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Special Issue Bridging the Gap. The Measure of Urban Resilience
Full text linkOver the last few years, resilience has emerged as a “new way of thinking” for dealing with cities’ uncertainties and challenges. As promoted by UN Sustainable Development Goal 11, urban resilience is increasingly seen as a driver for change. At the same time, resilience is commonly criticized for being too ambiguous and an “empty signifier”, as it is difficult to operationalize it. Although several frameworks have been already proposed to “capturing resilience” in both the academic and public discourse, the existing approaches are confined to measure specific disturbances so that less attention has been directed to consider resilience as a continually changing process. In a nutshell, the developed methods of resilient metrics are set indicators of what is easy to measure rather than what is important. This Special Issue seeks to synthesize the state-of-the-art knowledge on theories and practices on measuring urban resilience. In particular, we are particularly interested in both empirical and theoretical papers that address one or more of the following questions: What are the theoretical perspectives of measuring urban resilience? How can urban resilience a property to be measured? What are the existing models and methods for measuring urban resilience? What are the main features that a method for measuring urban resilience need to have to guide properly adaptation and territorial governance? What is the role of measuring urban resilience in operationalizing cities’ ability to adapt, recover and benefit from shocks
Patrimonio ambientale e transizione ecologica nei progetti di rigenerazione urbana e dei territori
Full text linkLe sfide ambientali poste dal cambiamento climatico, dalla frammentazione degli ecosistemi, dalle diffuse condizioni di vulnerabilità territoriale e dai livelli insostenibili di distribuzione e consumo delle risorse rimandano ad un radicale cambiamento di prospettiva nei paradigmi cognitivi e negli approcci al progetto per la rigenerazione urbana e dei territori. In risposta ai dirompenti fenomeni in atto a scala globale, esito delle crescenti dinamiche di urbanizzazione e di degrado della biodiversità, sono diversi e consolidati gli accordi e le strategie europee e internazionali che promuovono la messa in atto di un processo di transizione ecologica, verso un nuovo modello di sviluppo e di organizzazione territoriale orientato alla neutralità climatica al 2050. Il patrimonio naturale diviene componente generativa dell’auspicato processo di transizione ecologica, con l’intento di comprendere e incorporare il recupero della biodiversità e la valorizzazione delle risorse ambientali nel progetto per la rigenerazione di città e territori
Patrimonio ambientale e transizione ecologica nei progetti di rigenerazione urbana e dei territori – Atti della XXV Conferenza Nazionale SIU – Società Italiana degli Urbanisti – Transizioni, giustizia spaziale e progetto di territorio. Vol. 4
No full textLe sfide ambientali poste dal cambiamento climatico, dalla frammentazione degli ecosistemi, dalle diffuse condizioni di vulnerabilità territoriale e dai livelli insostenibili di distribuzione e consumo delle risorse rimandano ad un radicale cambiamento di prospettiva nei paradigmi cognitivi e negli approcci al progetto per la rigenerazione urbana e dei territori. In risposta ai dirompenti fenomeni in atto a scala globale, esito delle crescenti dinamiche di urbanizzazione e di degrado della biodiversità, sono diversi e consolidati gli accordi e le strategie europee e internazionali che promuovono la messa in atto di un processo di transizione ecologica, verso un nuovo modello di sviluppo e di organizzazione territoriale orientato alla neutralità climatica al 2050. Il patrimonio naturale diviene componente generativa dell’auspicato processo di transizione ecologica, con l’intento di comprendere e incorporare il recupero della biodiversità e la valorizzazione delle risorse ambientali nel progetto per la rigenerazione di città e territori
Gli indicatori di misura delle vulnerabilità socio-economiche per la resilienza territoriale
No full textThis paper proposes a reflection on the development of a set of indicators to measure socio-economic vulnerabilities, developed as part of the research project Measuring Resilience of the Research Center R3C (Turin Polytechnic). The set of indicators is finalised to support the decision-making process to identify the most critical areas of the city and to define urban and territorial policies
Smart evaluation and integrated design in regional development. Territorial scenarios in Trentino, Italy
No full textRecensione del volume: "Smart evaluation and integrated design in regional development. Territorial scenarios in Trentino, Italy", edited by Grazia Brunetta, Farnham and Burlington, Ashgate, 2015, 128 pp., £ 60, (Hardback) ISBN 978147244583
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Urban Resilience for Risk and Adaptation Governance. Theory and Practices
No full textThe book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal approach with regard to the role of spatial planning in promoting and fostering risk management as well as institutions’ challenges for governing risk, particularly in relation to new forms of multi-level governance that may include stakeholders and citizen engagement. The different contributions focus on approaches, policies, and practices able to contrast risks in urban systems generating social inclusion, equity, and participation through bottom-up governance forms and co-evolution principles. Case studies focus on lessons learned, as well as the potential and means for
their replication and upscaling, also through capacity building and knowledge transfer. Among many other topics, the book explores difficulties encountered in, and creative solutions found, community and local experiences and capacities, organizational processes and integrative institutional, technical approaches to risk issue in cities
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