An integrated evaluation methodology to measure ecological and economic landscape states for territorial transformation scenarios: an application in Piedmont (Italy)

Assumma, Vanessa; Bottero, Marta; Monaco, Roberto; Soares, Ana Jacinta

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.04.071

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“…Thus, it was possible to determine to which social impacts the stakeholders are exposed. Furthermore, it also underlines that the participation of the stakeholders is a necessary requirement to obtain social sustainability and to promote a consensus solution in the urban regeneration process [74][75][76][77]. Moreover, the results obtained by the social evaluation processed with NAIADE are comparable with the results obtained with other evaluation methods [72].…”

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Addressing Social Sustainability in Urban Regeneration Processes. An Application of the Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation

Bottero¹,

Datola²

2020

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The concept of sustainability is widely seen as fundamental to set up urban and territorial transformations. Sustainable development is a multidimensional and multi-perspective process that deals with the environmental, economic, and social dimensions, with the aim to find a balance among these. Despite this growing attention to sustainability the social perspective has been the less explored of these dimensions and only recently it is receiving consideration due the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that aim at creating sustainable and inclusive cities and communities. In the SDGs, specific attention is focused on the improvement of the quality of life of inhabitants through specific actions dedicated to the valorization of cultural resources, to the protection of the environment, and also to promote the involvement of the local communities in setting policies and programs. The final objective is defining projects based on the social needs shared by the communities. This paper aims at exploring the social sustainability related to urban regeneration processes with particular attention to social cohesion and community engagement. Six different urban regeneration strategies, developed for the regeneration of an urban area located in Northern Italy and based on social housing interventions, have been evaluated in accordance with their social impacts on the stakeholders involved. The paper proposes a multi-methodological approach based on the combination of the stakeholder analysis with the NAIADE (Novel Approach to Imprecise Assessment and Decision Environments) methodology, a particular type of Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation. The stakeholder analysis has been applied to identify the actors to involve in the evaluation, whereas the NAIADE methodology has been implemented for the selection of the most preferable strategy. This method allowed the assessment of the different strategies through the comparison and the mediation between the technical and the social rankings, thus considering the stakeholder preferences in the final evaluation. The final result is coherent with the initial purpose and it demonstrates that the inclusion of the stakeholder is fundamental for the achievement of a consensus solution.

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Addressing Social Sustainability in Urban Regeneration Processes. An Application of the Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation

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2020

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“…In Table 5, a number of literature contributions are listed, in that the outcome of Lotka-Volterra systems may be interpreted as a resilience factor. More in details, Finotto and Monaco [70] and Gobattoni et al [71,72] are generally used for developing stability analyses on ecological sectors, thus predicting future possible equilibrium states; Monaco and Servente [69] are used to simulate the population's mobility and Monaco [73] integrates a synthetic index calculated through a system of indicators for investigating the population's mobility with respect to Gross Leasable Areas (GLAs); Assumma et al [74,75] predicts the population's flow over time in rural landscapes with respect to the economic attractiveness; Assumma et al [76] simulates the dynamics related to economic attractiveness and ecological quality as resilience factor. Therefore, Lotka-Volterra models have been employed at different spatial scales with different purposes, thus obtaining useful insights, such as in the field of landscape ecology and landscape economics [77].…”

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“…Therefore, Lotka-Volterra models have been employed at different spatial scales with different purposes, thus obtaining useful insights, such as in the field of landscape ecology and landscape economics [77]. In this section, a recent application on a supra-municipal context in Piedmont region (Italy) is proposed [76].…”

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“…In Assumma et al [76], an extension of a Lotka-Volterra model by Monaco and Rabino [78] was developed (Equation (5)) with the aim at simulating population dynamics as a resilient factor related to ecological and economic states for the territory of the Monferrato Ovadese in Southern Piedmont (Italy). The case study under investigation was intended as a multi-pole territorial system, where the poles refer to 37 municipalities that were grouped into 11 territorial clusters.…”

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Dynamic Models for Exploring the Resilience in Territorial Scenarios

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The present paper focuses on the role covered by dynamic models as support for the decision-making process in the evaluation of policies and actions for increasing the resilience of cities and territories. In recent decades, urban resilience has been recognized as a dynamic and multidimensional phenomenon that characterizes urban and metropolitan area dynamics. Therefore, it may be considered a fundamental aspect of urban and territorial planning. The employment of quantitative methods, such as dynamic models, is useful for the prediction of the dynamic behavior of territories and of their resilience. The present work discusses the system dynamics model and the Lotka-Volterra cooperative systems and shows how these models can aid technicians in resilience assessment and also decision makers in the definition of policies and actions, especially if integrated in wide evaluation frameworks for urban resilience achievements. This paper aims to provide an epistemological perspective of the application of dynamic models in resilience assessment, underlying the possible contribution to this issue through the analysis of a real case study and methodological framework. The main objective of this work is to lay the basis for future compared applications of these two models to the same case study.in order to underline dynamic model (DM) features that are closely related to the decision-making process in territorial and urban planning [11]. DMs are recognized as suitable tools to evaluate policies and actions aimed at increasing urban resilience [12][13][14]. This property is related to the fact that these models are built and grounded on dimensions related to both urban systems and urban resilience. In fact, during the construction of the model, it is necessary to select and identify which aspects of a territorial system have to be included with reference to the evaluation goal, from the environmental to the economic dimension [11,12,15]. In this sense, DMs are able to reveal both the dynamic behavior of urban and territorial systems and the impacts of policies on the key variables identified.Specifically, the main aim of this work is to study the principal characteristics of the system dynamics model (SDM) and Lotka-Volterra models (LV) in order to apply both to the same case study. The final purpose of this investigation is to understand the importance of the modelling approach in the field of resilience evaluation.The paper is structured as follows: Section 2 describes the current state of the art of resilience and urban resilience; Section 3 explains the role of dynamic models-the system dynamic models (SDM) and Lotka-Volterra models (LV)-in the decision-making process and summarizes their methodological background, state of art and some illustrative examples; Section 4 explains how the SDM models and LV models could contribute to urban planning; a comparative matrix is developed to investigate the utility of the considered models in predicting support in the design of future transformation scenarios; and Section 5 incl...

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“…However, the main limitation of the proposed approach is the lack of the spatial scale both in the simulation and evaluation of the impacts of the strategies. Thus, an interesting future implementation approach involves the integration of this combined approach with GIS, to also assess the effects of urban development strategies in the spatial scale [45,95]. The final aim is providing an integrated tool able to show both the evolution of the impacts of strategies in a unique map and to support decision-makers in defining strategies based on their effects both on a spatial and a temporal scale.…”

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A System Dynamics Model and Analytic Network Process: An Integrated Approach to Investigate Urban Resilience

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2020

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During the last decade, the concept of urban resilience has been increasingly implemented in urban planning, with the main aim to design urban development strategies. Urban resilience is a multi-dimensional and dynamic concept. When applied to urban planning, it consists of studying cities as complex socio-economic systems. Municipalities are currently working to undertake appropriate actions to enrich the resilience of cities. Moreover, several difficulties concern the evaluation of the impacts over time of the strategies designed to enhance urban resilience. The present paper proposes an integrated approach based on the System Dynamics Model (SDM) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP). The objective of this research is to describe the method and to illustrate its application to the area called Basse di Stura, located in the city of Turin, Italy. The method is applied to evaluate the possible impacts of two different urban scenarios in terms of the change of urban resilience performance over time. The final result is represented by an index that describes urban resilience performance.

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An integrated evaluation methodology to measure ecological and economic landscape states for territorial transformation scenarios: an application in Piedmont (Italy)

Cited by 25 publications

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Addressing Social Sustainability in Urban Regeneration Processes. An Application of the Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation

Addressing Social Sustainability in Urban Regeneration Processes. An Application of the Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation

Dynamic Models for Exploring the Resilience in Territorial Scenarios

A System Dynamics Model and Analytic Network Process: An Integrated Approach to Investigate Urban Resilience

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