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![Wetland in the Kafue Flats [credits: ATEC3D]](https://www.ei.deib.polimi.it/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/wetland_edit-oyugdc9k5m4k1k5uct5c6r8sb2ey495oc97od8rak0.jpg)
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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
Dr. Andrea Ficchì has been awarded the AXA Research's Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship
Our Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Andrea Ficchì is one of the…
Here’s a list of our contributions to the upcoming EGU General Assembly 2022 (23-27 May 2022 in Vienna, Austria):
Guang Yang, Matteo Giuliani, Elena Matta, Veronica Piuri, and Andrea Castelletti. Dynamic…
The eiLab led a study in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Padova…
Unintended consequences of climate change mitigation for African river basins
The eiLab led a study in collaboration with colleagues from Tufts…
Here’s a list of our contributions to the AGU Fall Meeting 2021:
Silvia Bossi, Rafael J. P. Smith, Alexander Flecker, Rafael Almeida, and Andrea Castelletti. Strategic Dam Planning Accounting for Greenhouse…
Are you interested in how our AWESOME project is exploring the Water, Energy, Food, Ecosystems (WEFE) nexus? Please check out the first Newsletter here, which summaries the updates about the research…
Sandra Ricart, a postodoc researcher in eiLab, is taking part in Meet Me Tonight 2021 (MMT21) to present its work for the MODFABE project. The MODFABE project deals with modeling the farmers' behavior…
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CLINT will provide #AI enhanced forecasts of extreme #droughts indices for informing the operation of the lake #Como basin of #heatwaves and warm nights, including compound events, to inform agricultural practices.
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@WyattArnold15 presenting latest results on the Zambezi WEFE nexus at EWRI22 @GoNexusProject @eiPolimi
Publications
- Giuliani, M., Zaniolo, M., Sinclair, S., Micotti, M., van Orshoven, J, Burlando, P., Castelletti, A(2022). Participatory design of robust and sustainable development pathways in the Omo-Turkana river basin, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 41, 101116.
- Kondolf, G., Schmitt, R., (…), Bizzi, S., Castelletti, A., (…), Wild, T. (2022). Save the Mekong Delta from Drowning, Science 376(6593): 583–85.
- Almeida, R.M., Schmitt, R.J.P., Castelletti, A., (…), McIntyre, P.B. (2022) Strategic planning of hydropower development: balancing benefits and socioenvironmental costs, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 56.
- Fletcher, S., Hadjimichael, A., Quinn, J., Osman, K., Giuliani, M., Gold, D., Figueroa, A.J., and Gordon, B. (2022). Equity in Water Resources Planning: A Path Forward for Decision Support Modelers, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 148(7): 02522005
- Tangi, M., Bizzi, S., Fryirs, K., and Castelletti, A. (2022). A dynamic, network scale sediment (dis)connectivity model to reconstruct historical sediment transfer and river reach sediment budgets, Water Resources Research, 58, e2021WR030784.
- Giuliani, M., J.R. Lamontagne, M.I. Hejazi, P.M. Reed, and A. Castelletti (2022), Unintended consequences of climate change mitigation for African river basins, Nature Climate Change, 12, 187–192