Climate change and liveability in the Mediterranean area. Technological continuity for a sustainable rehabilitation project in Marzamemi (Sicily)

For Fernand Braudel, the Mediterranean area is "a thousand things together. Not a landscape, but countless landscapes. Not a sea, but a succession of seas. Not a civilization, but a series of civilizations stacked on each other". These characteristics determine different environments and for some years the discriminating character of these differences has been the liveability. Linked to the human actions that use the built space, it constitutes an organized, technological and environmental sy...

Preface [International conference on Ettore Maiorana’s legacy and the Physics of the XXI century in commemoration of the centennial of Majorana's birth]

Ambiente e sostenibilità nella società del rischio: tra frattura metabolica e tragedia dei beni comuni

La separazione tra natura e società si fonda su un dualismo superato: esse coesistono in un’ecologia interdipendente il cui equilibrio è essenziale alla sopravvivenza umana. La modernizzazione ha inciso profondamente su questo equilibrio, accelerando il cambiamento climatico attraverso lo sfruttamento dell’ecosistema. Tale dinamica orienta l’azione verso il profitto, favorendo comportamenti non cooperativi che compromettono la gestione delle risorse comuni e aggravano la crisi ambientale.

From Preferences of Social Groups to Planning and Management Solutions of Green Spaces in Bucharest

The critical role of green in cities is widely considered to have positive implications for health and for providing a complete set of ecosystem services in cities. Highly linked to the concept of ecosystem services is the role of accessibility to those ecosystems and places providing the services. However, a gap often exists between the presence of existing greenspaces and the demands and preferences for accessibility of different social groups (e.g., children and elderly people). This ...