Civil engineering plays a key role in adapting to climate change and reducing the risk of natural disasters by implementing infrastructures, managing water resources, planning land use and promoting sustainable constructions. These actions are vital for ensuring public security and welfare, since the world is ever more affected by extreme climate phenomena.
At our school is the research group in Hydroecology (IHE), whose work is linked to ecological engineering and nature based solutions (NbS) for decontaminating waters and restoring the environment. Also, the Laboratory of Integrated Technologies for Environmental Recovery (EARTH) researches topics such as the characterisation and environmental restoration of soils contaminated by metal mining activity, bio-electrochemical technologies for recovering resources from metal mining and valorisation of vegetable resources for synthesising materials with electrochemical applications.