55 research outputs found
Infrastructural Projects and Territorial Development in Veneto Dolomites: Evaluation of Performances through AHP
No full textAbstractThe ensemble of European traffic roads is changing in relation to the economic geography that has been developing these recent years and also to the localisation of production centres, logistics and the demand linked to the transportation of goods. The development of communication has been defined through the project of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). This network has been progressively defined until it has reached the present architecture in which Italy is crossed by four of the nine total corridors that compose the whole network - which means by almost half of the main traffic roads at European level -. Undoubtedly this new geography of European communication offers member States new development opportunities, but it is also true that the distance of the different territories from the major traffic roads can be a disparity factor. In fact, this phenomenon can worsen the marginalisation processes of some European territories, contrary to the objective of the interconnection policy of the EU territories. In front of these possible territorial disparities, the Planning discipline in Italy has not been adequately questioned, aiming instead at the research of the “territorial patching up”, progressively decreasing, rather than at the exploration of new development forms. As a consequence, mobility planning becomes strategic for Italy, especially for its Alpine area. Hence the need to set up valid tools for the environmental evaluation as regards planning and programmes, such as the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), but also projects, as the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The idea to realise an important road infrastructure, which may connect Belluno directly with Austria, is presented in this paper as an emblematic case, in which the application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) permits to verify the best performing infrastructure on a territorial scale
An Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in the SEA Process of a Cross-Border Transport Strategy: The Veneto-Austria Corridor
No full textThe meaning of Strategic Environmental Assessment is investigated by highlighting the methodological features of the model and of the different application stages. In this framework, the attention is focused on the Analytic Hierarchy Process—AHP and on its integration in the SEA process. Then the AHP application case is shown in the ex-ante stage of the SEA, that is the evaluation of a cross-border transport strategy in the Italy-Austria corridor
Progetti Infrastrutturali e Sviluppo Territoriale nelle Dolomiti Venete: Valutazione delle Performance tramite AHP
No full textThe ensemble of European traffic roads is changing in relation to the economic geography that has been developing these recent years and also to the localisation of production and logistics centres. The development of communication has been defined through the project of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). Undoubtedly this new geography of European communication offers member States new development opportunities, but it is also true that the distance of the different territories from the major traffic roads can be a disparity factor. In fact, this phenomenon can worsen the marginalisation processes of some European territories, contrary to the objective of the interconnection policy of the EU territories. In front of these possible territorial disparities the idea to realise an important road infrastructure, which may connect Belluno directly with Austria, is presented in this paper as an emblematic case, in which the application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) permits to verify the best performing infrastructure on a territorial scale
Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Development in Veneto Region
No full textThe aim of this paper is to show that urban regeneration needs to be carried out through a new approach to the phenomenon of suburbs and illegally built areas using the appropriate new urban planning standards when harmonizing public and private spheres.
The applied methodology is implemented in two phases. The first criticizes the method used by Renzo Piano and his deliberation of urban regeneration of degraded suburbs with a sort of urban mending, demonstrating that instead of mending the decay it is more suitable to proceed to urban substitution – in other words, to build new cities. In the second phase, some instruments of urban and spatial land use conversion, prescribed by Region Veneto Act 11/2004, will be presented. These instruments are urban equalisation, construction loan and urban compensation.
The aforementioned concepts are intended to be used as tools to effectuate the processes of urban and environmental requalification.
The results we expect to obtain are aimed at the application of construction loan in the Croatian context, as an instrument to re-design the area through forms of public agreement and private interest that could also be used to manage the phenomenon of illegal construction
Landscape and wind energy: Evaluation models
No full textConsidering the landscape as a “tool” to produce the territorial and urban planning has always fascinated and involved experts with very different backgrounds. In this regard, also the Italian lawmaker has issued rules and regulations, in different periods, which have imposed the need to establish urban landscape plans.
The landscape has been interpreted, often for the only goal of protection, through reading keys based upon the “opinion” of experts (government officials, superintendents, planning boards, etc.), resulting from simplistic and often apodictic value judgments. Such an approach cannot be methodologically included in the evaluation processes; it has not produced any progress in the field of territorial and urban planning, rather it has led to a wasteful conflict between “conservationists” and “transformists”.
This paper does not aim at debating the evolution of the landscape concept in urban studies or the legal nature of the rules that have introduced the obligation of landscape planning, since there exists a rich literature on the matter. Instead, it seeks to deal with a much more practical and substantial topic: how to evaluate the landscape transformations caused by the construction of wind farms, since these are emblematic projects for their physical size.
In this respect, the landscape evaluation is based on different stages, which define the general evaluation model.
The first stage is the analysis of the state of fact in which the places and protection levels are geographically described, with the goal of characterizing the intervention area following two main reading keys of the context: on one side the landscape qualities, on the other the landscape, anthropic and environmental risks.
The second stage concerns the description of the project in its engineering and architectural aspects, as well as its application in the intervention area.
In the third stage, the evaluation is carried out through the definition of the evaluation model in relation to the levels of modification and alteration of the landscape quality after the project inclusion.
In the fourth stage the judgment of landscape compatibility is expressed through the identification of the conditions of coherence/conflict between project and environmental context, as well as any measures of mitigation and/or compensation.
Finally, the paper aims especially to address the third stage, the evaluation, which presents proper techniques of qualitative and quantitative assessment of the landscape transformations by comparing the ex ante stage (without the wind farm) with the ex post stage (with the wind farm)
Development Theories and Infrastructural Planning: the Belluno Province
No full textCurrently, the English word “smart” has become commonly used in the field of urban and land planning as an adjective referring to an evolving “good”, or clever, know-how. It is a word that is usually applied to the process of qualitative urban and land planning, as opposed just to quantitative planning. Since the Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the urban and planning (but also architectural) disciplines have been accompanied by terminologies that could somehow represent a better way of “carrying out” transformations, passing from an “ecological city” to a “sustainable city” and finally to a “smart city”. Each adjective represents a vision of the transformations: for example, an ecological city is a town with more public green areas, the sustainable city pays more attention to the preservation of physical and chemical parameters (air and water quality, etc.), and the smart city is more focused on the realization of efficient technologies. Actually, the above interpretations of transformation do not have a real meaning, as it is absolutely evident that the city and the territory, in compliance with the disciplinary statute, must be transformed by taking into consideration the human, biotic, and abiotic elements, i.e., they must have an environmental approach. The adjective environmental has been defined in the long-standing scientific research (Odum, Leopold, McHarg, Stainer, Nebbia, etc.) which, since the 1930s, has been developing the ability to utilize dynamically and synchronically the three levers that define sustainable development: the economic, the social, and the ecological (biotic and abiotic) levers. Following the historical periods and the geographical contexts, the use of the three levers may progressed at different speeds, while yet focusing attention on the feedback among the same levers. In the case study (Belluno province), the environmental (ecological, sustainable, smart) development depends on the infrastructural lever for inverting a phenomenon of social and economic decadence of a territory, also due to pervasive and aggressive competitive policies of the neighboring territories. In fact, in the province of Belluno, environmental development is conditioned by the priority use of the social and economic (primarily infrastructural) levers in the medium and long term. It is evident that this priority in the use of levers is accompanied by the ability to take the opportunities given by the high-quality ecological and landscape conditions existing in the Belluno province
Valutazione ambientale della riconversione di ferrovie dismesse in ambito alpino
No full textÈ evidente anche ai non addetti ai lavori che il mezzo di trasporto ferroviario è caratterizzato da una intrinseca “rigidità” rispetto alla viabilità stradale che presenta invece una oggettiva “flessibilità” trasportistica.
Infatti usare la ferrovia per spostare persone e merci comporta la necessità di: realizzare stazioni ferroviarie passeggeri e merci come punti di raccolta della domanda trasportistica; organizzare treni con vagoni più o meno numerosi per caricare passeggeri e merci; utilizzare i binari compatibilmente alla loro oggettiva capacità di accogliere un numero massimo di treni; subire almeno due rotture di carico.
Dal punto di vista dell’accettabilità sociale ed economica, quindi, il sistema ferroviario richiede la condivisione da parte dell’utenza (passeggeri e merci) di un modello trasportistico caratterizzato da una rigida organizzazione dello spazio/tempo.
Affinché un progetto di riconversione ferroviaria sia sostenibile è necessario applicare una valutazione ambientale di tipo strategico capace di verificare quale sia la soluzione preferibile. Ciò può avvenire utilizzando almeno tre modelli valutativi denominati: Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Coerenza e Performabilità
The ‘measure’ of landscape transformations. Methods and techniques of multi-criteria evaluation in the opencast mining area of Paderno del Grappa (Venetian Pre-Alps, Italy)
No full textThe interpretation of the landscape strictly depends on the way human beings consider the places where they live and, therefore, this is not objective. For instance, the inhabitants of the city of Nairobi consider the natural landscape in a different way from the inhabitants of the city of London.
This leads to a series of methodological and applicable considerations about how to read the landscape, how to regulate it legally and how to manage all the transformations taking place there.
As the result of a cultural perception the landscape needs an accurate analytical and evaluative scientific methodology to be correctly interpreted, a methodology which can produce codes that can possibly be shared by different cultures and juridical administrations.
In Italy the topic of the analysis and evaluation of the landscape and its transformations is particularly important as it is protected by the Constitution of the Republic.
In a geographical context like Italy, where there is a redundancy of the beauties of the landscape and this territory is very dynamic, it is necessary to find out new ways of interpreting the landscape resulting from an approach which considers the evaluation of the landscape as a scientific and methodological receptacle.
Through a thirty-year experience developed in the application of the Evaluation of the Environmental Impact of projects, in compliance with the European Directive (85/337/CEE), models of quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the environmental impact have already been consolidated, from which we can take inspiration to “measure” the landscape and its transformations.
The scientific and methodological issue is thus to understand if the landscape is measurable and so to arrange the possible means to perform this evaluation, which must be necessarily multi-criteria.
The essay aims at presenting also meaningful cases of evaluation of the transformations of the landscape as a result of the fulfilment of big projects (wind-projects, mines in the open air, etc.)
Scenarios of Territorial Transformation of an Italian Alpine Area: The Province of Belluno
No full textThe Italian Alpine region is characterised by a social and economic structure that has its main source of wealth in the cross-border traffic roads. The only region that does not have a mountain motorway pass is Veneto, whose northern border is represented by the province of Belluno, a real cul-de-sac between Trentino Alto Adige and Friuli Venezia Giulia regions. In spite of this "communication obstruction" towards Europe, the territory of the province of Belluno has developed in time a strong manufacturing industry such as the eyewear district, which is a worldwide excellence. However, globalisation processes are progressively undermining the economic model developed in this province due to the absence of a road transport infrastructure allowing it to rapidly connect to Europe and its markets.
Several strategies were proposed in the past and others have been presented nowadays, with the goal of developing the social and economic system as well as improving the accessibility to the territories in the province of Belluno. This study considers the main development proposals presented to date, from which it is possible to deduce the characteristics of the transport scenarios "projects". These may be submitted to the environmental evaluation through the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) method.
For this contribution several projects (railways and roads) have been analysed, among which also the hypothesis to build an important road infrastructure with direct access to the North, in Austria.
The AHP evaluation approach is in this research a crucial contribution to decision-making, for choosing the best strategies to adopt in favour of the territory, which is the most performing "project scenario" for the social and economic development of the Belluno province
A Figbash is Not a Fantod: Preparing the John A. Carollo Edward Gorey Collection for Exhibit at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
No full textA Figbash is Not a Fantod: Preparing the John A. Carollo Edward Gorey Collection for Exhibit at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Marguerite Simpson, December 10, 2010. LIS 653 / Seminar in Archival Studies; Supervisor: Deborah Dunn; Instructor: Dr. Andrew Wertheimer.
Collection Overview: Donated incrementally to Hamilton Library by passionate Gorey collector John A. Carollo, beginning in 1998. Currently managed by the Special Research Collections (SRC), a new entity dedicated to making the treasures of the library available to student, faculty, and public researchers. Carollo’s gift to Hamilton constitutes the most comprehensive public collection of the prolific author/artist’s work in the world. Materials include: Monographs; Coffee mugs; A fur coat; Postcards; Books arts materials; Hand sewn stuffed animals; Serials; LPs; Fine art prints; Original cover art; Calendars; Jewelry; An umbrella; And more!
The Exhibit; Preliminary Preparation: Reconciling the inventory, Condition reports, Controlled vocabulary; Exhibit Preparation: During Selection, After Selection – Organization, Preparation.
Cooperation as Our Key to Success: Preparation of this collection for exhibit would have been impossible without Hamilton’s dedicated staff and willing volunteers coming together in a library-wide effort. For example, cataloging graciously rushed many items to ensure that they were properly catalogued before being loaned, and the University Archives allowed us use of their facilities for selection and treatment activities
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