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Dr. Francesca Abastante
Interuniversity Department of regional urban studies and planning, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, 10125, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 20 July 2021 in Sustainability
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This paper explores the enhancement of adaptive reuse (AR) of buildings through the lens of the sustainability protocols within the context of circular economy (CE) in Italy. Cities and the built environment can play a key role in the transition to a CE, especially considering the documented negative global impact due to resource consumption and waste generation. This is recognised among the principles of circularity defined by the European Commission towards a general strategy for a sustainable built environment, which encourages initiatives of building reuse and land consumption reduction. It has been proven that the AR of vacant buildings can bring environmental, social, and economic benefits towards an urban strategy based on CE principles by generating useful values to support innovative development dynamics. In this perspective, the sustainability protocols can be identified as useful tools to pursue strategies for spreading the culture of sustainable build environment. Considering the huge vacant Italian architectural heritage, this paper aims to analyze how the most widely used sustainability protocols in the Italian context currently address the enhancement of the reuse of buildings, to improve environmental, social, and economic quality in the built environment. We discuss the results highlighting how and which sustainability protocols better intercept these issues, providing grounds for future development.

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Gaballo Marika; Mecca Beatrice; Abastante Francesca. Adaptive Reuse and Sustainability Protocols in Italy: Relationship with Circular Economy. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8077 .

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Gaballo Marika, Mecca Beatrice, Abastante Francesca. Adaptive Reuse and Sustainability Protocols in Italy: Relationship with Circular Economy. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (14):8077.

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Gaballo Marika; Mecca Beatrice; Abastante Francesca. 2021. "Adaptive Reuse and Sustainability Protocols in Italy: Relationship with Circular Economy." Sustainability 13, no. 14: 8077.

Journal article
Published: 31 March 2021 in Sustainability
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This paper is built on the following research questions: (i) What are the direct/indirect relationships between Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11) and sustainability protocols? (ii) Could the sustainability protocols constitute a solution towards the achievement of SDG11? We underline that, on the one hand, the SDGs are guidelines to support the development of sustainable policies and thus address all elements that may affect them, and on the other hand, sustainability protocols are assessment tools to promote sustainability-conscious design while remaining focused on the built environment. In the Italian regulatory context, the paper highlights how this difference in terms of focus and scale means that they only overlap and mutually reinforce each other with regard to certain aspects, more related to energy and air pollution issues and less to the social aspects of sustainability. Even if there is not always a direct relationship between the evaluation criteria of the protocols and the indicators of SDG11, it is possible to conclude that the sustainability protocols can facilitate the achievement of the SDG11 targets, acting as a key for the implementation of sustainable cities and helping in structuring the process leading to sustainability in a broader framework.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella Lami; Marika Gaballo. Pursuing the SDG11 Targets: The Role of the Sustainability Protocols. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3858 .

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Francesca Abastante, Isabella Lami, Marika Gaballo. Pursuing the SDG11 Targets: The Role of the Sustainability Protocols. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (7):3858.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella Lami; Marika Gaballo. 2021. "Pursuing the SDG11 Targets: The Role of the Sustainability Protocols." Sustainability 13, no. 7: 3858.

Conference paper
Published: 23 March 2021 in Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
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This chapter is about defining and testing a multi-methodological framework able to measure the “walkability” in the urban practice perspective, based on assessment indicators and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Nowadays, cities are facing a complex challenge concerning sustainability, which is fueling the search for new development solutions. Among others, one of the most important problems is how to make cities sustainable and resilient, as stressed by the Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11) highlighted by the United Nations through the 2030 Agenda. The topic of “walkability” appears in this framework: Walking has ecological, social, economic and political benefits. Moreover, designing walkable networks is important to create a functional and multi-modal city with transport choices and makes urban settlements sustainable and inclusive from the perspective that a sustainable city is also a walkable city. However, despite the positive impact of walkability on public space, it is still difficult to fully include it in governmental strategies because of its novelty in the scientific debate. The ongoing research proposed here aims at: (i) describing the problem, related to what trends and strategies have been implemented to face it; (ii) investigating walkability, understanding its definition in the scientific panorama, and how it is evaluated; (iii) understanding the current evaluation methods to assess the walkability of spaces; (iv) proposing a new multi-methodological framework based on existing methods that are able to measure the walkability degree from the perspective of better planning of cities. The multi-methodological framework has been tested through a case study: the Politecnico di Torino Campus (Torino, Italy).

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Francesca Abastante; Marika Gaballo; Luigi La Riccia. Investigate Walkability: An Assessment Model to Support Urban Development Processes. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2021, 183 -197.

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Francesca Abastante, Marika Gaballo, Luigi La Riccia. Investigate Walkability: An Assessment Model to Support Urban Development Processes. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2021; ():183-197.

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Francesca Abastante; Marika Gaballo; Luigi La Riccia. 2021. "Investigate Walkability: An Assessment Model to Support Urban Development Processes." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 183-197.

Journal article
Published: 14 December 2020 in Sustainability
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To achieve the international emission reduction targets, current researches underline the need to overcome the dominant techno-centric approaches to energy transition, in favor of analyses that explore in more detail those practices and organizational assets that play a role in favoring a transition towards a low-carbon society. In this light, the article focuses on governance practices and, in particular, on the different tools and actors involved across variable scales and temporalities. Drawing on the activities of the ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership for Higher Education LOTUS (Locally Organized Transition of Urban Sustainable Spaces), a selection of European case studies is explored and compared in light of (i) the implemented actions in terms of energy production and efficiency measures, (ii) the legal framework and the origin of the funding and (iii) the number and type of involved actors and their partnerships. On this basis, the analysis outlines, from both a theoretical and a practical stand, a number of critical issues that characterize these episodes of energy transition governance. In particular, the authors reflect upon the interaction between energy measures and urban contexts, the need for synergies among government level and the emergence of new forms of partnership among public, private and third parties’ actors.

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Federica Rotondo; Francesca Abastante; Giancarlo Cotella; Isabella Lami. Questioning Low-Carbon Transition Governance: A Comparative Analysis of European Case Studies. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10460 .

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Federica Rotondo, Francesca Abastante, Giancarlo Cotella, Isabella Lami. Questioning Low-Carbon Transition Governance: A Comparative Analysis of European Case Studies. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (24):10460.

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Federica Rotondo; Francesca Abastante; Giancarlo Cotella; Isabella Lami. 2020. "Questioning Low-Carbon Transition Governance: A Comparative Analysis of European Case Studies." Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10460.

Original paper
Published: 20 November 2020 in Operational Research
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The paper shows how multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA) tools can support the analyses of six hypotheses of adaptive reuse of an iconic historical building in Turin, Italy (called stock exchange) to identify the preferred alternative. In the last 2 years, the debate around the requalification of the building has been huge for several reasons: it is perceived as a “monument” by citizens; it shows architectural and typological values nationally recognized; it involves public and private interests. In this context, we tested the applicability of a recently proposed multicriteria decision making methodology to architecture field. This decision support approach is a conjunction of four MCDA methods, namely: multiple criteria hierarchy process (MCHP), permitting to consider structural relationships between criteria; ELECTRE III, considering three types of interaction effects between criteria (strengthening, weakening and antagonistic effects); the imprecise SRF method, supplying an easily understandable approach to collect information from the Decision Maker; and stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA), providing robust recommendation, in terms of rankings and relations of preference, indifference and incomparability between project alternatives, at each level of the hierarchy. We propose a modification of the SRF methodology, called SFR-II, to increase the reliability of the decision aid procedure, which could constitute a significant advance for the same SRF method.

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Francesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Isabella M. Lami; Beatrice Mecca. The introduction of the SRF-II method to compare hypothesis of adaptive reuse for an iconic historical building. Operational Research 2020, 1 -40.

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Francesca Abastante, Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco, Isabella M. Lami, Beatrice Mecca. The introduction of the SRF-II method to compare hypothesis of adaptive reuse for an iconic historical building. Operational Research. 2020; ():1-40.

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Francesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Isabella M. Lami; Beatrice Mecca. 2020. "The introduction of the SRF-II method to compare hypothesis of adaptive reuse for an iconic historical building." Operational Research , no. : 1-40.

Journal article
Published: 02 October 2020 in Sustainability
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The urban planning and evaluation literature suggests that making a walkable city means creating a resilient and healthy city. In recent years, alternative mobility has been the subject of numerous studies, showing that the concept of urban walkability can be used as an additional support in planning resilient cities. Though researchers agree that walkability assessment has a positive impact on public space planning, it is still difficult to include the topic in planning strategies because of its novelty in the scientific debate. This paper will first review the literature on walkability assessment and then propose a multi-methodological assessment framework that fills the gaps in existing assessment methods. The multi-methodological assessment framework contributes to overcoming the idea that objective and subjective aspects are “not part of the same planning project.” Thanks to its combination of hard and soft methods, the assessment framework illustrated in this paper can consider physical and perceptual aspects simultaneously and represent them visually using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It can thus provide easily readable results that can be applied in establishing guidelines for planning resilient cities.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami; Luigi La Riccia; Marika Gaballo. Supporting Resilient Urban Planning through Walkability Assessment. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8131 .

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Francesca Abastante, Isabella M. Lami, Luigi La Riccia, Marika Gaballo. Supporting Resilient Urban Planning through Walkability Assessment. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (19):8131.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami; Luigi La Riccia; Marika Gaballo. 2020. "Supporting Resilient Urban Planning through Walkability Assessment." Sustainability 12, no. 19: 8131.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2020 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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One of the most important problems to face over the past thirty years is how to make cities sustainable and resilient, with the overall changes that are affecting cities, resulting from the constant urbanization of the current century. In this perspective, designing walking networks is important to create a functional and multi-modal city in transport choices and make urban settlements sustainable and inclusive, because a sustainable city is also a walkable city. This is what the UN also aims for, among other topics, in its SDGs’ 2030 Agenda. Despite the positive impact of walkability on public space, it is still difficult fully include it in government strategies, because of its novelty in the scientific debate. This paper has a double purpose: (i) to argue the problem, related to what trends and strategies have been implemented to face it; (ii) to investigate in depth walkability, understanding its definition in the scientific panorama, how is evaluated and how its evaluation could be useful in urban transformation processes.

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Francesca Abastante; Marika Gaballo. How to Assess Walkability as a Measure of Pedestrian Use: First Step of a Multi-methodological Approach. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 254 -263.

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Francesca Abastante, Marika Gaballo. How to Assess Walkability as a Measure of Pedestrian Use: First Step of a Multi-methodological Approach. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():254-263.

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Francesca Abastante; Marika Gaballo. 2020. "How to Assess Walkability as a Measure of Pedestrian Use: First Step of a Multi-methodological Approach." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 254-263.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2020 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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One of the crucial issues of the contemporary city is the enormous heritage of unused buildings and areas. Their reuse can contribute to new social and economic profits, to create new values within society and to avoid the considerable waste generated by their demolition and reconstruction. To tackle this issue an approach of adaptive reuse is proposed, i.e. the practice of inserting a new content into a new container (building, site, area), maximizing the conservation of the object of transformation, with a specific focus on culture as valuable driver to reactivate abandoned sites, areas and buildings, renewing their image and contributing to increase the level of well-being and social inclusion. In this context, we analyse six Italian cases of cultural urban regeneration characterized by different models of governance, a low intensity of financial capital and a high intensity of cultural and human capital, through a performance indicator framework in order to try to highlight which factors allowed or hindered the success of some projects.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami; Beatrice Mecca. Performance Indicators Framework to Analyse Factors Influencing the Success of Six Urban Cultural Regeneration Cases. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 886 -897.

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Francesca Abastante, Isabella M. Lami, Beatrice Mecca. Performance Indicators Framework to Analyse Factors Influencing the Success of Six Urban Cultural Regeneration Cases. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():886-897.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami; Beatrice Mecca. 2020. "Performance Indicators Framework to Analyse Factors Influencing the Success of Six Urban Cultural Regeneration Cases." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 886-897.

Chapter
Published: 09 January 2020 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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The present chapter aims at illustrate the six adaptive reuse case studies basing on the analytical framework’s structure described according to the following labels: local context, architectural characters, origin and stakeholders, pills of history and value proposition. This chapter constitutes a synthetic qualitative and quantitative description of the investigated adaptive reuse experiences whose objective is to support and sustain theoretical and practical reasoning about the adaptive reuse concept.

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Andrea Porta; Francesca Abastante. The Case Study Profiles. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 99 -132.

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Andrea Porta, Francesca Abastante. The Case Study Profiles. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():99-132.

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Andrea Porta; Francesca Abastante. 2020. "The Case Study Profiles." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 99-132.

Preprint
Published: 07 January 2020
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The paper shows how Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) tools can support the analyses of six hypotheses of adaptive reuse of an iconic historical building in Turin, Italy (called Stock Exchange) to identify the preferred alternative. In the last two years, the debate around the requalification of the building has been huge for several reasons: it is perceived as a "monument" by citizens; it shows architectural and typological values nationally recognized; it involves public and private interests. In this context, interacting with experts involved in the ongoing discussion, we consider a recently proposed conjunction of four MCDA methods, namely: Multiple Criteria Hierarchy Process (MCHP), permitting to consider structural relationships between criteria; ELECTRE III, considering three types of interaction effects between criteria (strengthening, weakening and antagonistic effects); the imprecise SRF method, supplying an easily understandable approach to collect information from the DM; and Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA), providing robust recommendation, in terms of rankings and relations of preference, indifference and incomparability between project alternatives, at each level of the hierarchy. We propose a modification of the SRF methodology, called SFR-II, to increase the reliability of the decision aid procedure, which could constitute a significant advance for the same SRF method.

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Francesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Isabella Lami; Beatrice Mecca. Multiple criteria decision analysis with the SRF-II method to compare hypotheses of adaptive reuse for an iconic historical building. 2020, 1 .

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Francesca Abastante, Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco, Isabella Lami, Beatrice Mecca. Multiple criteria decision analysis with the SRF-II method to compare hypotheses of adaptive reuse for an iconic historical building. . 2020; ():1.

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Francesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Isabella Lami; Beatrice Mecca. 2020. "Multiple criteria decision analysis with the SRF-II method to compare hypotheses of adaptive reuse for an iconic historical building." , no. : 1.

Chapter
Published: 07 August 2019 in Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
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The paper investigates the combined use of storytelling and the Simos-Roy-Figueira (SRF) method to support the identification of the most important decision criteria in a decision process concerning a valorization strategy for a UNESCO’s MaB reserve. The approach is illustrated with an Italian case study (“CollinaPo”), describing one of the four focus groups where it has been applied, as part of a training course to discover and valorize the values and peculiarities of the area. The choice of a combination of storytelling and SRF has been also induced by the very varied composition of the workshop participants: the two methods are intuitive and entertaining, the latter in particular allows to select and weight the criteria on a subjective scale that stimulate the stakeholders’ acceptance. The fact that several common criteria arose across of different groups despite the limited time and the variety of the participants, seemed a positive indicator of the goodness of the choice. The participants pointed out this sense of “belonging” to UNESCO’s MaB reserve “CollinaPo” beyond the division into individual municipalities, expressing a clear vision of the need to act as a “network” on the territory to reinforce the attractiveness of the area. Even if the article illustrates the results of a single case, it incorporates a series of reasoning related to three workshops already done in the same project, and other applications are scheduled.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami. A Stakeholders-Oriented Approach to Analyze the Case of the UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Reserve CollinaPo. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2019, 325 -338.

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Francesca Abastante, Isabella M. Lami. A Stakeholders-Oriented Approach to Analyze the Case of the UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Reserve CollinaPo. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2019; ():325-338.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami. 2019. "A Stakeholders-Oriented Approach to Analyze the Case of the UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Reserve CollinaPo." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 325-338.

Book chapter
Published: 07 August 2019 in Behaviour of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles
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Francesca Abastante; Stefano Pensa; Elena Masala. The Process of Sharing Information in a Sustainable Development Perspective: A Web Visual Tool. Behaviour of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles 2019, 339 -350.

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Francesca Abastante, Stefano Pensa, Elena Masala. The Process of Sharing Information in a Sustainable Development Perspective: A Web Visual Tool. Behaviour of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles. 2019; ():339-350.

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Francesca Abastante; Stefano Pensa; Elena Masala. 2019. "The Process of Sharing Information in a Sustainable Development Perspective: A Web Visual Tool." Behaviour of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles , no. : 339-350.

Chapter
Published: 07 August 2019 in Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
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This research proposes an application of a MultiCriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) in the adaptive reuse framework, which is able to structure the complex decision process required for the effective reuse of an historic district. Nowadays, many cities are facing an economic, financial, social and urban decline. This is particularly true when thinking about historic districts, which are usually characterized by high unique cultural values but, at the same time, show difficult characteristics in terms of comfort and security. Accordingly, the planning rules to be applied to the historic districts need to be re-written overcoming the traditional logics. The proposed adaptive reuse framework deals with the application of the Macbeth method. To properly test, develop and illustrate the framework we conducted an experimental validation through a case study: the urban regeneration of an historical district in Biella (Italy) starting from the adaptive reuse of an historic building.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami; Beatrice Mecca. How to Revitalise a Historic District: A Stakeholders-Oriented Assessment Framework of Adaptive Reuse. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2019, 3 -20.

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Francesca Abastante, Isabella M. Lami, Beatrice Mecca. How to Revitalise a Historic District: A Stakeholders-Oriented Assessment Framework of Adaptive Reuse. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2019; ():3-20.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami; Beatrice Mecca. 2019. "How to Revitalise a Historic District: A Stakeholders-Oriented Assessment Framework of Adaptive Reuse." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 3-20.

Journal article
Published: 28 February 2019 in Expert Systems with Applications
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We propose a development of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) permitting to use the methodology also for decision problems with a very large number of alternatives and several criteria. While the application of the original AHP method involves many pairwise comparisons between considered objects, that can be alternatives with respect to considered criteria or criteria between them, our parsimonious proposal is composed of five steps: (i) direct evaluation of the objects at hand; (ii) selection of some reference objects; (iii) application of the original AHP method to the reference objects; (iv) check of the consistency of the pairwise comparisons of AHP and the compatibility between the rating and the prioritization with a subsequent discussion with the decision maker who can modify the rating or pairwise comparisons of reference objects; (v) revision of the direct evaluation on the basis of the prioritization supplied by AHP on reference objects. Our approach permits to avoid the distortion of comparing more relevant objects (reference points) with less relevant objects. Moreover, our AHP approach avoids rank reversal problems, that is, changes of the order in the prioritizations due to adding or removing one or more objects from the set of considered objects. The new proposal has been tested and experimentally validated.

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Francesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Alessio Ishizaka; Isabella M. Lami. A new parsimonious AHP methodology: Assigning priorities to many objects by comparing pairwise few reference objects. Expert Systems with Applications 2019, 127, 109 -120.

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Francesca Abastante, Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco, Alessio Ishizaka, Isabella M. Lami. A new parsimonious AHP methodology: Assigning priorities to many objects by comparing pairwise few reference objects. Expert Systems with Applications. 2019; 127 ():109-120.

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Francesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Alessio Ishizaka; Isabella M. Lami. 2019. "A new parsimonious AHP methodology: Assigning priorities to many objects by comparing pairwise few reference objects." Expert Systems with Applications 127, no. : 109-120.

Chapter
Published: 01 January 2019 in Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies
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The urban decision processes should be optimized according to the current “green” context. Despite the literature advocating for an open availability of data to facilitate higher quality science and a more effective science-policy boundary, one of the main challenges when dealing with energy processes is the absence of accurate data. This chapter aims at illustrating a stakeholder-oriented approach based on multi-criteria analyses (MCA) in defining the set of evaluation criteria and their relevance in supporting the development of “what if” urban energy retrofitting scenarios. In this regard, the SRF method has been used highlighting that the most important criteria for the problem in exam are related to economic and environmental aspects. In this context, big data visualization and geographical locations of the alternative scenarios, producing presentation features and performing spatial operations are fundamental. Hence, the authors supported the decision process through MC-SDSS to optimize the urban decision purposes. The results of this chapter are part of the national project EEB.

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Francesca Abastante; Patrizia Lombardi; Sara Torabi Moghadam. Defining Energy Criteria in the Absence of Open Data. Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies 2019, 139 -160.

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Francesca Abastante, Patrizia Lombardi, Sara Torabi Moghadam. Defining Energy Criteria in the Absence of Open Data. Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies. 2019; ():139-160.

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Francesca Abastante; Patrizia Lombardi; Sara Torabi Moghadam. 2019. "Defining Energy Criteria in the Absence of Open Data." Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies , no. : 139-160.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2018 in Land Use Policy
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Choice architecture concerns different forms and procedures to present and handle a decision problem. It is a paradigm around which many theoretical results have been collected within behavioural psychology and experimental economics and many successful applications have been implemented in the domains of health, finance and social choices. In this work, we propose an application of the basic idea of architecture choice that is designing decision support procedures for complex problems, with a focus on housing realm. We consider a real-world problem in which 21 Social Housing initiatives sited in the Piedmont region (Italy) had to be evaluated taking into account several criteria and, to this aim, we propose a decision analysis methodology for supporting assessment in such complex problems. Our main preoccupations in designing the decision aiding procedure were related to build a model that, on one hand, permits to take into consideration the many delicate points of the problem, while, on the other hand, requires to the Decision Maker (DM) an affordable cognitive burden in terms of preference elicitation and interpretation of the obtained results. Since synergy and redundancy of criteria constitute important aspects of the decision problem, we aggregated evaluations on considered criteria by means of the Choquet integral. To maintain the preference information asked to the DM simple and not too requiring, we put together a recently proposed parsimonious approach of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Non-Additive Robust Ordinal Regression (NAROR). The Parsimonious AHP permitted to assign a value on a common scale to the performances of all criteria, while the NAROR permitted to elicit the importance and the interaction of criteria taking into account all the possible values for the preference parameters compatible with the preference information supplied by the DM. Our methodology allowed a fruitful interaction with the DM that had the possibility to update the preference information during the decision process until he/she felt convinced and satisfied of the obtained result. The suitability and the interest of the proposed methodology were confirmed by the subjective final appreciation of the DM as well as by the objective absence of specific inconsistencies in the AHP procedure and in the non-additive robust ordinal regression, which witnessed the beneficial contribution of our approach.

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Francesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Alessio Ishizaka; Isabella M. Lami. Choice architecture for architecture choices: Evaluating social housing initiatives putting together a parsimonious AHP methodology and the Choquet integral. Land Use Policy 2018, 78, 748 -762.

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Francesca Abastante, Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco, Alessio Ishizaka, Isabella M. Lami. Choice architecture for architecture choices: Evaluating social housing initiatives putting together a parsimonious AHP methodology and the Choquet integral. Land Use Policy. 2018; 78 ():748-762.

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Francesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Alessio Ishizaka; Isabella M. Lami. 2018. "Choice architecture for architecture choices: Evaluating social housing initiatives putting together a parsimonious AHP methodology and the Choquet integral." Land Use Policy 78, no. : 748-762.

Conference paper
Published: 07 June 2018 in Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
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The ecologic issue highlighted by the Encyclical letter Laudato Si’ (Francesco 2015) is a complex problem involving environmental, economic and social aspects. The aim of this paper is to propose an Integrated Assessment (IA) framework based on the systematic application of the Stakeholders’ Analysis (SA), the Strategic Choice Approach (SCA), the MACBETH Multicriteria Analysis and the Discounted Cash Flow Analysis (DCFA) to support the decision process related to the requalification of districts facing urban and social decline. In the proposed approach, the SA is used to determine the key actors involved in an urban and territorial transformation. While the SCA is used to identify potentialities and constraints of an urban area to define a master plan, the MACBETH method is applied to compare various alternative projects, and the DCFA aims at evaluating the economic performance of the proposed intervention. As a case study, the IA framework has been applied to a simulated academic process for the transformation of the Tür und Taxis district near the Molenbeek district in Brussels (Belgium). During the research, we interfaced with many real stakeholders involved in the transformation of those areas.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami. An Integrated Assessment Framework for the Requalification of Districts Facing Urban and Social Decline. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2018, 535 -545.

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Francesca Abastante, Isabella M. Lami. An Integrated Assessment Framework for the Requalification of Districts Facing Urban and Social Decline. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2018; ():535-545.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami. 2018. "An Integrated Assessment Framework for the Requalification of Districts Facing Urban and Social Decline." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 535-545.

Journal article
Published: 07 November 2017 in Buildings
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The decision-making process regarding heating supply system options in a district perspective is extremely challenging. This paper aims to present a new method to support urban energy decisions in real-time processes, which was developed in the context of a European project (DIMMER (District Information Modeling and Management for Energy Reduction, 2013–2016)). The method is composed of three parts: (i) a new web-based spatial decision support system (SDSS), called “Dashboard”; (ii) an ad hoc energy-attribute analysis (EAA) tool to be integrated into Dashboard; and (iii) a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). In contrast to other SDSSs, one of the main strengths of Dashboard is the ability to acquire, store, and manage both geo-referenced and non-geo-referenced data, and perform real-time analyses of spatial problems taking into account a wide range of information. In this sense, Dashboard can formally visualize and assess a potentially infinite number of attributes and information, as it is able to read and process very large web databases. This characteristic makes Dashboard a very effective tool that can be used in real-time during focus groups or workshops to understand how the criterion trade-offs evolve when one, or several, decision parameters change. The paper describes the main procedure of the new method and testing of Dashboard test on a district in Turin (Italy).

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami; Patrizia Lombardi. An Integrated Participative Spatial Decision Support System for Smart Energy Urban Scenarios: A Financial and Economic Approach. Buildings 2017, 7, 103 .

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Francesca Abastante, Isabella M. Lami, Patrizia Lombardi. An Integrated Participative Spatial Decision Support System for Smart Energy Urban Scenarios: A Financial and Economic Approach. Buildings. 2017; 7 (4):103.

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Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami; Patrizia Lombardi. 2017. "An Integrated Participative Spatial Decision Support System for Smart Energy Urban Scenarios: A Financial and Economic Approach." Buildings 7, no. 4: 103.

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Published: 18 July 2017 in Sustainability
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Nowadays, there is an increasing concern about sustainable urban energy development taking into account national priorities of each city. Many cities have started to define future strategies and plans to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Urban energy scenarios involve the consideration of a wide range of conflicting criteria, both socio-economic and environmental ones. Moreover, decision-makers (DMs) require proper tools that can support their choices in a context of multiple stakeholders and a long-term perspective. In this context, Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support Systems (MC-SDSS) are often used in order to define and analyze urban scenarios since they support the comparison of different solutions, based on a combination of multiple factors. The main problem, in relation to urban energy retrofitting scenarios, is the lack of appropriate knowledge and evaluation criteria. The latter are crucial for delivering and assessing urban energy scenarios through a MC-SDSS tool. The main goal of this paper is to analyze and test two different methods for the definition and ranking of the evaluation criteria. More specifically, the paper presents an on-going research study related to the development of a MC-SDSS tool able to identify and evaluate alternative energy urban scenarios in a long-term period perspective. This study refers to two Smart City and Communities research projects, namely: DIMMER (District Information Modeling and Management for Energy Reduction) and EEB (Zero Energy Buildings in Smart Urban Districts).

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Patrizia Lombardi; Francesca Abastante; Sara Torabi Moghadam; Jacopo Toniolo. Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support Systems for Future Urban Energy Retrofitting Scenarios. Sustainability 2017, 9, 1252 .

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Patrizia Lombardi, Francesca Abastante, Sara Torabi Moghadam, Jacopo Toniolo. Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support Systems for Future Urban Energy Retrofitting Scenarios. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (7):1252.

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Patrizia Lombardi; Francesca Abastante; Sara Torabi Moghadam; Jacopo Toniolo. 2017. "Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support Systems for Future Urban Energy Retrofitting Scenarios." Sustainability 9, no. 7: 1252.

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Published: 24 April 2017
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We propose a development of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) permitting to use the methodology also in cases of decision problems with a very large number of alternatives evaluated with respect to several criteria. While the application of the original AHP method involves many pairwise comparisons between alternatives and criteria, our proposal is composed of three steps: (i) direct evaluation of the alternatives at hand on the considered criteria, (ii) selection of some reference evaluations; (iii) application of the original AHP method to reference evaluations; (iv) revision of the direct evaluation on the basis of the prioritization supplied by AHP on reference evaluations. The new proposal has been tested and validated in an experiment conducted on a sample of university students. The new methodology has been therefore applied to a real world problem involving the evaluation of 21 Social Housing initiatives sited in the Piedmont region (Italy). To take into account interaction between criteria, the Choquet integral preference model has been considered within a Non Additive Robust Ordinal Regression approach.

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Francesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Alessio Ishizaka; Isabella Lami. Using a new parsimonious AHP methodology combined with the Choquet integral: An application for evaluating social housing initiatives. 2017, 1 .

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Francesca Abastante, Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco, Alessio Ishizaka, Isabella Lami. Using a new parsimonious AHP methodology combined with the Choquet integral: An application for evaluating social housing initiatives. . 2017; ():1.

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Francesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Alessio Ishizaka; Isabella Lami. 2017. "Using a new parsimonious AHP methodology combined with the Choquet integral: An application for evaluating social housing initiatives." , no. : 1.