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Dr. Giorgia Peri
Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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Published: 19 August 2020 in Applied Sciences
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Tourism represents an important economic driver in Italy, being responsible for approximately 13.2% of the total GDP (a value higher than the reference European average) and for nearly 10% of the regional GDP. Among the touristic sectors, the agritourist ones show a persistent growth, experiencing in 2019 a 6.7 point percentage improvement compared to the 2017 figures. Given this situation, the transition towards a low-carbon path, affecting the building sector for some time, should also involve agritourist buildings, through the release of EU directives, member state laws, and technical rules. On the other hand, agritourism sites could be awarded the Community EU Ecolabel. Unfortunately, awarding the EU environmental excellence brand implies the availability of several data on building energy behavior that should then be managed by complex evaluation tools. To overcome this issue, the use of the simplified ARERA (Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy Networks and Environment) technical datasheets, issued to assess environmental improvements consequent to energy efficiency interventions in the urban residential building stock, is proposed. The application of this tool totally avoids using building computer-based simulation models, thus facilitating the preparation of the EU Ecolabel request documentation by agritourism owners. Being awarded the Community EU Ecolabel also implies approaching a net zero energy condition because of a lower energy consumption and a minor recourse to fossil fuels. For this purpose, an application of an easy graphical method, previously developed for residential and commercial buildings, which visually represents improvements achievable by a given agritourism when implementing energy efficiency measures, is presented.

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Laura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Towards Nearly Zero Energy and Environmentally Sustainable Agritourisms: The Effectiveness of the Application of the European Ecolabel Brand. Applied Sciences 2020, 10, 5741 .

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Laura Cirrincione, Maria La Gennusa, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Towards Nearly Zero Energy and Environmentally Sustainable Agritourisms: The Effectiveness of the Application of the European Ecolabel Brand. Applied Sciences. 2020; 10 (17):5741.

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Laura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2020. "Towards Nearly Zero Energy and Environmentally Sustainable Agritourisms: The Effectiveness of the Application of the European Ecolabel Brand." Applied Sciences 10, no. 17: 5741.

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Published: 01 June 2020 in Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
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Matilde Pietrafesa; Laura Cirrincione; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. Suitability of Some Existing Damage Indexes for Assessing Agreements in Maintenance and Management of Museum Climatization Systems. Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems 2020, 8, 396 -409.

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Matilde Pietrafesa, Laura Cirrincione, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce. Suitability of Some Existing Damage Indexes for Assessing Agreements in Maintenance and Management of Museum Climatization Systems. Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems. 2020; 8 (2):396-409.

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Matilde Pietrafesa; Laura Cirrincione; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce. 2020. "Suitability of Some Existing Damage Indexes for Assessing Agreements in Maintenance and Management of Museum Climatization Systems." Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems 8, no. 2: 396-409.

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Published: 29 January 2020 in Applied Sciences
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In the line of pursuing better energy efficiency in human activities that would result in a more sustainable utilization of resources, the building sector plays a relevant role, being responsible for almost 40% of both energy consumption and the release of pollutant substances in the atmosphere. For this purpose, techniques aimed at improving the energy performances of buildings’ envelopes are of paramount importance. Among them, green roofs are becoming increasingly popular due to their capability of reducing the (electric) energy needs for (summer) climatization of buildings, hence also positively affecting the indoor comfort levels for the occupants. Clearly, reliable tools for the modelling of these envelope components are needed, requiring the availability of suitable field data. Starting with the results of a case study designed to estimate how the adoption of green roofs on a Sicilian building could positively affect its energy performance, this paper shows the impact of this technology on indoor comfort and energy consumption, as well as on the reduction of direct and indirect CO2 emissions related to the climatization of the building. Specifically, the ceiling surface temperatures of some rooms located underneath six different types of green roofs were monitored. Subsequently, the obtained data were used as input for one of the most widely used simulation models, i.e., EnergyPlus, to evaluate the indoor comfort levels and the achievable energy demand savings of the building involved. From these field analyses, green roofs were shown to contribute to the mitigation of the indoor air temperatures, thus producing an improvement of the comfort conditions, especially in summer conditions, despite some worsening during transition periods seeming to arise.

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Laura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Giancarlo Sorrentino; Simona Aprile. Green Roofs as Effective Tools for Improving the Indoor Comfort Levels of Buildings—An Application to a Case Study in Sicily. Applied Sciences 2020, 10, 893 .

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Laura Cirrincione, Maria La Gennusa, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Giancarlo Sorrentino, Simona Aprile. Green Roofs as Effective Tools for Improving the Indoor Comfort Levels of Buildings—An Application to a Case Study in Sicily. Applied Sciences. 2020; 10 (3):893.

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Laura Cirrincione; Maria La Gennusa; Giorgia Peri; Gianfranco Rizzo; Gianluca Scaccianoce; Giancarlo Sorrentino; Simona Aprile. 2020. "Green Roofs as Effective Tools for Improving the Indoor Comfort Levels of Buildings—An Application to a Case Study in Sicily." Applied Sciences 10, no. 3: 893.

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Published: 03 May 2018 in Journal of Environmental Management
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Municipal solid waste (MSW) management constitutes a highly challenging issue to cope with in order of moving towards more sustainable urban policies. Despite new Standards call for recycling and reusing materials contained in the urban waste, several municipalities still use landfilling as a waste disposal method. Other than the environmental pressure exerted by these plants, waste transportation from the collection points to the landfill needs a specific attention to correctly assess the whole burden of the waste management systems. In this paper, the Ecological Footprint (EF) indicator is applied to the actual MSW of the city of Palermo (Sicily). Results show that the effects produced by the involved transportation vehicles are not negligible, compared to those generated by the other segments of the waste management system. This issue is further deepened by analysing the role of transportation in an upgraded waste management system that is represented by the newly designed waste management plan of Palermo. The computed saved ecological footprint is used here for suitably comparing the environmental performances of the MSW system in both scenarios. Finally, the suitability of the EF method to address not only complete waste management plans but also single segments of the waste management system, is also discussed.

ACS Style

G. Peri; P. Ferrante; M. La Gennusa; C. Pianello; G. Rizzo. Greening MSW management systems by saving footprint: The contribution of the waste transportation. Journal of Environmental Management 2018, 219, 74 -83.

AMA Style

G. Peri, P. Ferrante, M. La Gennusa, C. Pianello, G. Rizzo. Greening MSW management systems by saving footprint: The contribution of the waste transportation. Journal of Environmental Management. 2018; 219 ():74-83.

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G. Peri; P. Ferrante; M. La Gennusa; C. Pianello; G. Rizzo. 2018. "Greening MSW management systems by saving footprint: The contribution of the waste transportation." Journal of Environmental Management 219, no. : 74-83.