This paper features an analysis of country level data generated by the COVID-19 pandemic as revealed in related to deaths, populations, infections, recovered cases, and tests, for a global sample 208 countries, plus measures their policy responsiveness relative preparedness. A subsample 39 OECD countries is also analysed assessment including GDP per capita, indices specific trust levels, The cu...

Venice Lagoon has a complex relationship with the many economic activities it hosts: tourism, oil refineries, a logistics hub, agriculture, households, and fisheries heavily affect the condition of the lagoon. At the same time, they all strongly rely on the environmental services it provides. Against a situation where each economic sector is simultaneously cause and victim of such “disturbances...

The exposure of the Venice lagoon (Italy) to endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) from different sources was investigated. Spatial and time distribution of EDC concentrations were determined in four sampling sessions (December 2001-May 2002) by solid phase extraction followed by high-performance liquid chromatography separation coupled with mass spectrometry detection via electrospray interfac...

In 2011, using the recently developed mobile technology of geolocated augmented reality (AR), the author was the primary organizer of two interventions into art biennials: in Venice together with Sander Veenhof and Mark Skwarek for our cyberartist group Manifest.AR (Manifest.AR blog 2013) and in Istanbul in collaboration with the Istanbul design team (PATTU 2013). With geolocated AR artists can...