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Sostenibilità e Rigenerazione Urbana
No full textLa rigenerazione urbana è un tema rilevante nella pratica urbanistica, ma soprattutto può essere intesa a tutti gli effetti una politica per uno sviluppo sostenibile delle città.
Recuperare gli spazi abbandonati dai processi produttivi o restituire nuova qualità ambientale, economica e sociale a quartieri degradati risponde perfettamente al concetto della città sostenibile, limitando la dispersione urbana e riducendo gli impatti ambientali insiti nell’ambiente costruito. Il consumo di suolo, non precedentemente urbanizzato, pone infatti la questione dei costi vivi diretti e indiretti per l’ambiente, che non possono essere sottovalutati se la prospettiva in cui ci poniamo è quella della sostenibilità.
Altro tema di rilievo per la rigenerazione urbana è la costruzione di opportuni processi decisionali inclusivi. La partecipazione dei cittadini, come si argomenta nel testo è sicuramente un elemento importante su due piani: da una parte per individuare, appoggiare, sviluppare e sostenere politiche di sostenibilità, dall’altra come strumento per giungere a soluzioni condivise. Va detto però che la partecipazione per essere efficace ed efficiente ha necessità di essere una pratica continua e ricorrente.
Il volume affronta teoricamente il tema della rigenerazione urbana, ripercorrendo l’evoluzione delle pratiche sviluppate negli ultimi decenni da due città europee, Copenhagen e Londra, non trascurando un’attenta riflessione sugli strumenti di pianificazione ordinaria
Planning Scenarios in Delta Po area
No full textPlanning systems would try to address climate change effects introducing in planning regulatory schemes different indicators related both with energy consumes and to land exploitation, to figure out from one side possible impacts in terms of mitigation procedures, from the other evaluating the decrease of resilience of built and natural environment (Musco, 2009).
In an environmental sensitive area as a river delta, planning can acquire a more strategic responsibility to coordinate actors expectations, policies implementation and local experimentation. Often defined as a weak territory, the Po Delta is today facing problems like the shrinking of its population, the uncertainty of its economy and the effects of environmental phenomena/disturbances intensified by climate change. For example in the last four years the saline wedge entering from the sea into the river basin increased its intensity creating unexpected problems for local activities, agriculture in particularly.
Planning scenario of Delta Po is still quite fragmented and suffered from a discontinuous policy commitment since the institution of the Delta Po Park Authority in 1997. After a long and conflictual planning process the Piano del Parco defining the definitive perimeter of the park is going to be approved in the next weeks but the local needs of development and the general necessity of a strong environmental action seem to be far to find proper and comprehensive solutions for the area.
From a different perspective a generous support in protection and sustainable development policies comes from the Management Plan for the “SPA IT3270023 Delta Po” belonging to the Nature 2000 network. The definition of this plan would open a new perspective of Delta Po integrated and crossing issues policies. In comparison with the Piano del Parco, the SPA Management Plan had a less controversial and shorter planning process (less than two year). The draft version of the Plan presented to the Regional government authority at the end of July 2010 includes a number of conservation measures and local economy supporting issues trying to meet the request of balance coming from local actors in terms of development and environmental protection (Regione Veneto, 2010).
The SPA Management plan could be the very beginning base for a stronger spatial arrangement, a support to biological diversity, a general help to hydraulic effectiveness and productivity of this territory. Which will be the future planning scenario for the Po Delta in a new climate scenario? Which aspects of climate protection policies can enter in the near future in the planning processes? Which is the possible role of the different level of governments
Local Governmentrs responding to climate change: addressing mitigation and adaptation in small and medium sized communities
No full textSince 1993 local climate protection has become a subject of a growing interest both in Europe and internationally, with a strong focus on climate change mitigation. This was also the year ICLEI’s Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Campaign was launched. Since then there has been an emerging movement of local governments implementing pioneering actions in various fields to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. More recently the need to adapt to a changing climate has been recognised as an essential element in local responses, to address the impact of climate change and improve community resilience to inevitable changes. The focus of the paper is on small and medium-sized communities, because smaller local governments tend to remain outside the debates on climate change and energy consumption, which is addressed by the metropolitan areas and world capitals. Their challenges are numerous and include a lack of capacity, i.e. staff and finances, and a more limited awareness on their potential impact of climate change, which tends to (still) be more loudly discussed in scientific circles than in the circle where direct impact is expected. However, in smaller communities there is also greater flexibility to test and demonstrate responses – so there is a wide variety of good practices that have been developed in smaller towns
Caring the commons: politiche energetiche, agricole e ambientali per la gestione dei beni comuni in Polesine
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recensione di Beatley Timothy (2000), Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities, Island Press, Washington D.C
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