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Giulia Lucertini
FEEM—Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso magenta 63, 20123 Milan, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 26 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Urban and peri-urban areas are subject to major societal challenges, like food security, climate change, biodiversity, resource efficiency, land management, social cohesion, and economic growth. In that context, Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (UPA), thanks to its multifunctionality, could have a high value in providing social, economic, and environmental co-benefits. UPA is an emerging field of research and production that aims to improve food security and climate change impact reduction, improving urban resilience and sustainability. In this paper, a replicable GIS-based approach was used to localize and quantify available areas for agriculture, including both flat rooftop and ground-level areas in the mainland of the city of Venice (Italy). Then, possible horticultural yield production was estimated considering common UPA yield value and average Italian consumption. Climate change mitigation, like CO2 reduction and sequestration, and climate change adaptation, like Urban Flooding and Urban Heat Island reduction, due to the new UPA areas’ development were estimated. Despite the urban density, the identified areas have the potential to produce enough vegetables for the residents and improve climate change mitigation and adaptation, if transformed into agricultural areas. Finally, the paper concludes with a reflection on the co-benefits of UPA multifunctionality, and with some policy suggestions.

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Giulia Lucertini; Gianmarco Di Giustino. Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture as a Tool for Food Security and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: The Case of Mestre. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5999 .

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Giulia Lucertini, Gianmarco Di Giustino. Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture as a Tool for Food Security and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: The Case of Mestre. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):5999.

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Giulia Lucertini; Gianmarco Di Giustino. 2021. "Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture as a Tool for Food Security and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: The Case of Mestre." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 5999.

Primer
Published: 01 February 2020 in One Earth
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In our cities, the production and consumption of resources are achieved at an unsustainable rate. Combined with an increasing global population and accelerating urbanization, the absence of a new approach will almost certainly have dramatic environmental consequences. Potential solutions are emerging: the concepts of circular economy (CE) and urban metabolism (UM), which contrast the current and traditional linear extract-produce-use-dispose model of the modern economic and urban systems, offer a new approach. In this Primer, we present the principles of CE and UM as well as their origins and definitions, strengths and weaknesses, similarities, and limits. We introduce how these concepts can be used for designing a new urban framework called circular urban metabolism (CUM), which encourages urban planners and decision makers to study, design, and manage sustainable cities. CUM has the potential to unite research fields to promote collaboration across disciplines that operate on the planning, design, and management of cities and their complexities.

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Giulia Lucertini; Francesco Musco. Circular Urban Metabolism Framework. One Earth 2020, 2, 138 -142.

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Giulia Lucertini, Francesco Musco. Circular Urban Metabolism Framework. One Earth. 2020; 2 (2):138-142.

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Giulia Lucertini; Francesco Musco. 2020. "Circular Urban Metabolism Framework." One Earth 2, no. 2: 138-142.

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Published: 09 April 2019 in Sustainability
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Circular economy and urban metabolism concepts have recently received great attention both in the political and academic arenas, starting a roll-over process of the “take, make, and dispose” dominant economic model that is leading to an ongoing increase of resource consumption and waste generation. However, there is a relative lack of guidelines for introducing such concepts in a decision-making process able to support the design of appropriate policies and strategies and the definition of specific actions to cope with such challenges. This paper attempts to contribute to the recent efforts at incorporating these concepts in policy and decision-making processes by providing a methodology for the development of strategic plans for waste prevention and resource management. The proposed methodology, developed within the Urban_WINS project, combines different quantitative–analytical and qualitative methods and tools, together with a participatory process. The methodology was tested in eight EU cities and allowed to formulate several measures and actions aimed at addressing the challenges posed by the current consumption patterns. Moreover, the participatory approach led to the legitimization of the strategic plans, as well as to raise awareness among stakeholders. Although it might require specific tailor-made adjustments, this methodology is suitable to be replicated in other contexts.

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Davide Longato; Giulia Lucertini; Michele Dalla Fontana; Francesco Musco. Including Urban Metabolism Principles in Decision-Making: A Methodology for Planning Waste and Resource Management. Sustainability 2019, 11, 2101 .

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Davide Longato, Giulia Lucertini, Michele Dalla Fontana, Francesco Musco. Including Urban Metabolism Principles in Decision-Making: A Methodology for Planning Waste and Resource Management. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (7):2101.

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Davide Longato; Giulia Lucertini; Michele Dalla Fontana; Francesco Musco. 2019. "Including Urban Metabolism Principles in Decision-Making: A Methodology for Planning Waste and Resource Management." Sustainability 11, no. 7: 2101.