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Accessibility is considered a driving factor of territorial development, as well as a key performance indicator of cohesion policies. The accessibility indicators, in particular, describe how well the transport systems connect the different part of territory and provide interaction opportunities. The currently available indicators range from location accessibility to network efficiency, potential accessibility and daily accessibility. However, in this framework a player is not yet considered: the marinas. Until now the marinas are considered just as part of the infrastructure necessary to nautical tourism development and from this viewpoint their role is to provide safe points to access to the water and electricity and providing secure locations to store boats. Nevertheless, the sector of marinas is very dynamic. It contributes decisively to the development of local economies in particular of Mediterranean countries and Northern Europe cities. Many marinas provide additional nautical and ancillary leisure activities and can be visitor attractions in their own right. They also create demand for boating and other tourism products and services and facilitate linkages between nautical and coastal tourism. They have the potential to act as economic hubs for regional development and can catalyze the development of coastal tourism in specific locations. In this perspective, the role of marinas could be reconsidered, transforming them in gateway able to push in sustainable way urban and regional economy moving the touristic flows from the coastal to the internal areas.
Luigi Mundula; Mara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi. Urban and Territorial Accessibility. A New Role for the Marinas. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 2021, 655 -663.
AMA StyleLuigi Mundula, Mara Ladu, Ginevra Balletto, Alessandra Milesi. Urban and Territorial Accessibility. A New Role for the Marinas. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. 2021; ():655-663.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLuigi Mundula; Mara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi. 2021. "Urban and Territorial Accessibility. A New Role for the Marinas." Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , no. : 655-663.
The Italian political-administrative geography defined by Law 52/2014, which established metropolitan cities as a new governance body, requires the adoption of new approaches in economic planning and in the definition of spending objectives with reference to European and national funding. The EU funding programme 2014–2020 is coming to an end. Therefore, this makes it possible to develop a first analysis of the expenditure relating to cohesion policy themes at regional, provincial/metropolitan and municipal level, to assess performance in view of the new period of European Union (EU) funding programme. In fact, the European institutions are currently in the process of drafting the new Cohesion Policy 2021–2027, which will have to face and resolve difficulties encountered in the previous phase, through three key rules: simplicity, flexibility and efficiency. The ambition is to make the EU Countries intelligent, sustainable and increasingly inclusive economies. Three priorities that mutually reinforce each other to achieve high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion in Member States. The aim is to analyze the expenditure related to cohesion policy (Environment and Research and Innovation sectors) in the last two period of EU funding programme in order to drive the new strategic decisions for the future period (2021–2027).
Ginevra Balletto; Luigi Mundula; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu. Ex Post Evaluation of Cohesion Policies in the Strategic Planning of Italian Metropolitan Cities: Analysis for the Development of New Strategies. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering 2021, 329 -337.
AMA StyleGinevra Balletto, Luigi Mundula, Alessandra Milesi, Mara Ladu. Ex Post Evaluation of Cohesion Policies in the Strategic Planning of Italian Metropolitan Cities: Analysis for the Development of New Strategies. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. 2021; ():329-337.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGinevra Balletto; Luigi Mundula; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu. 2021. "Ex Post Evaluation of Cohesion Policies in the Strategic Planning of Italian Metropolitan Cities: Analysis for the Development of New Strategies." Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , no. : 329-337.
Accessibility and Walkability represent, today, some of the most striking challenges contemporary cities are facing, particularly in light of the goals from UN Agenda 2030, aimed at a sustainable city, and particularly in terms of a livable, healthy and inclusive city. This can be also performed thanks to a set of high quality public services and a set of important and central services and infrastructures. These principles, however, are constrained by an overall, general fragmentation affecting many urban areas, particularly as an outcome of the vehicular accessibility needs. Scholars have debated through the years on the nature of cities and on the preference for centrality of services compared to the distribution of services towards dispersed neighborhood units. Recently, a need for a wider, minimum set of services that is easily reachable to most citizens is filling the scholars and city mayors’ agendas in order to improve urban performances. This is also coupled with a huge surge in the heritage of abandoned urban items coming from previous periods of time and alternative uses. The aim of this research is to evaluate the role of abandoned urban assets—particularly big-size buildings and compounds and their areas—to facilitate the implementation of the concept of a 15-minute city, a city that is capable of granting a wider social equality and access to main urban services to citizens and city users. To do this, we developed a set of indexes, capable of detecting porosity, crossing and attractiveness. This latter index in particular represents a combined index that can be used to improve the accessibility of pedestrians in urban central locations. In the present research, we decided to limit the analysis to a subset of disused public buildings in the historic center of a sample city, as Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). This was done in order to understand if and in which terms they can contribute, after their redevelopment, to the development of the 15-minute city, as well as reducing the “enclave–effect: they are, at present, playing in the historic urban fabric.
Ginevra Balletto; Mara Ladu; Alessandra Milesi; Giuseppe Borruso. A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective. Sustainability 2021, 13, 593 .
AMA StyleGinevra Balletto, Mara Ladu, Alessandra Milesi, Giuseppe Borruso. A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):593.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGinevra Balletto; Mara Ladu; Alessandra Milesi; Giuseppe Borruso. 2021. "A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 593.
Urban accessibility represents one of the great challenges of the contemporary city, which is required to adopt sustainable development models in line with the UN Agenda 2030 objectives, recently confirmed by the health emergency. Urban accessibility and walkability are topics closely related to those aiming at a livable, healthy and inclusive city, based on a system of high-quality public spaces and on a network of services and infrastructures. However, these principles collide with the fragmentation of many urban contexts, built following vehicular accessibility needs. Within this framework, the city of Cagliari represents an interesting case study as it is affected by the disposal of public properties which appear as “enclaves” in the historic urban fabric. This research aims to evaluate if and in which terms the abandoned assets can facilitate the development of the 15-minutes city, as a city reducing the need to move over a certain time and space and therefore granting a more equal access to urban services to a wide range of citizens. This is done by proposing indexes defined as porosity, crossing and attractiveness, which constitute a combined index to improve the pedestrian accessibility in the “central places” of the contemporary city, where the walkability can also become a possible “free choice” for a new healthy lifestyle. These indexes were calculated for the most significant large disused public buildings in the historic center to guide future scenarios towards a 15 minutes city.
Ginevra Balletto; Mara Ladu; Alessandra Milesi; Giuseppe Borruso. A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective. 2020, 1 .
AMA StyleGinevra Balletto, Mara Ladu, Alessandra Milesi, Giuseppe Borruso. A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective. . 2020; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGinevra Balletto; Mara Ladu; Alessandra Milesi; Giuseppe Borruso. 2020. "A Methodological Approach on Disused Public Properties in the 15-Minute City Perspective." , no. : 1.
The present work aims to study the role of air pollutants in relation to the number of deaths per each Italian province affected by COVID-19. To do that, specific mortality from COVID-19 has been standardized for each Italian province and per age group (10 groups) ranging from 0 to 9 years to >90 years, based on the 2019 national population figures. The link between air pollutants and COVID-19 mortality among Italian provinces was studied implementing a linear regression model, whereas the wide set of variables were examined by means of LISA (Local Indicators of Spatial Autocorrelation), relating the spatial component of COVID-19 related data with a mix of environmental variables as explanatory variables. As results, in some provinces, namely the Western Po Valley provinces, the SMR (Standardized Mortality Ratio) is much higher than expected, and the presence of PM10 was independently associated with the case status. Furthermore, the results for LISA on SMR and PM10 demonstrate clusters of high-high values in the wide Metropolitan area of Milan and the Po Valley area respectively, with a certain level of overlap of the two distributions in the area strictly considered Milan. In conclusion, this research appears to find elements to confirm the existence of a link between pollution and the risk of death due to the disease, in particular, considering land take and air pollution, this latter referred to particulate (PM10). For this reason, we can reiterate the need to act in favour of policies aimed at reducing pollutants in the atmosphere, by means of speeding up the already existing plans and policies, targeting all sources of atmospheric pollution: industries, home heating and traffic.
Marco Dettori; Giovanna Deiana; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Beniamino Murgante; Antonella Arghittu; Antonio Azara; Paolo Castiglia. Air pollutants and risk of death due to COVID-19 in Italy. Environmental Research 2020, 192, 110459 .
AMA StyleMarco Dettori, Giovanna Deiana, Ginevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso, Beniamino Murgante, Antonella Arghittu, Antonio Azara, Paolo Castiglia. Air pollutants and risk of death due to COVID-19 in Italy. Environmental Research. 2020; 192 ():110459.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarco Dettori; Giovanna Deiana; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Beniamino Murgante; Antonella Arghittu; Antonio Azara; Paolo Castiglia. 2020. "Air pollutants and risk of death due to COVID-19 in Italy." Environmental Research 192, no. : 110459.
Nautical tourism market and especially the sector of yachting and marinas is very dynamic. It contributes decisively to the development of local economies of Mediterranean countries and Northern Europe cities. Particularly, marinas (specially designed harbors with moorings for pleasure yachts and small boats) development takes place in coastal areas, which are generally fragile and threatened environments. On one hand marinas are highly desirable for development of recreation and tourism infrastructure, but from the other they are threatened by climate change impacts due to sea level rise. Moreover, marinas are the most complex and highest quality types of port for nautical tourism. They facilitate many nautical tourism activities by providing safe points to access to the water and providing secure locations to store boats. Many marinas also provide additional nautical and ancillary leisure activities and can be visitor attractions in their own right. They also create demand for boating and other tourism products and services and facilitate linkages between nautical and coastal tourism. They have the potential to act as economic hubs for regional development and can catalyze the development of coastal tourism in specific locations. In this perspective, the role of marinas could be reconsidered, transforming them in smart gateway able to push in sustainable way local and regional economy moving the touristic flows from the coastal to the internal areas.
Luigi Mundula; Mara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi. Smart Marinas. The Case of Metropolitan City of Cagliari. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 51 -66.
AMA StyleLuigi Mundula, Mara Ladu, Ginevra Balletto, Alessandra Milesi. Smart Marinas. The Case of Metropolitan City of Cagliari. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():51-66.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLuigi Mundula; Mara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi. 2020. "Smart Marinas. The Case of Metropolitan City of Cagliari." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 51-66.
Global changes in the Anthropocene are unprecedented in history. They are closely linked to the use of the soil, the sea and the exploitation of natural resources and in turn determine important changes in the values and socio-cultural behavior of entire populations. In this context, the focus on the environmental dimension is the main way to govern the city and territory. In this sense, the environmental assets through the criterion of participation in decision-making processes, the identification and assessment of reasonable plan/program alternatives through the construction of forecast scenarios related to the evolution of the state of the environment constitutes the spatial planning paradigm, from the municipal level implementation strategy and the metropolitan level strategic one. Although in fact all Italian metropolitan cities are oriented towards adopting strategic and sustainable development models, capable of fighting the consumption of soil and natural resources in general, these have not always correspondence in an approach that specific environmental assessments part of the plan process and therefore functional for future governance choices. In this context, the objective of this work is to describe the case of the metropolitan city of Cagliari highlighting how the environmental dynamic and assets should be considered into its (actually in defining phase) strategic plan.
Maria Elena Palumbo; Luigi Mundula; Ginevra Balletto; Erika Bazzato; Michela Marignani. Environmental Dimension into Strategic Planning. The Case of Metropolitan City of Cagliari. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 456 -471.
AMA StyleMaria Elena Palumbo, Luigi Mundula, Ginevra Balletto, Erika Bazzato, Michela Marignani. Environmental Dimension into Strategic Planning. The Case of Metropolitan City of Cagliari. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():456-471.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria Elena Palumbo; Luigi Mundula; Ginevra Balletto; Erika Bazzato; Michela Marignani. 2020. "Environmental Dimension into Strategic Planning. The Case of Metropolitan City of Cagliari." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 456-471.
The 2014–2020 European programming is coming to an end with numerous critical issues that will have to be resolved by 2023, both with reference to spending power and with reference to performance evaluation. The European institutions are currently in the process of drafting the new Cohesion Policy 2021–2027, which will respond to the difficulties encountered in the previous programming through three key rules: simplicity, flexibility, efficiency and transparent administrative processes. The ambition of the new programming is to make the countries of the European Union smart, sustainable and increasingly inclusive economies. Three priorities that mutually reinforce each other to help achieve high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion in the Member States. In this context, the present study intends to evaluate the “smart specialization” (S3 strategy) deriving from the 11 thematic objectives (or sectors of intervention), in particular that of the “environment”, in the 2007–2013 and 2014–2020 periods, through the Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA), thus identifying areas of intelligent specialization.
Ginevra Balletto; Luigi Mundula; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu. Cohesion Policies in Italian Metropolitan Cities. Evaluation and Challenges. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 441 -455.
AMA StyleGinevra Balletto, Luigi Mundula, Alessandra Milesi, Mara Ladu. Cohesion Policies in Italian Metropolitan Cities. Evaluation and Challenges. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():441-455.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGinevra Balletto; Luigi Mundula; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu. 2020. "Cohesion Policies in Italian Metropolitan Cities. Evaluation and Challenges." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 441-455.
The process of economic transition from the old to the new economy produces significant effects also on cities and territories. The change in the production cycles has led to numerous and significant phenomena of delocalization and consequent abandonment of buildings and infrastructures, according to the markets. In Italy, starting from the 70 s, the divestment of industrial areas and the more recent Federalism Law have increased the interest on reuse of public properties as an act proper to municipal urban planning. However, the public real estate management (PREM) and the choice of new urban functions to be assigned represents a difficult challenge still today, at all levels of government, including that of the Metropolitan Cities (MCs), established by the Delrio Law. MCs, which define development strategies in a medium-term period through the Metropolitan Strategic Plan (SP), represent a great opportunity to integrate PREM and public policies objectives. Within this framework, the aim of the present study is to evaluate meaning and roles recognized to the public assets in the SP drawn up by the Metropolitan City of Milan (MCM) - Lombardy Region - and in the ongoing SP of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari (MCC) - Sardinia Region. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of the two case studies allows authors to make considerations on the multiple roles that public real estate can play in the context of strategic planning to pursue sustainable development of territories.
Mara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Luigi Mundula; Giuseppe Borruso. Public Real Estate Assets and the Metropolitan Strategic Plan in Italy. The Two Cases of Milan and Cagliari. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 12255, 472 -486.
AMA StyleMara Ladu, Ginevra Balletto, Alessandra Milesi, Luigi Mundula, Giuseppe Borruso. Public Real Estate Assets and the Metropolitan Strategic Plan in Italy. The Two Cases of Milan and Cagliari. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; 12255 ():472-486.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Luigi Mundula; Giuseppe Borruso. 2020. "Public Real Estate Assets and the Metropolitan Strategic Plan in Italy. The Two Cases of Milan and Cagliari." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 12255, no. : 472-486.
COVID-19 hit Italy in February 2020 after its outbreak in China at the beginning of January. Why was Italy first among the Western countries? What are the conditions that made Italy more vulnerable and the first target of this disease? What characteristics and diffusion patterns could be highlighted and hypothesized from its outbreak to the end of March 2020, after containment measures, including a national lockdown, were introduced? In this paper, we try to provide some answers to these questions, analyzing the issue from medical, geographical and planning points of view. With reference to the Italian case, we observed the phenomenon in terms of the spatial diffusion process and by observing the relation between the epidemic and various environmental elements. In particular, we started from a hypothesis of the comparable economic, geographical, climatic and environmental conditions of the areas of Wuhan (in the Hubei Province in China, where the epidemic broke out) and the Po Valley area (in Italy) where most cases and deaths were registered. Via an ecological approach, we compared the spatial distribution and pattern of COVID-19-related mortality in Italy with several geographical, environmental and socio-economic variables at a Provincial level, analyzing them by means of spatial analytical techniques such as LISA (Local Indicators of Spatial Association). Possible evidence arose relating to COVID-19 cases and Nitrogen-related pollutants and land take, particularly in the Po Valley area.
Beniamino Murgante; Giuseppe Borruso; Ginevra Balletto; Paolo Castiglia; Marco Dettori. Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning Aspects of the COVID-19 Outbreak. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5064 .
AMA StyleBeniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso, Ginevra Balletto, Paolo Castiglia, Marco Dettori. Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning Aspects of the COVID-19 Outbreak. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (12):5064.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBeniamino Murgante; Giuseppe Borruso; Ginevra Balletto; Paolo Castiglia; Marco Dettori. 2020. "Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning Aspects of the COVID-19 Outbreak." Sustainability 12, no. 12: 5064.
The Covid-19 has hit Italy in February 2020 after its outbreak in China at the beginning of January. But why Italy first among Western countries? What are the conditions that made Italy more vulnerable and the first target of such disease? What characteristics and what diffusion patterns could be highlighted and hypothesized, from the outbreak to the end of March 2020, after containment measures - including a national lock down – were introduced? In this paper we try to provide some answers to these questions, analyzing the issue from the medical, geographical and planning points of view. In particular, we started from a hypothesis of very similar economic, geographical, climatic and environmental conditions of the areas of Wuhan – in Hubei Province in China, the outbreak of the epidemics – and the Po Valley area – in Italy – where most cases and deaths were registered. Adopting an ecological approach, we compared the spatial distribution and pattern of Covid-19-related mortality in Italy with several geographical, environmental and socio-economic variables at Provincial level, analyzing them by means of spatial analytical techniques as LISA – Local Indicators of Spatial Association. Possible evidence relating Covid-19 cases and Nitrogen-related pollutants and land take arise, particularly in the Po Valley area.
Beniamino Murgante; Giuseppe Borruso; Ginevra Balletto; Paolo Castiglia; Marco Dettori. Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning aspects of the Covid-19 outbreak. 2020, 1 .
AMA StyleBeniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso, Ginevra Balletto, Paolo Castiglia, Marco Dettori. Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning aspects of the Covid-19 outbreak. . 2020; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBeniamino Murgante; Giuseppe Borruso; Ginevra Balletto; Paolo Castiglia; Marco Dettori. 2020. "Why Italy First? Health, Geographical and Planning aspects of the Covid-19 outbreak." , no. : 1.
Spatial planning and territorial promotion can benefit largely from the application of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) at different scales. From knowledge acquisition to management and planning, their role in building an image of the territory, and constantly updating it to the benefit of users and planners, is of paramount importance. Institutional channels, together with social networks, are the means by which both a local community and a wider community of users share experiences and perceptions. ICTs are therefore strategic in supporting and promoting a sustainable tourism development of territories. Data and information aggregators as dashboards represent examples of decision support systems where digital data are organized and processed to produce an information output. The present paper is part of a wider research, related to the valorization of a former mining area in the Sulcis-Iglesiente area (Sardinia, Italy), where the extraction activity has left the place to abandonment, and only recently to tourism, stressing the concept of slow tourism. Such new opportunity has been launched with the Santa Barbara Walk (SBW), an ancient mining route currently trying to consolidate as a tourism attraction area. Such a territory is in constant transition with unique characters of anthropic and naturalistic characterization, setting itself as a green infrastructure, capable also of attracting a wide community of regional and extra-regional users. However, its digital network—consisting of intangible infrastructure and flows—is fragmented in terms of policies and contents. Additionally, a state of disorganization in slow tourism promotion activities can be observed. To implement the SBW capabilities, the present paper aims to develop a proposal for the framework of a circular dashboard applied to the SBW. In particular, we implement a set of indicators of performance of the SBW for the organization of information on the walk’s main characters, to facilitate a shared governance and an effective tourism promotion. The SBW is recognized as a network connecting the main points of interest preferred by the slow tourism (This paper is based on the Research project TSULKI—Tourism and Sustainability in the Sulcis (Sardinia-Italy)—and on the agreement protocol between DICAAR Department of Cagliari University and Foundation of the Santa Barbara Walk, signed in December 2018).
Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu; Giuseppe Borruso. A Dashboard for Supporting Slow Tourism in Green Infrastructures. A Methodological Proposal in Sardinia (Italy). Sustainability 2020, 12, 3579 .
AMA StyleGinevra Balletto, Alessandra Milesi, Mara Ladu, Giuseppe Borruso. A Dashboard for Supporting Slow Tourism in Green Infrastructures. A Methodological Proposal in Sardinia (Italy). Sustainability. 2020; 12 (9):3579.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGinevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu; Giuseppe Borruso. 2020. "A Dashboard for Supporting Slow Tourism in Green Infrastructures. A Methodological Proposal in Sardinia (Italy)." Sustainability 12, no. 9: 3579.
The paper addresses the issue of the concurrent use of coastal areas for military training and civil activities, namely tourism. In the paper, starting from the consideration of publicly owned assets as ‘semi-commons’, we propose a method based on the comparison of planning instruments related to the different uses, and try to model them in a grid, where different weights and degrees of evaluation can be considered, in order to promote, rather than blocking, possible activities, compatible with concurrent use. The military areas in Sardinia (region and island, Italy) are around 234 km2, which constitutes 60% of the national surface affected by military easements. This situation is due to its geographic position, considered centrality in the Mediterranean for strategic reasons. This contribution evaluates the performance of the Local Coastline Plan (LCP) and the Site management plan of Community Interest (SCI) in conditions of military constraint. The case study is the municipality of Villaputzu South Sardinia, Italy), where an important coastal military easement and the use of the coast for recreational tourism purposes coexist together through specific planning, a consequence of institutional agreements between the Municipal Administration of Villaputzu and the Ministry of Defense. The idea is considering the concurrent possible land uses guaranteed by the different planning instruments, instead of focusing, as it is generally the rule, on the sum of constraints provided by the laws. The local coastline plan has been identified as the ideal planning tool, which addresses the co-existence of apparently opposite land uses and interests, as those expressed by the local municipal planning and those expressed by the military. An evaluation of the congruence of the specific objectives of the LCP and SCI shows how their combined action favors the environmental enhancement of Sardinia, contributing to the formation of ecosystem services, even in particular conditions arising from military easements. These are sites that evolve from ‘anticommons’ to ‘semicommons’. In fact, the military release process in Sardinia, together with the promiscuous military and civil use, activates unique governance policies of their kind that find a significant field of application in Sardinia to guarantee sustainable renewal of economic development of the ‘semi-commons’ awaiting to become ‘commons’.
Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Nicolò Fenu; Giuseppe Borruso; Luigi Mundula. Military Training Areas as Semicommons: The Territorial Valorization of Quirra (Sardinia) from Easements to Ecosystem Services. Sustainability 2020, 12, 622 .
AMA StyleGinevra Balletto, Alessandra Milesi, Nicolò Fenu, Giuseppe Borruso, Luigi Mundula. Military Training Areas as Semicommons: The Territorial Valorization of Quirra (Sardinia) from Easements to Ecosystem Services. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (2):622.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGinevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Nicolò Fenu; Giuseppe Borruso; Luigi Mundula. 2020. "Military Training Areas as Semicommons: The Territorial Valorization of Quirra (Sardinia) from Easements to Ecosystem Services." Sustainability 12, no. 2: 622.
Information and communication technologies play an increasingly important role in the process of acquiring knowledge from a territory and managing it at different scales. ICTs allow a rapid diffusion of data not only through institutional channels but also through social networks where the smart community share experiences and perceptions. In this sense, ICTs become strategic to support the promotion of sustainable tourism development of territories. An important tool to implement it, can be a circular smart dashboard, a decision support system in which the digital data are organized and processed to produce an information output, to be used, after the evaluation by the decision makers, as a new input for the system. The present paper deals with a wider research the authors are involved in, related to the reconversion and valorization of a former mining area towards slow tourism, as the Santa Barbara Walk (SBW), an ancient mining route in the Sulcis Iglesiente area (Sardinia, Italy) . In particular, we here focus on the design proposal of a dashboard, capable of organizing information concerning the main features of the walk, in order to facilitate a shared governance for an effective tourism promotion. The paper is based on a thorough recognition of the main characteristics of the Walk, both the material ones and the digital, immaterial ones. The SBW represents in fact a network connecting the main points of interest along the Walk. On the contrary, its digital network – consisting of intangible infrastructure and flows - is however fragmented in terms of policies and contents Also a state of disorganization in slow tourism promotion activities can be observed. The goal of this paper is to present and analysis of the area, and to propose an evaluation and planning tool as the design of a circular dashboard of the SBW.
Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu. Smart Dashboard and Slow Tourism. A Case Study of2 Santa Barbara Walk (Sulcis – Iglesiente, Sardinia, 3 Italy). 2019, 1 .
AMA StyleGinevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso, Alessandra Milesi, Mara Ladu. Smart Dashboard and Slow Tourism. A Case Study of2 Santa Barbara Walk (Sulcis – Iglesiente, Sardinia, 3 Italy). . 2019; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGinevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Alessandra Milesi; Mara Ladu. 2019. "Smart Dashboard and Slow Tourism. A Case Study of2 Santa Barbara Walk (Sulcis – Iglesiente, Sardinia, 3 Italy)." , no. : 1.
Water is a common good indispensable for the survival of living beings, it is a finite resource that increasingly conditions human economic and social development. The minimum biological need per capita for human survival is 5 L of water in 24 h. Without food you can live a month. Without water you do not exceed a week. In order to be able to talk about acceptable living conditions, no less than 50 L of water are required per day for every human being. Over 1 billion people drink “unsafe” water and 3.4 million people each year (5,000 children a day) die from waterborne diseases. The water emergency does not only concern developing countries but also the advanced Europe. Water governance affects both developing and all other countries. The complex supply and distribution and purification situation imposes universal strategies to guarantee socio-economic development in this delicate phase of climate change. The aim of the work is to present the main characteristics of the water management, including risks and opportunities, in the Italian case.
Luigi Mundula; Ginevra Balletto. Water Resources for a Sustainable, Smart and Resilient Urban Development: The Case of Italy. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 219 -232.
AMA StyleLuigi Mundula, Ginevra Balletto. Water Resources for a Sustainable, Smart and Resilient Urban Development: The Case of Italy. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():219-232.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLuigi Mundula; Ginevra Balletto. 2019. "Water Resources for a Sustainable, Smart and Resilient Urban Development: The Case of Italy." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 219-232.
The paper tackles a classical topic of location theory, as the Weber theory of industrial location within a modern framework of building construction and its consideration into the circular economy debate. Starting from a research project involving universities, construction and recycling enterprises and public bodies in Sardinia Island (Italy), the authors propose a model of industrial location that, starting from the assumption of the classical Weberian model, consider it both in a theoretical fashion and applying it to a real-world case study. The project of the new football stadium of Cagliari involves the demolition of the existing stadium, which will represent a source of ‘secondary’ raw materials for the realization of the new sport facility. The authors discuss about the ‘best’ locations for concrete factories, according to different scenarios, considering the insertion of a new ‘material source’ in the circular economy concept.
Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Giovanni Mei. Location Theory and Circular Economy. Demolition, Constructions and Spatial Organization of Firms – An Applied Model to Sardinia Region. The Case Study of the New Cagliari Stadium. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 535 -550.
AMA StyleGinevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso, Giovanni Mei. Location Theory and Circular Economy. Demolition, Constructions and Spatial Organization of Firms – An Applied Model to Sardinia Region. The Case Study of the New Cagliari Stadium. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():535-550.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGinevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Giovanni Mei. 2019. "Location Theory and Circular Economy. Demolition, Constructions and Spatial Organization of Firms – An Applied Model to Sardinia Region. The Case Study of the New Cagliari Stadium." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 535-550.
In the last few years the term resilience has entered into force in the policies and practices concerning the territorial development. The paper, interpreting the territory through the paradigm of systemic complexity, aim to read the territorial resilience in a dynamic and procedural sense that is as the response to change not simply according to adaptive (passive) modalities, but through a reaction, that is by implementing a “regenerative” response from the territory and, therefore, from its communities. In other words, there is a community resilience that shows itself through the capacity of human groups to resist environmental changes, which involves upheavals not only of a natural, but also of a social nature. It resists, even not restoring the previous balance, but preserving identity through the change and adaptation to new situations. In this framework the aim of the paper is to represent the slow network of the Sulcis Iglesiente area in the Sardinia region - a vulnerable area due to it has been affected by an intense mining activity and more recently hit by flooding events and socio-economic stress - and the role of the smart community in relaunching its touristic image. Here, in fact, started in 2016 a slow tourism experience in the shape of a way practicable on foot, by bicycle or on horseback, that retraces the ancient mining routes of the Sulcis Iglesiente - Guspinese, developing a ring of about 400 km length.
Ginevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Silvia Battino; Giuseppe Borruso; Luigi Mundula. Slow Tourism and Smart Community. The Case of Sulcis - Iglesiente (Sardinia -Italy). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 184 -199.
AMA StyleGinevra Balletto, Alessandra Milesi, Silvia Battino, Giuseppe Borruso, Luigi Mundula. Slow Tourism and Smart Community. The Case of Sulcis - Iglesiente (Sardinia -Italy). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():184-199.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGinevra Balletto; Alessandra Milesi; Silvia Battino; Giuseppe Borruso; Luigi Mundula. 2019. "Slow Tourism and Smart Community. The Case of Sulcis - Iglesiente (Sardinia -Italy)." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 184-199.
Even if there is not a universally shared definition, the term “Smart City” recalls a sustainable, hyper-technological city that is self-sufficient in terms of energy; this type of city uses communication systems between the various technologies to optimize the efficiency of services and to better connect all citizens. Its huge acceptance, both by the scientific community and the urban governance institutions, highlights how the time of reinterpretation of the city had arrived. The smart city, correlated by the transition of the old to the new economy, is based on innovation aimed at achieving maximum efficiency in the urban system through the synergy between traditional functions attributable to the tangible part of the city (residences, services, infrastructures, etc.) and new functions attributable to the intangible one (IoT, virtual and augmented reality, etc.). Reaching these goals drives cities into a circle of continuous evolution, which implies, like all changes, both positive aspects, and side effects, i.e., a ‘dark side’. Aim of the paper is to highlight this aspect and its implications. This is found in economic-social dynamics, such as gentrification, filtering and sprawl, environmental and geo-political dynamics, related to finding the resources needed to support digital urban technological innovation and to guarantee high standards of quality of life, and governance dynamics, linked to the capacity of changing the ways of administrate the change and changing radically - thanks to technology - the way of addressing the daily - as well as the strategic - problems and challenges of the city.
Luigi Mundula; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso. The ‘Dark Side’ of the Smartness. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 253 -268.
AMA StyleLuigi Mundula, Ginevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso. The ‘Dark Side’ of the Smartness. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():253-268.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLuigi Mundula; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso. 2019. "The ‘Dark Side’ of the Smartness." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 253-268.
Sport has always played a very important role in civil society, becoming a clear expression of different cultures and lifestyles throughout history. Nowadays, it is considered an essential enabler in pursuing sustainable development of our cities and regions. A prerequisite for improvement of sporting attractiveness of our contemporary cities is to integrate sport into broader urban transformation and regeneration processes. As a matter of fact, more and more people prefer to play sport in different places and at different times, understanding the city as an ideal palimpsest for sports activities. In this regard, the Smart Community has gradually become an extraordinary source of information useful for policy makers. A wide range of ICT tools allows to develop Community Maps which reveal needs and aspirations of people, thus informing sports policies and a community-based participatory planning. The study aims to assess the sporting attraction of Cagliari through the analysis of different evidences drawn from the community perception of sports activities and initiatives. It focused on material and immaterial actions carried out to promote sport in the city, smart community sport behaviours, community perceptions on benefits that sport provides for human well-being and for city development through the administration of a questionnaire. The outcome highlights the role of Smart community in understanding sport behaviours of local people and in defining shared strategies to strengthen the sport-city link in the sustainable development of Cagliari.
Mara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso. Sport and Smart Communities. Assessing the Sporting Attractiveness and Community Perceptions of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 200 -215.
AMA StyleMara Ladu, Ginevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso. Sport and Smart Communities. Assessing the Sporting Attractiveness and Community Perceptions of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():200-215.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMara Ladu; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso. 2019. "Sport and Smart Communities. Assessing the Sporting Attractiveness and Community Perceptions of Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy)." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 200-215.
In this paper we examine the changes in terms of urban rent and urban planning occurring after the introduction on the Italian law of 21 June 2017, n. 96 on Football stadiums property and management. Such law is actually paving the way to a set of new and still unexplored consequences on urban rents and urban renewal processes and real estate markets, as well as in terms of new patterns of urban behaviors. In detail, changes deal with the times strictly related to sport events, well scheduled in time (peak events), and those related to the ordinary life of the area (off peak events) as retail, transport and leisure/residential activities, often now coupled with the presence of such sport facilities. We briefly analyze some few Italian cases of football stadiums renewals, especially looking at those settled in cities hosting premier league clubs. We looked also at consequences they had in terms of urban rent, urban services. After, we started considering the possible implications that such investments can have on the cities that are likely to host such renewal processes in the near future, trying to highlight some possible changes in the “hedonic price” asset, and suggestions in terms of policy aimed at igniting a ‘good’ gentrification process.
Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Francesco Tajani; Carmelo M. Torre. Gentrification and Sport. Football Stadiums and Changes in the Urban Rent. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2018, 58 -74.
AMA StyleGinevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso, Francesco Tajani, Carmelo M. Torre. Gentrification and Sport. Football Stadiums and Changes in the Urban Rent. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2018; ():58-74.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGinevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Francesco Tajani; Carmelo M. Torre. 2018. "Gentrification and Sport. Football Stadiums and Changes in the Urban Rent." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 58-74.