Simona Collarini, Director of Urban Planning Head Office, Municipality of Milan
For a long time it was thought that innovation, economic growth and increased employment could not be pursued while also managing to face the environmental challenges of our time. Yet it is essential to use natural resources in a sustainable way in the long term and the interest, including the European Union, for Nature Based Solutions (NBS) goes in this direction.
The European Commission defines NBS as “Nature-inspired and nature-supported, cost-effective solutions that simultaneously provide environmental, social, and economic benefits and help build resilience. Such solutions bring increasingly diverse nature,…
Carolina Innella, Fabio Eboli, Chiara Cardenia, ENEA; Giovanni Pineschi, Francesca De Lucia, Agenzia di Coesione Territoriale – ACT; Giulia Lucertini, Gianmarco Di Giustino, Elena Ferraioli, Iuav University of Venice
ICESP is the Italian Platform of Stakeholders for the Circular Economy, in which converge actors representing companies, research organizations, central and territorial administrations and local authorities, and civil society, within which operates the Working Group (GdL) 5 “Circular Cities and Territory”. GdL5 deals with the transition to the circular economy of cities and territories, identifying methods, strategies and tools to facilitate the transition from linear to more circular models of urban policy…
Filippo Magni, Giovanni Litt, Iuav University of Venice
For the near future, climate change will have increasingly negative spatial effects, contributing to the deterioration of the condition and functionality of human and natural systems. There is an urgent need for a change in spatial planning approaches in order to build a true national transition based on climate resilience and climate neutrality approaches.
However, due to a lack of specific design skills, technical knowledge and human resources, many territories find it difficult to build local processes that can really contribute to climate transition.
In order to solve these issues, the role of private…