Protected Areas (PAs) are critical instruments in preserving biodiversity and, because of their high-quality environmental conditions, they have always been attractive for ecotourism, the natural-based element holiday activities that minimizes “antagonistic” impacts tourism on environment. However, many PAs lack a specific management plan or do not include future effects local human population....

The 2030 zero-net emission target in the E.U. demands a significant improvement energy performance of building stock. This study analyses adoption connected thermostats and Home energy-management system solutions (HEMS) as an effective means to tackle residential footprint. It reviews main features HEMS systems terms technology, cross-study performances, obstacles widespread adoption; adopts ca...

Scenarios are widely used to specify the desired behavior of a system, but managing the large collection of scenarios that frequently result and making a scenario-based specification complete are challenging tasks. Scenario networks address these challenges while retaining the many advantages of scenarios during software specification activities. A scenario network is a collection of scenarios ...