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“Lost in translation” nelle scienze regionali. Il ricercatore inter-disciplinare: chi è costui?
No full textOsservazioni e riflessioni sull'interdisciplinarietà nell'insegnamento e nella ricerca nel campo delle scienze regionali, e nel campo delle scienze sociali più in generale
Is relocation a good answer to prevent risk? Criteria to help decision makers choose candidates for relocation in areas exposed to high hydrogeological hazards
No full textThe paper illustrates the results of a research mandated by the regional government of Lombardia, Italy, to identify criteria to decide in what situations relocation from areas subject to high levels of hydrogeological hazards is a viable preventive strategy.
Until now most of the laws to prevent risks have imposed limitations to building and development in hazardous areas, while very rarely they have focused on already existing settlements. This time, the Region is thinking of a law to promote preventive relocation in the most critical situations, where structural measures have failed a number of times and losses are frequent and large.
Four set of criteria have been proposed, shaped according to different geographical scales and to different demands, recognizing that relocation is a rather extreme solution, that must be carefully evaluated and proposed to interested parts and citizens.
Those criteria have been applied to assess some specific cases in the Lombardia Region and to identify potential candidates for relocation in the whole Region, by querying a complex database that was prepared integrating layers representing hydrogeological hazards on one side and exposed settlements on the other
[ECO]systems of Resilience Practices: Contributions for Sustainability and Climate Change Adaptation
No full textEcosystems of Resilience Practices: Contributions for Sustainability and Climate Change Adaptation focuses on resilience in action by exploring and providing approaches, perspectives, toolboxes, and theoretical discourses for the improvement and enhancement of territorial and community resilience practices towards sustainability and climate change mitigation/adaptation. The book develops a set of tools and design criteria to support the dissemination of resilience practices. This new toolset will support the expansion and reinforcement of resilience practices and the building of solutions related to climate change. The book is divided into three sections: Section one investigates the contribution this kind of resilience approach could have on sustainable development goals as related to climate change. It also includes other environmental challenges such as ecosystem resilience in the face of climate change. Chapters dedicated to exploring the issues for a renovated governance of territorial transformation processes are included. Section two focuses on the eco-systems of resilience practices characterization, including discourses on international networking of transitions initiatives. Section three presents operative guidelines, instruments, and proposals for the resilience practices "stabilization," "blooming," and "up scaling," aiming at a more effective and consistent contribution of resilience practices in reaching sustainability, adaptation goals, and scenarios at local and global scales. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Challenges for sustainability: fostering [eco]systems of resilience practices contribution
No full textThe chapter retraces the core themes characterizing the resilience practices' exploration proposed in the [Eco]system of Resilience Practices Book, emphasizing the core strategies to fostering the contribution of the practice toward long-term sustainable development goals at local and global levels boosting the resilience capacities of territorial and urban systems. Section 17.1 discusses the advancements emerging from the exploration of resilience practices presented in the book, moving from the core threats for commons and the institutional diversity that Elinor Ostrom envisaged. The aim is to compare the threats and barriers highlighted by Ostrom with the results from the resilience practices investigations presented, discussing the perspectives and the existing barriers. Section 17.2 focuses on the [eco]system of practices concepts as networking structures underlining perspectives to overcome the criticalities and dilemmas previously suggested and highlighted by the authors in presenting initiatives and conceptual reframing discourses. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Organizational (creative) diversity. Dilemmas and perspectives of governance processes for complex systems resilience
No full textThe chapter aims to discuss the dilemma and outline advancements and perspectives on the relevance of organizational creative diversity in supporting the urban transition processes toward more sustainable, adaptive, and resilient urban complex systems focusing on the resilience practices contribution and role. The chapter assumes the relevant role and contribution of resilience practices in achieving sustainable development goals. Resilient practices are heterogeneous entities experimenting with creative solutions to address local emergencies implementing innovative models. The chapter investigates the crosscutting questions about the governance of the transition process, breaking up this wicked problem along with the scales of governance processes. The micro or endogenous scale refers to the quality and robustness of the process activated by single practice; the meso or endogenous scale includes the questions on networking among practices and the ones on integration with the institutional-led policies, programs, and plans. The macroscale addresses the theoretical and ethical questions that emerge assuming the "resilience practices" as the third actor in the governance process. The different scales imply different discourses on the governance of the socio-ecological system transformation process. In conclusion the chapter highlights the potentialities, focusing on the conditions and opportunities to recognize a role to resilient practices in long-term transition processes toward a more sustainable, resilient, aware, and adaptive society and territorial systems. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Creative diversity: facing Anthropocene challenges fostering resilience capacities
No full textDiversity and heterogeneity emerge as recurrent characteristics of resilient practices. The chapter moves from this perspective, emphasizing the relevance of creative diversity and redundancy proprieties' contribution to urban and territorial innovation. The creative diversity is the fil rouge adopted in retracing the resilience concept applied to territorial systems. The chapter reframes the resilience approaches focusing on the characterizing properties as inspirations in urban and territorial solutions design. It recognizes the creative diversity and redundancy as crosscutting properties that provide a common conceptual umbrella to the heterogeneous resilience practices and boost a more solid and explicit contribution of the resilience practices into the transition process toward more resilient, adaptive, and sustainable urban and territorial systems. The creative diversity is explored along four spheres connecting emerging approaches to urban public life, urban regeneration, and resilience practices. The four spheres or spaces for urban creative diversity are space for nature (ecological diversity and evolution and functional diversity of green spaces for wellness), space for social diversity (creativity of all and the functional creative diversity in public life), spaces for functional diversity (boosting creative economic diversity and urban models innovation), and organizational and creative diversity of governance processes and knowledge. The aim is to connect emerging phenomena from resilience practices geographies and promising action domains for urban resilience enhancement. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Resilience Practices Observatory project: synergies for stabilization and upscaling
No full textThis chapter outlines the fundamental considerations that emerged after 5 years of the Resilience Practices Observatory (RPO) project. The RPO engaged more than 100 different community-led practices acting to improve local resilience capacities and about 30 applied research and institutional-led initiatives. The success in engaging the practices in the RPO activities demonstrated the urgency and need for a shared space of networking, dialog, and learning among resilience practices. RPO provided a shared space and framework to resilience practices supporting the visibility and the exchange sharing experiences and learning, a structured place to rethink their experience, and a space to understand the role not locally but as process and contribution. This chapter introduces principal barriers in resilience practices implementation and discusses the four emerging core aspects enabling the practices stabilization and upscaling, improving the contribution to large-scale transition toward sustainable and resilient territorial systems. The capacity improvement, the knowledge and awareness dissemination and integration, the networking and multilevel innovative governance models, and economic aspects are discussed, presenting both the emerging characteristics from the RPO practices analyzed and providing perspectives for practices contribution and benefits fostering. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Resilience practices observatory project: emerging phenomena and lessons earned
No full textThe chapter presents the Resilience Practices Observatory (RPO) project emphasizing the research approach’s dynamic process.
Section 5.1 introduces the RPO project, the aims, and the trajectories of activities developed in four years of activity. Section 5.2 focuses on the aspects of coproduction developed with specific attention to the Resilience Practices Forums as tools to promote the role of community-led practices in the transition process of territorial sustainability and the hybridization and contamination among different action domains of resilience practices and different spheres of knowledge and action (academic and research, associations and actions, institution and public, private sectors’ initiatives).
Section 5.3 presents an overview of the practices engaged in the RPO project introducing the databases developed and describing the geographies, the governance models and processes, the urgencies/lever and issues of action, and the tools domains characterizing the about 150 resilience practices engaged in the RPO project
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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