RESULTS

Deliverables

D2.1 Report on climate change constraints Muzza system. Link
D2.2 Climate change perception in Italy. Link
D2.3 The Muzza system characterization and management. Link
D4.2a Policy brief #1. How do irrigation districts perceive climate change? Key issues for action. Link EN version Link IT version
D4.2b. Policy brief #2. Climate change at farm level: perceptions and behavior. Link EN version Link IT version

Publications

Ricart S., Castelletti A., Gandolfi C. (2022). On farmers’ perceptions of climate change and its nexus with climate data and adaptive capacity. A comprehensive review. Environmental Research Letters 17: 083002. Link
Ricart S., Gandolfi C., Castelletti A. (2023). Climate change awareness, perceived impacts, and adaptation from farmers’ experience and behavior: A triple-loop review. Regional Environmental Change 23: 82. Link
Ricart S., Gandolfi C., Castelletti A. (2024). How do irrigation district managers deal with climate change risks? Considering experiences, tipping points, and risk normalization in northern Italy. Climate Risk Management 44: 100598. Link
Ricart S., Gandolfi C., Castelletti A. (2024). Targeting farmers’ heterogeneity to enrich climate change adaptation policy design: findings from northern Italy. Environmental Intelligence Climate 3: 031001. Link

Conference Proceedings

Ricart S., Gazzotti P., Castelletti A. (2024). Unveiling behavioral heterogeneity: An Agent-Based Model exploration of farmers decision-making in the face of climate change. In 33th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO24). June 30th-July 3rd, Copenhagen, Denmark. Technical University of Denmark.
Ricart S., Gazzotti P., Castelletti A. (2024). Social data, narratives, and agent-based modelling to explore farmers’ behaviour and lcimate change actions. In 202CM Conference on Overcoming obstacles to climate change mitigation: a cross-cutting approach by human and social sciences. May 23-24th, Louvain-in-Neuve, Belgium. UCLouvain and JPI Climate.
Ricart S., Gazzotti P., Gandolfi C., Castelletti A. (2024). Merging social learning and behavior modelling to reinforce farmers adaptation to climate change. In European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU24). April 14-19th, Vienna, Austria. European Geosciences Union.
Gazzotti P., Ricart S., Gandolfi C., Castelletti A. (2024). Modeling heterogeneous farmers’ response to climate change via agent-based simulation. In European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU24). April 14-19th, Vienna, Austria. European Geosciences Union.
Ricart S., Gazzotti P., Ferrari L., Gandolfi C., Castelletti A. (2023). Combining farmers’ heterogeneity and risk preferences in the ABNexus model to reinforce behavior modelling and decision-making processes. In American Geosciences Union Fall Meeting 2023 (AGU23). December 11-15th, hybrid mode, San Francisco, United States. Link
Ricart S., Ferrari L., Gazzotti P., Castelletti A. (2023). Clustering farmers’ adaptation preferences to face climate change in northern Italy. In SISC 11th Annual Conference. Mission adaptation: Managing the risk and building resilience. November 22-24th, Milan, Italy. Società Italiana per le Scienze del Clima. Link
Ricart S., Gazzotti P., Castelletti A. (2023). Social-learning processes and behaviour modelling to reinforce climate change and policy design. In World Symposium on climate change policies: Science and technology in support of policy-making in climate change mitigation and adaptation. September 19th, hybrid mode, Manchester, UK. Manchester Metropolitan University, among others. Link
Ricart S., Gazzotti P., Ferrari L., Gandolfi C., Castelletti A. (2023). Integrating farmers’ risk aversion in climate change behavioral modelling to improve decision-making processes. In European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU23). April 23-28th, hybrid mode, Vienna, Austria. European Geosciences Union. Link
Ferrari L., Ricart S., Gandolfi C., Castelletti A. (2023). Underlying farmers’ storylines and behaviour on climate change to reinforce risk assessment in northern Italy. In European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU23). April 23-28th, hybrid mode, Vienna, Austria. European Geosciences Union. Link
Ricart S., Castelletti A., Gandolfi C. (2022). Combining farmers and irrigation consortia’s perspectives on climate change to reduce risk aversion and reinforce policy making at the regional scale. In American Geosciences Union Fall Meeting 2022 (AGU22). December 12-16th, hybrid mode, Chicago, United States. American Geophysical Union. Link
Ricart S., Gazzotti P., Gandolfi C., Castelletti A. (2022). Integrating agent-based modelling and behavioural data analytics. A case study of climate change farmers’ perception in Italy. In Social Simulation Conference 2022 (SSC22). September 12-16th, hybrid mode, Milan, Italy. European Social Simulation Association (ESSA). Link
Ricart S., Gandolfi C., Castelletti A. (2022). Climate change risk and farmers’ behavior: Testing main driving factors from social learning in northern Italy. In Frontiers in Hydrology Meeting 2022 (FIHM22). June 19-25th, hybrid mode, San Juan, Puerto Rico. American Geophysics Union. Link
Ricart S., Gazzotti P., Gandolfi C., Castelletti A. (2022). A triple-loop survey to delve into physical climate storylines and address climate risk management: Learning from farmers’ perception and behaviour in northern Italy. In Scenarios Forum 2022. June 20-22th, hybrid mode, Vienna, Austria. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Link
Ricart S., Gandolfi C., Castelletti A. (2022). Contrasting farmers’ perception of climate change and climatic data: How (in)consistency supports risk reduction and resilience? In European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU22). May 23-27th, hybrid mode, Vienna, Austria. European Geosciences Union. Link
Ricart S. (2022). Farmers’ attitudes regarding climate change: How risk awareness and perception effects adaptive capacity? In MCAA Annual Conference. March 26-27th, Lisbon and online. Marie Curie Alumni Association. Link
Ricart S., Castelletti A., Gandolfi, C. (2021). Social-learning from farmers’ experience and behavior: A triple-loop analysis on climate change awareness, perceived impacts, and adaptation. In American Geosciences Union Fall meeting (AGU21). December 13-17th, hybrid mode, New Orleans, Los Angeles, United States. American Geosciences Union. Link
Ricart S., Castelletti A. (2021). Exploring socio-natural factors of farmers’ adaptation: A review on risk awareness and perception towards climate change. In SISC 9th Annual Conference. Accelerating climate change. A just transition in a post-covid era. September 22-24th, online. Società Italiana per le Scienze del Clima. Link
Ricart S., Castelletti A. (2021). Social surveys to support personal experience in human-water-climate change interactions. A review on farmers’ behaviour. In I International Conference on Sociohydrology. Engaging social scientists & water professionals to address the SDGs. September 6-8th, hybrid mode, Delft, The Netherlands. TU Delft, IHE, Wageningen University, University of Twente, and Utrecht University. Link
Ricart S., Castelletti A. (2021). The Hydrosocial Cycle approach to deepen on socio-ecological systems analysis and water management. In European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU21). April 19-30th, online. European Geosciences Union. Link
Ricart S. (2021). Modelling individual farmers behaviours in Coupled Human-Nature Systems under changing climate and society. In MCAA Annual Conference. March 5-7th, online. Marie Curie Alumni Association. Link
Ricart S., Castelletti A. (2021). How far is climate change adaptation policy from practice? Contrasting the effectiveness and acceptance of local and regional strategies in irrigated agricultural systems in Northern Italy. In Water Security and climate change Conference (WSCC21). March 1-4th, online, Hanoi, Vietnam. Vietnam Academy for Water Resources and TH Koln University of Applied Sciences. Link

Fieldwork

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