ICCG Best Climate Practices observatory promotes innovative solutions for water management at Ecomondo

November 8th –  2016

Aurora D’Aprile, Researcher – FEEM_ICCG/CMCC
Aurora D’Aprile joins the ICCG team as editor and web content developer. She deals with monitoring, analyzing and editing contents for ICCG publications (Climate Policy News and International Climate Policy and Carbon Markets) and for the Climate Policy Watcher observatory. She holds a Master of Arts in International Studies from Università degli Studi, Milano, Italy. She graduated magna cum laude with a final thesis on climate policy negotiations. She also collaborates as freelance editor with radio and news agencies, covering environmental and foreign policy issues.

Silvia Santato, Researcher – FEEM/CMCC/UNIVE
Silvia Santato is an environmental planner, bachelor degree in Urbanism (2007) and a European MSc in Environmental Policies and Planning (2011) from I.U.A.V. University of Venice. She recently completed a research experience at the Climate Service Center in Hamburg (2012) with the LLP_Leonardo programme where she wrote a report titled “Floods Directive and land use planning opportunities”. Five best practices and governance approaches from Germany, Italy and Switzerland are presented as examples that give more attention and importance to spatial and urban planning practices in the hydraulic risk context under climate change pressure. During her academic studies she had the opportunity to gained a master in Territorial and Population Studies at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (2008), spend a semester in Sweden at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (2009) and work as a researcher in the topic of urban regeneration at the University of Copenhagen (2009). She attended two post-graduate courses: “Protection and management of soil and water in the planning of catchment area”(2011) and “Participatory local action and sustainable urban development” (2010).