2022

Starting from the strategic initiative presented in 2020 by the European Commission and entitled “A wave of renovations for Europe: greening buildings, creating jobs and improving lives”, Member States are now committed to stepping up efforts to renovate their building stock, with the precise goal of achieving climate neutrality in 2050. With the aim of exploring the potential appeal of incentive measures, the paper started with some considerations on the use and ownership of the building stock in Italy, frequently with a lack of maintenance.

This report was prepared by United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) and the UNESCO Chair on Urban Resilience at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU.Resilience). It offers a global analysis of the urban content of 193 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) before the 19th of June 2022.

Resilienza – dall’etimo latino resilire che significa rimbalzare – è concetto antico, studiato e sviluppato in diverse discipline scientifiche, quali la fisica dei materiali, l’ingegneria, l’ecologia, la biologia, la psicologia, le scienze sociali, solo per citarne alcune. Dai diversi contributi disciplinari discende la polisemia del concetto che rimanda ad una definizione ampia, capace di mettere a fuoco una metafora efficace per analizzare i sistemi complessi.

Negli ultimi decenni stiamo assistendo a scala planetaria ad una debole o pressoché nulla capacità di risposta dei territori agli eventi causati dalla dinamica sistemica in atto del cambiamento climatico. Gli effetti rilevanti del cambiamento climatico sono il prodotto della frammentazione degli ambienti naturali e della crescente vulnerabilità dei suoli, conseguenti alle intense e progressive dinamiche di urbanizzazione in atto.

Resilienza – dall’etimo latino resilire che significa rimbalzare – è concetto antico, studiato e sviluppato in diverse discipline scientifiche, quali la fisica dei materiali, l’ingegneria, l’ecologia, la biologia, la psicologia, le scienze sociali, solo per citarne alcune. Dai diversi contributi disciplinari discende la polisemia del concetto che rimanda ad una definizione ampia, capace di mettere a fuoco una metafora efficace per analizzare i sistemi complessi.

The resilience approach seems to be related to the understanding of the concept of strong sustainability (Neumayer, 2003; Voghera & Giudice, 2019), which requires flexibility, integration, and empowerment. Resilience can be a useful lens to interpret the transformative action of territory and landscape, seeking a balance through projects still linked to the landscape in a generic way.

Ce texte aborde la thématique cruciale du paysage, conçu comme un laboratoire pour l’expérimentation et l’élaboration d’actions basées sur la collaboration pour la construction de scenarios partagés. Le texte part du constat que souvent le terme de paysage peut être associé à celui de bien commun et il envisage de proposer une réflexion sur l’efficacité des plans paysagers et sur leur transposition à l’échelle locale.

This article seeks to interpret co-evolutionary and transformative resilience in a broad sense, with the aim of understanding how it may come into the practices of urban planning and project-making, innovating project procedures, and generating economic effects.

For a given pair of random lifetimes whose dependence is described by a timetransformed exponential model, we provide analytical expressions for the distribution of their sum. These expressions are obtained by using a representation of the joint distribution in terms of bivariate distortions, which is an alternative approach to the classical copula representation.

Policies aimed at urban and territorial development stressed the importance of landscape as a significant resource for sustainable and economic development. In this perspective, research on landscape visual values and people preferences can support the enhancement of the global values of territories. Currently, the theoretical framework and approaches are mainly limited to the day images of sites, while nighttime landscape is not usually considered.