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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Iannucci, Corrado"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    A system approach to the integration of ecosystem services with DPSIR components.
    (Innovations in Sharing Environmental Observations and Information, 2011) Iannucci, Corrado; Munafò, Michele; Sambucini, Valter
    When analyzed with the tools provided by the systems theory, the DPSIR framework apparently implies a model of the natural environment (the ecosystem) separated from and in same way conflicting with the human society and its processes. Moreover, the baseline used to define the responses for the protection of the environment appears to be not generated by such processes. In order to reconcile the model with a more global vision of the dynamics of interest for the environment, the notion of ecosystem services has been added to the DPSIR approach. As a result, it has been obtained a conceptual model that includes all the DPSIR components and, moreover, can exploit the huge amounts of data that are collected on a steady basis for the social systems. This approach could allow to improve the data acquisition and decision making processes meant to provide a better management of the relationships between the humans and the environment.
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    Dynamical modeling for data collection and reporting: a system view of DPSIR
    (Integration of Environmental Information in Europe, 2010) Caponigro, Roberto; Iannucci, Corrado
    DPSIR has been credited since its beginning as being founded upon the system theory, even if such foundation has not fully been exploited and remains as a generic context to the DPSIR framework. While DPSIR in itself has been widely accepted by the community entrusted with the data collection and reporting in Europe, two groups of difficulties are detected: the application of DPSIR to specific domains of the environment sometimes is not straightforward as expected, as if some concepts (e.g. the definition of the components and of the relationships between components) appear sometime to be a bit fuzzy; a certain number of “dialects” (i.e. domain specific versions of DPSIR) are being used (e.g. referring to the interactions between natural systems and the human health), possibly in order to overcome the difficulties exposed above but potentially creating conceptual barriers between different domains. A huge effort is being currently devoted in Europe towards an extended interoperability of the information: INSPIRE, SEIS and GMES are setting the stage. In such new context, the harmonization of the knowledge plays an important role. The data collection and reporting activities are requested to generate results that can be shared without potential ambiguities. Therefore, it appears to be of interest the exploitation of the formal approach and tools provided by the system theory in order to refine the concepts underlying the DPSIR framework. A better insight of such concepts is useful to improve the data collection and reporting activities carried out according to DPSIR. On such basis, the technique of the block diagrams (that is a consolidated tool to describe the dynamical systems) has been applied to the components referred by DPSIR and referenced by the sector literature. The resulting block diagram provides a suitable model of the vision underlying DPSIR, i.e. the vision of the environment that implicitly is assumed when the DPSIR framework steers the data collection and reporting activities. Formally, such model describes a system based upon feedback loops. A mathematical expression of the model is possible, in terms of vectors and matrices; more advanced treatments (e.g. in order to assess the system stability under stresses or shocks) can also be foreseen. The analysis of the modeled loops suggests that more effort should be devoted to refine some aspects of DPSIR, related inter alia to the Drivers and to the relationship between Responses and Impacts. As a result of such refinement of the DPSIR, the collection of pertaining data could be better finalized; moreover, the data quality could be improved, specifically with reference to the joint processing of data coming from different sources.
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    Interoperability and Sharing of Biodiversity Data on a National Network in Italy
    (EnviroInfo & ICT4S, Adjunct Proceedings, 2015) Iannucci, Corrado; Sambucini, Valter
    Biodiversity protection requires to access and to process many sources of information. The Italian Ministry of Environment has entrusted ISPRA (Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research) to manage a program aimed to support interoperability and harmonization of the information stored in different data bases. Some aspects of such program, including the National Network for Biodiversity (NNB), are highlighted and commented, with reference also to other relevant initiatives. NNB has already been implemented, relying also on relevant systems as EC-CHM and EUNIS. However, the current availability of interoperability standards (as for biodiversity related themes in the Annexes of INSPIRE) require to update NNB, also taking into account the global development of the ITC architecture of the public sector.
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    The Response component in DPSIR and the SES dynamical stability
    (EnviroInfo Dessau 2012, Part 1: Core Application Areas, 2012) Iannucci, Corrado; Munafò, Michele
    DPSIR implies a dynamical model of Socio-Ecological System (SES) including a negative feedback loop. Within such model, all the five components of DPSIR can be located on the basis of the actually collected data flows, even if the pattern of their mutual interactions appears to be somewhere different from what is usually postulated. Also the role played by each component can be reconsidered. Specifically, the Response component refers to the actions carried out by the humans in order to safeguard the State component in a range of values acceptable for both the protection of the natural ecosystem and the improvement of the well-being of the human society. Design and implementation of Response should take into account the dynamical properties of SES as a whole, as far as those dynamical properties can be estimated on the basis of the DPSIR data flows. In such a way, it could be minimized the risk of implementing actions that affect the system stability.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Towards Environmental Analytics: DPSIR as a System of Systems
    (Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics - Stability, Continuity, Innovation, 2016) Iannucci, Corrado; Munafò, Michele; Sambucini, Valter