Search results for "Sustainable development"
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Land and sea joint - The educational project Terramare
2018
Today, the global financial and economical crisis has made evident the inner relationship between environmental degradation and social needs. Throughout the Mediterranean Sea the consequences of the new shift in the geopolitical order and the cultural conflicts confronting is a first result of disadvantages and environmental crisis with a continuum growth of environmental disorder and difficulties on manage territories. In this contest, the foundation “Fondazione con il Sud” promotes project for Sustainable Development and Environmental Education to empower citizen to live sustainably in an environmentally conscious manner and to promote cultural integration. The "Terramare" project is prop…
The role of environmental education in Sicilian Marine Protected Areas
2017
Today, more than ever, we need to be care for our common home: the Earth. The global financial and economical crisis has made evident the inner relationship between environmental degradation, the consequences of the new shift in the geopolitical order, and the cultural conflicts confronting the world. In this contest, the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea (MATTM) promotes Education for Sustainable Development and Environmental Education to empower citizen to live sustainably and in an environmentally conscious manner. From a citizenship perspective, ecological viewpoints play a role in the public debate about land use, large scale fishing, sustainability, cl…
DIDATTICA E CONCORSI INTERNAZIONALI: OBIETTIVI, METODI ED ESPERIENZE
2018
La memoria presenta nell’ambito di un più ampio panorama europeo sulla questione delle metodologie per la didattica universitaria nelle scuole di Ingegneria ed Architettura, gli esiti di una collaborazione avviata nel 2005 tra il Politecnico di Milano – Polo Regionale di Lecco e l’Università degli Studi di Palermo che ha avuto come oggetto la partecipazione di docenti e studenti provenienti da Atenei Europei ed Asiatici ad un Concorso Internazionale di Progettazione Sostenibile. Le tematiche affrontate durante questo decennio di collaborazione sono state l’occasione per fornire un contributo al dibattito, attualmente in corso, nell’ambito dell’Ingegneria Edile-Architettura che, proprio in q…
Right to the future
2019
Dalla fine della seconda guerra mondiale, le città hanno affrontato un rapido e incontrollabile sviluppo e pur coprendo, oggi, appena il 2% della superficie del pianeta, sono l’habitat per più del 50% degli abitanti della Terra, consumano oltre l’80% delle risorse disponibili ed emettono più del 70% delle sostanze inquinanti. È nel 1976 che l’assemblea generale delle Nazioni Unite indice la prima conferenza per gli insediamenti umani (human settlements) a Vancouver, riconoscendo l’impatto devastante che le condizioni degli insediamenti abitativi hanno sullo sviluppo sociale ed economico, sull’uomo e sull’ecologia urbana. Questa conferenza, oggi conosciuta come Habitat I, avvia un processo d…
The Creative Land. Heritage and Creativity in the Neo-Anthropocene
2017
Urban creativity is a hard challenge, because it doesn’t need rules or models, but adaptive protocols applicable in different local contexts, able to mount resources, capacity building and creative environments. It challenges us to find local features that could provide good practices to be turned into methodologies or components to forge new urban and human regeneration tools, based on the cultural armature and citizens engagement. We live in a Creative Land composed by generative cities, a wide palimpsest of innovation labs, as experimented by several worldwide networks supporting what’s variously termed social enterprise, community interest companies, impact economy, organizations that a…
Right to the future: ideas kit for the future of Palermo
2019
La città di Palermo, soggetta ai sempre più costanti fenomeni di brain drain e di immigrazione, si trova necessariamente a decidere cosa vuole fare da grande. Gli input che arrivano dall’esterno, e non solo, spingono la città prevalentemente verso una sola possibilità: il turismo. Eppure la visione del turismo come unica via possibile si è rivelata la condanna a morte al diritto di vivere e praticare la città dove si e nati, cresciuti ma soprattutto si è scelto di abitare. In contrapposizione a questa visione, città come Barcellona, Bogotà o Medellin si sono messe in gioco sfidando la formazione/conformazione storica a favore della praticità e benessere della quotidianità urbana. Dimostrand…
Planning Augmented Cities in the Neoanthropocene
2020
To improve the effects of the connecting “augmented urbanism”, I have set up ten keywords able to reset spatial planning for the Augmented City in the face of the 21st century challenges. The Augmented City’s practices grow with exponential progression doubling its components, connections and impacts seen in the last years, to one incredible and disruptive acceleration. We are surrounded by thousands of practices in the spread of sensors and intelligent devices, in collaborative design and return of urban manufacturing, in explosion of creativity and increase of resilience, and several experiments in recycling of everything, fluidisation and networking of cities, and adoption of incremental…
The Cities of Tomorrow
2014
In 2007, France took responsibility for the climate and ecological crisis that hit the globe by launching the Grenelle Environnement, endeavouring to take concrete actions to achieve the sustainable development goals. The strategy was developed around six working groups to put forward proposals in these fields: fight against climate change and control of energy use, protection of biodiversity and natural resources, environmental health, sustainability of means of production and consumption trends, building of an “ecological democracy”, research and promotion of sustainable development forms promoting employment and competitiveness. Owing to the urge to take action against the degradation of…
Energy Use in the Building Sector and Climate Change: Modeling, Developments, and Future Trends
2020
Climate change is going to have significant impacts among a wide range of areas and domains, including the building sector, characterized by constructions which may not be designed to be resilient to the evolutions in the warming climate that will occur in the next decades. The chapter investigates methodologies and approaches connected to the assessment of the effects of climate change to the energy use within the building sector. Methodologies are compared and the most relevant future trends expected are traced for the current century.
The applicability of the indicators proposed by the European and national regulatory framework for the verification of the advancement of the plans: …
2014
Indicators are essential operational tools for the preparation of plans, to monitor their progress and for the ex-post verification of the results achieved. As it is known, there is a large corpus of indicators, both at Community and national Italian level, to which designers and planners can refer. However, it remains to verify the effectiveness of general validity parameters in describing the progress of the implementation of plans, which must be necessarily compared with more limited territorial situations. This paper addresses this problem, with reference to the Energy and Environmental Plan of the Sicilian Region (PEARS), comparing the themes proposed at European (Eurostat) and the Ita…