Giulia Lucertini

• Università Iuav di Venezia

This paper aims at addressing the problem of what characterises decision-aiding for public policy making problem situations. Under such a perspective it analyses concepts like “public policy”, “deliberation”, “legitimation”, “accountability” and shows the need to expand the concept of rationality which is expected to support the acceptability of a...

Users of transport infrastructures nearby hazardous plants may represent important populations potentially impacted by a major accident. Toulouse catastrophe in 2011 has been an illustrative example as it strongly impacted highway users. Therefore, transport infrastructure users (Roads and railways mainly) represent a population to be protected wit...

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...

In our cities, the production and consumption of resources are achieved at an unsustainable rate. Combined with an increasing global population and accelerating urbanization, the absence of a new approach will almost certainly have dramatic environmental consequences. Potential solutions are emerging: the concepts of circular economy (CE) and urban...

Although material and energy flow analyses are increasingly recognised as tools for urban sustainability audits (e.g. benchmarking) and environmental policy guidance, few planning exercises go beyond research to design resource-efficient circular urban metabolisms. We proposed a strongly integrated inter-disciplinary and scalar approach for transfe...

This paper aims to analyse the issue of mitigation and the balance of greenhouse gases in the rural contexts of the Emilia–Romagna region (Italy) due to climate change. The approach is based on the experimentation of a methodology, populated by available spatial databases and refined with a series of technical meetings, where it was possible to wei...

La pianificazione urbanistica orientata alla resilienza comporta un impegno coor¬dinato e integrato volto a rendere le dinamiche urbane e territoriali più sostenibili e virtuose. Tuttavia, l’implementazione di modelli di governance innovativi incontra ancora molteplici ostacoli, enfatizzando le difficoltà delle amministrazioni locali nel costruire...

Climate change triggers increasing stresses on urban settlements and coastal areas. The intensification of climate-connected impacts requires municipalities and communities to undertake adaptation measures and plans. These interventions should be capable of reducing negative climatic effects on human habitat and regional bioregions. On the one hand...

The adversities of climate change represent a serious risk factor on both food production, rural territories and landscapes. In light of these irreversible trends, the process of adaptation of the rural territory is a necessary step, in order to increase its climate resilience. In this study, the vulnerability assessment was the tool used to evalua...

Our societies are currently facing urgent global crises due to climate change and biodiversity loss, which are causing and will increasingly cause irreversible impacts in the future. For this reason, in recent decades, adaptation and mitigation measures have become increasingly important, both because of the physical need for territories to identif...

Urban and regional transition towards circular economy can be undermined by policy and cultural barriers. A brief inquiriy has been led by ICESP GdL 5, throughout structured interviews addressing policy officers in several Italian case studies. The position paper illustrates shortly the information gathetered, showing the state of art of the trans...

To build resilient and climate-neutral cities, it is required to modify current territorial planning processes to make them more sustainable and virtuous. However, the implementation of new strategies and innovative governance models faces multiple obstacles, economic restrictions, and technical gaps. In particular, local governments often find it...

The United Nation’s 17 Sustainable development Goals (SDG) can be considered as the lighthouse of the great challenges which humanity will be confronted with. Many of these goals are related to our behaviors and our “take, make, and dispose,” namely, the linear dominant economic model that, in the last centuries, is leading to an ongoing increase o...

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...

Urban and peri-urban areas are subject to major societal challenges, like food security, climate change, biodiversity, resource efficiency, land management, social cohesion, and economic growth. In that context, Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (UPA), thanks to its multifunctionality, could have a high value in providing social, economic, and envir...

"Circular Cities and Territories"(WG5) Italian Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (ICESP), “The transition to circular cities”

Invasive Alien Species (IAS) represent a serious and growing threat to biodiversity and, in some cases, to human well-being. It is, therefore, appropriate to adopt preventive and more responsible behavior to reduce the introduction rates, in the most sensitive environments such as protected areas. However, once these species have settled in the new...

Circular economy and urban metabolism concepts have recently received great attention both in the political and academic arenas, starting a roll-over process of the “take, make, and dispose” dominant economic model that is leading to an ongoing increase of resource consumption and waste generation. However, there is a relative lack of guidelines fo...

Cities consume increasing amounts of water, materials and energy. Resource scarcity as much as environmental impacts require the international community to reduce the resource consumption and emission production, in order to ensure a more sustainable urban management, and to adapt urban areas to new global environmental conditions. In this perspect...

People see and evaluate risks in a very different way, this is probably the most changeable variable that we must take into account developing some public policy on risk. People's judgements depend on both their personal experiences and from the context in which they are, thus, these conditions make impossible to evaluate them a priori. In this pap...

The growing impact of the “analytics” perspective in recent years, which integrates advanced data-mining and learning methods, is often associated with increasing access to large databases and with decision support systems. Since its origin, the field of analytics has been strongly business-oriented, with a typical focus on data-driven decision pro...

Document de travail: Cahiers du Lamsade, n°344