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New Metropolitan Perspectives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2196

New Metropolitan Perspectives

​This book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020. Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition, the book presents a multi-disciplinary debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools in connection with urban–rural area networks and metropolitan centers. The respective papers focus on six major tracks: Innovation dynamics, smart cities and ICT; Urban regeneration, community-led practices and PPP; Local development, inland and urban areas in territorial cohesion strategies; Mobility, accessibility and infrastructures; Heritage, landscape and identity;and Risk management,environment and energy. The book also includes a Special Section on Rhegion United Nations 2020-2030. Given its scope, the book will benefit all researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in issues concerning metropolitan and marginal areas.

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 601

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

This book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consultants and other professionals. Innovation processes such as co-design and co-creation help establish collaborations that engage with stakeholders in a trustworthy and transparent environment while answering the need for new value propositions. The importance of an integrated, holistic approach is widely recognized to break down silos in local government, in pa...

Abitare la Terra n.46-47/2018 – Dwelling on Earth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Abitare la Terra n.46-47/2018 – Dwelling on Earth

  • Categories: Art

EDITORIALE / EDITORIAL REPRESENTATION, RESTORATION, REDESIGN, RESILIENCE Paolo Portoghesi RESILIENCE OF THE ROYAL SITE OF CARDITELLO. GOVERNANCE AND REGENERATION OF THE TERRITORY OF FERDINANDO DI BORBONE Carmine Gambardella THE WORK OF THE ARCHITECT FRANCESCO COLLECINI Riccardo Serraglio FOR THE SAFEGUARDING AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES: UNESCO-GREECE MELINA MERCOURI INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Mechtild Rössler, Roland Chih-Hung Lin, Akane Nakamura ADAPTION AS UNIQUENESS IN SEWELL: FROM A HOSTILE TERRITORY TO A HOMELY LANDSCAPE Maria Dolores Munoz Rebolledo NO MORE MASTERPLAN: THE CITYFORMING PROTOCOL Maurizio Carta TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF DISASTER-RESILIENT DESIGNS IN WORLD CULTURAL HERI...

Technologies for Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Technologies for Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-06-15
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  • Publisher: Springer

This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and information and communication technology, disaster risk-reduction technologies, habitat and sustainable access to energy. The authors discuss how innovative technologies, such as unmanned aerial vehicles for disaster risk reduction, crowdsourcing humanitarian data, online education and ICT-based medical technologies can have significant social impact. The book brings together the best papers of the 2016 International Conference on Technologies for Development at EPFL, Switzerland. The book explores how the gap between innovation in the global South and actual social impact can be bridged. It fosters exchange between engineers, other scientists, practitioners and policy makers active at the interface of innovation and technology and human, social, and economic development.

New Metropolitan Perspectives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2873

New Metropolitan Perspectives

The book aims to face the challenge of post-COVID-19 dynamics toward green and digital transition, between metropolitan and return to villages’ perspectives. It presents a multi-disciplinary scientific debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools, within the urban–rural areas networks and the metropolitan cities. The book focuses on six topics: inner and marginalized areas local development to re-balance territorial inequalities; knowledge and innovation ecosystem for urban regeneration and resilience; metropolitan cities and territorial dynamics; rules, governance, economy, society; green buildings, post-carbon city and ecosystem services; infrastructures and spatial information systems; cultural heritage: conservation, enhancement and management. In addition, the book hosts a Special Section: Rhegion United Nations 2020-2030. The book will benefit all researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in the issues applied to metropolitan cities and marginal areas.

Citizen-Responsive Urban E-Planning: Recent Developments and Critical Perspectives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

Citizen-Responsive Urban E-Planning: Recent Developments and Critical Perspectives

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-04-17
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Among the many ways the world has changed in recent decades, using technology for city planning has become one of the most innovative. Using new, pioneering methods that are reshaping the world into a more efficient and effective society has become the new reality. Citizen-Responsive Urban E-Planning: Recent Developments and Critical Perspectives is a collection of innovative research that presents and discusses various perspectives on facets of citizen engagement in open urban policy processes, all of them based on the widespread use of information and communication technologies in the field of urban/spatial planning. The book offers an updated outline of recent advances in this field as well as a critical perspective of the challenges with which citizen e-participation in urban e-planning is confronted. While highlighting topics including smart ecosystems, urban development, and global intelligence, this book is ideally designed for urban planners, IT consultants, government officials, policymakers, academicians, researchers, students, and industry professionals.

Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

Corporate Social Responsibility

This Edited Volume Corporate Social Responsibility is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in corporate behavior. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert in the field. All chapters are complete in themselves but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors and opening new possible research paths for further novel developments.

Chapter The Ethical and Responsibility Components in Environmental Challenges: Elements of Connection Between Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Impact Assessment
  • Language: en

Chapter The Ethical and Responsibility Components in Environmental Challenges: Elements of Connection Between Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Impact Assessment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The contribution constitutes a first exploratory outcome of an ongoing research by the Author on the issues of ethics and responsibility in investment processes, starting from the assumptions of the CSR approach. It makes a critical reinterpretation of it in the light of the ongoing debates and provides a specific reading key. In this sense, the contributions of other approaches and disciplines, in particular those of social investing and social impact axis, have highlighted some issues that constitute operational steps certainly at the center of future research developments and in particular linked to current environmental challenges: 1) the creation of value, 2) the stakeholders and corpor...

Sustainable Infrastructure: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1044

Sustainable Infrastructure: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-11-01
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The continued growth of any nation depends largely on the development of their built infrastructures and communities. By creating stable infrastructures, countries can more easily thrive in competitive international markets. Sustainable Infrastructure: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice examines sustainable development through the lens of transportation, waste management, land use planning, and governance. Highlighting a range of topics such as sustainable development, transportation planning, and regional and urban infrastructure planning, this publication is an ideal reference source for engineers, planners, government officials, developers, policymakers, legislators, researchers, academicians, and graduate-level students seeking current research on the latest trends in sustainable infrastructure.

Urban Regeneration and Community Empowerment Through ICTs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

Urban Regeneration and Community Empowerment Through ICTs

This book deals with the issue of Digital Participatory Platforms (DPPs) for urban governance. It explains the role and potential that ICTs play in the decision-making processes of the Public Administration and citizens' participation. The book also illustrates the main technologies that encourage innovation and social inclusion, with particular focus on use of DPPs in urban regeneration programs and projects. It presents international best practices from local to European level and it describes the process of creation, development and testing of a DPP project with reference to the Italian case. The book is divided into three parts: the first one gives a framework of neighborhood urban and c...