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Smart cities and sustainable neighbourhoods are increasingly gaining more attention within policy decisions on urban transformations. In this context, Decision-Makers (DMs) need evaluation methodologies able to support the definition of policies and actions for the future of cities, that focus on a higher degree of life quality and new needs. In this paper, an integrated framework is proposed which combines the Stakeholder Analysis, the STEEP and SWOT analyses (STEEP + SWOT), the Scenario Building and the Multicriteria Decision analysis approach (MCDA) which can be used to envision sustainable future scenarios for an underdeveloped area in Northern Italy. The adoption of integrated methodologies facilitates the analysis of each phase of the decision problem, from its early stage to the selection of the most suitable scenario according to the context and the stakeholders engaged. With this perspective, the present research is a guiding tool for DMs for the design of transformation/regeneration scenarios with a long-term perspective of sustainable cities and neighbourhoods. From the results obtained, it is possible to build new and unexpected scenarios by combining the main opportunities and strengths of most suitable alternatives.
Marta Bottero; Vanessa Assumma; Caterina Caprioli; Marta Dell’Ovo. Decision making in urban development: The application of a hybrid evaluation method for a critical area in the city of Turin (Italy). Sustainable Cities and Society 2021, 72, 103028 .
AMA StyleMarta Bottero, Vanessa Assumma, Caterina Caprioli, Marta Dell’Ovo. Decision making in urban development: The application of a hybrid evaluation method for a critical area in the city of Turin (Italy). Sustainable Cities and Society. 2021; 72 ():103028.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarta Bottero; Vanessa Assumma; Caterina Caprioli; Marta Dell’Ovo. 2021. "Decision making in urban development: The application of a hybrid evaluation method for a critical area in the city of Turin (Italy)." Sustainable Cities and Society 72, no. : 103028.
In the ongoing context of climate change, there is an increasing need to support decision-making processes in the domain of landscape planning and management. Suitable evaluation techniques are needed to take into account the interests of actors and stakeholders in shared policy decisions. An important methodological contribution to the field is given by the Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), due to its ability to combine multiple aspects of a decision problem with the values and opinions expressed by different Decision Makers. The present paper develops the “Group Analytic Hierarchy Process Sorting II method” (GAHPSort II), which aims to sort a group of municipalities included in the UNESCO site “Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero, and Monferrato” (Italy) according to the economic attractiveness of the landscape. Extending the previous versions AHPSort I, AHPSort II and GAHPSort, the GAHPSort II optimizes multi-stakeholder evaluations on large databases by reducing the number of comparisons. Moreover, the GAHPSort II method is proposed as a novel spatial decision support system because it combines a set of economic indicators for landscape and GIS methods for aiding the Decision Makers to better understand the case study and to support the definition and localization of policies and strategies of landscape planning and management.
Vanessa Assumma; Marta Bottero; Alessio Ishizaka; Menelaos Tasiou. Group Analytic Hierarchy Process Sorting II Method: An Application to Evaluate the Economic Value of a Wine Region Landscape. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 2021, 26, 355 -369.
AMA StyleVanessa Assumma, Marta Bottero, Alessio Ishizaka, Menelaos Tasiou. Group Analytic Hierarchy Process Sorting II Method: An Application to Evaluate the Economic Value of a Wine Region Landscape. Environmental Modeling & Assessment. 2021; 26 (3):355-369.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVanessa Assumma; Marta Bottero; Alessio Ishizaka; Menelaos Tasiou. 2021. "Group Analytic Hierarchy Process Sorting II Method: An Application to Evaluate the Economic Value of a Wine Region Landscape." Environmental Modeling & Assessment 26, no. 3: 355-369.
Cities represent the places with the greatest environmental and energy impacts in the world. Their transformation through a sustainable key would make possible reducing the pressures registered in these areas. According to the Sustainable Development Goals, attention has shifted more and more to the creation of sustainable and safe communities, characterized by low energy-consuming buildings due to smart heating and cooling systems, and sustainable transport solutions based on the use of private electric and hybrid vehicles. Besides the energy and environmental impacts, actions to tackle climate change provide the opportunity to create collateral benefits that can potentially generate economic and social improvement for the whole community. The co-benefits inclusion in the decision analysis is crucial to remove barriers and reveal the real potential of renovation projects at the urban/district scale. Following the guidelines of the European Commission, the tool used when evaluating public projects and policies is the Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA). One of the main limitations of the CBA method is the estimation of all positive and negative externalities in monetary value that can lead to imprecise assessment. To overcome this obstacle, a growing scientific literature on the application of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to assess the sustainability of investment at district scale is emerging. In this study, we propose a new assessment framework based on the COmpoSIte Modeling Assessment (COSIMA) to address the multidimensionality that characterizes the redevelopment process of eco-districts considering energy, environmental, economic and social evaluation criteria. The COSIMA method enables considering both the tangible and intangible aspects of the problem and the opinion of the various stakeholders involved in the decision-making process, which are crucial aspects in urban transformations.
Cristina Becchio; Marta Carla Bottero; Stefano Paolo Corgnati; Federico Dell’Anna; Giulia Pederiva; Giulia Vergerio. Proposal for an Integrated Approach to Support Urban Sustainability: The COSIMA Method Applied to Eco-Districts. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2021, 37 -47.
AMA StyleCristina Becchio, Marta Carla Bottero, Stefano Paolo Corgnati, Federico Dell’Anna, Giulia Pederiva, Giulia Vergerio. Proposal for an Integrated Approach to Support Urban Sustainability: The COSIMA Method Applied to Eco-Districts. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions. 2021; ():37-47.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCristina Becchio; Marta Carla Bottero; Stefano Paolo Corgnati; Federico Dell’Anna; Giulia Pederiva; Giulia Vergerio. 2021. "Proposal for an Integrated Approach to Support Urban Sustainability: The COSIMA Method Applied to Eco-Districts." Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions , no. : 37-47.
To achieve the new European targets concerning CO2 emission reduction, the concept of a post-carbon city has been promoted, which is focused on low-energy and low-emission buildings provided with intelligent heating and cooling systems, electric and hybrid cars, and better public transport. This paradigm entails the inclusion of aspects not strictly related to energy exploitation but referring to environmental, social, and economic domains, such as improvement in local energy security, people’s opinion on different energy solutions, economic co-benefits for private users, environmental externalities, and so on. In this domain, it is of particular importance to provide the decision makers with evaluation tools able to consider the complexity of the impacts, thus leading to the choice of the most sustainable solutions. The paper aims to investigate the scientific literature in the context of evaluation frameworks for supporting decision problems related to the energy transition. The review is carried out through the scientific database SCOPUS. The analysis allows for systematizing the contributions according to the main families of evaluation methodologies, discussing to what extent they can be useful in real-world applications. The paper also proposes emerging trends and innovative research lines in the domain of energy planning and urban management. While the energy transition is an important trend, the analysis showed that few studies were conducted on the evaluation of projects, plans, and policies that aim to reach post-carbon targets. The scales of application refer mainly to global or national levels, while few studies have been developed at the district level. Life cycle thinking techniques, such as life cycle assessment and cost–benefit analysis, were widely used in this research field.
Marta Bottero; Federico Dell’Anna; Vito Morgese. Evaluating the Transition Towards Post-Carbon Cities: A Literature Review. Sustainability 2021, 13, 567 .
AMA StyleMarta Bottero, Federico Dell’Anna, Vito Morgese. Evaluating the Transition Towards Post-Carbon Cities: A Literature Review. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):567.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarta Bottero; Federico Dell’Anna; Vito Morgese. 2021. "Evaluating the Transition Towards Post-Carbon Cities: A Literature Review." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 567.
Integrated evaluation methods have started to gain more and more importance for supporting the decision-making process in the field of urban and territorial planning, contributing to the consideration of the multidimensionality of the elements involved and the multiple feedback of stakeholders. In the context of infrastructure location in cities, spatial multicriteria analysis is becoming increasingly relevant, thanks to its ability to synthesize the full range of aspects, through Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), and for the consideration of the spatial dimension, thanks to its integration of GIS data. The case study selected to test this mixed method is the new healthcare project for the metropolitan city of Turin (Italy). The decision where to locate a new healthcare facility is highly complex since many aspects have to be considered, spanning from technical to social factors, and from locational to environmental elements. This choice case study aims at highlighting the role of spatial multicriteria analysis to support Decision Makers (DMs) in the identification of suitable locations for urban facilities and shows the potential of the approach for increasing the participation of different stakeholders thanks to a simple visual representation of data and results. In particular, the research makes use of Analytic Hierarchic Process (AHP) and Fuzzy AHP (FAHP). The comparison of the two approaches shows that they can both be used for identifying suitable locations for urban infrastructures. However, this research demonstrates that AHP should be preferred in the case of the high relevance of all the criteria considered, whereas FAHP introduces more uncertainty in criteria weights assignment and reduces the burden of many spatial analyses with GIS.
Caterina Caprioli; Marta Bottero. Addressing complex challenges in transformations and planning: A fuzzy spatial multicriteria analysis for identifying suitable locations for urban infrastructures. Land Use Policy 2020, 102, 105147 .
AMA StyleCaterina Caprioli, Marta Bottero. Addressing complex challenges in transformations and planning: A fuzzy spatial multicriteria analysis for identifying suitable locations for urban infrastructures. Land Use Policy. 2020; 102 ():105147.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCaterina Caprioli; Marta Bottero. 2020. "Addressing complex challenges in transformations and planning: A fuzzy spatial multicriteria analysis for identifying suitable locations for urban infrastructures." Land Use Policy 102, no. : 105147.
Different evaluation protocols were proposed to calculate the degree of sustainability of buildings and large-scale projects. In parallel, many studies focused on estimating the economic benefits delivered by green buildings according to the consumer choices using specific econometric models. The study aims to investigate the awareness of the benefits deriving from Green Mark-labelled buildings in Singapore through the application of the hedonic pricing method. In particular, the impact of the Green Mark was assessed in the multi-family building sector, starting from a transaction dataset of approximately 300,000 units sold between 2005 and 2017. Given the spatial complexity of the multi-family buildings market, spatial autocorrelation models were recommended. In particular, the spatial lag model and the spatial error model were applied. The paper implements the property valuation literature in the field of spatial econometrics related to sustainable certification. Besides, the research provided an assessment of the sustainability scheme over time, highlighting consumer behavior in different phases of the real estate market in Singapore. The results highlighted how spatial models filter the autocorrelation effect. As for the impact of Green Mark on the sale price of the apartments, the results confirmed that a green premium exists.
Federico Dell’Anna; Marta Bottero. Green premium in buildings: Evidence from the real estate market of Singapore. Journal of Cleaner Production 2020, 286, 125327 .
AMA StyleFederico Dell’Anna, Marta Bottero. Green premium in buildings: Evidence from the real estate market of Singapore. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2020; 286 ():125327.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederico Dell’Anna; Marta Bottero. 2020. "Green premium in buildings: Evidence from the real estate market of Singapore." Journal of Cleaner Production 286, no. : 125327.
This paper aims to assess the territorial resilience of a socio-ecological system through an innovative integrated evaluation framework to aid the decision-making process in the planning of transformation scenarios. This framework employs a set of resilience indicators through a Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) coupled with a Lotka-Volterra mathematical model of cooperative type. The set of indicators aims to calculate a composite index of Territorial Resilience (TRI), whereas the mathematical model is an extension of an existing model, aimed to predict possible long-time scenarios. The proposed operational framework for rural and vineyard landscapes aims to bridge the existing gap between territorial resilience theory and practice, with an innovative Decision Support System able to assist decision makers and territory planners in the planning and management of resilient territorial systems. This integrated evaluation framework is applied to a famous wine region in Portugal, the Douro Valley, where Port-wine grows. Such framework, especially in a context of adaptive governance, proves to be a suitable support in the field of landscape and urban planning to evaluate the dynamics of socio-ecological systems and to envision long-term policies and actions.
Vanessa Assumma; Marta Bottero; Elena De Angelis; Júlia M. Lourenço; Roberto Monaco; Ana Jacinta Soares. A decision support system for territorial resilience assessment and planning: An application to the Douro Valley (Portugal). Science of The Total Environment 2020, 756, 143806 .
AMA StyleVanessa Assumma, Marta Bottero, Elena De Angelis, Júlia M. Lourenço, Roberto Monaco, Ana Jacinta Soares. A decision support system for territorial resilience assessment and planning: An application to the Douro Valley (Portugal). Science of The Total Environment. 2020; 756 ():143806.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVanessa Assumma; Marta Bottero; Elena De Angelis; Júlia M. Lourenço; Roberto Monaco; Ana Jacinta Soares. 2020. "A decision support system for territorial resilience assessment and planning: An application to the Douro Valley (Portugal)." Science of The Total Environment 756, no. : 143806.
Alessandra Oppio; Marta Bottero; Federico Dell’Anna; Marta Dell’Ovo; Laura Gabrielli. Correction to: Evaluating the Urban Quality Through a Hybrid Approach: Application in the Milan (Italy) City Area. Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Multimodal Interaction 2020, 12253, C1 -C1.
AMA StyleAlessandra Oppio, Marta Bottero, Federico Dell’Anna, Marta Dell’Ovo, Laura Gabrielli. Correction to: Evaluating the Urban Quality Through a Hybrid Approach: Application in the Milan (Italy) City Area. Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Multimodal Interaction. 2020; 12253 ():C1-C1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessandra Oppio; Marta Bottero; Federico Dell’Anna; Marta Dell’Ovo; Laura Gabrielli. 2020. "Correction to: Evaluating the Urban Quality Through a Hybrid Approach: Application in the Milan (Italy) City Area." Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Multimodal Interaction 12253, no. : C1-C1.
Current urban agenda is interested in developing urban strategies to enhance urban resilience for cities. This paper examines the concept of urban resilience applied in the context of urban planning with specific attention to which are the capacities that make urban systems resilient. The knowledge and the understanding of these capacities are fundamental to set up suitable strategies. However, only few frameworks consider urban resilience and its capacity within the complexity of urban system. Through an in-depth literature review, this paper aims at providing a methodological framework both to recognize these capacities and analyze which are the main factors that mainly contribute to the achievement of these ability. The paper illustrates the first step of the application of a System Dynamics approach to analyze the redundancy capacity in order to define which are the key variables to enhance this capacity and also to determine which can be the impacts on the urban systems as a whole of the redundancy.
Marta Bottero; Giulia Datola; Elena De Angelis. Exploring the Redundancy Capacity Through a System Dynamics Approach. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12253, 366 -378.
AMA StyleMarta Bottero, Giulia Datola, Elena De Angelis. Exploring the Redundancy Capacity Through a System Dynamics Approach. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12253 ():366-378.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarta Bottero; Giulia Datola; Elena De Angelis. 2020. "Exploring the Redundancy Capacity Through a System Dynamics Approach." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12253, no. : 366-378.
The paper aims to explore a set of future scenarios in the context of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the adoption of the Regional Plan for Mining Activities in Piedmont region (Italy). The study investigates the use of a Multicriteria Decision Analysis technique (MCDA), namely the Analytic Network Process (ANP), with the aim to support the definition of the best sustainable scenario. The ANP model evaluates a protocol of objectives and strategies in order to explore their complex relations and to guide the evaluation of alternative planning scenarios. The paper shows how the ANP model may be considered a suitable support to aid the decision-making process in better understanding the full range of impacts generated by mining activities on the territory, thus supporting the creation of integrated and sustainable planning policies at regional scale.
Vanessa Assumma; Marta Bottero; Giulio Mondini; Elisa Zanetta. An Analytic Network Process (ANP)-Based Approach for Investigating Alternative Planning Scenarios of Mining Activities in Piedmont Region. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12253, 355 -365.
AMA StyleVanessa Assumma, Marta Bottero, Giulio Mondini, Elisa Zanetta. An Analytic Network Process (ANP)-Based Approach for Investigating Alternative Planning Scenarios of Mining Activities in Piedmont Region. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12253 ():355-365.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVanessa Assumma; Marta Bottero; Giulio Mondini; Elisa Zanetta. 2020. "An Analytic Network Process (ANP)-Based Approach for Investigating Alternative Planning Scenarios of Mining Activities in Piedmont Region." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12253, no. : 355-365.
Urban planning can support the optimal exploitation of the resources available in an urban system with specific reference to the accessibility of goods and services by an increase of the quality of the public space. In this perspective, knowing the economic effects generated by urban planning choices can be fundamental to guide decision-making processes. For this purpose, a research work which proposes a method for defining a synthetic index through the Multi-Attribute Value Theory to describe urban quality is presented. The synthetic index proposed in this study reflects the public open spaces, accessibility and provision of services qualities of the urban context. Besides, this study estimates these advantages through the hedonic prices method, analyzing the residential market. The combined methodology has been applied in detail to three districts located in the Municipality of Milan (Italy). The simultaneous reading of the indices used to spatialise the urban quality levels allows identifying the extrinsic characteristics of the three neighbourhoods analyzed. Considering the changes induced on house prices, the results of the hedonic models show that the economic impacts generated by low levels of urban quality are significant. Accordingly, the policies that aim to transform the existing urban fabric become fundamental for the creation of economic and social value.
Alessandra Oppio; Marta Bottero; Federico Dell’Anna; Marta Dell’Ovo; Laura Gabrielli. Evaluating the Urban Quality Through a Hybrid Approach: Application in the Milan (Italy) City Area. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2020, 12253, 300 -315.
AMA StyleAlessandra Oppio, Marta Bottero, Federico Dell’Anna, Marta Dell’Ovo, Laura Gabrielli. Evaluating the Urban Quality Through a Hybrid Approach: Application in the Milan (Italy) City Area. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2020; 12253 ():300-315.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessandra Oppio; Marta Bottero; Federico Dell’Anna; Marta Dell’Ovo; Laura Gabrielli. 2020. "Evaluating the Urban Quality Through a Hybrid Approach: Application in the Milan (Italy) City Area." Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12253, no. : 300-315.
Thanks to many initiatives, such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) and EU target for 2020 on Biodiversity, the topic of ecosystem services has received even more attention both in the academic and political debate. On the contrary, the research on urban ecosystems and urban ecosystem services has yet been relatively modest compared to other ecosystems, like wetlands or forests. However, the relevance of topic requires more efforts in this field also because, in most cases, urban ecosystem services have been studied individually, without considering their role in governance and planning processes. In this context, the present paper has the aim at giving a perspective of the state of the art of the research on urban ecosystem services with a focus on the different definitions and classifications emerging from the literature, as well as of examples of indicators for their valuation. The work highlights the gaps in the research to support the definition of future research perspectives and analysis, in particular for the adoption of valuation approaches able to guide the decision-making process in urban areas and for ensuring the consideration of urban ecosystem services in spatial planning policies and actions.
Caterina Caprioli; Marta Bottero; Giulio Mondini. Urban Ecosystem Services: A Review of Definitions and Classifications for the Identification of Future Research Perspectives. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12253, 332 -344.
AMA StyleCaterina Caprioli, Marta Bottero, Giulio Mondini. Urban Ecosystem Services: A Review of Definitions and Classifications for the Identification of Future Research Perspectives. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12253 ():332-344.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCaterina Caprioli; Marta Bottero; Giulio Mondini. 2020. "Urban Ecosystem Services: A Review of Definitions and Classifications for the Identification of Future Research Perspectives." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12253, no. : 332-344.
Renewable energy resources and energy-efficient technologies, as well as building retrofitting, are only some of the possible strategies that can achieve more sustainable cities and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Subsidies and incentives are often provided by governments to increase the number of people adopting these sustainable energy efficiency actions. However, actual sales of green products are currently not as high as would be desired. The present paper applies a hybrid agent-based model (ABM) integrated with a Geographic Information System (GIS) to simulate a complex socio-economic-architectural adaptive system to study the temporal diffusion and the willingness of inhabitants to adopt photovoltaic (PV) systems. The San Salvario neighborhood in Turin (Italy) is used as an exemplary case study for testing consumer behavior associated with this technology, integrating social network theories, opinion formation dynamics and an adaptation of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Data/characteristics for both buildings and people are explicitly spatialized with the level of detail at the block scale. Particular attention is given to the comparison of the policy mix for supporting decision-makers and policymakers in the definition of the most efficient strategies for achieving a long-term vision of sustainable development. Both variables and outcomes accuracy of the model are validated with historical real-world data.
Caterina Caprioli; Marta Bottero; Elena De Angelis. Supporting Policy Design for the Diffusion of Cleaner Technologies: A Spatial Empirical Agent-Based Model. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 2020, 9, 581 .
AMA StyleCaterina Caprioli, Marta Bottero, Elena De Angelis. Supporting Policy Design for the Diffusion of Cleaner Technologies: A Spatial Empirical Agent-Based Model. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2020; 9 (10):581.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCaterina Caprioli; Marta Bottero; Elena De Angelis. 2020. "Supporting Policy Design for the Diffusion of Cleaner Technologies: A Spatial Empirical Agent-Based Model." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 10: 581.
The concept of sustainability is widely seen as fundamental to set up urban and territorial transformations. Sustainable development is a multidimensional and multi-perspective process that deals with the environmental, economic, and social dimensions, with the aim to find a balance among these. Despite this growing attention to sustainability the social perspective has been the less explored of these dimensions and only recently it is receiving consideration due the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that aim at creating sustainable and inclusive cities and communities. In the SDGs, specific attention is focused on the improvement of the quality of life of inhabitants through specific actions dedicated to the valorization of cultural resources, to the protection of the environment, and also to promote the involvement of the local communities in setting policies and programs. The final objective is defining projects based on the social needs shared by the communities. This paper aims at exploring the social sustainability related to urban regeneration processes with particular attention to social cohesion and community engagement. Six different urban regeneration strategies, developed for the regeneration of an urban area located in Northern Italy and based on social housing interventions, have been evaluated in accordance with their social impacts on the stakeholders involved. The paper proposes a multi-methodological approach based on the combination of the stakeholder analysis with the NAIADE (Novel Approach to Imprecise Assessment and Decision Environments) methodology, a particular type of Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation. The stakeholder analysis has been applied to identify the actors to involve in the evaluation, whereas the NAIADE methodology has been implemented for the selection of the most preferable strategy. This method allowed the assessment of the different strategies through the comparison and the mediation between the technical and the social rankings, thus considering the stakeholder preferences in the final evaluation. The final result is coherent with the initial purpose and it demonstrates that the inclusion of the stakeholder is fundamental for the achievement of a consensus solution.
Bottero Marta; Datola Giulia. Addressing Social Sustainability in Urban Regeneration Processes. An Application of the Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7579 .
AMA StyleBottero Marta, Datola Giulia. Addressing Social Sustainability in Urban Regeneration Processes. An Application of the Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (18):7579.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBottero Marta; Datola Giulia. 2020. "Addressing Social Sustainability in Urban Regeneration Processes. An Application of the Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation." Sustainability 12, no. 18: 7579.
In the last twenty years, the debate over ecosystem services (ES) has intensively increased thanks to the growing awareness of the relevance of ecological and environmental problems. Initiatives like the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment or The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity have brought the ES concept into the international policy agenda, in turn stimulating the research. As a result, many applications have led to a very strong advance in the ecological and biophysical analysis of ES. However, in the context of land-use changes and transformation planning, the implications of ES have been only partially explored. Starting from a real case study, the present paper shows a tentative to bridge the gap between ES evaluation and transformation planning. The free software called Simulsoil is considered in the study to quantify, at the same time, biophysical and economic values of eight ES. Apart from the specific results of the simulation, the application shows the role of these analyses to support the decision-making process and the definition of alternative scenarios. In particular, the results can support the concertation between public administrations and developers in the definition of shared actions or, eventually, the identification of compensation measures.
Caterina Caprioli; Marta Bottero; Elisa Zanetta; Giulio Mondini. Ecosystem Services in Land-Use Planning: An Application for Assessing Transformation Scenarios at the Local Scale. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 1332 -1341.
AMA StyleCaterina Caprioli, Marta Bottero, Elisa Zanetta, Giulio Mondini. Ecosystem Services in Land-Use Planning: An Application for Assessing Transformation Scenarios at the Local Scale. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():1332-1341.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCaterina Caprioli; Marta Bottero; Elisa Zanetta; Giulio Mondini. 2020. "Ecosystem Services in Land-Use Planning: An Application for Assessing Transformation Scenarios at the Local Scale." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 1332-1341.
The concept of smartness in building dates to the 1970s, but, in face of the breakthrough technological developments, a new notion of smart building is currently recognized. We talk about ambient intelligence, referring to a building which is responsive to the needs of the occupants and of the energy system. An ambient-intelligent building is human-centric; new services and interfaces are provided to the buildings occupants to learn and set their preferences, with a positive impact on their comfort level and satisfaction with the indoor environmental quality. ICT and IoT are part of the enabling technologies to exploit the potentials of smart buildings, by unlocking the capability of buildings to interact with the system they belong to. To bolster the diffusion of new technologies, methodologies to get quantitative results proving their effectiveness should be provided. In this paper the application of a well-established economic evaluation tool, the so-called Cost-Benefit Analysis, to the case of the deployment of new ICT-tools for occupants’ engagement is presented. The methodology is adopted within the H2020 Mobistyle project, where two levels of the evaluation are identified: the whole project level and the single demo case one. The purpose of the methodology is to assess the effectiveness of the adoption of the ICT-tools in producing economic value in terms of benefits for the occupants and the society. Some preliminary results of its application to the Italian case study are also presented, showing a positive socio-economic balance since the beginning of the deployment.
Giulia Vergerio; Cristina Becchio; Marta Bottero; Stefano Paolo Corgnati. A Methodological Framework for the Economic Assessment of ICT-Tools for Occupants’ Engagement. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 1198 -1207.
AMA StyleGiulia Vergerio, Cristina Becchio, Marta Bottero, Stefano Paolo Corgnati. A Methodological Framework for the Economic Assessment of ICT-Tools for Occupants’ Engagement. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():1198-1207.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiulia Vergerio; Cristina Becchio; Marta Bottero; Stefano Paolo Corgnati. 2020. "A Methodological Framework for the Economic Assessment of ICT-Tools for Occupants’ Engagement." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 1198-1207.
Universities play a headship role among entities that invest in technological progress and intend to increase education in sustainable culture towards a post-carbon society. With this in mind, Politecnico di Torino is a leader on the national and international scene. It has prepared sustainability lines for the next few years to translate the Sustainable Development Goals into concrete actions. The goal of this work is the evaluation of eight alternative energy efficiency scenarios resulting from the combination of different strategies for the retrofit of the University Campus of Politecnico di Torino. In the first part of the study, the alternatives are assessed in terms of energy performance. Subsequently, an economic evaluation supported by the multi-criteria TOPSIS method makes it possible to order the alternatives according to the opinion of several experts. The integrated evaluation allows considering a set of co-benefits generated by the project going behind the energy aspects. The best strategy involves covering electricity needs with renewable energy sources, adopting students’ engagement policies and optimizing the set-point temperature. The results highlight how low-cost solutions such as awareness campaigns and variation of the set-point temperature can bring significant co-benefits from energy, economic, environmental and social perspectives.
Cristina Becchio; Marta Bottero; Stefano Corgnati; Federico Dell’Anna; Giulia Vergerio. Energy Audit and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis to Identify Sustainable Strategies in the University Campuses: Application to Politecnico di Torino. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 1187 -1197.
AMA StyleCristina Becchio, Marta Bottero, Stefano Corgnati, Federico Dell’Anna, Giulia Vergerio. Energy Audit and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis to Identify Sustainable Strategies in the University Campuses: Application to Politecnico di Torino. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():1187-1197.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCristina Becchio; Marta Bottero; Stefano Corgnati; Federico Dell’Anna; Giulia Vergerio. 2020. "Energy Audit and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis to Identify Sustainable Strategies in the University Campuses: Application to Politecnico di Torino." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 1187-1197.
Cities are afflicted by different stresses and shocks that make urban systems exposed to a high level of uncertainty. Global community is interested in enhancing urban resilience to make cities able to respond and adapt to these circumstances. Urban resilience is a complex, evolutionary and multidimensional approach to design and manage cities. Furthermore, urban systems have to own some specific characteristics to reach or maintain their resilience, among which the inclusivity. One of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is focused on making cities safer, resilient and inclusive. Inclusivity embraces all urban resilience and city dimensions and its analysis and assessment are very complicated. This paper developed a System Dynamics Model to analyse how the level of inclusivity can change over time concerning to the stresses that afflict the socio-economic conditions of the population. The objective of this investigation is to highlight the connection between inclusivity and the vulnerable population, considering its importance in urban resilience enhancing. This approach has been applied to investigate the inclusivity of the city of Turin (Italy). The final challenge of this application is developing an evaluation approach able to predict the possible conditions of the urban systems in the future. The aim of this research is providing an evaluation tool with these characteristics to support the definition of strategies to enhance urban resilience within the assessment of the resilience capacities.
Giulia Datola; Marta Bottero; Elena De Angelis. Addressing Social Inclusion Within Urban Resilience: A System Dynamics Approach. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 510 -519.
AMA StyleGiulia Datola, Marta Bottero, Elena De Angelis. Addressing Social Inclusion Within Urban Resilience: A System Dynamics Approach. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():510-519.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiulia Datola; Marta Bottero; Elena De Angelis. 2020. "Addressing Social Inclusion Within Urban Resilience: A System Dynamics Approach." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 510-519.
The paper considers the procedure for the development of the land take evaluation for a recreative park located in Northern Italy. The paper gives a normative overview at European, national and regional levels, highlighting the need to define a common glossary on land take to lead the spatial planning to more sustainable actions, according to the Global Agenda targets. The analysis investigates the land cover changes over time, as basis for the calculation of a synthetic index of Land Take (LTI). Moreover, the research experiments the use of this synthetic index as parameter of a mathematical model to simulate the possible dynamical evolutions over time in terms of ecological quality. The coupling of the land take analysis and the mathematical model may help the actors and stakeholders to investigate the possible effects of future transformations, as well as to aid the decision-making process to identify suitable compensatory actions, according to the sustainable development paradigm.
Vanessa Assumma; Marta Bottero; Giulio Mondini; Elisa Zanetta. Development of a Land Take Evaluation for a Recreative Park in Northern Italy. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 643 -651.
AMA StyleVanessa Assumma, Marta Bottero, Giulio Mondini, Elisa Zanetta. Development of a Land Take Evaluation for a Recreative Park in Northern Italy. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():643-651.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVanessa Assumma; Marta Bottero; Giulio Mondini; Elisa Zanetta. 2020. "Development of a Land Take Evaluation for a Recreative Park in Northern Italy." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 643-651.
Nowadays, the topics related both to the safeguard and the valorization of cultural heritage and cultural assets are getting more attention in the political agenda. Innovative approaches to implement both the risk analysis and the resilience assessment are ever more required. This paper illustrates an original approach, concerning the development of a risk assessment model for cultural assets, with reference to fire, earthquake and flood. The proposed model includes specific evaluation tools, that are based on parameters and indicators related to the factors of hazard and vulnerability for the three considered types of risk. The multi-dimensional set of indicators is used to get synthetics indices, through a multicriteria approach. Furthermore, this evaluation is supported by specific questionnaires to include in the assessment model the opinion of different experts and stakeholders to introduce the indicators weights. The results of this model are represented by specific evaluation tools which can be implemented in the risk assessment of cultural assets in different specific situations.
Federica Appiotti; Vanessa Assumma; Marta Bottero; Pierpaolo Campostrini; Giulia Datola; Patrizia Lombardi; Enrico Rinaldi. Definition of a Risk Assessment Model within a European Interoperable Database Platform (EID) for Cultural Heritage. Journal of Cultural Heritage 2020, 46, 268 -277.
AMA StyleFederica Appiotti, Vanessa Assumma, Marta Bottero, Pierpaolo Campostrini, Giulia Datola, Patrizia Lombardi, Enrico Rinaldi. Definition of a Risk Assessment Model within a European Interoperable Database Platform (EID) for Cultural Heritage. Journal of Cultural Heritage. 2020; 46 ():268-277.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFederica Appiotti; Vanessa Assumma; Marta Bottero; Pierpaolo Campostrini; Giulia Datola; Patrizia Lombardi; Enrico Rinaldi. 2020. "Definition of a Risk Assessment Model within a European Interoperable Database Platform (EID) for Cultural Heritage." Journal of Cultural Heritage 46, no. : 268-277.