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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
Multidimensional assessment for urban regeneration: the case study of Pozzuoli (Italy)
No full textCities are home to a growing percentage of the world’s population. As the world continues to urbanize, sustainable development challenges will be increasingly concentrated in cities.
For this reason, the city’s organizational structure is being increasingly questioned. The multidimensional perspective of sustainable development implies a systemic and integrated approach that requires new assessment tools able to capture the multidimensional impacts of cities transformation/regeneration. This paper aims to contribute to the international debate about the role of cities in the achievement of sustainable development and to make operational concepts in the evaluation field driving transformations of cities and territories. The case study of Pozzuoli (Italy) represents a concrete implementation of a proposed methodology for assessing the multidimensional impacts of city regeneration projects using multicriteria evaluation methods
Climate change and health impacts in urban areas: Towards hybrid evaluation tools for new governance
No full textThe shift towards the new paradigm, that is, the “ecological and humanistic” paradigm, introduced by the United Nations in the Agenda 2030, and the current period of health emergency due to COVID‐19 place the human dimension at the centre of the development strategies for our cities. The humanistic dimension, in particular, is related to human wellbeing, health and living conditions. The health and wellbeing of citizens depend on factors and actions that go beyond the health sector. In particular, here, the attention is focused on the negative impacts produced by pollution and climate change, issues that concern (and that are closely related to) most urban agglomerations in the world. The pandemic due to COVID‐19 has highlighted the close relationship existing among social, natural and economic systems. Each system is interdependent on the other. Thus, the pandemic has boosted the necessity to accelerate efforts to address climate change. Therefore, in this framework, new urban development models are required. The circular economy model is proposed as a model able to reduce the negative impacts of urban transformations. The attention is then focused on implementation tools for improving decision‐making processes and, in particular, on the evaluation tools for assessing the multidimensional impacts of urbanisation on human health
Neutralità climatica e resilienza climatica: il rispetto del principio Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) nei progetti infrastrutturali
No full textIl Regolamento (UE) 2021/241 di istituzione del dispositivo per la ripresa e la resilienza, stabilisce che non è possibile sostenere o svolgere attività economiche che arrechino un danno significativo a specifici obiettivi ambientali e, pertanto, tale dispositivo finanzia unicamente le misure che rispettano il principio Do No Significant Harm (DNSH), cioè di “non arrecare un danno significativo” all’ambiente. In particolare, il Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) deve includere interventi che concorrono per il 37% delle risorse alla transizione ecologica, e quindi all’obiettivo della mitigazione dei cambiamenti climatici. Nell’ambito del PNRR, la Guida operativa per il rispetto del principio di non arrecare danno significativo all’ambiente (DNSH), nella parte che riguarda le infrastrutture, suggerisce di verificare il rispetto degli obiettivi della mitigazione ai cambiamenti climatici e dell’adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici con riferimento al “calcolo dell’impronta di carbonio” e del “costo ombra del carbonio”. Pertanto, il presente articolo esamina le modalità di calcolo delle emissioni di gas a effetto serra così come proposto dalla Banca Europea degli Investimenti (BEI) ed evidenzia, altresì, le possibili relazioni tra infrastrutture a prova di clima e valutazioni ambientali, in particolare Valutazione di Impatto Ambientale (VIA) e Valutazione Ambientale
Strategica (VAS)
Valutazione multidimensionale per i progetti di rigenerazione urbana: il caso studio di Pozzuoli
No full textAn increasing percentage of the world’s population lives in cities and therefore here the challenges of sustainable development are most concentrated. For this reason, the organizational structure of the city is today constantly questioned. The multidimensional perspective of sustainable development implies a systemic and integrated approach that requires new assessment tools able to identify the multidimensional impacts of the transformation/regeneration of cities. This paper aims to contribute to the international debate about the role of cities in achieving sustainable development and to make operational, in the evaluation field, the concepts driving the transformations of cities and territories. The case study of Pozzuoli (Italy) represents an experimentation of the proposed methodology for the evaluation of the multidimensional impacts of the city regeneration projects by means of multi-criteria evaluation methods
Level(s): uno strumento per la valutazione degli edifici nella prospettiva dell’economia circolare
No full textLe sfide che caratterizzano il nostro secolo, cioè le sfide legate ai cambiamenti climatici, alla crisi economica e alle disuguaglianze sociali, si giocano sempre più nelle città. Esse rappresentano un campo d’azione privilegiato per attuare strategie e azioni a sostegno della transizione verso un paradigma di sviluppo più umano ed ecologico. Il settore delle costruzioni
riveste un ruolo chiave nella lotta alle suddette sfide considerando che, secondo le stime dell’Unione Europea, gli edifici sono responsabili del 40% del consumo finale dell’energia, producono circa il 36% delle emissioni di gas ad effetto serra e immettono quasi la metà delle emissioni totali di particolato fine. In questa prospettiva, l’economia circolare può rappresentare un modello efficace per il raggiungimento degli obiettivi sostenibili, non solo
ambientali, ma anche economici e sociali, nel settore delle costruzioni e, più in generale,
nelle città. Ad oggi, tuttavia, l’unico strumento ufficialmente riconosciuto per la valutazione
dei progetti di edifici nella prospettiva dell’economia circolare è il Level(s), sviluppato dalla
Commissione Europea a partire dal 2017. Tale strumento è analizzato nel presente contributo
evidenziandone limiti e potenzialità
Multicriteria Evaluation Framework for Industrial Heritage Adaptive Reuse: The Role of the ‘Intrinsic Value’
Full text linkAt the end of the 20th century, most industrial cities faced a massive phase of de-industrialisation, resulting in abandoned areas. However, these areas, rich in history and heritage, can represent significant resources for the regeneration of entire territories. Adaptive Reuse (AR) is one of the most appropriate strategies for the sustainable regeneration of brownfield sites: it gives new life to a ‘dead’ land, extending its use value so that it can continue to be enjoyed both by present and future generations. Decision-making processes concerning Industrial Heritage Adaptive Reuse (IHAR) cannot ignore the role that ‘intrinsic value’ plays in orienting development choices in such areas. Adopting participatory decision-making processes enables the inclusion of different values and interests of the stakeholders and, at the same time, increasing their awareness about the decision-making problem, thus reducing conflicts. This contribution intends to propose an evaluation framework to assess the multidimensional impacts of IHAR, considering the different values characterising them, and to support decision-making processes for the identification of the ‘preferable’ transformation scenario. This evaluation framework is applied, through the use of the TOPSIS multi-criteria evaluation method, in the case study of the ex-Italsider area in Bagnoli district (Naples, Italy), an industrial steel plant decommissioned in the early 1990s
From linear to circular tourism
No full textTourism is the third largest socio-economic activity in the EU and thus it can be considered an engine for development, producing many positive impacts, from trade sector to employment. At the same time, it can produce many negative impacts because it is configured according to the model of linear economy. A deep analysis of impacts produced by tourism sector and its great potential in contributing to the achievement of SDGs are presented. The aim of this paper is to identify a tourism development/ management model able to produce multidimensional benefits and, simultaneously, reduce (environmental, social and economic) costs. In this perspective, the circular economy is proposed as a model able to contribute to make tourism more sustainable. This model necessarily requires appropriate evaluation tools, indicators and knowledge
Real estate market responses to the COVID-19 crisis: which prospects for the metropolitan area of Naples (Italy)?
No full textThe health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire world since the beginning of 2020, changing living and working conditions. The pandemic has generated a crisis that is having and will continue to have consequences on all sectors of the economy, including the real estate market. During the lockdown period, houses became spaces for both living and working, as well as for leisure activities. Therefore, they were modified to meet the new requirements of communities forced to spend most of their time at home. This will also affect the real estate market in the near future in terms of trends and the characteristics of desirable houses. This research aims to analyse the trends in the residential market in Italy and in particular in the metropolitan area of Naples (Italy). Starting from official sources, the trends of the real estate market, and in particular in the metropolitan area of Naples from 2009 to 2020, have been analysed. Then, two surveys were conducted involving both the community and real estate agents operating in the territory, in order to investigate the effects that COVID-19 has had on the real estate market. The analysis carried out highlights structural changes in the demand for residential properties in the metropolitan area of Naples due to the new requirements as a result of COVID-19
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