are dependent on local geomorphological characteristics, on the characteristics of the forest, but often climate play an important role as well. It is therefore important to consider these hazards in a context of climate variability (on a short time frame, for management purposes), but also in a context of climate change (on a medium/long term, for adaptation purposes).
Studies related to natural hazard and climate (both actual climate and future changes) on forest areas are encouraged to submit abstract in this session. Multidisciplinary studies including environmental and socio-economical components are also encouraged to apply.