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The Transition Approach in Urban Innovations
No full textThe chapter approaches the “transition” concept, introducing in the first part the societal transition models of complex systems focusing on the most relevant aspects of the evolution of the theoretical approach (Geels, 2002). The transition initiatives and the transition management are applied to the regional and urban levels as approaches toward sustainability and climate change mitigation and adaptation issues.
Under the transition urban metaphor, a diversified range of practices that developed long-term visions, conceptual frameworks, and tools can be included. Common concepts and principles and promising strategies, solutions, and tools proposed (both by literature and disciplinary debates and by community-led activated practices) are highlighted in order to suggest emergent innovations in urban climate change issues and resilience polices and solutions
Smart, Resilient, and Transition Cities: Commonalities, Peculiarities and Hints for Future Approaches
No full textThe chapter discusses commonalities and peculiarities of the three Urban Metaphors presented in the previous chapters of this book: Smart City, Resilient City and Transition Towns, exploring meanwhile the potential for strengthening their synergies to promote integrated approaches to climate issues.
In the last decade, these Metaphors have gained, indeed, a growing attention by planners and decision-makers since all of them, although by different perspectives, aim at empowering cities in the face of the more and more interconnected challenges currently threatening them as well of the growing uncertainties arising from the ways that natural and human systems will develop and interact in the next future. In detail, in this chapter after a brief overview of the three Metaphors, we will focus on their commonalities and peculiarities, with the aim to better understand their respective roles in supporting climate strategies as well their potential synergies and conflicting aspects
Future Perspectives: Key Principles for a Climate Sensitive Urban Development
No full textThe chapter, based on the lessons learnt from both the theoretical debate and the numerous initiatives that all over the world have been undertaken policies and measures to counterbalance climate change, lists some principles which are crucial to reframe current approaches to climate issues as well as to overcome barriers and criticalities arising from policies and actions so far carried out both at large and local scale. These key principles should better guide planners and decision-makers in: promoting cross-sectoral strategies and measures to counterbalance climate change; enhancing the capacity to take into account synergies and trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures; sustaining a long-term perspective in the face of climate issues; favoring the mutual capacitation and contamination among different actors and stakeholders as well as among institutional and community-led climate strategies/initiatives; in one, in building up effective climate sensitive urban development processes
Peri-Urban/Peri-Rural Areas: Identities, Values and Strategies
No full textThe first part of this essay introduces discourses on definitions of Peri-Urban/Peri-Rural areas underlining main existing and consolidated approaches and needs towards a renovated conceptual reframing able to emphasise the "transitional" values of these areas. A renovated approach needs a realignment of existing methods and solution in the different spheres characterising the transformation process. Based on the "ecotone" metaphor to emphasise specific characteristics of urban-rural transitional buffer, the second part underlines main opportunities offered by Peri-Urban areas in a Nexus and integrated approach. Opportunities of innovation related to the whole process of interpretation, design and implementation/management of polices and projects aiming an improvement of resilience of Peri-Urban/Peri-Rural areas and regional territorial systems (Colucci 2012)
Drawing Lessons From Experience
No full textIn this chapter, strengths and weaknesses of institutional and ‘transition’ initiatives/practices examined in previous sections of this book will be discussed, shedding light on what we can learn from current experiences. In detail, the first paragraph will focus on large scale climate strategies presented in section 2, outlining the different approaches to climate issues, the weights assigned to mitigation and adaptation policies and, above, all the main barriers hindering their effectiveness. The second and third paragraphs will focus on the case studies presented respectively in section 3 and 4. In detail, strengths and weaknesses of the examined case studies will be presented according to different research issues: the role of the three considered urban metaphors (Smart City, Resilient City, Transition Towns) in framing/supporting current practices; the present level of integration among mitigation and adaptation practices; the capacity to mainstream mitigation and adaptation practices into urban planning processes; the emerging governance models and, above all, the factors currently hindering the cities’ paths towards effective climate policies
Protection of Peri-Urban Open Spaces and Food-System Strategies. The Case of Parco delle Risaie in Milan
No full textFood-system planning is a planning approach focused on the elements that are directly or indirectly involved in food production, including the effects of these processes on territories and cities. A strategy for protecting peri-urban green areas aligned with the food-system planning approach is being adopted in the metropolitan area of Milan, in Parco delle Risaie. This article outlines the planning process underlying the establishment of Parco delle Risaie, where peri-urban space protection strategies have been integrated with food-system planning strategies, such as the creation of a local food chain and the promotion of multifunctional farming activities
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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