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![Fishing boats in a wetland along the shores of Kafue Gorge reservoir [credits: ATEC3D]](https://www.ei.deib.polimi.it/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/kafue_gorge_edit-oyugd6mj0lwu3we19qpkrso0qr6qu2jabharhkznlc.jpg)
![Kariba dam on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe [credits: ATEC3D]](https://www.ei.deib.polimi.it/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Kariba_dam1_edit-oyugd8i7e9zer4bayritws6xxixh9gqqzqlqg4wv8w.jpg)
![Sugar cane fields near Mazabuka [credits: ATEC3D]](https://www.ei.deib.polimi.it/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/mazabuka2_edit-oyugd9g1l40p2q9xt9xgh9yeiwsuh5uhbv97xevh2o.jpg)

![Wetland in the Kafue Flats [credits: ATEC3D]](https://www.ei.deib.polimi.it/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/wetland_edit-oyugdc9k5m4k1k5uct5c6r8sb2ey495oc97od8rak0.jpg)
![Sand banks in the Zambezi River near Chirundu [credits: ATEC3D]](https://www.ei.deib.polimi.it/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Zambezi_edit-oyugdd7ecg5ud64h7bjyr908wgabby9eodv5uipwds.jpg)
ENVIRONMENTAL INTELLIGENCE
for Global Change

ABOUT US
We are a research group based at the Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano. Our research mission is advancing environmental decision-analytics for supporting human decisions in complex engineering systems including multiple actors and exposed to evolving multisectoral demands and global change. Our research fuses environmental, climate, and hydrologic disciplines with machine learning, optimal control, and evolutionary computation. This multidisciplinary mix yields innovative, flexible, and robust solutions facilitating participatory decision making processes by addressing the multifaceted complexity of environmental systems, including their nested interdependencies across stakeholders, processes, and policies at different spatial scales; as well as potential changes in human-nature interactions and feedbacks under changing climate extremes and societal demands.
NEWS
eiLab led research just published on Nature discovered that more than 1 million EU rivers are broken by small to large barriers. The highest barrier densities occur in the heavily modified rivers of central…
eiLab research in the Red River basin as part of the IMRR project contributed a chapter in the new book Innovations in Land, Water…
Climate change is expected to reshape the distribution of irrigated lands. Using climatic projections from three global climate models, we investigate…
Matteo Giuliani has been awarded with the 2021 EGU Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award for the Hydrological Sciences Division. This award recognises scientific achievement made by an Early…
On September 24-25, 2020 we contributed to the online DAFNE Negotiation Simulation Lab (NSL) involving the stakeholders of the Omo-Turkana Basin. This was the third NSL organized by…
Dr. Elena Matta attended the First International Conference on Urban Water Interfaces (UWI) on 22-24 September 2020 (online because of COVID-19) and presented “A review of recent applications of neurocomputing…
On July 9-10, 2020 we contributed to the online DAFNE Negotiation Simulation Lab (NSL) involving the stakeholders of the Zambezi River Basin. This was the third NSL organized by…
eiTweets
European rivers are fragmented by many more barriers than had been recorded https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03440-9
La corsa a ostacoli (troppi) dei fiumi europei verso il mare https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2020/12/17/news/la_corsa_a_ostacoli_dei_fiumi_europei_verso_il_mare-278612613/ via @repubblica
Congratulation to @AMBERtools and @eiPolimi @hydroaholics colleagues for this big achievement and thanks to all people that helped us in collecting data across Europe
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3005-2
Publications
- Belletti, B., C. Garcia de Leaniz, J. Jones, S. Bizzi, L. Borger, G. Segura, A. Castelletti, et al. (2020), More than one million barriers fragment Europe’s rivers, Nature, 588, 436-444
- Giuliani, M., L. Crochemore, I. Pechlivanidis, and A. Castelletti (2020), From skill to value: isolating the influence of end user behavior on seasonal forecast assessment, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24
- Wu, W., H.R. Maier, G.C. Dandy, M. Arora, and A. Castelletti (2020), The changing nature of the water–energy nexus in urban water supply systems: a critical review of changes and responses, Journal of Water and Climate Change, jwc2020276
- Amaranto, A., F. Pianosi, D. Solomatine, G. Corzo and F.M. Arriola (2020), Sensitivity analysis of data-driven groundwater forecasts to hydroclimatic controls in irrigated croplands, Journal of Hydrology , 124957
- Denaro, S., A. Castelletti, M. Giuliani, and G. Characklis (2020), Insurance portfolio diversification through bundling for competing agents exposed to uncorrelated drought and flood risks, Water Resources Research, 56, 1–20