Unintended consequences of climate change mitigation for African river basins The eiLab led a study in collaboration with colleagues from Tufts University, Cornell University, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which shows how the adoption of coordinated global policies to mitigate climate change could reduce any harmful and unwanted impacts on Read more
The Italian Ministry for Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility (MIMS) has published a report on the current and projected impact of climate change on the Italian infrastructure systems, as well as adaptation and mitigation measures with associated financial investment. EIlab contributed with the water networks chapter. The report can be downloaded Read more
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 Gases Emissions and River Sediment Connectivity | GC15E-0736. Poster presentation on Mon, 13 Dec. Angelo Carlino, Massimo Tavoni and Read more
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 carried out during the first year. AWESOME (mAnaging Water, Ecosystems and food across sectors and Scales in the sOuth Read more
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 in the face of climate change to improve the farmer’s adaptation capacity and increase the robustness of Read more
Hydrological variability and climate change impacts on water for power: can they undermine EU energy transition targets? The results of a collaboration between the eiLab and E3MLab are now avaiable on Environmental Research Letters. We examine changes in generation from water-dependent thermal and hydropower plants in the Iberian Peninsula and Read more
Paolo Gazzotti is an interdipartmental PhD (Magamement Engineering and Information Technology) at Politecnico di Milano supervised by prof. Massimo Tavoni and prof. Andrea Castelletti. He will defend his Ph.D. thesis “A multi-agent approach for climate change negotiations” on Thursday 23rd September at 10:00. His work deals with cost-benefit integrated assessment Read more
EiLab just published a paper on Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (ESPL), which showcases the potential of the CASCADE toolbox to estimate basin-scale river sediment (dis)connectivity, in terms of distributed outputs on sediment delivery and composition. The model was applied on the Vjosa river, one of the last wild river Read more
eiLab contributed to a recent publication on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), which demonstrates an approach to identify planning levers that can increase the resilience of river deltas under a wide range of future conditions for the Mekong Delta. Globally, Read more
Dr. Elena Matta gave a keynote talk on the Machine Learning Day of the AEMON-J Hacking Limnology workshop, organised by researchers of the Center of Limnology of the University of Madison-Wisconsin. She presented some highlights from a wide range of hydraulic and hydrological engineering applications in surface waters, such as predicting sediment transport, water levels Read more