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Elementi di Botanica forestale
2012
New antimicrobial peptides from Tirmania pinoyi and Terfezia boudieri in the struggle against antibiotic resistance
2017
Antibiotic resistance of common pathogenic microorganisms is a topic of great concern that has finally received media attention and entered into the political agenda of world leaders. Drug-resistant bacteria are cause of thousands of deaths worldwide, then there is an urgent need for new antimicrobials, otherwise we risk losing the ability to control effectively the infectious diseases. Such emergence can be faced looking also at not usual source of antimicrobial agents, for example medicinal mushrooms. With the objective to tackle Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens, we focused on two edible desert truffles mushrooms Tirmania pinoyi and Terfezia boudieri as origin of new antimicrobia…
Sustainable management systems to prevent and adaptat to desertification: Case Studies from the LIFE Desert Adapt project
2021
Around 40% of the ice-free terrestrial surface is under desertification risk, and the Mediterranean is one of the most sensible regions. Concomitantly, most areas occupied by agriculture suffer from lack of organic matter in the soil, as well as very low tree cover, making them more vulnerable to climate change. The LIFE (Desert Adapt) project aims to develop a desert adaptation model to enhance resistence and resilience of farms, both public and private, to desertification by appliyng an integrative sustainable land management in Italy, Spain and Portugal. In Italy three sites in Sicily are involved, two private areas in Caltanissetta and Catagirone and the municiaplity of Lampedusa.The mo…
Bird abundance and richness in ten Mediterranean agroforestry systems
2019
Since the last century agriculture is strongly promoting the simplification of the landscape. The LIFE Desert Adapt project is been developed across 1000 hectares in Italy, Spain, Portu-gal and has the objective of implementing integrative agroforestry-based land use planning and management, and one of the indicators to evaluate the project effectiveness is birds richness and abundance. Here we present the results of the first assessment and explore the relationships with the main vegetation cover types. We established 68 sampling points where we recorded bird abundance and richness. In total we registered 57 bird species, sampling points surrounded by woodlands presented 50 species, while …
The transformation of agricultural systems into agro-forestry systems as a system of adaptation to climate and economic changes: some Sicilian case s…
2021
Many traditional agricultural systems show different limits both in ecological and economic terms. These limits are exacerbated by the increasingly extreme climatic conditions which in the southern regions are manifested essentially in a concentration of rainfall and in increasingly intense dry periods. As part of the LIFE (Desert Adapt) project, some companies involved in the project are modifying their cultivation systems without changing the land use destination. This appears possible by introducing elements of diversification which make the system more resilient as a whole but which guarantees safer economic resources. In particular, in the case of a "classic" agricultural company Calta…
The transformation of agricultural systems into agro-forestry systems as a mechanism of adaptation to climate and economic changes: some Sicilian cas…
2021
Many traditional agricultural systems show different limits both in ecological and economic terms. These limits are exacerbated by the increasingly extreme climatic conditions which in the southern regions are manifested essentially in a concentration of rainfall and in increasingly intense dry periods. As part of the LIFE (Desert Adapt) project, some companies involved in the project are modifying their cultivation systems without changing the land use destination. This appears possible by introducing elements of diversification which make the system more resilient as a whole but which guarantees safer economic resources. In particular, in the case of a "classic" agricultural company Calta…
Suolo, Risorsa di Paesaggio
2012
Prosperare al di là del merito: il senso della nemesis in Aristotele tra giustizia distributiva e giustizia correttiva
2017
L’articolo prende in esame quella particolare forma di indignazione che Aristotele indica, nel secondo libro della Retorica, con l’infinito sostantivato to nemesan, derivato dal termine nemesis. Si tratta della reazione che si genera in un animo nobile contro chi prospera al di là del merito. Il sostantivo e i suoi derivati risultano poco usati in età classica e ricorre più frequentemente nell’epica omerica e in Esiodo. Aristotele sembra recuperarlo proprio dalla tradizione poetica arcaica, assegnandogli un ruolo nella sua riflessione sulla giustizia e in particolare nella differenza tra la forma distributiva e quella correttiva. Egli individua così in questa forma di indignazione, un’emozi…
Oasi nel deserto. La poetica dello spazio negli scritti sbarbariani dal fronte
2012
Nelle lunghe pause della guerra di trincea – definita un «Sahara di automatismo e di imbecillità» - Sbarbaro è tenacemente volto a ritagliarsi «oasi» di silenzio per leggere, comporre, e persino raccogliere le sue amate piante. Lungi dalla ricerca di un’alternativa alla barbarie in senso misticheggiante, il poeta ligure rimane ancorato alla contingenza empirica; quest’ultima emblematizzata appunto dall’oasi, linea divisoria, seppur labile e precaria, fra ordine e disordine, cosmos e caos.
Alcune figure della diserzione nell'opera di Pavese
2022
Deserting Characters in Pavese’s Work ∙ Pavese’s experience of World War ii has been widely controversial. Anti-fascist without joining the Italian Resistance, Pavese reimagines his nonparticipation to the confict across several of his post-1945 works. The essay ofers a thematic reading on deserting fgures in some poems from La terra e la morte, in I due (included in Dialogues with Leucò), in the novel The House on the Hill. The reading brings out the torn and evolving development of the issue of deserting in Pavese’s oeuvre.