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Dr. Natalia Fumagalli
University of Milan

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Journal article
Published: 28 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Growing and uncontrolled urbanization and climate change (with an associated increase in the frequency of intense meteoric events) have led to a rising number of flooding events in urban areas due to the insufficient capacity of conventional drainage systems. Nature-Based Solutions represent a contribution to addressing these problems through the creation of a multifunctional green infrastructure, both in urban areas and in the countryside. The aim of this work was to develop a methodology to define Green Infrastructure for stormwater management at the municipal level. The methodology is defined on the basis of three phases: the definition of the territorial information needed, the production of base maps, and the production of a Suitability Map. In the first phase, we define the information needed for the identification of non-urbanized areas where rainwater can potentially infiltrate, as well as areas with soil characteristics that can exclude or limit rainwater infiltration. In the second phase, we constructed the following base maps: a “map of green areas”, a “map of natural surface infiltration potential” and a “map of exclusion areas”. In phase 3, starting from the base maps created in phase 2 and using Geographical Information Systems’ (GIS) geoprocessing procedures, the “Green area compatibility map to realize Green Infrastructure”, the “map of areas not suitable for infiltration” and the final “Green Infrastructure Suitability Map” are created. This methodology should help municipal authorities to set up Green Infrastructure Suitability Maps as a tool for land-use planning.

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Giulio Senes; Paolo Ferrario; Gianpaolo Cirone; Natalia Fumagalli; Paolo Frattini; Giovanna Sacchi; Giorgio Valè. Nature-Based Solutions for Storm Water Management—Creation of a Green Infrastructure Suitability Map as a Tool for Land-Use Planning at the Municipal Level in the Province of Monza-Brianza (Italy). Sustainability 2021, 13, 6124 .

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Giulio Senes, Paolo Ferrario, Gianpaolo Cirone, Natalia Fumagalli, Paolo Frattini, Giovanna Sacchi, Giorgio Valè. Nature-Based Solutions for Storm Water Management—Creation of a Green Infrastructure Suitability Map as a Tool for Land-Use Planning at the Municipal Level in the Province of Monza-Brianza (Italy). Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6124.

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Giulio Senes; Paolo Ferrario; Gianpaolo Cirone; Natalia Fumagalli; Paolo Frattini; Giovanna Sacchi; Giorgio Valè. 2021. "Nature-Based Solutions for Storm Water Management—Creation of a Green Infrastructure Suitability Map as a Tool for Land-Use Planning at the Municipal Level in the Province of Monza-Brianza (Italy)." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6124.

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Published: 14 April 2020 in Sustainability
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The demographic aging and the evolution of lifestyles require new strategies to promote the well-being and active aging of elderly. Active aging depends on many factors: some of these are related to objective data such as physical environment, others are personal elements; it is important to improve environmental physical factors to encourage personal attitudes to the green spaces in use. To design a small sustainable restorative green space in Milan, Italy, restorative garden design criteria are summarized in the first section of the paper and both social and environmental sustainability are considered. The methodology section describes the co-design process and how it was applied to include different older user groups in the design of the area. In the results section authors apply a taxonomy based on the four properties of restorative settings according to the Attention Restoration Theory by Kaplan (compatibility, being away, extent, fascination): this provides a unified system to classify users’ expectations and to describe the final project. The proposed co-design process combines social and environmental sustainability, as it provides designers an insight about the user’s experience in nature. Such information can be fruitfully integrated with professional competences about comfort aspects and environmental protection in order to improve the whole design project.

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Natalia Fumagalli; Elisabetta Fermani; Giulio Senes; Marco Boffi; Linda Pola; Paolo Inghilleri. Sustainable Co-Design with Older People: The Case of a Public Restorative Garden in Milan (Italy). Sustainability 2020, 12, 3166 .

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Natalia Fumagalli, Elisabetta Fermani, Giulio Senes, Marco Boffi, Linda Pola, Paolo Inghilleri. Sustainable Co-Design with Older People: The Case of a Public Restorative Garden in Milan (Italy). Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3166.

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Natalia Fumagalli; Elisabetta Fermani; Giulio Senes; Marco Boffi; Linda Pola; Paolo Inghilleri. 2020. "Sustainable Co-Design with Older People: The Case of a Public Restorative Garden in Milan (Italy)." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3166.

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Published: 09 March 2020 in Sustainability
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The literature highlights the importance of vegetation to enhance the ecological and visual qualities of streets and paths; however, when studies specifically focus on rural greenways they do not consider users’ assessments of the planting design. This exploratory study aims to contribute to this issue. It is hypothesized that planting combinations characterized by greater variety and aesthetic flow may be more preferred and restorative. To this end, four virtual scenarios simulating bikers moving along a greenway at 25 km/h were created to find out the following: first, what kind of planting combination is the most preferred, and second, which planting combination is perceived as the most restorative by bicycle riders. To assess the experience, subjects were administered a questionnaire made up of: (i) the Perceived Restorativeness Scale-11 with additional items to assess compatibility, familiarity, and preference; (ii) a list of physical and aesthetic attributes; and (iii) information on bicycle use. The results show that participants’ preferences were affected by the perception of the scenario’s restorative value, which was not given exclusively by the degree of naturalness, but by the opportunity the greenway offered to engage in social/physical activities. This study shows that preference and restorativeness are not a “simple” matter of quantity of vegetation, but of quality instead, i.e., planting variety. Designers have to consider that the restorative value of greenways is related to the opportunities they offer to engage in physical/social activities.

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Natalia Fumagalli; Matteo Maccarini; Roberto Rovelli; Rita Berto; Giulio Senes. An Exploratory Study of Users’ Preference for Different Planting Combinations along Rural Greenways. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2120 .

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Natalia Fumagalli, Matteo Maccarini, Roberto Rovelli, Rita Berto, Giulio Senes. An Exploratory Study of Users’ Preference for Different Planting Combinations along Rural Greenways. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (5):2120.

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Natalia Fumagalli; Matteo Maccarini; Roberto Rovelli; Rita Berto; Giulio Senes. 2020. "An Exploratory Study of Users’ Preference for Different Planting Combinations along Rural Greenways." Sustainability 12, no. 5: 2120.

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Published: 06 February 2020 in Journal of Agricultural Engineering
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Land take is a process of land-use change in which the agricultural and natural land is taken by residential, industrial, infrastructure and other developments. This change causes the loss of a non-renewable resource, such as the agricultural/natural soil, and the relative natural, cultural and landscape resources. The growing awareness about the loss of ecosystem services related to land take led developed countries to try to reduce the quantity of land taken with new laws and regulations. The European Union has set the goal of zero land take by 2050. It is not only a problem of limiting and slowing down the phenomenon, but it is always clearer that the quality of the land taken has to be assessed and adequately considered during the land-use planning process. In fact, in some cases like in the Lombardy Region, the law focuses not only on reducing the amount of land take, but also on limiting the loss of land with high qualities, requiring municipalities to assess the productive, naturalistic and landscape qualities of the territory. In this paper, the authors develop, using the geographical information system technology, a methodology to define and calculate a composite land quality index (LQI). The methodology has been applied to a case study in the Lombardy region and has allowed to assess the quality of the territory in a rigorous and transparent way using available official data. In order to take into account the relative importance that stakeholders and land-use planners can give to the different components of LQI, analytic hierarchy process has been performed ad 4 different scenarios have been developed. LQI can support the land-use planning process in an ex-ante evaluation of different transformations hypotheses and in the definition of quality-based quantitative thresholds and monitoring of their trend over the time.

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Giulio Senes; Natalia Fumagalli; Paolo Stefano Ferrario; Roberto Rovelli; Raffaele Sigon. Definition of a land quality index to preserve the best territories from future land take. An application to a study area in Lombardy (Italy). Journal of Agricultural Engineering 2020, 51, 43 -55.

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Giulio Senes, Natalia Fumagalli, Paolo Stefano Ferrario, Roberto Rovelli, Raffaele Sigon. Definition of a land quality index to preserve the best territories from future land take. An application to a study area in Lombardy (Italy). Journal of Agricultural Engineering. 2020; 51 (1):43-55.

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Giulio Senes; Natalia Fumagalli; Paolo Stefano Ferrario; Roberto Rovelli; Raffaele Sigon. 2020. "Definition of a land quality index to preserve the best territories from future land take. An application to a study area in Lombardy (Italy)." Journal of Agricultural Engineering 51, no. 1: 43-55.

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Published: 09 August 2018 in Landscape Research
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Eric Bardenhagen; Giulio Senes; Susan Rodiek; Cristina Ferrara; Adeleh Nejati; Natalia Fumagalli; Antonio Giornelli; Chanam Lee. The Seniors’ Outdoor Survey (SOS Tool): comparing ratings and reliability between Italy and the USA. Landscape Research 2018, 44, 688 -701.

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Eric Bardenhagen, Giulio Senes, Susan Rodiek, Cristina Ferrara, Adeleh Nejati, Natalia Fumagalli, Antonio Giornelli, Chanam Lee. The Seniors’ Outdoor Survey (SOS Tool): comparing ratings and reliability between Italy and the USA. Landscape Research. 2018; 44 (6):688-701.

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Eric Bardenhagen; Giulio Senes; Susan Rodiek; Cristina Ferrara; Adeleh Nejati; Natalia Fumagalli; Antonio Giornelli; Chanam Lee. 2018. "The Seniors’ Outdoor Survey (SOS Tool): comparing ratings and reliability between Italy and the USA." Landscape Research 44, no. 6: 688-701.

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Published: 01 March 2017 in European Countryside
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This paper reports on the issue of fontanili assessment. A fontanile is a lowland spring, excavated by humans for the use of underground water for irrigation. From the XII century on, fontanili have been dug to extend water availability throughout the year and increase agricultural land use in the lowlands of Northern Italy. Because water of the fontanile stays at temperature without great changes throughout the year (between 8 and 15°C), this environment is host to a vast variety of flora and fauna and has ecological and landscaping value. Because these springs are typical and unique landscape features of Northern Italy, there is not an international background on assessing methods of fontanili functions inside the countryside. The first goal has been to define a set of simple and consolidated indicators to evaluate watering, ecological and recreational function of 1160 fontanili of the Lombardy Region. The second one has been to identify homogenous areas with groups of fontanili in close proximity and with similar indicator values using interpolation tools. This classification can be used by Regional Administration to assign money to recover and maintain fontanili. The most important areas will be protected by regional and local planning instruments.

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Natalia Fumagalli; Giulio Senes; Paolo Stefano Ferrario; Alessandro Toccolini. A minimum indicator set for assessing fontanili (lowland springs) of the Lombardy Region in Italy. European Countryside 2017, 9, 1 -16.

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Natalia Fumagalli, Giulio Senes, Paolo Stefano Ferrario, Alessandro Toccolini. A minimum indicator set for assessing fontanili (lowland springs) of the Lombardy Region in Italy. European Countryside. 2017; 9 (1):1-16.

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Natalia Fumagalli; Giulio Senes; Paolo Stefano Ferrario; Alessandro Toccolini. 2017. "A minimum indicator set for assessing fontanili (lowland springs) of the Lombardy Region in Italy." European Countryside 9, no. 1: 1-16.

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Published: 28 February 2014 in Journal of Agricultural Engineering
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Urban fringe areas have multiple land uses and are places where sections of waterway, together with fragmented areas of natural vegetation, are often found passing through urban areas, transportation routes and gradually expanding rural areas. These overlapping functions are often the cause of an extremely disorderly landscape devoid of guiding connotative elements. In this context, the waterfront can be a guiding element for the redevelopment of the fringe areas between cities and the countryside. The purpose of this paper is the definition of a methodology for planning a suburban waterfront with an ecological function and bicycle paths for recreational use. The evaluation phases for resources and planning, conducted with tools for network analysis, have identified potential corridors based on current land uses and have addressed the issue of bicycle paths on an inter-municipal scale. The methodology is proposed for regional level planning and the validation of the method was achieved through its application to the stretch of the Lambro River between Monza Park and the city of Milan in the North of Italy.

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Natalia Fumagalli; Claudia Colombo; Paolo Stefano Ferrario; Giulio Senes; Alessandro Toccolini. Suburban waterfront with ecological and recreational function: planning based on network analysis. Journal of Agricultural Engineering 2014, 44, 141 .

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Natalia Fumagalli, Claudia Colombo, Paolo Stefano Ferrario, Giulio Senes, Alessandro Toccolini. Suburban waterfront with ecological and recreational function: planning based on network analysis. Journal of Agricultural Engineering. 2014; 44 (4):141.

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Natalia Fumagalli; Claudia Colombo; Paolo Stefano Ferrario; Giulio Senes; Alessandro Toccolini. 2014. "Suburban waterfront with ecological and recreational function: planning based on network analysis." Journal of Agricultural Engineering 44, no. 4: 141.

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Published: 01 January 2014 in Environmental Engineering and Management Journal
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Natalia Fumagalli; Paolo Ferrario; Giulio Senes; Alessandro Toccolini. COMPOSITE ASSESSMENT OF PRODUCTIVE, PROTECTIVE AND RECREATIONAL FUNCTIONS IN FOREST PLANNING. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 2014, 13, 1277 -1290.

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Natalia Fumagalli, Paolo Ferrario, Giulio Senes, Alessandro Toccolini. COMPOSITE ASSESSMENT OF PRODUCTIVE, PROTECTIVE AND RECREATIONAL FUNCTIONS IN FOREST PLANNING. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal. 2014; 13 (5):1277-1290.

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Natalia Fumagalli; Paolo Ferrario; Giulio Senes; Alessandro Toccolini. 2014. "COMPOSITE ASSESSMENT OF PRODUCTIVE, PROTECTIVE AND RECREATIONAL FUNCTIONS IN FOREST PLANNING." Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 13, no. 5: 1277-1290.

Journal article
Published: 05 October 2009 in Italian Journal of Agronomy
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Landscape represents the “sensory aspect” of the land and as such it can be appreciated by all the five senses: sight, smelling, hearing, touch and taste. At the same time, landscape evolves over time and its value – ecological, economical and affective – changes as its constitutive elements change. Engineering can help “to drive” this evolution addressing it towards a condition of balance between individual and community requirements, especially referred to the effect of technological development on landscape. This effect can be referred to three dimensions: perceptive, functional and symbolic dimensions. The possible contribution to the management of landscape changes concerns all the three historic souls of Agricultural Engineering; in particular, Agricultural Hydraulics deals with the topic of landscape referring to both irrigation and the possible recreational use of canal systems; Agricultural Engineering determines plot form and size and woodland view; Rural Building deals with both the recovery of existing buildings and the design and making of new ones and their fitting in the landscape; moreover, the sector has developed new methods for the evaluation and the planning of rural land resources, especially about agriculture and forestry productivity, ecological stability and visual quality of rural land itself.

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Alessandro Toccolini; Natalia Fumagalli. The role of agricultural engineering in the management of landscape changes. Italian Journal of Agronomy 2009, 4, 25-34 .

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Alessandro Toccolini, Natalia Fumagalli. The role of agricultural engineering in the management of landscape changes. Italian Journal of Agronomy. 2009; 4 (3s):25-34.

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Alessandro Toccolini; Natalia Fumagalli. 2009. "The role of agricultural engineering in the management of landscape changes." Italian Journal of Agronomy 4, no. 3s: 25-34.