Sustainable Management of sediment transpoRT in responSE to climate change conDitions

Luigi Barazzetti (Principal Investigator), Fabio Roncoroni, Riccardo Valente

Hydrogeological instability is a major concern for inhabited areas due to its possible negative consequences for people and infrastructures. In recent years, all the processes typically included in this broad definition have been receiving increasing attention in light of the growing occurrence of calamitous events that is frequently related to the changing-climate context. Mitigation of hydrogeological instability may be achieved both by local interventions and appropriately designed and applied territorial management strategies. The most important output of the project has been a freeware containing a distributed model for sediment motion along a river catchment, characterized by the following properties: (i) ability to incorporate a number of relevant physical processes; (ii) a numerical scheme rigorously conserving mass and momentum; (iii) automatic recognition of slope and drainage locations; (iv) computational efficiency; (v) an extensive uncertainty analysis.

Contribution to SDGs: 11