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Dr. Marta Dell'Ovo
Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, via Ponzio 31, Milan, 20133, Italy

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Journal article
Published: 14 July 2021 in Healthcare
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The need for 24/7 operation, and the increasing requests of high-quality healthcare services contribute to framing healthcare facilities as a complex topic, also due to the changing and challenging environment and huge impact on the community. Due to its complexity, it is difficult to properly estimate the construction cost in a preliminary phase where easy-to-use parameters are often necessary. Therefore, this paper aims to provide an overview of the issue with reference to the Italian context and proposes an estimation framework for analyzing hospital facilities’ construction cost. First, contributions from literature reviews and 14 case studies were analyzed to identify specific cost components. Then, a questionnaire was administered to construction companies and experts in the field to obtain data coming from practical and real cases. The results obtained from all of the contributions are an overview of the construction cost components. Starting from the data collected and analyzed, a preliminary estimation tool is proposed to identify the minimum and maximum variation in the cost when programming the construction of a hospital, starting from the feasibility phase or the early design stage. The framework involves different factors, such as the number of beds, complexity, typology, localization, technology degree and the type of maintenance and management techniques. This study explores the several elements that compose the cost of a hospital facility and highlights future developments including maintenance and management costs during hospital facilities’ lifecycle.

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Leopoldo Sdino; Andrea Brambilla; Marta Dell’Ovo; Benedetta Sdino; Stefano Capolongo. Hospital Construction Cost Affecting Their Lifecycle: An Italian Overview. Healthcare 2021, 9, 888 .

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Leopoldo Sdino, Andrea Brambilla, Marta Dell’Ovo, Benedetta Sdino, Stefano Capolongo. Hospital Construction Cost Affecting Their Lifecycle: An Italian Overview. Healthcare. 2021; 9 (7):888.

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Leopoldo Sdino; Andrea Brambilla; Marta Dell’Ovo; Benedetta Sdino; Stefano Capolongo. 2021. "Hospital Construction Cost Affecting Their Lifecycle: An Italian Overview." Healthcare 9, no. 7: 888.

Journal article
Published: 01 July 2021 in Valori e Valutazioni
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From the early 1990s the quality of public space is at the centre of the Agenda of major European cities. Today, more than before, the health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemy has pointed out the importance of the relationship among public space, quality of life and health. Public and semi-private spaces, especially in high-dense cities and in the most affected areas by Covid-19, represent a strong driver both for restarting and for helping cities to face the new normal age. Despite the advancement of research during the past two decades and empirical evidence about the relationship among quality of open spaces, quality of life and urban sustainability, there is still a lack of studies on how to measure the quality of open spaces. Among the several research lines, the Urban Design approach across its evolution has always focused on it, starting from aesthetic as well as technical issues and increasingly including the social and economic ones. Dai primi degli anni ’90 la qualità dello spazio pubblico è al centro dell’Agenda delle principali città europee. Oggi, più di prima, l’emergenza sanitaria generata dalla pandemia da Covid-19 ha delineato l’importanza delle relazioni tra spazio pubblico, qualità della vita e salute. Gli spazi pubblici e semi-privati, specialmente nelle città densamente popolate e nelle aree più colpite dalla pandemia, sono un elemento chiave da cui ripartire per aiutare le città ad affrontare una nuova normalità e a definire una risposta alle restrizioni sanitarie. Nonostante gli avanzamenti della ricerca scientifica e le evidenze empiriche sulla relazione tra qualità degli spazi aperti, qualità della vita e sostenibilità urbana, pochi sono ancora gli studi su come misurare la qualità degli spazi aperti. Tra le diverse tradizioni di ricerca, l’Urban Design ha sempre prestato una particolare attenzione a questo tema, iniziando con aspetti funzionali ed estetici e includendo nel corso della sua evoluzione anche questioni sociali ed economiche.

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Alessandra Oppio; Luca Forestiero; Loris Sciacchitano; Marta Dell'Ovo. How to assess urban quality: a spatial multicriteria decision analysis approach [Come valutare la qualità urbana: un approccio di analisi decisionale spaziale multi-criteriale per gli spazi aperti pubblici]. Valori e Valutazioni 2021, 28, 21 -30.

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Alessandra Oppio, Luca Forestiero, Loris Sciacchitano, Marta Dell'Ovo. How to assess urban quality: a spatial multicriteria decision analysis approach [Come valutare la qualità urbana: un approccio di analisi decisionale spaziale multi-criteriale per gli spazi aperti pubblici]. Valori e Valutazioni. 2021; 28 ():21-30.

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Alessandra Oppio; Luca Forestiero; Loris Sciacchitano; Marta Dell'Ovo. 2021. "How to assess urban quality: a spatial multicriteria decision analysis approach [Come valutare la qualità urbana: un approccio di analisi decisionale spaziale multi-criteriale per gli spazi aperti pubblici]." Valori e Valutazioni 28, no. : 21-30.

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Published: 19 June 2021 in Sustainability
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The National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI) is a public policy designed to tackle depopulation in inner areas, defined according to the distance from centers offering essential services. Such a policy’s success is crucial to address the new challenges for planning brought to light by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this sense, there is a need to adequately support its implementation by providing handy decision support tools, understanding the power balances among municipalities, and defining proper interventions. The Indicator Grid, already used by the SNAI for project areas selection, can answer this need. However, the Grid’s application to support public policy at the municipality level requires reviewing some of its features, such as the indicators’ large number and the impossibility of defining some of them at the municipal scale. Based on these premises, this paper aims at supporting inner areas policies by carrying out a critical analysis of the current SNAI Grid, aimed at improving its effectiveness. It relies on a hybrid methodology that merges qualitative data interpretations and statistical analyses. Thanks to this method, defining a parsimonious Grid by leaving its complexity and information level untouched is possible. The so-defined set of indicators can represent a valuable reference tool in pinpointing priorities for actions or selecting further territorial scopes from the SNAI perspective, even if it still brings some criticalities to be faced.

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Marco Rossitti; Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Francesca Torrieri. The Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI): A Critical Analysis of the Indicator Grid. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6927 .

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Marco Rossitti, Marta Dell’Ovo, Alessandra Oppio, Francesca Torrieri. The Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI): A Critical Analysis of the Indicator Grid. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (12):6927.

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Marco Rossitti; Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Francesca Torrieri. 2021. "The Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI): A Critical Analysis of the Indicator Grid." Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6927.

Journal article
Published: 19 May 2021 in Sustainable Cities and Society
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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.

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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 .

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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.

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Marta 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.

Journal article
Published: 15 April 2021 in Sustainability
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Cultural heritage can play a strategic role in developing a sustainable built environment, contributing to the improvement of the economic, social, and environmental productivity of a city. Human activities are constantly affecting the quality of the environment and altering the ecosystems, which produce negative consequences also on human wellbeing. Within this context, it has been much discussed how cities and the built environment can counteract this process by supporting more sustainable development. Adaptive reuse is defined as “a process that changes a disused or ineffective item into a new item that can be used for a different purpose”, which strongly triggers the sustainable development of cities. It can be recognized as a promoter of economic growth, social wellbeing, and environmental preservation, given its capability of both preserving past values and creating new ones. The adaptive reuse matches the main points of the circular economy, seen as the sustainable economy, which is aimed at the reduction of natural resource extraction and environmental impact by extending the useful life of materials and promoting recovery, reuse, and regeneration processes. Given these premises, the current contribution aimed to evaluate alternative scenarios for reuse in Castello Visconteo in Cusago, located in the Lombardy region (Italy), and understanding how adaptive reuse could contribute to generating new values within a circular economy perspective. In detail, four alternative scenarios were proposed to face the new needs born during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Since both intangible and tangible values must be considered, a multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) has been applied by combining economic and qualitative indicators to define the most suitable function for its adaptive reuse. In detail, the Novel Approach to Imprecise Assessment and Decision Environments (NAIADE) was used to identify the best alternative solution based on the opinions of conflicting stakeholders. The innovativeness of the contribution is given by the combination of different methodologies, the preservation of the memory and the generation of new values, and the consideration of adaptive reuse as a strategy for the achievement of sustainable development within a circular economy perspective.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Federico Dell’Anna; Raffaella Simonelli; Leopoldo Sdino. Enhancing the Cultural Heritage through Adaptive Reuse. A Multicriteria Approach to Evaluate the Castello Visconteo in Cusago (Italy). Sustainability 2021, 13, 4440 .

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Marta Dell’Ovo, Federico Dell’Anna, Raffaella Simonelli, Leopoldo Sdino. Enhancing the Cultural Heritage through Adaptive Reuse. A Multicriteria Approach to Evaluate the Castello Visconteo in Cusago (Italy). Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4440.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Federico Dell’Anna; Raffaella Simonelli; Leopoldo Sdino. 2021. "Enhancing the Cultural Heritage through Adaptive Reuse. A Multicriteria Approach to Evaluate the Castello Visconteo in Cusago (Italy)." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4440.

Conference paper
Published: 12 November 2020 in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Multimodal Interaction
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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.

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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.

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Alessandra 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.

Conference paper
Published: 03 October 2020 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Alessandra 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.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2020 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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The feasibility of an urban regeneration project is the result of both intrinsic and extrinsic characteristics. What deserves to be analyzed in this context, it is the role of the reclamation costs and the location of the site in influencing the success of the intervention. Given these premises, the convenience and the feasibility of an urban regeneration project seem to be the result of this formula even if there are other factors able to affect the final outcome. Nowadays the estimation of Ecosystem Services (ESs) is becoming a guide for the landscape design even if quantifying their benefits presents limits and criticalities. In this context the research proposed, presents an ecosystem perspective to estimate reclamation costs. The aim of the paper is to understand how to evaluate the compensation given by the provision of ESs in urban regeneration context when reclamation costs are necessary.

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Leopoldo Sdino; Paolo Rosasco; Marta Dell’Ovo. Reclamation Cost: An Ecosystem Perspective. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 1352 -1358.

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Leopoldo Sdino, Paolo Rosasco, Marta Dell’Ovo. Reclamation Cost: An Ecosystem Perspective. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():1352-1358.

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Leopoldo Sdino; Paolo Rosasco; Marta Dell’Ovo. 2020. "Reclamation Cost: An Ecosystem Perspective." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 1352-1358.

Conference paper
Published: 01 September 2020 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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Starting from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment several research domains have focused on the complex relationship that persists between environmental system and human well-being according to their own theoretical as well as operational paradigms. Few are the cross-sectorial researches aimed at analyzing the ecosystems, their services and performances at different scales according to an integrated approach. The combination of different approaches and research methodologies represents a promising perspective both for framing the analysis and for landscape designing. Furthermore, the development of integrated and cross-disciplinary studies on the identification, measurement and evaluation of Ecosystem Services (ESs) appears relevant for its practical consequences on urban planning decisions with special respect to the construction of innovative strategies for metropolitan agricultural systems, urban open spaces and green areas. Given these premises, the contribution provides a systematic review and a citation network analysis to understand the relationship between the role of the design and the importance of evaluation in the ESs’ field of research.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio. The Role of the Evaluation in Designing Ecosystem Services. A Literature Review. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 1359 -1368.

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Marta Dell’Ovo, Alessandra Oppio. The Role of the Evaluation in Designing Ecosystem Services. A Literature Review. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():1359-1368.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio. 2020. "The Role of the Evaluation in Designing Ecosystem Services. A Literature Review." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 1359-1368.

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Published: 29 August 2020 in CoDesign for Public-Interest Services
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The introduction of the concept of sustainable development in the field of cultural heritage preservation has stressed the importance of a holistic approach. Achieving a balance among cultural significance retention and economic development is a challenging goal, even more for fragile and vulnerable contexts with limited economic and social resources, low return expectations and a huge tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Given such a complexity decisions about where to place valorisation interventions with the purpose to activate synergies with existing projects and trigger economic and social development processes require to be based on robust evaluation methodologies. According to this instance, Spatial Multicriteria Analysis (SMCA) can support decision-makers along all the steps of the decision process, moving from the intelligence phase to the design and, finally, to the choice one. Within this approach, the study has been focused on the intelligence phase, in order to define a multidimensional analytical framework aimed at mapping widespread cultural heritage with a special attention to its territorial features. The proposed methodological evaluation framework points out the challenge of structuring a decision problem related to the inner areas regeneration by the reuse of cultural heritage placed along slow mobility routes. The results are value maps that provide recommendations for placing culture heritage preservation and reuse interventions, meant as territorial catalyst.

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Alessandra Oppio; Marta Dell'Ovo. Cultural Heritage Preservation and Territorial Attractiveness: A Spatial Multidimensional Evaluation Approach. CoDesign for Public-Interest Services 2020, 105 -125.

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Alessandra Oppio, Marta Dell'Ovo. Cultural Heritage Preservation and Territorial Attractiveness: A Spatial Multidimensional Evaluation Approach. CoDesign for Public-Interest Services. 2020; ():105-125.

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Alessandra Oppio; Marta Dell'Ovo. 2020. "Cultural Heritage Preservation and Territorial Attractiveness: A Spatial Multidimensional Evaluation Approach." CoDesign for Public-Interest Services , no. : 105-125.

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Published: 20 August 2020 in Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities
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Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) allows to establish preferences about multiple options by considering both qualitative and quantitative data. MCDA is structured in main stages aimed at supporting Decision-Makers (DMs) to establish the decision context, elicit main objectives, explore potential decisions by assessing their performances and to take a final decision. Within the decision context concerning the location of healthcare facilities, four main steps of the stages characterizing the MCDA have been investigated given their relevance in affecting the decision problem, namely the presence of a variety of stakeholders, the definition of a consistent set of criteria, the choice of the criteria weight elicitation procedure and the selection of an aggregation procedure. The purpose of the contribution is to present some prominent existing methodologies aimed at developing the four steps identified in order to detect strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, given the nature of the decision problem, main features of the spatial analysis will be discussed.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. Structuring the Decision Problem. A Spatial Multi-methodological Approach. Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities 2020, 29 -51.

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Marta Dell’Ovo, Alessandra Oppio, Stefano Capolongo. Structuring the Decision Problem. A Spatial Multi-methodological Approach. Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities. 2020; ():29-51.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. 2020. "Structuring the Decision Problem. A Spatial Multi-methodological Approach." Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities , no. : 29-51.

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Published: 20 August 2020 in Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications
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Stakeholders participation in the field of the public decision stimulates learning processes able to generate common knowledge based on shared information. In fact, by including different stakeholders in the decision process different knowledge domains can be integrated. To facilitate this processes, Decision Support Systems (DSSs) have been framed to support stakeholders in decision making for specific purposes. The contribution aims at reflecting on stakeholder participation and to propose a possible participatory process in the context of the location of healthcare facilities based on the methodological framework developed by Simon extended to the scale of Arnstein. Connections of the study within the line of research concerning the “Policy Analytics” perspective are proposed highlighting the importance of the combination of data-driven with value-driven approaches. Moreover, this conclusive chapter will synthetize main achievement and findings of the book.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. Policy Implications. How to Support Decision-Makers in Setting and Solving Complex Problems. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications 2020, 113 -121.

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Marta Dell’Ovo, Alessandra Oppio, Stefano Capolongo. Policy Implications. How to Support Decision-Makers in Setting and Solving Complex Problems. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications. 2020; ():113-121.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. 2020. "Policy Implications. How to Support Decision-Makers in Setting and Solving Complex Problems." Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications , no. : 113-121.

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Published: 20 August 2020 in Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications
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The management of health policies is characterised by multi-level hierarchies and actors. Given the presence of several and sometimes conflictual needs and expectations elicited by stakeholders involved and the complexity of the decision problem concerning the location of healthcare facilities, a multi-methodological evaluation framework is proposed within this contribution. The process is based on the four traditional stages of the Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), recognised as the most critical in the context of the location of healthcare facilities, namely stakeholder analysis, criteria definition, weights assignments and aggregation procedure. Since several methodologies have to be combined, the proposed framework is conceived as an iterative and flexible approach where each phase can be reviewed when necessary. The methodology proposed is tested on a case study located in the Municipality of Milan, Italy.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. Approaching the Location of Healthcare Facilities: How to Model the Decision Problem. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications 2020, 53 -79.

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Marta Dell’Ovo, Alessandra Oppio, Stefano Capolongo. Approaching the Location of Healthcare Facilities: How to Model the Decision Problem. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications. 2020; ():53-79.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. 2020. "Approaching the Location of Healthcare Facilities: How to Model the Decision Problem." Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications , no. : 53-79.

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Published: 20 August 2020 in Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities
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Decision Support Systems (DSSs) have been developed for aiding Decision-Makers (DMs) in handling and solving complex problems. When decisions belong to the public domain, as for the location of healthcare facilities, the use of DSSs could be fundamental to justify choices made and to easily communicate the results to citizens. Given the nature of the decision problem, the support of the Multicriteria-Spatial Decision Support Systems (MC-SDSS) has been recognised as strategic given the possibility to frame the decision problem, by breaking it down into hierarchical levels and to visualise the result directly on the territory through the use of maps. The contribution aims at presenting the strengths and weaknesses of the MC-SDSS for the location of healthcare facilities tested on a case study located in the Municipality of Milan, Italy, and to propose a DSS developed to support DMs, namely the Evaluation Tool for the Siting of Healthcare facilities (SitHealth Evaluation Tool).

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. Modelling the Spatial Decision Problem. Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice: SitHealth Evaluation Tool. Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities 2020, 81 -112.

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Marta Dell’Ovo, Alessandra Oppio, Stefano Capolongo. Modelling the Spatial Decision Problem. Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice: SitHealth Evaluation Tool. Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities. 2020; ():81-112.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. 2020. "Modelling the Spatial Decision Problem. Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice: SitHealth Evaluation Tool." Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities , no. : 81-112.

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Published: 20 August 2020 in Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications
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The location of healthcare facilities is commonly considered as an ill-structured decision problem since characterized by the coexistence of several and sometimes conflictual criteria, the presence of different stakolders with their own viewpoints and the necessity to find a trade-off among dimensions involved. Given these premises the contribution is aimed at proposing a detailed analysis of the State of the Art (SoA) of the location problem under investigation through a deep review of scientific papers, existing evaluation tools and the researches focused on solving the hospital’s site selection. The main purpose of this chapter is to underline existing gaps on this decision problem in order to define an evaluation approach useful to structure a multidimensional framework. In fact, the analysis of the SoA has been developed in order to highlight how previous researches managed the decision problem by pointing out methodologies applied, software used and in particular criteria defined.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. The Location Problem. Addressing Decisions About Healthcare Facilities. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications 2020, 1 -28.

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Marta Dell’Ovo, Alessandra Oppio, Stefano Capolongo. The Location Problem. Addressing Decisions About Healthcare Facilities. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications. 2020; ():1-28.

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Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. 2020. "The Location Problem. Addressing Decisions About Healthcare Facilities." Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications , no. : 1-28.

Conference paper
Published: 25 July 2020 in Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes
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According to the research grant titled “Urban Health: good practices for health impact assessment of urban and environmental redevelopment and regeneration interventions” and awarded by the Italian National Center for Disease prevention and Control (CCM) in 2017, this paper is aimed to describe the overall goal of the project: develop and disseminate experience-based practices among Policy Makers, based on Health Impact Assessment models, literature and case studies, mainly referred to healthy aging and equity in urban regeneration programs. The authors were involved in the development and application phases of a quali-quantitative assessment tool, capable of providing an effective and flexible support to the Local Health Agencies (LHAs) for evaluating the Urban Health strategies’ integrations into urban plans. The final framework is composed by 20 criteria, aimed to assess the propensity of urban plans to promote Urban Health strategies. The criteria are divided into 7 macro-areas: the first one including prerequisites (0. General criteria) while the other 6 constituting the assessment tool (1. Environment; 2. Soil and subsoil; 3. Sustainability and hygiene of the built environment; 4. Urban and social development; 5. Mobility and transport; 6. Outdoor spaces). This research project could be considered a starting point to disseminate methods, tools and indicators to design and assess not merely the public spaces’ environmental quality, but also foresee the urban plans’ Public Health outcomes.

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Maddalena Buffoli; Andrea Rebecchi; Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. Transforming the Built Environment Through Healthy-Design Strategies. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 187 -196.

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Maddalena Buffoli, Andrea Rebecchi, Marta Dell’Ovo, Alessandra Oppio, Stefano Capolongo. Transforming the Built Environment Through Healthy-Design Strategies. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():187-196.

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Maddalena Buffoli; Andrea Rebecchi; Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. 2020. "Transforming the Built Environment Through Healthy-Design Strategies." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 187-196.

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Published: 07 July 2020 in Strategic Environmental Assessment and Urban Planning
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With the aim of enhancing the level of sustainability of plans and programmes adopted by local, regional and national authorities, the European Commission (EU) has adopted the Directive 2001/42/EC on the assessment of effects of plans and programmes on the environment. Starting from the analysis of strengths and possible uses of Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) and the investigation of its application in combination with the SWOT Analysis and the Stakeholder Analysis, the paper aims at presenting a multi-methodological approach based on the use of MCA for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). Given the spatial nature of the decision problem the multi-methodological approach is moreover combined with Geographic Information System (GIS). The Multicriteria-Spatial Decision Support System (MC-SDSS) proposed is able to support the decision-making processes in the field of environmental management by providing evidence and increasing the level of choices’ transparency and legitimacy.

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Alessandra Oppio; Marta Dell’Ovo. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Multi-Criteria Analysis: An Integrated Approach. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Urban Planning 2020, 47 -63.

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Alessandra Oppio, Marta Dell’Ovo. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Multi-Criteria Analysis: An Integrated Approach. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Urban Planning. 2020; ():47-63.

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Alessandra Oppio; Marta Dell’Ovo. 2020. "Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Multi-Criteria Analysis: An Integrated Approach." Strategic Environmental Assessment and Urban Planning , no. : 47-63.

Journal article
Published: 04 May 2020 in Land Use Policy
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The rise of neoliberalism in the context of urban development has encouraged cooperation between public and private parties. This cooperation is structured by contracts, generally called Urban Development Agreements (UDAs). Being part of the urban regeneration strategies, UDAs aim at achieving durable improvements of abandoned areas, namely brownfields, according to the sustainability principles. Thus, within the negotiation between private developers and public administrations, multiple and conflicting instances have to be faced case by case. Despite the uniqueness of each UDA, it is possible to define a set of pertinent characteristics that play a crucial role in determining the fairness and appropriateness of the public-private partnership. Given this context, we propose a novel variant of the Dominance Rough Set Approach (DRSA) for i) exploring the relationship between condition attributes or criteria and effects of urban development processes and for ii) supporting negotiations according to the detection of a set of relevant features. Specifically, DRSA is applied on a sample of UDAs recently concluded in the Lombardy Region (Northern Italy), and then tested on a sample of other UDAs under the negotiation phase. The analysis involves five dimensions represented by attributes and criteria related to urban, institutional, negotiation, development and economic contexts. The inferred decision rules provide useful knowledge for supporting complex decision processes such as the allocation of costs and benefits within UDAs.

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Alessandra Oppio; Marta Dell’Ovo; Francesca Torrieri; Grzegorz Miebs; Miłosz Kadziński. Understanding the drivers of Urban Development Agreements with the rough set approach and robust decision rules. Land Use Policy 2020, 96, 104678 .

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Alessandra Oppio, Marta Dell’Ovo, Francesca Torrieri, Grzegorz Miebs, Miłosz Kadziński. Understanding the drivers of Urban Development Agreements with the rough set approach and robust decision rules. Land Use Policy. 2020; 96 ():104678.

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Alessandra Oppio; Marta Dell’Ovo; Francesca Torrieri; Grzegorz Miebs; Miłosz Kadziński. 2020. "Understanding the drivers of Urban Development Agreements with the rough set approach and robust decision rules." Land Use Policy 96, no. : 104678.

Book
Published: 01 January 2020 in Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications
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The book examines an integrated approach for addressing decisions about the location of healthcare facilities. Supported by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA), the approach provides comprehensive information on territory, taking into account the spatial dimensions. Due to the multiple criteria involved, site selection for urban facilities is a crucial topic in planning decision processes, especially for healthcare facilities. Healthcare provision policies generally fail to address the distribution of facilities within cities, entrusting decisions to various stakeholders. Moreover current evaluation tools focus on the intrinsic performances of healthcare structures, disregarding the extrinsic characteristics, namely those related to the location. Starting with a cross-disciplinary literature review, the book describes a multi-methodological approach for decision-making regarding the location of healthcare facilities, and presents an innovative evaluation tool that simultaneously considers functional, locational, environmental and economic issues, providing a comprehensive overview of the areas under investigation.

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Marta Dell'Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications 2020, 1 .

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Marta Dell'Ovo, Alessandra Oppio, Stefano Capolongo. Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities. Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications. 2020; ():1.

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Marta Dell'Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Stefano Capolongo. 2020. "Decision Support System for the Location of Healthcare Facilities." Tunable Low-Power Low-Noise Amplifier for Healthcare Applications , no. : 1.

Chapter
Published: 31 December 2019 in CoDesign for Public-Interest Services
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In developing countries, especially in particularly critical areas such as tropical Africa, the state of health of the population is strongly influenced by infectious risk factors. High temperatures and humidity levels, in fact, contribute to the formation and proliferation of viruses and bacteria capable of spreading rapidly. For these reasons, the need to find low-cost and context-adaptable strategies capable of ensuring the correct preservation of food and medicine in areas where the electricity supply is not reliable is a priority for improving health and social conditions in developing countries. In such a context, the aim of this study was to develop a modular kit designed for the self-construction of a refrigeration system which is economically competitive with other products already developed for the same purpose. The refrigeration system is powered by solar photovoltaic energy and can be easily assembled in the required location of application, with particular reference to the context represented by Africa’s tropical belt. The kit was designed and tested at the Politecnico di Milano University and the final prototype version was built in Cameroon.

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Claudio Del Pero; Maddalena Buffoli; Luigi Piegari; Marta Dell'Ovo; Maria P. Vettori. SPARK—Solar Photovoltaic Adaptable Refrigeration Kit. CoDesign for Public-Interest Services 2019, 59 -68.

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Claudio Del Pero, Maddalena Buffoli, Luigi Piegari, Marta Dell'Ovo, Maria P. Vettori. SPARK—Solar Photovoltaic Adaptable Refrigeration Kit. CoDesign for Public-Interest Services. 2019; ():59-68.

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Claudio Del Pero; Maddalena Buffoli; Luigi Piegari; Marta Dell'Ovo; Maria P. Vettori. 2019. "SPARK—Solar Photovoltaic Adaptable Refrigeration Kit." CoDesign for Public-Interest Services , no. : 59-68.