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Human Circular Tourism as the Tourism of Tomorrow: The Role of Travellers in Achieving a More Sustainable and Circular Tourism
No full textNowadays, the challenge of sustainability is increasingly played out in cities, which represent the favoured field of action to implement strategies and actions for supporting the transition towards a more human and ecological development paradigm. The problems caused by the current economic model (linear model) are even more stressed today due to the effects produced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The tourism sector (one of the world’s major economic sectors and, thus, one of the main players in the development dynamics) is one of the economic sectors that has been the most negatively impacted by the pandemic. In this study, Human Circular Tourism (HCT) is proposed as a strategy to move towards a more sustainable future and, thus, reduce the negative impacts produced by the tourism sector. In particular, the objective of this paper is to understand the awareness of travellers (one of the categories of actors involved in the tourism experience) regarding sustainable and circular tourism in order to support local governments in the elaboration and implementation of strategies and actions towards more sustainable and circular tourism. To this end, a survey was conducted. In particular, a questionnaire was developed and submitted to a sample of tourists from all over the world to understand their behaviours and perceptions in their tourist experiences. From a critical analysis of the results, it emerges that there is a growing awareness of issues related to the concept of sustainability, especially in relation to the major issues of climate change and people’s health. This perception has certainly been influenced by the health emergency from COVID-19, but the sample of interviewees reveals that much still needs to be invested in increasing their awareness of the complexity of the factors involved in more sustainable, circular, and human-centred tourism. Therefore, starting from this, possible future prospects for the tourism sector from the circular economy perspective are here identified
The Multidimensional Evaluation of Cultural Heritage Regeneration Projects: A Proposal for Integrating Level(s) Tool—The Case Study of Villa Vannucchi in San Giorgio a Cremano (Italy)
No full textThe challenges of sustainable development are mainly concentrated in the cities. Therefore, they represent a key place for implementing strategies and actions to achieve (or not achieve) sustainable development objectives. In this perspective, the circular city model represents a new way of organizing the city. As demonstrated by a variety of best practices, the entry points for triggering circular processes at the urban scale are various. In this paper, cultural heritage is presented as the entry point for the implementation of this new urban development model. The focus here is on the implementation tools, with a particular emphasis on the evaluation tools for assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of this model, that is, the multidimensional benefits that it can produce. The Level(s) tool, proposed by the European Commission in 2017, is the only officially recognised assessment tool related to the circular economy at the European level. It aims to evaluate the performance of new buildings from a circular economy perspective. This paper intends to expand the field of action of the aforementioned tool to projects related to cultural heritage. Nevertheless, the Level(s) tool has some weaknesses in relation to values and attributes that need to be considered when dealing with cultural heritage. This paper proposes an evaluation framework for assessing cultural heritage renovation and reuse projects, considering all its values and the multidimensional impacts that they are able to produce (economic, social, environmental impacts) in the city. The starting point for the development of the proposed evaluation framework is the Level(s) tool by the European Commission. On the basis of critical considerations, this tool is integrated with criteria and indicators deduced from other previous studies and other official tools on this issue (Green Building Council and Heritage Impact Assessment tools). The evaluation framework is here tested to evaluate the renovation/reuse project of Villa Vannucchi, a historic building located in the city of San Giorgio a Cremano in the metropolitan city of Naples (Italy)
CIRCULAR CITY MODEL AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED EVALUATION TOOL
No full textPoichè il mondo risulta sempre più urbanizzato, le sfide dello sviluppo sostenibile sarannosempre più concentrate nelle città, richiedendo l’identificazione e l’attuazione di nuovimodelli e strategie di sviluppo. Il modello di economia circolare può essere implementatonelle città per il raggiungimento dello sviluppo sostenibile. Sebbene alcune città si stianogià muovendo verso questa direzione, c’è ancora ambiguità attorno a questo concetto.Le città circolari sono un fenomeno nuovo e, ad oggi, è molto difficile costruire evidenzaempirica del loro successo (o fallimento). Il presente paper si propone di analizzare ilmodello della città circolare partendo dalle definizioni in letteratura e da sei casi di studio dicittà europee metropolitane circolari. In particolare, l’attenzione è posta sugli strumenti pervalutare e monitorare l’efficienza delle città circolari, ovvero valutare gli impatti (positivie/o negativi) di progetti e iniziative dell’agenda delle città circolari.Parole chiave: città circolare, città metropolitana, valutazione integrataAs the world continues to urbanize, sustainable development challenges will be more andmore concentrated in cities and they increasingly require identifying and implementing newdevelopment models and strategies. The circular economy model can be implemented in thecities in order to achieve sustainable development. Although some cities are movingtowards this direction, there is still ambiguity around this concept.Circular cities are a new phenomenon and, to date, it is very difficult to build empiricalevidence of their success (or failure). This paper aims to analyse the circular city modelstarting from definitions in literature and six case studies of European circular metropolitancities. In particular, this paper is focused on the evaluation framework for assessing andmonitoring the efficiency of the circular cities, that is to assess (positive and/or negative)impacts of projects and initiatives of the circular city agendas.Keywords: circular city, metropolitan city, integrated evaluatio
Evaluations for a new performance-based approach in urban planning
No full textAs the world continues to urbanize, sustainable development challenges will be more and more concentrated in cities requiring new approaches, models and tools. In particular, this paper is focused on the implementation of the Performance-Based Approach in urban planning in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the decision-making processes. In this paper, this methodological proposal is used in the case study of Pomigliano d’Arco (Italy)
IL MODELLO DI CITTA’ CIRCOLARE COME MODELLO DI SVILUPPO PER LE CITTA’ DI PICCOLA, MEDIA E GRANDE DIMENSIONE
No full textMoving Towards the Circular Economy/City Model: Which Tools for Operationalizing This Model?
No full textAs the world continues to urbanize, identifying and implementing new urban development models and strategies is necessary to face sustainable development challenges. To this end, the circular economy model can be implemented in cities in order to operationalize and achieve human sustainable development managing simultaneously, in a systemic perspective, the social inequalities issue and the ecological and economic crisis. Today there are many cities that are defining themselves as a “circular city” but, to date, a clear definition of this does not exist. In the transition towards the circular city, tools (such as evaluation, governance, financial, business tools) play a fundamental role. The aim of this paper is (after an analysis of the concept of the circular city and its implementation, starting from literature, official documents and reports) to identify and analyze tools for implementing the circular city model. In particular, a set of indicators to assess (positive and/or negative) impacts of projects and initiatives of the circular city agenda is identified
The Role of Cultural Heritage in Sustainable Development: Multidimensional Indicators as Decision-Making Tool
No full textThe concept of sustainable development has been the main topic of many international conferences. Although many discussions are related to the role of cultural heritage in sustainable development, they develop only on theoretical level. The answer to the main question, that is if the cultural landscape can play a role in sustainable development, could be positive only if we are able to produce empirical evidence about its contribution to improve economic, social, and environmental productivity of the city. It is necessary to produce empirical evidence to demonstrate that cultural heritage conservation/valorization is an investment and not a cost. To date, there are few researches about the indicators that are able to support the relationship between cultural heritage conservation/regeneration and sustainable development. This paper intends to go beyond this limit and approach this issue in operational terms. It is focused on the role that cultural heritage can play in the sustainable development framework. An assessment framework that is able to capture the multidimensional benefits of cultural landscape conservation/valorization is proposed here starting from the analysis of 40 case studies of culture-led regeneration projects. A matrix of multidimensional indicators (divided into nine categories) about the impacts produced by these 40 cultural heritage conservation/valorization projects and its critical analysis is here proposed, mainly focusing the attention on the double relationship between the tourism sector and climate change. Although the analyses often refer to sustainability, it is not concretely addressed because there is an imbalance among the dimensions: in most cases, only the economic component is highlighted, leaving out the social and environmental dimensions. Furthermore, the impacts related to cultural-led projects are mainly interpreted in terms of tourism and real estate impacts
Towards an Integrated Evaluation Approach for Cultural Urban Landscape Conservation/Regeneration
Full text linkThe contemporary economic crisis (and also ecological and social crisis) calls for a new model of urban development. The international debate is today focused on the necessity of a new paradigm (Hosagrahar et al., 2016) that will define sustainable development policies and programmes: this new paradigm moves the concept of development towards a more humanistic and ecological point of view.
The international debate around Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recently is going to highlight the role of cultural heritage for sustainable development (United Nations, 2015a).
Cultural heritage can play a critical role in the achievement of the above mentioned new humanistic and ecological paradigm of sustainable city.
In this paper some indicators to evaluate cultural urban landscape conservation/regeneration projects are identified, starting from case studies.
The purpose of the analysis of good practices is to support the elaboration of a multidimensional matrix that can produce empirical evidence about impacts of cultural urban landscape conservation/regeneration.
After a particular focus on the relationship between variation of landscape and variation of wellbeing, it will present a methodological proposal to evaluate cultural urban landscape conservation/regeneration projects
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