Downscaling Climate Change Impacts, Socio-Economic Implications and Alternative Adaptation Pathways for Islands and Outermost Regions

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the future scenarios of climate change and management concerns associated with climate change impacts on the blue economy of European islands and outermost regions. The publication collects major findings of the SOCLIMPACT project’s research outcomes, aiming to raise social awareness among policy-makers and industry about climate change consequences at local level, and provide knowledge-based information to support policy design, from local to national level. This comprehensive book will also assist students, scholars and practitioners to understand, conceptualize and effectively and responsibly manage climate change information and applied research. This book provides invaluable material for Blue Growth Management, theory and application, at all levels. This first edition includes up-to-date data, statistics, references, case material and figures of the 12 islands case studies. ¨Downscaling climate change impacts, socio-economic implications and alternative adaptation pathways for Islands and Outermost Regions¨ is a must-read book, given the accessible style and breadth and depth with which the topic is dealt. The book is an up-to-date synthesis of key knowledge on this area, written by a multidisciplinary group of experts on climate and economic modelling, and policy design

Investigating the climate-related risk of forest fires for mediterranean islands’ blue economy

The Mediterranean islands’ blue economy and, more specifically, the tourism sector, largely regulate Europe’s gross product. Climate change threatens the ecological, societal, and economic sustainability of the islands in many ways, with increasing wildfires making up one of the most critical components of the climate change impacts on tourism. Here, we aim to identify and assess forest fire vulnerability and risk due to climate change for seven Mediterranean islands through the application of the “impact chain” conceptual framework. The backbone of this approach requires the integration of quantitative and qualitative data according to the three main risk components sensu the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), i.e., hazard, exposure, and vulnerability, with a structured participatory approach involving stakeholders and experts. Our results illustrate the islands with high potential for improvement in terms of adapting capacity and, by indicating the contribution of the different risk components, highlight the main environmental and socio-economic elements that affect the islands’ vulnerability and risk under climate change. The approach’s potentials and constraints are discussed, suggesting that the method can be handily used to point out the priorities that must be addressed by mitigation and adaptation policies and measures at the island level. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland

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New insights in photo-patterned sol-gel-derived TiO2 films

International audienceSpecific sol-gel formulations and protocols have been adapted to the fine patterning of TiO2 films using a very simplified UVA three-step lithography method. Mechanisms occurring during the photo-patterning procedure and a post-patterning thermal treatment have been studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and ellipsometry. Discussions are proposed to support the influence of the photo-patterning procedure and post-patterning treatment on the shape and the dimension of so-formed microstructures. Original additional functionalities arising from such structures are also presented

Tra risultati scientifici, radici ideologiche e orizzonti culturali condivisi. Un\u2019analisi culturale della ricerca scientifica in Media Education (versione italiana)

L'articolo riflette sulle iscrizioni \u201cideologiche\u201d della ricerca scientifica in Media Education. - Sulla scorta degli studi culturali anglosassoni , adotta l'approccio che l\u2019educazione ai media da sempre applica allo studio dei media e dei loro testi: l\u2019analisi critica e la decostruzione dei dispositivi retorici del testo. In questo caso i testi oggetto di analisi sono: alcuni classici dispositivi metodologici tipicamente usati nelle ricerche in Media education(i.e. le griglie utilizzate per l'analisi comparativa dei contenuti televisivi) e alcuni risultati ormai stabilizzati della ricerca in questo settore (i.e. la desensibilizzazione come effetto dell'esposizione protratta alla violenza rappresentata). La meta analisi di metodi e risultati della ricerca nel settore (intesi come dispositivi discorsivi) rivela la radice inevitabilmente ideologica di questa (come altre) impresa scientifica. Al di l\ue0 delle misure di controllo utilizzate (intercorder agreement, significativit\ue0 statistica, etc..), anche solo tratti considerati pertinenti e distintivi rispetto alla descrizione dei contenuti mediatici ma anche le parole utilizzate per descrivere i risultati delle ricerche rivelano quanto la ricerca stessa sia dipendente da assunti, idee, rappresentazioni del tutto culturali circa fenomeni quali "intelligenza", "identit\ue0", "genere" , ma anche da precise idee per nulla scientifiche circa ci\uf2 che \ue9 auspicabile e ci\uf2 che non lo \ue9 rispetto allo sviluppo dei bambini. Questa meta analisi consente di mostrare che la ricerca in questo ambito, persino quella a carattere "puramente" descrittivo o rigorosamente sperimentale, non \ue9 value & context-free. Essa si radica in un orizzonte morale e dipende dai punti di vista e valori inscrutti nei dispositivi discorsivi condivisi e legittimati dalla comunit\ue0 scientifica