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Antonia Gravagnuolo is Researcher at CNR Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development, National Research Council, Italy. Architect, specialized in evaluation methods for cultural heritage and landscape. She holds a PhD degree in Evaluation methods at the University of Naples Federico II. Co-PI of the Horizon 2020 CLIC project on circular economy for cultural heritage adaptive reuse. PI of the Horizon 2020 project Be.CULTOUR on circular economy models for cultural tourism. Her research interests include circular economy, cultural heritage adaptive reuse, historic rural landscapes, heritage-led urban regeneration, sustainable local development, innovative models for cultural heritage and landscape regeneration.
Cultural heritage is recognized as a key element for local sustainable development, contributing to the identity of territories and cultural diversity of local communities. The concept of “heritage community”, as expressed by the Faro Convention, can be enhanced in decision-making processes for the adaptive reuse and valorization of cultural heritage to build shared and sustainable development scenarios. Communities represent fundamental actors able to drive active reflection and implement the exercise of civic responsibility and (inter)cultural policies. This paper explores how local communities can have an active and effective role in the adaptive reuse and valorization of cultural heritage, through a field experimentation conducted within the Horizon 2020 project “CLIC—Circular models Leveraging Investments in Cultural heritage adaptive reuse” in the area of Rufoli, Salerno (Italy), in the perspective of the circular economy/circular city model. Starting from heritage mapping and key stakeholder’s engagement, a local working group was built, and processes of knowledge building, envisioning, and community engagement were activated. The results showed that building a heritage community can be an effective starting point for “circular” adaptive reuse of cultural heritage, stimulating not only its recovery but also community bonds, civic responsibility, and potential entrepreneurial activities for longer-term sustainable development.
Antonia Gravagnuolo; Serena Micheletti; Martina Bosone. A Participatory Approach for “Circular” Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage. Building a Heritage Community in Salerno, Italy. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4812 .
AMA StyleAntonia Gravagnuolo, Serena Micheletti, Martina Bosone. A Participatory Approach for “Circular” Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage. Building a Heritage Community in Salerno, Italy. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):4812.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAntonia Gravagnuolo; Serena Micheletti; Martina Bosone. 2021. "A Participatory Approach for “Circular” Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage. Building a Heritage Community in Salerno, Italy." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 4812.
Cultural heritage (CH) is considered a key element of cities and regions’ identity anduniqueness, contributing to people's wellbeing and health, as well as jobs creation, environmentalregeneration and place attractiveness. The adaptive reuse of abandoned and underused CH can be asustainable strategy for heritage conservation, stimulating local development processes. However,heritage conservation needs large investments, while the resources available are scarce, and invest-ment projects are subject to high uncertainties. Therefore, a careful assessment of impacts is neededto orient and direct CH adaptive reuse projects towards sustainability. Recent studies approach theadaptive reuse of abandoned buildings and sites as an effective circular economy strategy, potentiallycontributing to climate objectives through environmental regeneration and the reduction of naturalresources consumption. However, evaluation tools to assess the impacts and orient adaptive reuseinterventions in the perspective of circularity are lacking. Through the analysis of 76 literature sourceson CH impacts, this article explores how indicators are currently used in CH research and practice asimpact assessment tools. More than 3500 indicators were retrieved and classified. Finally, this articleproposes a comprehensive evaluation framework to assess the impacts of cultural heritage adaptivereuse in the perspective of the circular economy. The results show that, while some indicators areavailable, many circularity aspects are not considered in the current studies on CH impacts.
Martina Bosone; Pasquale De Toro; Luigi Fusco Girard; Antonia Gravagnuolo; Silvia Iodice. Indicators for Ex-Post Evaluation of Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse Impacts in the Perspective of the Circular Economy. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4759 .
AMA StyleMartina Bosone, Pasquale De Toro, Luigi Fusco Girard, Antonia Gravagnuolo, Silvia Iodice. Indicators for Ex-Post Evaluation of Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse Impacts in the Perspective of the Circular Economy. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):4759.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMartina Bosone; Pasquale De Toro; Luigi Fusco Girard; Antonia Gravagnuolo; Silvia Iodice. 2021. "Indicators for Ex-Post Evaluation of Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse Impacts in the Perspective of the Circular Economy." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 4759.
Terraced landscapes were for centuries forms of sustainable and multifunctional land management, results of a long and intimate relationship between peoples and their environment. They demonstrated a rich cultural diversity and agrobiodiversity through sustainable land-use systems. These productive cultural landscapes in many cases were expressions of a pre-industrial circular model of rural development, where no resource was wasted. However, not all terraced landscapes have to be considered sustainable in themselves: in recent times, the terraces have undergone changes that have threatened their sustainability with abandonment and degradation as well as exclusively productive exploitation. This paper explores whether and how terraced landscape can recover an active role in modern society, analyzing emerging terraces recovery practices from the perspective of the circular economy. Innovative circular and productive uses of abandoned terraced landscapes aim at reducing the waste of natural and cultural resources, enlarging the lifetime (use value) of landscapes and preserving cultural and natural values for present and future generations. Results show that new functional uses of terraced landscapes are able to enhance in different ways their role as “middle landscapes” or places of mediation among economic, ecologic, ethical and aesthetic needs through circular adaptive reuse practices, becoming key drivers of new “circular” economies and a new pact between rural and urban regions.
Antonia Gravagnuolo; Mauro Varotto. Terraced Landscapes Regeneration in the Perspective of the Circular Economy. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4347 .
AMA StyleAntonia Gravagnuolo, Mauro Varotto. Terraced Landscapes Regeneration in the Perspective of the Circular Economy. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4347.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAntonia Gravagnuolo; Mauro Varotto. 2021. "Terraced Landscapes Regeneration in the Perspective of the Circular Economy." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4347.
The circular city is emerging as new concept and form of practice in sustainable urban development. This is a response to the complex and pressing challenges of urbanization, as highlighted in the New Urban Agenda (NUA). The concept of a “circular city” or “circular city-region” derives from the circular economy model applied in the spatial territorial dimension. It can be associated with the concept of a “self-sustainable” regenerative city, as stated in paragraph n.71 of the NUA. This paper aims to develop an extensive form of “screening” of circular economy actions in emerging circular cities, focusing on eight European historic port cities self-defined as “circular”. The analysis is carried out as a review of circular economy actions in the selected cities, and specifically aims to identify the key areas of implementation in which the investments in the circular economy are more oriented, as well as to analyze the spatial implications of the reuse of buildings and sites, proposing a set of criteria and indicators for ex-ante and ex-post evaluations and monitoring of circular cities. Results show that the built environment (including cultural heritage), energy and mobility, waste management, water management, industrial production (including plastics, textiles, and industry 4.0 and circular design), agri-food, and citizens and communities can be adopted as strategic areas of implementation of the circular city model in historic cities, highlighting a lack of indicators in some sectors and identifying a possible framework for “closed” urban metabolism evaluation from a life-cycle perspective, focusing on evaluation criteria and indicators in the (historic) built environment.
Antonia Gravagnuolo; Mariarosaria Angrisano; Luigi Fusco Girard. Circular Economy Strategies in Eight Historic Port Cities: Criteria and Indicators Towards a Circular City Assessment Framework. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3512 .
AMA StyleAntonia Gravagnuolo, Mariarosaria Angrisano, Luigi Fusco Girard. Circular Economy Strategies in Eight Historic Port Cities: Criteria and Indicators Towards a Circular City Assessment Framework. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (13):3512.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAntonia Gravagnuolo; Mariarosaria Angrisano; Luigi Fusco Girard. 2019. "Circular Economy Strategies in Eight Historic Port Cities: Criteria and Indicators Towards a Circular City Assessment Framework." Sustainability 11, no. 13: 3512.
Terraced landscapes represent a particular type of multifunctional, historic–cultural agrarian landscapes, today at risk of abandonment due to socio-economic changes. These landscapes are an ancient example of a “circular” model in using resources, able to be productive in multiple dimensions, providing many ecosystem services to local communities and thus contributing to human well-being. Terraced landscapes have a complex value for society: sociocultural, environmental and economic values, which can become a driver of territorial regeneration, if a systemic economic–territorial perspective is adopted. This paper proposes the circular economy as a viable model of sustainable territorial development that can support terraced landscapes regeneration, exploiting their structural multifunctionality and thus enhancing the multidimensional territorial productivity. The ecosystem services’ assessment framework, which includes economic, spatial, quantitative and qualitative evaluation tools, can be integrated in agri-environmental policies to make operational the “circular” paradigm of regeneration. A selection of economic tools and case studies is presented to show how circular processes can be activated in terraced landscapes, reducing costs and waste of resources, increasing multidimensional productivity, and finally attracting more investments towards a new systemic urban-rural “circular” development model.
Luigi Fusco Girard; Antonia Gravagnuolo; Fortuna De Rosa. The Multidimensional Benefits of Terraced Landscape Regeneration: An Economic Perspective and Beyond. Environmental History in the Making 2018, 273 -293.
AMA StyleLuigi Fusco Girard, Antonia Gravagnuolo, Fortuna De Rosa. The Multidimensional Benefits of Terraced Landscape Regeneration: An Economic Perspective and Beyond. Environmental History in the Making. 2018; ():273-293.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLuigi Fusco Girard; Antonia Gravagnuolo; Fortuna De Rosa. 2018. "The Multidimensional Benefits of Terraced Landscape Regeneration: An Economic Perspective and Beyond." Environmental History in the Making , no. : 273-293.
Place-based urban regeneration suggests the need of shift from a fragmented to a systemic model to understand the interrelation between sub-systems and the effects that a changing sub-system can pose on the others. In this context, urban regeneration strategies resilience oriented may include actions able to improve the economic, physical, social and environmental conditions and thus the human well-being of urban areas. The great quantity of information involved in the resilience assessment of urban systems require the use of Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) that make possible to record, analyze and summarize data with different spatial and temporal resolution. In the present work, we described the structure of a framework for the Resilience and Disaster Risk Management. Particularly, we focused our attention on the identification of indices expressing the contribution of cultural heritage in making cities resilience toward natural hazards. These tools allow identifying replicable and scaling-up successful practices and converting the impalpable values of cultural heritage in measurable ones.
Roberta Iavarone; Ines Alberico; Antonia Gravagnuolo; Gabriella Esposito De Vita. The Role of Cultural Heritage in Urban Resilience Enhancement. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2018, 369 -377.
AMA StyleRoberta Iavarone, Ines Alberico, Antonia Gravagnuolo, Gabriella Esposito De Vita. The Role of Cultural Heritage in Urban Resilience Enhancement. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2018; ():369-377.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRoberta Iavarone; Ines Alberico; Antonia Gravagnuolo; Gabriella Esposito De Vita. 2018. "The Role of Cultural Heritage in Urban Resilience Enhancement." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 369-377.
The ability of a system to absorb, recover from and successfully adapt to stressing circumstances can be defined as “resilience”. To make cities more resilient toward natural disasters, several international initiatives recommend to consider the risk management not only in emergency conditions. The identification of characteristics that make resilient the cities toward natural disasters and the connection between the resilience goals and the risk management phases (mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery) are the main purposes of the framework implemented in the present work. At this aim, we considered the city as complex, dynamic, self-organizing system, continuously changing under the pressure of perturbing internal or external factors. The framework, structured in a Geographic Information System, is useful at different territorial management scales and can host many types of data. Starting from a critical review of international frameworks, focused on the resilience, four drivers (economic, social, environmental and institutional), several driver descriptors (number: 15) and sub-drivers (number: 36) were identified to improve the resilience and to manage the territory during the risk management phases. This frame allows to overcome the sectorial approaches of territorial management promoting the integration of resilience goals (prevent, prepare for, cope with, respond to, and recover from) and of risk management phases (mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery) into ordinary planning tools.
Gabriella Esposito De Vita; Roberta Iavarone; Antonia Gravagnuolo; Ines Alberico. An Evaluation Framework for Resilience-Oriented Planning. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2018, 534 -546.
AMA StyleGabriella Esposito De Vita, Roberta Iavarone, Antonia Gravagnuolo, Ines Alberico. An Evaluation Framework for Resilience-Oriented Planning. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2018; ():534-546.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGabriella Esposito De Vita; Roberta Iavarone; Antonia Gravagnuolo; Ines Alberico. 2018. "An Evaluation Framework for Resilience-Oriented Planning." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 534-546.
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to provide an overview and critical outlook of current evaluation tools for the implementation of the UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach, focusing on the need of multidimensional / multistakeholder evaluation and impact assessment to turn heritage / landscape into a driver of sustainable development.Methodology/Approach: We analyse the definition of Historic Urban Landscape comparing the thoretical mandate to current tools / practices. Based on literature review and critical analysis of recent experiences, we identify indicators categories and evaluation methods that can be applied for a reacher cost-benefit analysis.Findings: Indicators and evaluation methods for multidmensional impact assessment of conservation / regeneration are not applied in HUL recent initiatives and guidelines. Evaluation tools can be developed and tested to inform decision-making processes and to turn the cultural value of heritage / landscape into a resource able to attract investments. A framework for HUL impact assessment can be structured including wellbeing indicators and stakeholders analysis.Research Limitation/implication: New hybrid tools are proposed, providing a possible toolkit for evaluation. However, it needs further testing and implementation.Originality/Value of paper: This paper contributes to bridging the gap between the theoretical approach of the Historic Urban Landscape and its operative practice. The HUL approach has been generally acquired in the theoretical research, but its implementation is still sporadic, and unframed into urban regeneration policies. Evaluation tools are not incorporated in the HUL practices. This paper aims to advance the existing knowledge on evaluation tools to make operational the HUL approach.
Antonia Gravagnuolo; Luigi Fusco Girard. Multicriteria Tools for the Implementation of Historic Urban Landscape. Quality Innovation Prosperity 2017, 21, 186 -201.
AMA StyleAntonia Gravagnuolo, Luigi Fusco Girard. Multicriteria Tools for the Implementation of Historic Urban Landscape. Quality Innovation Prosperity. 2017; 21 (1):186-201.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAntonia Gravagnuolo; Luigi Fusco Girard. 2017. "Multicriteria Tools for the Implementation of Historic Urban Landscape." Quality Innovation Prosperity 21, no. 1: 186-201.
This research aims to assess the attractiveness of urban waterfronts related to perceived spatial quality of places, in order to enhance the regeneration of transformation areas in port cities. The main purposes of the research are the development of a tool for the assessment of the attractiveness of port areas and the identification of priorities for public investment based on stakeholders involvement. This article focuses on the post-industrial port city of Torre Annunziata in Southern Italy and in particular on its industrial port area and waterfront. The research method is based on a participative process able to build a shared long-term strategy for the enhancement of spatial quality of port areas. The results highlight the potential of this participative tool to evaluate different scenarios for the future of waterfronts development that can support decision makers, citizen and stakeholders taking the most effective decisions towards a sustainable development of port cities.
Antonia Gravagnuolo; Paolo Franco Biancamano; Mariarosaria Angrisano; Amalia Cancelliere. Assessment of waterfront attractiveness in port cities - Facebook 4 Urban Facelifts. International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 2015, 14, 56 .
AMA StyleAntonia Gravagnuolo, Paolo Franco Biancamano, Mariarosaria Angrisano, Amalia Cancelliere. Assessment of waterfront attractiveness in port cities - Facebook 4 Urban Facelifts. International Journal of Global Environmental Issues. 2015; 14 (1/2):56.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAntonia Gravagnuolo; Paolo Franco Biancamano; Mariarosaria Angrisano; Amalia Cancelliere. 2015. "Assessment of waterfront attractiveness in port cities - Facebook 4 Urban Facelifts." International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 14, no. 1/2: 56.
Raffaele Attardi; Maria Cerreta; Alfredo Franciosa; Antonia Gravagnuolo. Valuing Cultural Landscape Services: A Multidimensional and Multi-group SDSS for Scenario Simulations. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2014, 398 -413.
AMA StyleRaffaele Attardi, Maria Cerreta, Alfredo Franciosa, Antonia Gravagnuolo. Valuing Cultural Landscape Services: A Multidimensional and Multi-group SDSS for Scenario Simulations. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2014; ():398-413.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRaffaele Attardi; Maria Cerreta; Alfredo Franciosa; Antonia Gravagnuolo. 2014. "Valuing Cultural Landscape Services: A Multidimensional and Multi-group SDSS for Scenario Simulations." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 398-413.
The aim of this paper is to assess the strength and weakness factors of post-industrial cities located in the Gulf of Naples in order to propose the most effective regeneration strategies towards a sustainable development of the urban coastline. This paper focuses on the city of Torre Annunziata and in particular on its industrial port area and waterfront. The analysis suggests that a sustainable development would be possible through the redesign and new functionalization of the waterfront and port area, improving resilience and creativity in order to integrate economic growth, ecological preservation and social opportunities. Thus, this paper is a proposal for a participative approach to the regeneration of the urban waterfront, enhancing the creative potential of the city and developing a new image for the waterfront that could become the strategic vision for a future economic, environmental and cultural development. A comparison between the waterfronts of Torre Annunziata and La Spezia has been carried out in order to assess what are the most effective choices for the future of Torre Annunziata, followed by an applicative process based on interviews.
Antonia Gravagnuolo; Mariarosaria Angrisano. Assessment of Urban Attractiveness of Port Cities in Southern Italy—A Case Study of Torre Annunziata. Sustainability 2013, 5, 3906 -3925.
AMA StyleAntonia Gravagnuolo, Mariarosaria Angrisano. Assessment of Urban Attractiveness of Port Cities in Southern Italy—A Case Study of Torre Annunziata. Sustainability. 2013; 5 (9):3906-3925.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAntonia Gravagnuolo; Mariarosaria Angrisano. 2013. "Assessment of Urban Attractiveness of Port Cities in Southern Italy—A Case Study of Torre Annunziata." Sustainability 5, no. 9: 3906-3925.