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14 February 2017
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Teaching is concentrated in the faculties and schools, and the departments deal with research, which is also conducted by institutes and chairs, at the same time responsible for knowledge promotion.
In this area water is treated as a resource but also as a determining environment for life on Earth. In this sense the study of its interaction with the atmosphere is a key subject for the study of the climate. On the other hand, ever since the seventies, serious worry about water as a limited resource and of diminishing quality has been present. From the initial particular vision, in the present it has undergone an integrated treatment that can only be successful if there are heterogeneous and complementary human resources. The management of the water cycle today needs consideration at several levels and an interdisciplinary approach. For this reason it is our objective that the contribution of the members and collaborators of the IMA,from different disciplines with complementary visions and experiences, can offer society far-reaching support on the subject of water.
Deepening knowledge of biological diversity, to analyse the most frequent perturbations of anthropogenic origin, their consequences, the possible performances and to promote research related to the conservation of our natural heritage with a special focus on and utilisation of the principles and methods developed from the biology of conservation and the ecology of landscape.
This area results from the concern about the impact that human activities have on the global environment, and includes both research on anthropogenic climate change and related aspects, such as energy resources. Among the objectives of the field are: to contribute to improve future climate predictions, both on a global scale and especially at a regional level; improve the knowledge of the present and past climate; to support the most extensive implementation of the use of renewable energy funds; and describe the impacts on our environment caused by climate change.
Optimum utilisation of resources and the introduction of preventive methods in the industry (reduction at the origin, valuation, recycling, reuse), as preferential over methods of correction of the problems generated. First, in the drive for cleaner production promoted by PNUMA and ONUDI, and then following the European Union directives with the best available techniques. On the other hand the training of professionals and collaboration in specific activities designed for improving the environmental conditions and the competitiveness of companies.
They are set out in the recent statement by the United Nations: 2005-2014. Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
And there are five in particular: promoting the incorporation of environmental thought and action in university professionals, design and analysis of educational methodologies that contribute to an effective environmental education of children and young people, to contribute to the social formation of an environmental ethics based on knowledge and personal reflection as social individuals and groups, to study strategies of action as a basis for the development of scientific and environmental thought and to promote civic participation in the area of sustainability.
The utilisation of specific analysis and diagnosis methodologies in order to propose new forms of planning and management of territory which can attain one suitable balances between human activities and the conservation of natural and cultural heritage. These new forms of planning and management must also serve to foster the local (integral and sustainable) development of local territorial systems defined as supra-municipal areas. And on the other hand identify the values and functions of the landscape with a special focus on the analysis, evaluation and evolution of landscapes, from a natural and cultural point of view with the aim of establishing management measures and landscape planning aimed at their conservation and/or restoration.
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