Denis Maragno

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• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Università Iuav di Venezia

This study presents a spatial methodology for integrating climate change (CC) risks and ecosystem service (ES) assessments into strategic spatial planning, applied to the Metropolitan Plan of the Province of Rimini (Emilia-Romagna, Italy). The proposed approach combines IPCC-aligned climate vulnerability analysis with ecosystem service mapping base...

Climate change adaptation, CCA henceforth, is nowadays a shared concern, deeply investigated and advocated by international research and political organisations. However, both CCA implementation and its monitoring and evaluation (M&E) are challenges yet to be properly addressed. From a spatial planning perspective, local plans are the land-use-orie...

The application of ecosystem service (ES) knowledge to planning processes and decision-making can lead to more effective climate change adaptation. Despite the increased attention given to the ES concept, its degree of integration and use in spatial planning processes are still below the expectations of those who are promoting this concept. Barrier...

Urban planning for adaptation to climate change privileges the construction of cognitive frameworks developed through the use of new spatial technologies and open-source databases. The significant and most highly innovative aspect concerns how resilience to CC under conditions of vulnerability and risk is defined, monitored and assessed. Based on t...

In ogni epoca storica la strutturazione dei sistemi urbani ha giocato un ruolo fondamentale per lo sviluppo delle comunità. Città come incubatori di criticità, ma, soprattutto, luoghi propulsori del cambiamento, anticipatori di comportamenti, agevolatori di processi di condivisione e cooperazione per il miglioramento collettivo. Negli ultimi anni,...

La temperatura del Pianeta sta aumentando a una velocità senza precedenti a causa delle attività antropiche. Nonostante i progressi in campo scientifico e previsionale, permane un forte divario tra le azioni che sarebbero necessarie e quelle effettivamente intraprese al fine di scongiurare i peggiori rischi derivanti dagli impatti dei cambiamenti c...

Il climate change è ormai cruciale nel definire interventi trasformativi delle città. Il contributo propone un’esperienza del progetto “Verso paesaggi dell'abitare e del lavorare a prova di clima”. La co-progettazione adattativa di una piazza è qui un avamposto: low cost, con metodi partecipati e condivisi garantisce un presidio sociale e considera...

La gestione del territorio affronta urgenze derivanti da emergenti e sempre più pressanti questioni: disuguaglianze sociali e materiali, conseguenze derivanti dagli impatti determinati dai cambiamenti climatici, necessità di maggiore valorizzazione dei beni comuni, urgenza di rispondere in modo appropriato e concreto al desiderio di partecipazione...

Existing environmental and social problems at the local level play an important role on how the effects of climate change manifest. Although international agreements and national strategies are indispensable to face these changes, the particularities of each territory require specific adaptation responses. For this reason, the issue of climate adap...

Dear all, an open lecture on “adapting planning” is organized by the City and Regional Planning Department of IZTECH which will be on Monday, 14th of June. For this lecture, some guests from Politecnico di Milano and IUAV Faculty of Venice will present their recent advancements in ecological planning using urban ecosystem and risk assessment mode...

Climate change risk reduction requires cities to undertake urgent decisions. One of the principal obstacles that hinders effective decision making is insufficient spatial knowledge frameworks. Cities climate adaptation planning must become strategic to rethink and transform urban fabrics holistically. Contemporary urban planning should merge future...

Il territorio del Polesine – corrispondente alla Provincia di Rovigo, nel Veneto Meridionale – è caratterizzato da condizioni di relativa marginalità rispetto alle aree centrali della regione e da cronica arretratezza dal punto di vista economico, sociale e culturale. Il Basso Veneto è un territorio da sempre escluso dai maggiori processi di modern...

Land–sea interaction dynamics are physiologically regulated by an exchange of matter (and energy) between the anthropic system and the natural environment. Therefore, the appropriate management of land–sea interaction (LSI)contexts should base on those planning approaches which can holistically support coastal development, such as Maritime Spatial...

The contribution presents a possible assessment methodology for land cover change over ice and snow, between 1990 and 2018 in the Dolomites and the Alpi Giulie. The methodology aims to build surface atlas to assess the land cover changes. The tool is intended as a support for environmental management, forecasting and, as support for territorial gov...

Climate change is one of the most complex issues of the 21st century, and even though there is general consensus about the urgency of taking action at the city level, the planning and implementation of adaptation measures is advancing slowly. The lack of data and information to support the planning process is often mentioned as a factor hampering t...

Il clima, sollecitato dai gas clima-alteranti prodotti dai sistemi antropici, genera impatti incerti e differenziati geograficamente, coinvolgendo direttamente le città e i processi di governo del territorio. La pianificazione urbanistica e le scienze del territorio, nei prossimi anni, saranno coinvolte nel trovare soluzioni immediate nei confronti...

I saperi sull'adattamento al cambiamento climatico e sulla riduzione del rischio di disastro da un decennio si confrontano con i limiti del proprio percorso scientifico. I primi spesso pianificando metodologie di lungo termine poco capaci di rispondere alle problematiche cogenti; i secondi sviluppando percorsi incapaci di pensarsi in relazione a un...

Le tradizioni disciplinari dei saperi sulla riduzione del rischio di disastro e degli studi sull’adattamento al cambiamento climatico procedono da decenni con difficoltà nella condivisione di strumenti e di percorsi. È possibile costruire un percorso capace di far convergere queste tradizioni considerando il cambiamento climatico come macro-catastr...

Source: Agribusiness Paesaggio & Ambiente, Vol. XXI, n. 2, Dicembre 2018, on line ISSN 2038-3371. Link: https://sites.google.com/site/agribusinesspaesaggioambiente/2018/articoli-completi _____________________________________________________________________________________ Landscape plays a fundamental role under the cultural perspective for mankind...

Source: A. Leone & C. Gargiulo (Eds.), Environmental and territorial modelling for planning and design, Naples: FedOAPress, ISBN: 978-88-6887-048-5, doi: 10.6093/978-88-6887-048-5: Link: http://www.fedoabooks.unina.it/index.php/fedoapress/catalog/book/100 _____________________________________________________________________________________ The role...

Climate change is expected to modify the timing and amount of precipitation in the future, increasing the demand for effective adaptation at the local scale, especially to mitigate the impacts of extreme events, expected to increase in frequency and magnitude. Green infrastructure (GI) can provide a crucial water regulating ecosystem service, helpi...

Source: M. Munafò (a cura di), Consumo di suolo, dinamiche territoriali e servizi ecosistemici. Edizione 2018, ISPRA, Rapporti 288/2018, ISBN: 978-88-448-0902-7. Link: http://www.isprambiente.gov.it/it/pubblicazioni/rapporti/consumo-di-suolo-dinamiche-territoriali-e-servizi-ecosistemici.-edizione-2018 _______________________________________________...

Sustainable Development (SD) is a fundamental objective in the European Union (EU) and transport is considered one of the key challenges necessary to achieve it. Although transport is mostly contested from the environmental dimension, an investigation of peer-reviewed literature along with EU policy documents suggests that the transport and accessi...

The implementation of the EU Directive on Maritime Spatial Planning (2014/89/EU) in the Adriatic and Ionian region (AIR) presents some peculiar aspects that are related to i) The EU and non-EU countries surrounding its coast, with different cultures and economies; ii) its semi-enclosed characteristics, with intense land-sea interactions; iii) the w...

Maritime spatial planning (MSP) is envisaged as a tool to apply an ecosystem-based approach to the marine and coastal realms, aiming at ensuring that the collective pressure of human activities is kept within acceptable limits. Cumulative impacts (CI) assessment can support science-based MSP, in order to understand the existing and potential impact...

Classes of local sensitivity confidence index (LSCI) in the AIR. Values of LSCI are grouped from 0.8–1.0, which represent the maximum confidence expressed by expert judgement and 0.2–0.4, which represents the minimum confidence. (DOCX)

Ranking sensitivity scores with respect to their contribution and weight for the AIR in the CI model output. The 60 sensitivity scores which contribute the most in the AIR are ranked according to the their total score; the confidence related to the EUP associated score expressed by the experts is reported as well. (DOCX)

List of pressures according to Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD, 2008/56/EC), annex III, tab. 2 (DOCX)

List of environmental components and related datasets for the CI calculation. The list of environmental components considered for the CI is correlated with the data owners and data providers acronyms. (DOCX)

Criteria evaluated by experts to express the EUP sensitivities. Criteria used within the expert survey to calculate the sensitivity score of environmental components to pressures deriving from maritime uses, adapted from Andersen et al. (2013). (DOCX)

Data availability per human uses U for different geographical areas. (DOCX)

Data coverage of environmental components (E) and human uses (U). Data coverage is mapped for a. environmental components (E) and b. human uses (U) for the AIR, from which the Data Availability Index (DAI) is calculated. Dark blue indicates that all dataset are available, while light blue to red means that not all datasets are available. (DOCX)

List of human uses and related datasets for the CI calculation. The list of human uses considered for the CI is correlated with the data owners and data providers acronyms. (DOCX)

Cumulative impacts uncertainty matrix for the AIR. The subjects who have declared the different sub-locations, levels and nature of uncertainty, are indicated as M = modelers (authors of the paper), SE = stakeholders and experts (through interviews, workshops and survey), L = literature. (DOCX)

Gazetteer of spatial coverage of input dataset. A vocabulary of geographical areas was composed to characterize the geographical scope of each dataset. It consists of 22 terms, which can be modified and new terms can be added. Each term was associated to a specific geometry and related boundary, which was input in the model to calculate the data av...

Percentage of the Italian Adriatic region area for the least (a) and most (b) impacted area over the number of Monte Carlo simulations. The x-axis represents how often each cell was in the least or most impacted area (% of simulations). (DOCX)

Locations and sub-locations of uncertainty identified for the CI assessment model. Locations are identified according to Walker et al. 2003. Sub-locations are identified by the modellers within the level 1 of the general uncertainty analysis. (DOCX)

Behaviours of sensitivity score errors (SC) and pressure distance errors (D) factors curves. For factors sensitivity score errors (SC) and pressure distance errors (D), we adopted the beta-distribution (B(s, c)) assuming the modal values from expert judgment on sensitivities (s), and the variance from the confidence (c). (DOCX)

Future cities should have the capability to face an increasing number of challenges and they must become resilient to a broader range of stresses and shocks. Climate change is definitely one of these challenges and this means that cities will deal with a combination of environmental, social, economic and political stresses (Leichenko,2011). Some o...

In addressing the challenges posed by climate change becomes essential to promote, also the local level, a kind of planning able to consider mitigation and adaptation measures in an integrated way. How to design and plan considering, not only, the mitigation’s logic but also the adaptation? And how to do this in an efficient and integrated way? In...

Elaborating solutions to counteract UHI effects can represents a relevant challenge for spatial planning and urban design. A specific experimentation has been developed on the city of Padua, analysing different scenarios of urban warming and using specific monitoring tools (Lidar/aerial survey) to define a DIM (Digital Surface Models) providing loc...

Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) is a practical way to create and establish a more rational organisation of the use of marine space and the interactions between its uses, to balance demands for development with the need to protect marine ecosystems, and to achieve social and economic objectives in an open and planned way (Ehler and Douvere, 2009). T...

p>The Mediterranean Sea is complex in its physiography (the average depth is 1,500 m, the deepest point is 5,267 m, with large shallow areas, like in the North Adriatic), in its ecology, in its social dimensions, in terms of interconnections between human activities and environmental characteristics. Surrounded by 22 countries, the coasts of the Me...

Over the last decade, in response to the increasing demand for maritime spaces and resources (UNESCO 2012), a growing attention has been paid to Maritime Spatial Planning, identified as a viable tool for promoting a rational allocation of maritime uses and for balancing the demand for economic development of maritime activities with the need to pre...

Correct measurements of soil sealing can only be achieved through the accurate study of the ground based on spatial geographic data. A systematic and institutional framework for monitoring this phenomenon still lacks in Italy. An exception is represented by the recent scientific initiative of ISPRA, realized employing existing national data sources...

Metropolitan areas are experiencing a medium increase of temperatures compared to the surrounding rural areas, also as consequence of urban texture growth and densification processes, which led to a complexive increase of built environment extension. UHI effect can represent a local phenomenon of " accidental or indirect " climate alteration, espec...

This report has to be considered a “work in progress document” in the sense that as the state of the ADRIPLAN project is evolving, it will be updated accordingly. This first version summarises the results and findings for the contextual analysis and initial assessment of the Adriatic-Ionian Macro-Region (AIR) as well as of the two focus areas. It c...