Contemporary urban areas are often characterized by various forms of enclaves, isolated from their surrounding geographical context. Urban green infrastructures provide an opportunity to open these enclaves, establishing physical and functional connections with the broader city, while also contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation. This study examines the district of San Bartolomeo in the Italian city of Cagliari as an example of an urban enclave, and employs a participatory planning process to design a project that transforms it into a hub open to the wider city community. The result is a neighborhood shaped by its community, where social, economic, and environmental needs are balanced, fostering constant interaction between residents and the city as a whole.

Contemporary urban areas are often characterized by various forms of enclaves, isolated from their surrounding geographical context. Urban Green Infrastructures provide an opportunity to open these enclaves, establishing physical and functional connections with the broader city, while also contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation. This study examines the district of San Bartolomeo in the Italian city of Cagliari as an example of urban enclave and employs a participatory planning process to design a project that transforms it into a hub open to the wider city community. The result is a neighborhood shaped by its community, where social, economic, and environmental needs are balanced, fostering constant interaction between residents and the city as a whole.

This study investigates how individuals’ perceptions of: socio-environmental risks, loss of marine biodiversity, and climate change impacts, are influenced by personal, collective, geographical, historical, and socio-cultural factors within island contexts. While existing research on the socio-environmental risks faced by islands focuses on Pacific islands or ‘small island developing states’, this study offers a new perspective by examining the case of the Campanian Archipelago in Italy. It aims to explore if and how unique island characteristics shape local perceptions of environmental risks and climate change adaptation strategies. By focusing on the specific context of ‘islandness’, and using a qualitative approach (interviews and questionnaires) the research seeks to understand how island communities perceive environmental degradation, climate change risks, and the challenges they face in managing resources.

Maritime transport plays a key role in global trade; yet, in semi-enclosed seas such as the Mediterranean, its growth intersects with exceptionally high marine biodiversity and dense coastal use, creating acute challenges for Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP). Although policy frameworks increasingly require evidence-based mitigation of shipping pressures, implementation is hindered by fragmented and unevenly structured information on shipping activities and biodiversity-relevant variables within geoportals. This research is an approach/framework to indicators' development through a DPSIR based framework and methodological workflow. It could support the development and geoportal structuring of shipping biodiversity indicators for the Mediterranean. The framework was distilled through an interdisciplinary literature synthesis: A DPSIR conceptualisation tailored to shipping–biodiversity pathways; a screening of publicly accessible international and Italian marine geoportals; and some stakeholder workshops and semi-structured interviews to validate operational relevance and feasibility. As a result, we provide a reformulated DPSIR mapping linking shipping drivers, pressures, biodiversity state variables, impacts and responses, and a structured set of qualitative, geoportal-ready indicators with associated metadata requirements. The framework was designed to be applied immediately for qualitative screening and to guide future quantitative operationalisation as harmonised datasets become available, supporting Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and MSP implementation in the Mediterranean.