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Prof. Maria Rosa Trovato
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania

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Journal article
Published: 04 June 2021 in Environments
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Our cities are often characterised by a complex, ungrammatical articulation of spaces, volumes, intended uses, and values. The residual green urban areas are representative of a low level or absence of order, but above all, of functions and values. The study proposes a new methodological and operational approach to the rehabilitation of green residual urban areas, participatory type that can generate a new order between values, functions and actors, to mediate private and public needs, to promote new forms of responsibility and thus to implement some of the priority objectives set out in the 2030 Agenda. The operational tools supporting the approach are the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), public and private partnership (PPP) and crowdfunding. This approach supported the selection of the project and the creation of a budget with public and private funding to support the participatory rehabilitation of a residual green urban area in the municipality of Acireale. The amount of funding identified largely covers rehabilitation costs. The issue of the quality and quantity of urban greenery is crucial for the sustainability and resilience of cities to climate change. Rehabilitation of remaining urban green areas is an opportunity to meet the new needs of green areas, supporting communities in this new challenge.

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Maria Trovato. An Axiology of Residual Green Urban Areas. Environments 2021, 8, 53 .

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Maria Trovato. An Axiology of Residual Green Urban Areas. Environments. 2021; 8 (6):53.

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Maria Trovato. 2021. "An Axiology of Residual Green Urban Areas." Environments 8, no. 6: 53.

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Published: 19 May 2021 in Sustainability
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The concept of co-benefits developed in the context of climate change policies can be extended to the strategies aimed at protecting natural resources. A co-effects-based policy approach proposes a multidimensionality capable of strengthening its effectiveness and supporting a co-generative development model aimed at promoting virtuous forms of territorial capital valorisation. The study aimed to evaluate the landscape co-benefits generated by the Natura 2000 networks, achieving a measure of efficiency of the policies and performance of the Management Plan, with reference to the “Timpa di Acireale” site. CVM and TCM were used for the estimation of landscape co-benefits. For the evaluation of the efficiency of the policies and the performance of the Plan, some economic-financial criteria were implemented. With reference to the user-citizen, the local tourist and the supralocal tourist, flows of annual co-benefits of EUR 754,764, EUR 99,678.12 and EUR 2276.39, respectively, were estimated. The analyses of the efficiency of the policies and the performance of the Plan provided sufficient results. In conclusion, the lack of an adequate level of infrastructure for all users’ profiles reduces the ability to generate co-benefits for the users themselves and more significantly for tourists in a territory with a strong tourism vocation.

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Maria Trovato; Paolo Micalizzi; Salvatore Giuffrida. Assessment of Landscape Co-Benefits in Natura 2000 Site Management Plans. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5707 .

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Maria Trovato, Paolo Micalizzi, Salvatore Giuffrida. Assessment of Landscape Co-Benefits in Natura 2000 Site Management Plans. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (10):5707.

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Maria Trovato; Paolo Micalizzi; Salvatore Giuffrida. 2021. "Assessment of Landscape Co-Benefits in Natura 2000 Site Management Plans." Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5707.

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Published: 01 December 2020 in Valori e Valutazioni
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Annalaura Giannelli; Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato. The beautiful city and the rent from information. Monetary axiology of the shape surplus [La città bella e la rendita d’informazione. Assiologia monetaria dell’eccedenza di forma]. Valori e Valutazioni 2020, 27, 53 -66.

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Annalaura Giannelli, Salvatore Giuffrida, Maria Rosa Trovato. The beautiful city and the rent from information. Monetary axiology of the shape surplus [La città bella e la rendita d’informazione. Assiologia monetaria dell’eccedenza di forma]. Valori e Valutazioni. 2020; 27 ():53-66.

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Annalaura Giannelli; Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato. 2020. "The beautiful city and the rent from information. Monetary axiology of the shape surplus [La città bella e la rendita d’informazione. Assiologia monetaria dell’eccedenza di forma]." Valori e Valutazioni 27, no. : 53-66.

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Published: 29 September 2020 in Sustainability
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The economic evaluation of the interventions aimed at reducing the seismic risk in the historic centres starting from a minimum risk scenario established by law, namely that provided by the Emergency Limit Condition (ELC), and aimed at supporting efficient and effective choices by the public decision-maker pursuing objectives of equity and social well-being, displaying a multidimensional nature. As a result, the evaluation process should integrate more approaches to quantify the different forms of capital involved. The seismic event can pose risks to an individual’s survival or reduce the quality of life. The assessment of the effects of the potential seismic vulnerability reduction plan on the population can be determined on the basis of the value of a statistical life (VSL). Among the possible approaches for its determination, that of the human capital (HC) was chosen for use. A critical review of the HC approach literature has been instrumental in defining an empirical approach that integrates the income-based approach proposed by Jorgenson–Fraumeni for market and non-market assets as well as the approach of Dagum. On the basis of this, the value of the HC for the historic centre of Brisighella was determined. The empirical approach also supported the definition of a model for the quantification of the benefits produced on the population by the plan of interventions to reduce the seismic vulnerability of the historic centre.

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Maria Rosa Trovato. Human Capital Approach in the Economic Assessment of Interventions for the Reduction of Seismic Vulnerability in Historic Centres. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8059 .

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Maria Rosa Trovato. Human Capital Approach in the Economic Assessment of Interventions for the Reduction of Seismic Vulnerability in Historic Centres. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (19):8059.

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Maria Rosa Trovato. 2020. "Human Capital Approach in the Economic Assessment of Interventions for the Reduction of Seismic Vulnerability in Historic Centres." Sustainability 12, no. 19: 8059.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2020 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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Nowadays, energy equalization is one of the many issues concerning the energy policies on the urban scale and in the perspective of reducing the Urban Heat Island effects (UHI-e). The different economic-financial profiles of the interventions implemented in the buildings having a wide range of climatic locations, typological arrangements, architectural-historical constraints, need to be coordinated within unitary local energy-environmental policies inspired by economic-financial as well as environmental issues. The renovation of existing hotels to achieve a nearly Zero-Energy performance is one of the goals of the 2050 EU’s energy policy. This paper presents the nZEB retrofit case of an existing historic hotel and proposes a step by step approach to nZEB performance with a perspective on the costs, in order to identify the most effective energy solutions. Such approach allows highlighting useful insights regarding energy and economic-financial strategies for achieving nZEB standards.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Francesco Nocera; Maria Rosa Trovato; Grazia Napoli; Simona Barbaro. Energy Equalization and the Case of the “nZEB Hotels”. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 1268 -1278.

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Salvatore Giuffrida, Francesco Nocera, Maria Rosa Trovato, Grazia Napoli, Simona Barbaro. Energy Equalization and the Case of the “nZEB Hotels”. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():1268-1278.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Francesco Nocera; Maria Rosa Trovato; Grazia Napoli; Simona Barbaro. 2020. "Energy Equalization and the Case of the “nZEB Hotels”." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 1268-1278.

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Published: 01 September 2020 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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The European Green Deal proposes an epochal change in the European society by transforming environmental and climatic problems into opportunities and making sustainable and fair the European Union economic system. Radical changes will also concern urban redevelopment and energy efficiency measures in order to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve these objectives, rules and standards, as well as financial resources and assessment tools, are needed to support both urban planning and public decision process. This paper aims to analyze the existing European programs that are applied in some European smart cities, as they constitute a valuable source of information for the development of financial schemes and evaluation tools ad hoc for the Green Deal implementation. Moreover, the analysis of the pilot projects of the ZenN program has made possible to identify some critical issues regarding the economic feasibility of energy retrofit at a district scale, though further studies will be required to respond to the new assessment challenges launched by the Green Deal.

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Grazia Napoli; Simona Barbaro; Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato. The European Green Deal: New Challenges for the Economic Feasibility of Energy Retrofit at District Scale. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 1248 -1258.

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Grazia Napoli, Simona Barbaro, Salvatore Giuffrida, Maria Rosa Trovato. The European Green Deal: New Challenges for the Economic Feasibility of Energy Retrofit at District Scale. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():1248-1258.

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Grazia Napoli; Simona Barbaro; Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato. 2020. "The European Green Deal: New Challenges for the Economic Feasibility of Energy Retrofit at District Scale." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 1248-1258.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2020 in New Metropolitan Perspectives
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The phenomenon of the “houses for one Euro” is the epitome of the progressive and increasing abandonment of the inland territories in which many small towns are affected by continuous and unstoppable depopulation. This process, mostly affecting the southern and insular Italian regions, have been triggered by the quick industrial development started after the second post-war, led by the northern regions, that deeply and irreversibly modified the anthropography of the whole country until now. The impoverishment of a wide part of the Italian territory, is one of the many issues connected to the social-territorial justice that is the original topic by which appraisal and valuation, that is science of the economic value judgement, differs from other branches of the applied economics. With the prospect of an insight of the case of Calabria, the paper presents: as first some factual basic premises for defining the matters and the sense of the concept of land debt; as second some theoretical and methodological coordinates for reinterpreting “abandonment as a metaphor of being back”.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato; Antonio Strigari; Grazia Napoli. “Houses for One Euro” and the Territory. Some Estimation Issues for the “Geographic Debt” Reduction. New Metropolitan Perspectives 2020, 1043 -1052.

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Salvatore Giuffrida, Maria Rosa Trovato, Antonio Strigari, Grazia Napoli. “Houses for One Euro” and the Territory. Some Estimation Issues for the “Geographic Debt” Reduction. New Metropolitan Perspectives. 2020; ():1043-1052.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato; Antonio Strigari; Grazia Napoli. 2020. "“Houses for One Euro” and the Territory. Some Estimation Issues for the “Geographic Debt” Reduction." New Metropolitan Perspectives , no. : 1043-1052.

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Published: 11 August 2020 in Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
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Seismic vulnerability affects particularly the small inland towns due to its multifaceted nature, concerning the social capital of city in its two main dimensions, the urban capital and the human capital. In some Italian regions, as well as in Emilia Romagna, municipalities are implementing seismic vulnerability reduction policies based on the Emergency Limit Condition, which has become one of the references for ordinary land planning. With reference to the general planning framework of the Faentina Union—a group of five municipalities in the southwestern part of the Province of Ravenna, Italy—this study proposes a cost-based valuation programming approach to the seismic vulnerability reduction for the old town of Brisighella. This approach involves three cognitive areas: knowledge, aimed at the typological, constructive, and technological description of the buildings, specifically concerning their seismic vulnerability; interpretation, as a critical analysis of the urban fabric representation aimed at outlining a range of earthquake damage scenarios; planning, as a generative pattern of multiple vulnerability reduction strategies having comparable costs, and in correspondence of different budgets. This pattern includes a cost modelling tool aimed at defining the trade-off between the extension and the intensity of the vulnerability reduction works, given the budget.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Chiara Circo; Margherita Giuffrè; Maria Rosa Trovato; Vittoria Ventura. Seismic Vulnerability and Old Towns. A Cost-Based Programming Model. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2020, 3 -18.

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Salvatore Giuffrida, Chiara Circo, Margherita Giuffrè, Maria Rosa Trovato, Vittoria Ventura. Seismic Vulnerability and Old Towns. A Cost-Based Programming Model. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2020; ():3-18.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Chiara Circo; Margherita Giuffrè; Maria Rosa Trovato; Vittoria Ventura. 2020. "Seismic Vulnerability and Old Towns. A Cost-Based Programming Model." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 3-18.

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Published: 04 July 2020 in Sustainability
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Urban/social fragility is the main focus of most studies on civil economy involving the commitment of politics in the prospect of integrating and somehow guiding an ordered development of and ordered communities. The contemporary city is strongly influenced by the incommunicability between the social system and environment, the latter more and more, including urban and societal components. This study tries to outline a comparative social-urban profile of Picanello, a popular central neighborhood of Catania, in Sicily, Italy, characterized by the combination of different urban and social life-quality levels, thus expressing a heterogeneous vulnerability/resilience profile. The analysis is placed in the urban planning context and aims to: (1) Denotative a pattern that considers the different fragility/resilience descriptive indices; and (2) connotative a pattern of the human and urban dimensions of the social capital asset. This analysis was performed by implementing a multidimensional pattern allowing us to place the neighborhood in a ranking of the neighborhoods of Catania, thus highlighting strength and weakness under different respects. Furthermore, the monetary measurements of this vulnerability/resilience profile, was carried by means of the structured observation of the real estate market. Fuzzy k-medoids cluster analyses have been comparatively performed—showing and mapping the relationships between urban value density and real estate market prices tensions.

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Maria Trovato; Claudia Clienti; Salvatore Giuffrida. People and the City: Urban Fragility and the Real Estate-Scape in a Neighborhood of Catania, Italy. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5409 .

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Maria Trovato, Claudia Clienti, Salvatore Giuffrida. People and the City: Urban Fragility and the Real Estate-Scape in a Neighborhood of Catania, Italy. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (13):5409.

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Maria Trovato; Claudia Clienti; Salvatore Giuffrida. 2020. "People and the City: Urban Fragility and the Real Estate-Scape in a Neighborhood of Catania, Italy." Sustainability 12, no. 13: 5409.

Journal article
Published: 14 May 2020 in Sustainability
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Archaeological sites are part of the history and identity of a community playing a strategic role on the different scales of the cultural and economic common life. Whereas on the one end the most famous archaeological sites attract huge flows of tourists and investment, on the other hand, many minor archaeological sites remain almost ignored and neglected. This study proposes a project-evaluation approach devoted to the “minor” archaeological site development, outlining a territorial, socio-economic, and landscape communication pattern aimed at creating an archaeological network integrating other cultural and natural resources. As such, these networks get able to match the demand of customers who shy away from iper-consumerist tourism and want to deepen their knowledge of a place. The proposed approach integrates knowledge, evaluation, and design in a multiscale pattern whose scope is to foster and extend the archaeological research program, involving public and private stake/stockholders to widen the cultural-contemplative experience and promote further educational events concerning the themes of the local identity. With reference to the archaeological basin of Tornambè, Italy, a Web-GIS knowledge system has been drawn to provide the territorial information requested by the economic-evaluation multiscale pattern implemented to verify the cost-effectiveness of the project. The expected negative results of the economic valuation supported the allocation pattern of the considerable investment costs, as well as the hypothetic scenarios about the evolution of the cultural-contemplative experience due to the extension of the archaeological estate. Some disciplinary remarks propose a heterodox approach for a further interpretation of the economic results and financial indexes, by introducing the monetary dimension of such a social capital asset.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Filippo Gagliano; Enrico Giannitrapani; Carmelo Marisca; Grazia Napoli; Maria Rosa Trovato. Promoting Research and Landscape Experience in the Management of the Archaeological Networks. A Project-Valuation Experiment in Italy. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4022 .

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Salvatore Giuffrida, Filippo Gagliano, Enrico Giannitrapani, Carmelo Marisca, Grazia Napoli, Maria Rosa Trovato. Promoting Research and Landscape Experience in the Management of the Archaeological Networks. A Project-Valuation Experiment in Italy. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (10):4022.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Filippo Gagliano; Enrico Giannitrapani; Carmelo Marisca; Grazia Napoli; Maria Rosa Trovato. 2020. "Promoting Research and Landscape Experience in the Management of the Archaeological Networks. A Project-Valuation Experiment in Italy." Sustainability 12, no. 10: 4022.

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Published: 23 April 2020 in Sustainability
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Energy consumption in public buildings increased drastically over the last decade. Significant policy actions towards the promotion of energy efficiency in the building sector have been developed involving sustainable low-CO2-emission technologies. This paper presents the results of an economic–environmental valuation of a standard energy retrofit project for a public building in a Mediterranean area, integrating a life-cycle assessment (LCA) into the traditional economic–financial evaluation pattern. The study results show that simple retrofit of sustainable low-CO2-emission strategies such as wooden double-glazed windows, organic external wall insulation systems, and green roofs can reduce energy needs for heating and cooling by 58.5% and 33.4%, respectively. Furthermore, the implementation of an LCA highlights that the use of sustainable materials reduces the building’s carbon footprint index by 54.1% after retrofit compared to standard materials, thus providing an additional increase in the socio-environmental–economic–financial results of 18%. Some proposals are made about the accounting of the replacement costs and the residual value as requested in the logic of life-cycle cost (that is the economic extension of the LCA), namely concerning the method to take into account the replacement costs and the residual value. The economic calculation highlights the fundamental role played by tax benefits supporting the building energy retrofit, also in temperate climate zones, thus allowing the creation of environmental benefits in addition to remarkable cost savings.

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Maria Rosa Trovato; Francesco Nocera; Salvatore Giuffrida. Life-Cycle Assessment and Monetary Measurements for the Carbon Footprint Reduction of Public Buildings. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3460 .

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Maria Rosa Trovato, Francesco Nocera, Salvatore Giuffrida. Life-Cycle Assessment and Monetary Measurements for the Carbon Footprint Reduction of Public Buildings. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3460.

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Maria Rosa Trovato; Francesco Nocera; Salvatore Giuffrida. 2020. "Life-Cycle Assessment and Monetary Measurements for the Carbon Footprint Reduction of Public Buildings." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3460.

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Published: 02 October 2019 in Geosciences
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Vulnerability is a big issue for small inland urban centres, which are exposed to the risk of depopulation. In the climate of the centre-northern part of Italy, and in the context of the recent concentration of a high number of earthquakes in that area, seismic vulnerability can become the determinant cause of the final abandonment of a small town. In some Italian regions, as well as in Emilia Romagna, municipalities are implementing seismic vulnerability reduction policies based on the Emergency Limit Condition, which has become a basic point of reference for ordinary land planning. This study proposes an approach to seismic vulnerability reduction based on valuation planning for implementation within the general planning framework of the Faentina Union, a group of five small towns located in the southwestern part of the Province of Ravenna, Italy. This approach consists of three main stages: knowledge—the typological, constructive, and technological descriptions of the buildings, specifically concerning their degree of vulnerability; interpretation—analysis with the aim of outlining a range of hypotheses with respect to damage in case of a prospective earthquake; and planning—the identification of the courses of action intended to meaningfully reduce the vulnerability of buildings. This stage includes a cost modelling tool aimed at defining the trade-off between the extension and the intensity of the vulnerability reduction works, given the budget.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato; Chiara Circo; Vittoria Ventura; Margherita Giuffrè; Valentina Macca. Seismic Vulnerability and Old Towns. A Cost-Based Programming Model. Geosciences 2019, 9, 427 .

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Salvatore Giuffrida, Maria Rosa Trovato, Chiara Circo, Vittoria Ventura, Margherita Giuffrè, Valentina Macca. Seismic Vulnerability and Old Towns. A Cost-Based Programming Model. Geosciences. 2019; 9 (10):427.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato; Chiara Circo; Vittoria Ventura; Margherita Giuffrè; Valentina Macca. 2019. "Seismic Vulnerability and Old Towns. A Cost-Based Programming Model." Geosciences 9, no. 10: 427.

Journal article
Published: 28 June 2019 in Entropy
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The paper addresses an important long-standing question in regards to the energy efficiency renovation of existing buildings, in this case hotels, towards nearly zero-energy (nZEBs) status. The renovation of existing hotels to achieve a nearly zero-energy (nZEBs) performance is one of the forefront goals of EU’s energy policy for 2050. The achievement of nZEBs target for hotels is necessary not only to comply with changing regulations and legislations, but also to foster competitiveness to secure new funding. Indeed, the nZEB hotel status allows for the reduction of operating costs and the increase of energy security, meeting the market and guests’ expectations. Actually, there is not a set national value of nZEBs for hotels to be attained, despite the fact that hotels are among the most energy-intensive buildings. This paper presents the case study of the energy retrofit of an existing historical hotel located in southern Italy (Syracuse) in order to achieve nZEBs status. Starting from the energy audit, the paper proposes a step-by-step approach to nZEBs performance, with a perspective on the costs, in order to identify the most effective energy solutions. Such an approach allows useful insights regarding energy and economic–financial strategies for achieving nZEBs standards to highlighted. Moreover, the results of this paper provide, to stakeholders, useful information for quantifying the technical convenience and economic profitability to reach an nZEBs target in order to prevent the expenses necessary by future energy retrofit programs.

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Francesco Nocera; Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato; Antonio Gagliano. Energy and New Economic Approach for Nearly Zero Energy Hotels. Entropy 2019, 21, 639 .

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Francesco Nocera, Salvatore Giuffrida, Maria Rosa Trovato, Antonio Gagliano. Energy and New Economic Approach for Nearly Zero Energy Hotels. Entropy. 2019; 21 (7):639.

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Francesco Nocera; Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato; Antonio Gagliano. 2019. "Energy and New Economic Approach for Nearly Zero Energy Hotels." Entropy 21, no. 7: 639.

Journal article
Published: 24 February 2019 in Sustainability
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Public housing policy has been proposing plans of public housing (PH) stock alienation or, as an alternative, property enhancement plans, since administrative and financial commitments have become too heavy for municipalities. This paper deals with one of the current public housing management policy initiatives, undertaken by the Municipality of Palermo (Italy), which aimed at transferring a significant part of the public housing asset to the current tenants, according to some terms and conditions, and applying a politically fixed price. This policy is described in general, focusing on the amount of the assets involved, reporting the terms and conditions for transferring them at an affordable price, and analysing their concentration/distribution in the urban areas. The main aim of the paper is to provide a valuation pattern for defining the trade-off between the efficiency and fairness of such a tool, recognising the conditions for the consistency between the transfer price established by municipality, the merit of the public housing asset, and the market value. A detailed study on two representative neighbourhoods was carried out in order to measure the value of solidarity of this policy and to propose some corrective rules.

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Grazia Napoli; Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato. Efficiency versus Fairness in the Management of Public Housing Assets in Palermo (Italy). Sustainability 2019, 11, 1199 .

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Grazia Napoli, Salvatore Giuffrida, Maria Rosa Trovato. Efficiency versus Fairness in the Management of Public Housing Assets in Palermo (Italy). Sustainability. 2019; 11 (4):1199.

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Grazia Napoli; Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato. 2019. "Efficiency versus Fairness in the Management of Public Housing Assets in Palermo (Italy)." Sustainability 11, no. 4: 1199.

Journal article
Published: 15 October 2018 in Land
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In recent years, the scientific interest for the economic and landscape impact of wind farms has increased. This paper presents a useful GIS tool that allows for helping policymakers and investors to identify promising areas for wind power generation as well as landscape impact and financial and economic sustainability of wind farms. The results of the research carried out for exploring the potential for wind energy in two territorial contexts of Sicily region are presented with the particular look at the possibilities of economic developing, stakeholders’ opportunities and obstacles in the policy, legal, and regulatory framework.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Filippo Gagliano; Francesco Nocera; Maria Rosa Trovato. Landscape Assessment and Economic Accounting in Wind Farm Programming: Two Cases in Sicily. Land 2018, 7, 120 .

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Salvatore Giuffrida, Filippo Gagliano, Francesco Nocera, Maria Rosa Trovato. Landscape Assessment and Economic Accounting in Wind Farm Programming: Two Cases in Sicily. Land. 2018; 7 (4):120.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Filippo Gagliano; Francesco Nocera; Maria Rosa Trovato. 2018. "Landscape Assessment and Economic Accounting in Wind Farm Programming: Two Cases in Sicily." Land 7, no. 4: 120.

Conference paper
Published: 07 June 2018 in Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
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Starting out from the admonitions of the encyclical letter by pope Francis, this contribution aims to define the value of social agriculture as an instrument of integrated development of the territory able to foster, just for its own peculiarities, the creation of dense systems of relationships among the various stakeholders that operate in synergy for the local development of the territory and the creation, therefore, of shared capital. The analysis, through the first results of a case study involving various social agricultural enterprises that operate in the metropolitan area of Catania, has enables the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the relationships that are generated between the various subjects that interact at the territorial level (network), using the methodology of Social Network Analysis (SNA).

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Vera Teresa Foti; Alessandro Scuderi; Giuseppe Stella; Luisa Sturiale; Giuseppe Timpanaro; Maria Rosa Trovato. The Integration of Agriculture in the Politics of Social Regeneration of Degraded Urban Areas. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2018, 99 -111.

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Vera Teresa Foti, Alessandro Scuderi, Giuseppe Stella, Luisa Sturiale, Giuseppe Timpanaro, Maria Rosa Trovato. The Integration of Agriculture in the Politics of Social Regeneration of Degraded Urban Areas. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2018; ():99-111.

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Vera Teresa Foti; Alessandro Scuderi; Giuseppe Stella; Luisa Sturiale; Giuseppe Timpanaro; Maria Rosa Trovato. 2018. "The Integration of Agriculture in the Politics of Social Regeneration of Degraded Urban Areas." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 99-111.

Conference paper
Published: 20 May 2018 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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The landscape units of the Sicilian mountainous inland, as for the case of Petralia Soprana, are marked by the presence of ancient urban centres controlling the agricultural territory, from which they derived their own wealth, and to which they conferred landscape significance. The unity between economy and landscape has been interrupted by the radical transformation of the socio-economic structure and the technologic progress, which have eroded the consistency between structures and superstructures. We propose an assessment approach based on a synthesis of semiotic and phenomenological view. The approach mainly focuses on the basic concepts and contents of the valuation process that can be assumed as the theoretical premise for the operational tool.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Grazia Napoli; Maria Rosa Trovato. The Urban Being Between Environment and Landscape. On the Old Town as an Emerging Subject. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2018, 378 -386.

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Salvatore Giuffrida, Grazia Napoli, Maria Rosa Trovato. The Urban Being Between Environment and Landscape. On the Old Town as an Emerging Subject. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2018; ():378-386.

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Salvatore Giuffrida; Grazia Napoli; Maria Rosa Trovato. 2018. "The Urban Being Between Environment and Landscape. On the Old Town as an Emerging Subject." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 378-386.

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Published: 20 May 2018 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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The historic town centre of our cities may be considered as a stratified and interconnected aggregate of values. Identifying these values for some of the possible configurations of components for a historic town centre is a complex task. This study proposes a cognitive, interpretive and evaluative model for the evaluation and choice of action in the redevelopment plan for a historic town centre, in order to locate amongst all possible redevelopment alternatives, those that best meet the prerequisites of sustainability. In particular, this study analyses the actions of the redevelopment plan for the Biancavilla’s historic town centre. The instrumental operational model for evaluation is of a multi-criteria type and in particular uses a MAUT approach. This multi-criteria approach allows for a ranking of the analysed alternatives on the basis of a set of criteria which take into account the sustainability of the interventions.

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Maria Rosa Trovato. A Multi-criteria Approach to Support the Retraining Plan of the Biancavilla’s Old Town. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2018, 434 -441.

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Maria Rosa Trovato. A Multi-criteria Approach to Support the Retraining Plan of the Biancavilla’s Old Town. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2018; ():434-441.

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Maria Rosa Trovato. 2018. "A Multi-criteria Approach to Support the Retraining Plan of the Biancavilla’s Old Town." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 434-441.

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Published: 20 May 2018 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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The real estate capital is one of the most resistant forms of the process through which the social surplus product was consolidated, making possible the phenomenon of cities as a gradual layering of the “traces” of a settled community. The complexity and complementarity between homogeneity of the urban fabrics and heterogeneity of the architectural shapes led to the multiplicity of functions that properties play, encouraging the expectations of the players of its enhancement process: administrations, owners, large and small investors. This paper focuses on the interpretation of the urban pattern of the historic city through the analysis of the housing markets. The research deals with the case study of the town of Syracuse, a multifaceted urban context from several points of view. The formal and functional articulation of this real estate market justifies the use of different, layered and structured analysis tools to identify sub-markets, deepening the relationship between value/price.

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Laura Gabrielli; Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato. Real Estate Landscapes and the Historic City: On How Looking Inside the Market. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2018, 269 -276.

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Laura Gabrielli, Salvatore Giuffrida, Maria Rosa Trovato. Real Estate Landscapes and the Historic City: On How Looking Inside the Market. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2018; ():269-276.

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Laura Gabrielli; Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato. 2018. "Real Estate Landscapes and the Historic City: On How Looking Inside the Market." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 269-276.

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Published: 19 May 2018 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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When urban and environmental transformations occur in areas where the equilibrium between nature and culture is complex and fragile, public administrations could decide to induce private investments using several tools, such as financial contributions to those projects of refurbishment that better respect the purpose of improving the environmental quality and of preserving the local architecture. Multicriteria models may support public decision process regarding this issue, but it is essential to adopt a scientific paradigm that provides a major theoretical reference. This study proposes the development of a network model based on the scientific paradigm by Rizzo and the Analytic Network Process. The first one has been chosen because of its interpretation of the city as autopoietic organization, dissipative structure and political-administrative system, the second one because of its holistic representation of the decision problem in which the interactions between all the elements are made explicit. The network model has been applied to a case study that consists in ranking some alternative refurbishments of buildings in Favignana (Egadi islands, Italy) in order to grant public financial contributions.

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Grazia Napoli; Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato. A Paradigm Interpreting the City and the Analytic Network Process for the Management of Urban Transformations. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2018, 672 -680.

AMA Style

Grazia Napoli, Salvatore Giuffrida, Maria Rosa Trovato. A Paradigm Interpreting the City and the Analytic Network Process for the Management of Urban Transformations. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2018; ():672-680.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Grazia Napoli; Salvatore Giuffrida; Maria Rosa Trovato. 2018. "A Paradigm Interpreting the City and the Analytic Network Process for the Management of Urban Transformations." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 672-680.