6 research outputs found
Preliminary Water Assessment Reports of The Test Basins of The Watch Project
This report presents the initial plans of the case studies how they link to rest of the Watch project and on which water resources they will focus. This report will function as the basis for further discussions on how to improve the integration of the case studies within the project and to develop a more general protocol for each of the case studies. Currently 5 catchments are used within the Watch project, they differ in climatic and hydro-geological features and expected climate changes: the Glomma River basin (Eastern Norway), the upper Guadiana basin (Central Spanish Plateau), the Nitra River basin (central Slovakia), the Upper-Elbe basin (part of the Elbe River) and the island of Crete. Also the water resources issues vary over these cases. Agricultural (and domestic) water use is under pressure in the Mediterranean catchments probably aggravating with the expected increase in drought frequency under future climate. The Norwegian catchment provides hydropower services under threat of precipitation increase rather than decrease. The central European catchments are threatened mainly by increased variability, i.e. increased frequencies of extremes in a densely populated environment, and river flow may need additional buffers (reservoirs) to reduce floodrisk and store water for dry period
Addressing Climate Change in Responsible Research and Innovation: Recommendations for its Operationalization
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has only lately included environmental
sustainability as a key area for the social desirability of research and innovation. That is one of
the reasons why just a few RRI projects and proposals include environmental sustainability, and
Climate Change (CC) in particular. CC is one of the grand challenges of our time and, thus, this paper
contributes to the operationalization of CC prevention in RRI. To this end, the tools employed against
CC were identified. Tools originated in corporate social responsibility and sustainable innovation
which help to operationalize strategies against CC in RRI practice. Complementarily, the latest
proposals by RRI projects and actors related to CC were reviewed. The findings of the document
analysis and the web review were arranged in a framework intended for research and innovation that
has an indirect but relevant negative impact due to CC. Thus, four main strategies for CC prevention
in RRI were determined: a voluntary integration of the aims, a life cycle perspective, open access
databases and key performance indicators, and stakeholder management. The article is finished
acknowledging diverse barriers hindering the operationalization of CC prevention in RRI, and we
introduce future avenues for research in this are
Creating new mathematical applications utilizing smart table
SMART Technologies is leading the way for interactive learning, through their many different tools. The SMART Table is a
multi-user, multi-touch interactive interface that not only teaches children different concepts in fun ways (Steurer P.,
2003), but it also inspires cooperative competition. In Alabama, the state curriculum for kindergarten through second
grade in mathematics education instructs students in the rudimentary manipulation of the base numbers zero through
ten (Education 2003). Teachers will greatly benefit from a fun mathematical interactive educational system that involves
base numbers. During this project, the authors implemented an educational tool utilizing the SMART Table SDK and Visual
Studios 2008 to teach K-2 inequalities and the number line through educational softwar