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Scenario building model to support the resilience planning of winemaking region...
Assumma, Vanessa; Bottero, Marta; Angelis, Elena De; Lourenço, Júlia M.; Monaco, Roberto; Soares, A. J.Today resilience paradigm is shared by both academic and political debates, and it is gradually being implemented into plans, programmes, and project's initiatives. In this context, wine regions, particularly those designated as UNESCO sites, show their robustness and vulnerabilities as Socio-Ecological Systems. The climate change impact is increasing the exposure of their aesthetic, cultural, economic, natural...
A decision support system for territorial resilience assessment and planning: a...
Assumma, Vanessa; Bottero, Marta; De Angelis, Elena; Lourenço, Júlia M.; Monaco, Roberto; Soares, A. J.This paper aims to assess the territorial resilience of a socio-ecological system through an innovative integrated evaluation framework to aid the decision-making process in the planning of transformation scenarios. This framework employs a set of resilience indicators through a Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) coupled with a Lotka-Volterra mathematical model of cooperative type. The set of indicators aim...
A BGK model for reactive mixtures of polyatomic gases with continuous internal ...
Bisi, M.; Monaco, Roberto; Soares, A. J.In this paper we derive a BGK relaxation model for a mixture of polyatomic gases with a continuous structure of internal energies. The emphasis of the paper is on the case of a quaternary mixture undergoing a reversible chemically reaction of bimolecular type. For such a mixture we prove an H-theorem and characterize the equilibrium solutions with related mass action law of chemical kinetics. Further, a Chapman...
A new mathematical model for environmental monitoring and assessment
Monaco, Roberto; Soares, A. J.In this paper we are concerned with a quantitative method of Landscape Ecology. More in details we consider an environmental system distributed in landscape units (ecological sectors) and we propose a new mathematical model in order to implement a method for the evaluation of the ecological state of the system under investigation. After having performed a stability analysis of the model, we apply the proposed p...
The living and non-living: memory and postcolonialism in O Retorno by Dulce Mar...
Monaco, Roberto; Dantas, Gregório FoganholiO Retorno its a novel by Dulce Maria Cardoso set in the period of decolonization from Portugal, especially after the Colonial War in Angola. The independence of the country has caused the flight of hundreds of thousands of settlers, forced to return to Metropolis (Lisbon). In this scenario, the author reconstructs the life of a family of "returnees" from the perspective of a teenager. The purpose of this articl...