CORILA RESEARCH PROGRAMME 2001-2003.
First Annual Meeting 2002.



Abstracts of the CORILA First Annual Meeting
2002

ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL ASPECTS AREA

Research Line 1.1 Economic evaluation of environmental goods.
Economic evaluation of interventions for the safeguarding and environmental protection in the Venice Lagoon.

1. Economic evaluation of interventions for the safeguarding and environmental
protection in the Venice Lagoon.
PDF Presentation.
2. Cost-benefits analysis of brownfields'clean-up in Marghera.
PDF Presentation.
3. Economic evaluation of interventions for the safeguarding and environmental
protection in the Venice Lagoon.
PDF Presentation.



Proceedings of the Corila first annual meeting (Istituto Veneto edition)


ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE AREA

Research line 2.1. High water defence and conservation of architectonic heritage.
Venice, a millennium of construction and protection from brackish waters (“acque salse”).

1. Venice, a millennium of construction and protection from brackish waters
(“acque salse”).
General presentation.
PDF Presentation.
2. Database of the ‘workers’ in Venice between the XII and the XV centuries.
PDF Presentation.
3. The lagoon construction and the water.
PDF Presentation.
4. Catalogue of external plasters in the city of Venice.
PDF Presentation.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES AREA

Research line 3.1. The trends of environmental processes under the perspective of climate changes.
A. VOSS Venice Organic Soil Subsidence. Modelling and experimental study of the organic soil compaction and prediction of the land subsidence related to climate changes in the South- Eastern area of the Venice Lagoon catchment.

1.
General presentation.
PDF presentation.
2. The geological and morphological characteristics of the Zennare catchment.
PDF presentation.

B. Analysis of climate trends  induced by global changes: repercussions for the area of Venice.

1.
General presentation.
PDF presentation.

Research line 3.2. Hydrodynamics and morphology.
A. Morphological processes and their monitoring in the Venice Lagoon System.

1. The suspended solids concentration in the shallow waters of the tidal lagoons
PDF presentation.
2. The morphology of tidal networks.
PDF presentation.
3. Remote sensing of halophilic vegetation and its use as the morphologic index
PDF presentation.
4. Geotechnical model of sandbanks. First results of the soil pressure measurements
within the sandbanks.
PDF presentation.

B. Hydrodynamics and morphology of the Venice Lagoon.

1. Hydrodynamics and morphology of the Venice Lagoon.
PDF presentation.
2. Modeling Bottom Stress Distribution in the Venice Lagoon.
PDF presentation.
3. Thematic and Land Subsidence Maps of the Lagoon of Venice from ERS SAR
Interferometry.
PDF presentation.
4. Finite elements grid of the lagoon of Venice
PDF presentation.
5. Morphodynamics and sediment dynamics.
PDF presentation.

Research line 3.3. Efficiency of the lagoon metabolism.
Metabolic processes: productivity, nutrient cycles and effects of contaminants on biota. Integration between experimental approaches and environmental risk modeling.

1.
General presentation.
PDF presentation.

Research line 3.4. Chemical contamination.
Role of aerosol and secondary pollution to the chemical contamination of the lagoon of Venice.

1.
General presentation.
PDF presentation.
2. Metals remobilization from sediments of the Venice Lagoon.
PDF presentation.
3. Determination of organic pollutants and trace elements in the atmospheric aerosol
of the Venice Lagoon.
PDF presentation.
4. Exchanges of organic pollutants at the sediment-water interface in the Venice Lagoon
PDF presentation.
5. La bioturbazione.
PDF presentation.

Research line 3.5. Quantity and quality of exchanges between the lagoon and the sea.
Quantity and quality of exchanges between the Lagoon of Venice and the Adriatic Sea.

1. General presentation.
PDF presentation.
2. Preliminary results of current measurements in the inlets of the Venice Lagoon.
PDF presentation.
3. Preliminary analysis of HF Radar data of the Venician area.
PDF presentation.
4. Development of a ecological and hydrodynamic model for the Venice Lagoon.
PDF presentation.
5. Determination of fluxes at the three inlets using hydrodynamic model of the .
Venice Lagoon and the Adriatic Sea.
PDF presentation.
6. A variability analysis based on tidal and annual-time scales.
PDF presentation.

Research line 3.6. Biodiversity in the Venice Lagoon.
The study of biodiversity between conservation and exploitation in the Venice lagoon

1. General presentation.
PDF presentation.
2. First results of a research project on the diffusion of allochtonous marine species
in the Lagoon of Venice.
PDF presentation.
3. Biodiversity of benthic species in the lagoon environment.
PDF presentation.

Research line 3.7. Forecasting and management models.
Experiments and modelling of morphodynamic mechanisms operating in the Venice lagoon system.

1. A morphological evolution model of the Venice Lagoon.
PDF presentation.
2. Suspended sediment transport and morphodynamic equilibrium of tidal channels.
PDF presentation.

DATA MANAGEMENT AREA

Research line 4.1. Distributive informative system.
RIVELA: Database for the research on Venice and the Lagoon.

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