In recent years, the disasters caused by landslides tragically increased due to the demographic growth and the indiscriminate use of land. Among the different types of landslides, flow-like phenomena - often simultaneously ...

In the last years the increasing concern toward environmental protection and source exploitation has guided the legislative development of measures aiming to the sustainable management of municipal solid waste, which implies ...

The erosion, transport and deposition of pebbles in rivers have often been studied by considering the motion of tracer particles. There are reports of bedload tracing programs in field and laboratory since the late 1930s. ...

La presente tesi di dottorato intende presentare i risultati della validazione di una procedura numerica innovativa per la simulazione dell'interazione tra il moto ondoso e le barriere frangiflutti emerse. Prima di entrare ...

Le aree costiere rappresentano sistemi naturali del tutto unici, così come unici sono i fenomeni che le caratterizzano. L’erosione dei litorali, divenuta ormai un fenomeno di interesse planetario, ha spinto verso ...

Landslide early warning systems are non-structural risk mitigation strategies aiming at dealing with intolerably high probabilities of landslide occurrence by reducing risk through the reduction of the exposed elements. ...

Urban wastewater treatment is called for facing different challenges worldwide, such as energy saving, resource recovery and resue... [edited by Author]

Landslides - alone or in combination with other natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods etc. - Represent a major cause of casualties and property damage in terms of direct and indirect costs. For ...

The hydraulic processes that control the water movements through the soil strictly depend on the configuration and distribution of the soil pores... [edited by Author]

Since the 1940s, the ever-increasing use of antibiotics for human, veterinary and agricultural purposes, contributes to their continuous release into the environment due to incomplete metabolism or due to disposal of unused ...