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Forests as common goods – a centuries-old history
26 June 2020
Climate change & Sustainability
Biodiversity loss and the spread of epidemics
1 May 2020
Vaia the storm
One year after storm VAIA
25 November 2019
La tempesta Vaia
One year after the VAIA storm
13 August 2019
Until last year, only one woman had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. Among Elinor Ostrom‘s several merits, she overturned a widely held view in academic circles, namely that the collective use of natural resources leads to their inexorable destruction. Ostrom’s turning point is rooted in the testimony of age-old customs, and one example […]
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Recent months’ developments are testing our most ingrained habits, along with the production systems we rely on to provide for our needs and desires. The phenomenon, which had been announced by some, has lashed the world at high speed. Of the origins and potential causes of COVID-19 (acronym for COronaVIrus Disease 19) that have been […]
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During the night of 28 October 2018, winds from the Atlantic Ocean clash with sirocco, giving rise to a rare low pressure area. The storm named “Vaia” hits Northern Italy, raging in the Alps of Trentino and Triveneto, in the Prealps, and to a lower extent in Eastern Lombardia. The Sisef (Italian Society of Forestry […]
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During the night of 28 to 29 October 2018, the Atlantic wind collided with the sirocco and caused a rare climatic low. The hurricane named “Vaia” hit northern Italy and was centered in the Trentino Alps, the Triveneto, the Prealps and parts of eastern Lombardy. It was defined by the Sisef (Italian Society of Silviculture […]
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