Filippo Magni e Davide Longato, Università Iuav di Venezia – Planning & Climate Change LAB in collaboration with Fondazione Cariplo
Since the end of the last century, the concept of ecosystem services has gained increasing acceptance both in terms of the importance of their assessment and their integration into decision support for natural resource management and spatial planning. It has made it possible to overcome the idea that environmental protection and economic development represent discordant and competing interests.
The theme of ecosystem services and their evaluation, which until recently was the exclusive object of study of the scientific-academic sphere, is…
Andrea Arcidiacono, Silvia Ronchi, Stefano Salata, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies DAStU, Politecnico di Milano, LABPPTE
The conservation of biodiversity ensures the stability and balance of ecosystems by ensuring the resilience of ecological systems.
Climate change is responsible for the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of important ecosystems, causing a considerable increase in catastrophic events (flash floods, drought periods, local temperature rise with the generation of the heat island effect, sea level rise) with important repercussions on urban areas, as the places most affected and exposed to intense and extreme events and phenomena, putting the resident population at…