Global landscape change and trends of future change are unfilled niches in global change research. We know fairly well how climate has changed in the past with sufficient time resolution, but we do not know how various geomorphological systems in Italy replied or will respond due to their complex dynamics and resilience. Global changes have a strong influence on cryosphere dynamics, on slope evolution, on shoreline variations and, more and more frequently, provoke extreme pluviometric events, floods, sea storms and geomorphological instability. The main themes of this research project are: i) understanding the effects that global changes have on the sensitive and wide-ranging morphoclimatic systems typical of the Italian peninsula, ii) the ability to assess the effects of these changes on the environmental system through the elaboration of hazard and geomorphological risk scenarios. The most important objectives of the project are: a) the definition of the effects of climate change on the cryosphere in the Italian Alps, b) the characterization of the instability caused by global changes in different morphoclimatic contexts, c) the collection and comparison of series of climate and environmental data sets, and d) the prediction of future scenarios of instability induced by global changes. The systematic collection of environmental data in different morphoclimatic contexts, both through direct monitoring system, and through indirect techniques of investigation, will allow us to reconstruct the historical sequence of key events that have characterized the interactions between natural environment and global changes in Italy. The variety of the morphoclimatic contexts analyzed in this project will provide a significant contribution to the knowledge of the geomorphological setting of the Italian territory in different geographic and climatic regions and of the state of activity of the morphogenetic agents that have guided and will guide landscape modelling.
Response of morphoclimatic system dynamics to global changes and related geomorphological hazards: outline and perspectives of a national Italian research project.
BARONI, CARLO;
2013-01-01
Abstract
Global landscape change and trends of future change are unfilled niches in global change research. We know fairly well how climate has changed in the past with sufficient time resolution, but we do not know how various geomorphological systems in Italy replied or will respond due to their complex dynamics and resilience. Global changes have a strong influence on cryosphere dynamics, on slope evolution, on shoreline variations and, more and more frequently, provoke extreme pluviometric events, floods, sea storms and geomorphological instability. The main themes of this research project are: i) understanding the effects that global changes have on the sensitive and wide-ranging morphoclimatic systems typical of the Italian peninsula, ii) the ability to assess the effects of these changes on the environmental system through the elaboration of hazard and geomorphological risk scenarios. The most important objectives of the project are: a) the definition of the effects of climate change on the cryosphere in the Italian Alps, b) the characterization of the instability caused by global changes in different morphoclimatic contexts, c) the collection and comparison of series of climate and environmental data sets, and d) the prediction of future scenarios of instability induced by global changes. The systematic collection of environmental data in different morphoclimatic contexts, both through direct monitoring system, and through indirect techniques of investigation, will allow us to reconstruct the historical sequence of key events that have characterized the interactions between natural environment and global changes in Italy. The variety of the morphoclimatic contexts analyzed in this project will provide a significant contribution to the knowledge of the geomorphological setting of the Italian territory in different geographic and climatic regions and of the state of activity of the morphogenetic agents that have guided and will guide landscape modelling.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
