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Soil and biodiversity: opportunity for the new millenium

Rome, 10 February, ISPRA, via Curtatone 7

Soil science focuses on the key issue of biodiversity of the soil, giving also its contribution to deepen and promote the role of soil science in the national scientific and professional field.

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The sinkholes. The catastrophic collapses in the wild and anthropized environment

The interventions of the speakers who participated in the workshop are available in the Web TV section

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Geomorphological sheet 367 "Tagliacozzo" at the scale 1:50.000

The sheet shows a piece of land located at north-east of the capital, including a large part in the River Tiber basin. It provides the detailed elements necessary to reconstruct the evolution of the physical landscape of a section of the Central Appennino. It allows, through the representation of the active phenomena, to evaluate the dangerousness of the area in order to set planning interventions.

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Strategies to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx): sectorial cost curves analysis for 2010 and policy instruments

The report analyzes the national cost curve of nitrogen oxides (NOx) referring to 2010. The curve, calculated by the model Rains-Italy, is based on an energy scenario agreed in spring 2005 by the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Economic Development.

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Contaminated Sites

The term “contaminated site” refers to all areas where, following previous or current human activities, an alteration of the land, surface and underground waters has been certified with concentrations exceeding standards established by regulations.


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Moses Monitoring System in the Venice Lagoon

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Ispra's role

The safeguarding of the Venice Lagoon is mainly focused on the interventions for the defense of all the lagoon inhabitated areas from the phenomena of high water. The regulation of tides levels will be realised through four rows of mobile barriers, which will be able to isolate temporarily the lagoon from the sea during high tide events that overcome a certain quota (Moses System).

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Latest news and legislation

February 8

Record year for the Ecolabel

2009 counts over 10.000 products and services certified

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Genoa, 9 February

The geological cartography in Liguria region

The use of geological knowledge in the analysis of the territory

Bologna, February 9

Ritorno al nucleare: realtà, illusione o propaganda? (Back to the nuciear

Coop Ambasciatori Bookstore, Via degli Orefici 5 9 February 2010, 11.30

ISPRA events

December 15, 9,30. University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Sociology - Lecture hall B14

Presentation of the book "The perception of the indoor air pollution risk"

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Rome, december 11

REACH regulation

Second National Conference

Siena, Santa Maria della Scala December 10-11

Workshop "The hybridization between wild and domestic animals: a threat to biodiversity"

Biodiversity yards