Desertification Research Centre
Pedro Berliner
Publications:
"Increasing water harvesting for improved agroforestry systems". Invited keynote at the International Conference 'Dryland ecosystem functioning and resilience: integrating biophysical assessment with socio-economic issues'. Alghero , 6-8 July 2011.
Seminars:
"Runoff generation and use in arid lands". Sassari, Facolty of Agriculture, July 4, 2011
Kevin Collins
"Climate change and adaption: a systems perspective". Invited keynote at the International Conference 'Dryland ecosystem functioning and resilience: integrating biophysical assessment with socio-economic issues'. Alghero (Sassari) July 6-8, 2011.
Member of the Scientific Committee at the "Drylands conference"; contribution and review of the Policy brief for UNCCD Secretariat, as a result of the "Drylands conference". Alghero (Sassari), July 6-8, 2011
John Colvin
Publications:
Colvin John, Blackmore C, Collins K, Goss J, Ison R, Roggero Pier Paolo (UNISS), Seddaiu Giovanna (UNISS), Wei Y, "In search of system innovation for sustainable development: Learning from a decade of inquiry with the SLIM social learning praxix". Presented at the 9th International Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics, 14-17 june 2011 and published in www.esee2011.org
Ison R, Collins K, Colvin John, Jiggins J, Roggero Pier Paolo (UNISS) et al, "Sustainable catchment managing in a climate changing world: New integrative modalities for connecting policy makers, scientists and other stakeholders". Water Resources Management DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9880-4.
Seminars:
"How should we do 'development' in a climate change world?". Faculty og Agriculture, May 23, 2011
Publications
Madrau Salvatore (UNISS), Zucca Claudio (UNISS), Aksit I., Fiori V., Kapur Selim, "Micromorphological characterisation of the soil rhizosphere in a traditional olive crop on Mediterranean Terra Rossa". Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 2012 (accepted, in press).
Andreucci S., Bateman M.D., Zucca Claudio (UNISS), Kapur Selim, Aksit I., Dunajko A., Pascucci Vincenzo (UNISS), "Evidence of Saharan dust in Upper Pleistocene reworked palaeosols of Northwest Sardinia, Italy: Palaeoenvironmental implications". Sedimentology 59, 2012, 917-938.
Madrau Salvatore (UNISS), Zucca Claudio (UNISS), Soro A., Kapur Selim, "Micromorphological analysis of a terra rossa soil under olive crop: pedogenesis and pedoturbation". In: Falsone G., Pattee E., Vianello G., Antisari L.V. [Eds]. Soil complexity. Proceedings of the Congress of the Italian Society of Soil Science. Environmental quality 7, 2011, 81-90.
Bologna University. ISBN 978-88-906735-9-7.
Zucca Claudio (UNISS), Previtali F., Madrau Salvatore (UNISS), Akça E., Kapur Selim, "An Anthroscape from Morocco: Degraded Rangeland Systems and Introduction of Exotic Plant Material and Technology". In: Kapur S., Eswaran H., Blum W.E.H. [Eds]. Sustainable Land Management - Learning from the Past for the Future. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011. ISBN 978-3-642-14781-4. Pp. 243-257.
Seminars
"Application of micromorphology in soil management ". Sassari, Department of Agriculture, June 18, 2013
Armen Kemanian
Armen Kemanian personal page
Publications:
Doro Luca (UNISS), Ledda Luigi (UNISS), Corti G, Madrau Salvatore (UNISS), Roggero Pier Paolo (UNISS), Kemanian Armen, "Documenting and modelling the accretion of surface and subsoil organic carbon in agricultural Inceptisols reclaimed from Mediterranean Sea marshes in Sardinia".
Paper presented at the 4th International Congress of the European Confederation of Soil Science Societies (ECSSS), 2-6 July 2012, Bari (Italy).
Seminars:
"Modeling nitrogen cycle and losses". October 25, 2010;
"Modeling crop transpiration and water stress". October 18, 2010;
"Modeling crop growth". October 14, 2010;
"Production system and simulation modeling: from crop growth to landscape analysis". October 13, 2010
Humberto Maturana
Humberto Maturana personal page
Seminars:
"Reflections on my collaboration with Francisco Varela" within the conference at the University of Sassari: "The ethical meaning of Francisco Varela's thought" (June 29th, 2011);
Publications:
Maturana Humberto, "Reflections on my collaboration with Francisco Varela". Constructivist foundations (7) 2: 155-164.
Albert Soler i Gil
Seminars:
"Potenziali applicazioni degli isotopi nell'ambito del progetto IDRISK". Sassari, Desertification Research Centre, June 17, 2011
"Environmental Isotopes Applied to Nitrate Groundwater Pollution Studies". Sassari, Faculty of Agriculture, June 16, 2011
Publications:
Participation in drafting the project WADIS-MAR (Water harvesting andAgricultural techniques in Dry lands: an Integrated and Sustainable model inMAghreb Regions)
Cynthia Vagnetti
Publications:
Vagnetti Cynthia, "Cultural values and traditional knowledge in the context of global change".
May 8-10, 2012, IUFRO Division 9 Conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia& Herzegovina.
Seminars:
"The Science and Art of Making Knowledge for Sustainable Development".
February 29, 2012, University of Sassari.