Francesca Vanelli

Politecnico di Milano | Polimi · Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering

Flood risk management authori-ties rely on structural engineering meas-ures centralised at the spatial and govern-ance levels. These are mainly evaluated based on damage reduction without con-sidering social, economic and environ-mental criteria. The research proposes an evaluative and procedural methodology to support the choice of spatially distr...

The built environment offers an opportunity to implement Flood Risk Management measures by spatially distributing them as a complementary alternative to large-scale protection schemes. Specifically, micro-scale solutions focus on buildings, open spaces, users, and small infrastructure, addressing various flood management strategies with different p...

In North Sea Rising, editors Nabi Agzamov and Francesca Vanelli argue for a new perspective on regional commons across the North Sea watershed. Through a series of essays, experts and practitioners examine the historical evolution of this dynamic region and its legacy, climate change challenges, and the potential approaches needed to imagine a visi...

Conflicts have a strong impact on land tenure, use, distribution, accessibility, and governance; consequently, a sustainable strategy for peacebuilding requires the set-up of land-based institutional arrangements from the peace negotiation phase onwards. Based on the concept of territorial peace, these arrangements have a key role in the reconstruc...

All over the world, urban communities take initiative in order to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. This study conducts a literature review and an international exploratory study in order to identify pathways within which Community Resilience Initiatives (CRIs) emerge within different governance contexts. The CRIs target vulnerable communities, whic...

Annual Review of Territorial Governance in the Western Balkans is a periodical publication with select policy briefs on matters related to territorial governance, sketching the present situation, the Europeanisation process, the policy and the research and development agenda for the near future. The publication targets policy-makers and policy-in u...

Within the ongoing international debate on transitional countries, this paper demonstrates the role of land titling not only as fiscal policy but also as a social reorganisation tool, whose finalization depends on contextual arrangements. The case of transitional countries still represents an under-explored field, within the complexity of their soc...