e80d1cc0-03cb-44fa-b804-4ab548942601 Ev-K2-CNR +39 035 3230513 +39 035 3230551 Via San Bernardino 145 Bergamo BG 24126 Italy metadata@evk2cnr.org http://www.evk2cnr.org WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link 2019-12-04T19:16:44 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 WGS 1984 SHARE- SERA – Smart Ecosustainable Residential Area 2014-01-01T00:00:00 Several territories, e.g. high mountain areas in developing Countries, are significantly influenced by climate change, increase of human activities and tourism. Impacting fuels, together with bad daily habits and obsolete technologies, cause often high levels of indoor air pollution; this reduces the quality of life and determines a number of respiratory diseases especially in elderly people, women and children. Moreover the increase in touristic inflow contributed to a progressive deforestation, and the consequent alteration of the hydro-geological system, and to the accumulation of waste. SERA project aims at promoting useful strategies for sustainable development of high altitude territories, through an energy and environmental planning, in accordance with the Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly concerning the sustainable mountain development (UN, A/Res/62/196, 2008). For this purpose a thorough analysis has to be conducted to identify the specific features of reference context from several points of view. On this basis, two main key actions can be carried out: - Survey on possible energy efficiency measures, proposal and experimentation of technical/technological solutions, which may be integrated with the local territory, in order to meet population needs, in terms of simplicity of realization, use of local materials, environmental compatibility, exploitation of available renewable energies and indoor air quality improvement. The best solutions will be chosen on the basis of technical-economic feasibility studies and their impact during the entire life cycle. - Definition of guide lines about sustainable development of territory and active support to local Government and Authorities for adopting correct policies aimed to a low environmental impact energy planning, through a “sharing” process of scientific knowledge gained during the project. A pilot project should be implemented to test technological innovation for energy efficiency and renewable sources. This phase is extremely important for its repeatability and visibility, and could mobilize resources for further upgrade and replication in wider areas. Latest information about SERA project: Khumbu Valley was selected as reference context and a thorough analysis was conducted to identify its specific features; at the same time, a survey on efficiency solutions has been started, concerning building sector, renewable energies and distributed generation. To support the experimental development stage and the creation of a pilot repeatable project, an on-site investigation was organized in Chaurikharka village (Sagarmatha zone, Solukhumbu district, 27° 41’ 48” N, 86° 43’ 17” E, 2,660 m a.s.l.) from November 17 to December 3, 2013. The village and its inhabitants have been the focus of a cross assessment, aimed to: - Detect the presence of markers of early atherosclerosis with ultrasound and estimate the value of systolic pulmonary pressure (Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council of Italy, Pisa, Italy). - Analyse respiratory function and health, by means of spirometry and a validated questionnaire; measure the indoor carbon monoxide (Biomedical Sport Studies Center, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy). - Continuous indoor measurements of Black Carbon and ambient aerosol number size distribution (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council of Italy, Bologna, Italy). - Energy and structural audit, in order to get the housing main features of the village (construction types, lifestyle and customs are useful to design technological eco-sustainable solutions as well as integrated within the local context). This phase was directly on charge of Perugia University. The main objectives related to the implementation of this project are: - Assessing the specific features of reference context from environment, economical, social and institutional points of view. - Survey on possible efficiency measures, proposal and experimentation of technical/technological solutions. - Selection of best actions on the basis of technical-economic feasibility studies. - Monitoring of achieved results through the application of sustainable measures. - “Sharing” process of scientific knowledge with local institutions and research centres. - Comparison between current scenario with the ex-post prevision, in order to highlight the positive advantages of these management and planning logics from several points of view: environmental, health and well-being of people. - Creation of a pilot repeatable project of international interest. Stefania Proietti Guglielmo Marconi University Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technologies +39 349 3996936 Via Plinio, 44 Rome RM 00193 Italy s.proietti@unimarconi.it Paolo Sdringola University of Perugia Department of Engineering +39 075 5853740 +39 075 5853740 Via G.Duranti, 93 Perugia PG 06125 italy paolo.sdringola@outlook.com https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=e80d1cc0-03cb-44fa-b804-4ab548942601&fname=IMG_2369_s.png thumbnail png https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=e80d1cc0-03cb-44fa-b804-4ab548942601&fname=IMG_2369.JPG large_thumbnail JPG SHARE indoor air pollution climate change clean technologies Chaurkarka Village Nepal Khumbu Valley SERA boundaries 86.503 86.974 27.4525 28.1044 You can customize the template to suit your needs. You can add and remove fields and fill out default information (e.g. contact details). 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