Climate change affects, directly and indirectly, the tangible and intangible features of heritage sites. Conservation studies often examine the impacts of climate change on heritage sites by assuming it as an isolated and static concept. This study aims to debate cultural heritage concept as the primary and neglected factor for wise development of climate-resilience policies. We first adopt the qualitative Meta-synthesis method to analyze the impacts of climate change on world heritage sites, through a systematic review of reports published by the UNESCO and its advisory bodies. Then, it is explained why the sustainability of cultural heritage requires a fundamental reconsideration of the concept and promotion of its evaluation framework. The findings suggest that protection of cultural heritage and developing the climate-resilience policies for the sustainability of landscape requires at the early stages a reflection on how heritage is defined as a useful resource and acceptable characteristic of territory.
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing people’s habits and behaviors and will reshape city layout and management. Among the different areas of research to be explored, the paper outlines first inputs to use the COVID-19 health crisis as a “window of opportunity” to trigger a sustainable transition of urban living environments, through actions to reshape and territorial organization after COVID-19 and in preparation for future health. Before having a vaccine or medications that ensure a non-lethal disease course, there will be a phase of responsibility and coexistence with the virus. It will be a period whose duration experts are still unable to quantify. What changes in the city organization, behaviors and uses of spaces will we observe in the living environments? Will this lead to a sustainability transition? The paper proposes a qualitative review to investigate how the droplet might travel through the air and how COVID-19 has spread in different urban contexts to outline a comprehensive reflection on the future of the city and strategies for more resilient communities and territories. To achieve this goal, the paper proposes the need of a comparison between skills related to physics aspects, such as fluid dynamics (to assess how droplets spread) and skills related to architectural, urban and territorial design (to evaluate the conditions of indoor and outdoor living environments).
The success of a food product is also the success of the territory that produced\ud
it. Based on this idea, we address the connection between landscape\ud
and quality wine in order to promote new sustainable development of\ud
rural territories. We use regulatory plans for ‘Wine Cities’ of Bomporto,\ud
Pramaggiore and San Martino sulla Marrucina (Italy) to highlight the ability\ud
of new urban-planning instruments to deal with different aspects relating to\ud
quality food and agriculture. The goal of the plans is to improve and renew\ud
the rural territory. Based on the Wine City Guidelines, the local urban plans for\ud
these towns provide useful indications, suggestions and rules for territorial\ud
improvement and transformation by way of enhancing the rural landscape\ud
and quality wine production. In promoting this new type of development,\ud
these plans encourage the direct involvement of local communities and\ud
manufacturing companies in sharing and promoting common objectives\ud
and development strategies
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