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Roberta Melella
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy

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Roberta Melella, is a Building Engineer and PhD student in Risk and Sustainability in Civil, Architecture and Environmental Engineering Systems and an expert in the scientific sector ICAR/10 (Technical Design of Architecture) at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Salerno (Italy). She is the author of numerous articles in scientific journals and contributions in international conference proceedings, especially about sustainability of the building process and strategies to mitigate environmental pressures in the design of new buildings and the renovation/maintenance of the existing building stock.

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Journal article
Published: 06 August 2021 in Sustainability
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With the increasing focus on the construction sector (e.g., following the European Green Deal initiative) with the aim to reduce emissions by 55% by 2030 (compared to 1990 levels), as well as achieve full decarbonisation by 2050, the built environment remains a strategic domain for the R&I (Research and Innovation) agenda. Indeed, the building and construction sector is the main contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (39% of global emissions as of 2018), highlighting the need to start a process of decarbonisation of this sector. The overall reduction in the environmental impact of building materials is achieved by establishing sustainable continuity between the end-of-life phase of the building and the production phase of individual building components. In particular, with reference to the end-of-life phase of the building (BS EN 15978: 2011), the Minimum Environmental Criteria foresee the preparation of a plan for the disassembly and selective demolition of the building, which allows the reuse or recycling of materials, building components and prefabricated elements used. According to the guidelines of a low-carbon construction design, which takes into account a circular economy, the following thesis deals with a methodological proposal to study “dry” construction systems (wood and steel). In particular, the study intends to reach the development of such an elaboration by carrying out an assessment of the environmental impact of a process of selective disassembly and demolition of steel building systems. The model is developed on the basis of a reading of the level of sustainability of emblematic case studies, appropriately identified, i.e., ‘quality’ architectures, built with ‘dry’ (steel) building systems.

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Roberta Melella; Giacomo Di Ruocco; Alfonso Sorvillo. Circular Construction Process: Method for Developing a Selective, Low CO2eq Disassembly and Demolition Plan. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8815 .

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Roberta Melella, Giacomo Di Ruocco, Alfonso Sorvillo. Circular Construction Process: Method for Developing a Selective, Low CO2eq Disassembly and Demolition Plan. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):8815.

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Roberta Melella; Giacomo Di Ruocco; Alfonso Sorvillo. 2021. "Circular Construction Process: Method for Developing a Selective, Low CO2eq Disassembly and Demolition Plan." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 8815.

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Published: 30 November 2020 in Sustainability
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In the light of recent emergencies represented by climate change and global warming, with the consequent policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, this research aims at offering a response to the need for decarbonization of anthropization processes of territories, on a building and urban scale. This study elaborates a methodology, according to an integrated qualitative-quantitative approach, which combines the strategic need for sustainable mobility with the need to enhance the value of natural and environmental interesting places, typical of the Mediterranean area and in particular the ones which represented the heart of Magna Graecia. This strategy is implemented through a growing mobility offer in recent years: sustainable cycling tourism, which is included in the wider and more widespread strategic action of greenways. However, these strategies do not often meet the interests of the public administration, which is refractory to face great costs in exchange for a hypothetical return on investment, in the long term; the result is the abandonment and degradation of territories characterized by a remarkable naturalistic, landscape and environmental value. The aim of this study, therefore, is to provide operators in the sector (public administration, Cilento National Park Authority, economic operators, etc.) with a decision-maintenance tool, through the definition of priority criteria for interventions, according to an economic sustainability approach of the intervention and adopting an integrated qualitative-quantitative methodology. The intervention, as a whole, involves a cycle path of about 600 km, passing through 70 countries of the territory. Therefore, assuming the impossibility of being carried out at the same time, as a whole, it has been divided into 23 functional lots: the methodology intends, precisely, to define the priority and necessity criteria that determine the classification of importance of the 23 routes (sub-interventions), identified in this study.

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Giacomo Di Ruocco; Luis Iglesias; Begoña Blandón; Roberta Melella. Low-Carbon Tourism—Technical, Economic and Management Project of a Greenway, for Enhancing Inner Areas of the Cilento National Park, Italy. Sustainability 2020, 12, 12 .

AMA Style

Giacomo Di Ruocco, Luis Iglesias, Begoña Blandón, Roberta Melella. Low-Carbon Tourism—Technical, Economic and Management Project of a Greenway, for Enhancing Inner Areas of the Cilento National Park, Italy. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (23):12.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Giacomo Di Ruocco; Luis Iglesias; Begoña Blandón; Roberta Melella. 2020. "Low-Carbon Tourism—Technical, Economic and Management Project of a Greenway, for Enhancing Inner Areas of the Cilento National Park, Italy." Sustainability 12, no. 23: 12.