In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region, geophysical, meteorological hydrological disasters are increasing every year. With significantly limited resources, these countries naturally forced to absorb lessons from disasters. One of fundamental activities during this learning task remains need standardize forensic reporting process. Like all academic disciplines, engineering is exceptiona...

Complex socio-ecological systems like the food system are unpredictable, especially to long-term horizons such as 2050. In order to manage this uncertainty, scenario analysis has been used in conjunction with food system models to explore plausible future outcomes. Food system scenarios use a diversity of scenario types and modelling approaches determined by the purpose of the exercise and by t...

Transport at basin scales: 1. Theoretical framework A. Rinaldo, G. Botter, E. Bertuzzo, A. Uccelli, T. Settin, and M. Marani International Centre for Hydrology “Dino Tonini” and Dipartimento IMAGE, Università di Padova, via Loredan 20, 35131 Padova, Italy Received: 6 July 2005 – Accepted: 1 August 2005 – Published: 23 August 2005 Correspondence to: A. Rinaldo ([email protected]) © 2005 Au...

The distribution and movement of arsenic was investigated on the Aberjona watershed in eastern Massachusetts for the purpose of identifying where and by what processes present and past human exposures to this element could have occurred. It was found that although most of the arsenic was originally released in the headwaters of the watershed, extensive migration had occurred, and the potential ...