Climate change is considered one of the main environmental issues challenging contemporary cities. Three main families of literature are identi ed to promote resilience as a key strategy: resilience and sustainability as a way to gain sustainable environments; resilience and adaptation as a concept to the adaptation strategies for climate change; and resilience and territorial risk as a key concept for innovation of territorial risk mitigation. The research focuses on the notion of Smart City conceptualizing its dimensions of technology, people and institutions. The two terms are examined in all their meanings to understand their relationships. This study focuses on the Smart City and Resilient City models; in detail, based on the review of existing literature, it analyses the synergies between the two concepts, highlighting how the Smart City idea is more and more widely interpreted as a process addressed to make cities more liveable and resilient and, hence, able to respond quickly to new challenges. How Smart and Resilience City can support transition processes, with respect to climate change? The second part of the thesis focuses on concepts of transition initiatives and its related social innovations, explaining how they can be interpreted and what they mean with respect to this milieu, facilitating the construction of general reading grids, helpful to understand the basic characteristics of complex systems and sustainability approaches. The third part analyses the application of the three metaphors (smartness, resilience and transition), creating reading grids/taxonomies of practices, presenting different backgrounds and characteristics for addressed topics and subject matter of intervention, by size or geographical scope of intervention (from local scale or point to scale/territorial scale), investigated in the Observatory of Resilience Practices (ORP) aiming to develop re ections and insight on the panorama of resilience related to the theme of adaptation to climate change and peak oil. In addition, in the last part of the research, all the evidences illustrated in the previous chapters are compared and interpreted giving some integration perspectives of the practices in relation to climate change.
Il cambiamento climatico è considerato uno dei principali problemi ambientali che stimolano le città contemporanee. Vengono identi cate tre principali famiglie di letteratura per promuovere la resilienza come strategia chiave: resilienza e sostenibilità come mezzo per ottenere ambienti sostenibili; resilienza e adattamento come concetto alle strategie di adattamento per i cambiamenti climatici; e resilienza e rischio territoriale come un concetto chiave per l’ innovazione della mitigazione del rischio territoriale. La ricerca si concentra sulla nozione di città smart concettualizzando le sue dimensioni di tecnologia, persone e istituzioni. I due termini sono esaminati in tutti i loro signi cati per comprendere le loro relazioni. Questo studio si concentra sui modelli di città smart e Resilienti; in dettaglio, sulla base della revisione della letteratura esistente, analizza le sinergie tra i due concetti, evidenziando come l’idea di città smart sia sempre più ampiamente interpretata come un processo volto a rendere le città più vivibili e resilienti e, quindi, in grado di rispondere più velocemente a nuove s de. In che modo città smart e resilienti possono sostenere i processi di transizione, rispetto ai cambiamenti climatici? La seconda parte della tesi si concentra sui concetti di iniziative di transizione e sulle relative innovazioni sociali, spiegando come possono essere interpretati e cosa signi cano rispetto a questo mondo, facilitando la costruzione di griglie di lettura generali, utili a comprenderne le caratteristiche di base dei sistemi complessi e approcci di sostenibilità. La terza parte analizza l’applicazione delle tre metafore (intelligenza, resilienza e transizione), creando griglie di lettura e tassonomie delle pratiche, presentando diversi background e caratteristiche per temi e argomenti di intervento, dimensioni o ambito geogra co (da scala locale o puntuale a scala territoriale), indagate nell’Osservatorio Pratiche di Resilienza (OPR) con lo scopo di sviluppare ri essioni e approfondimenti sul panorama della resilienza legate al tema dell’adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici e al picco del petrolio. Inoltre, nell’ultima parte della ricerca, tutte le dimostrazioni e testimonianze illustrate nei precedenti capitoli sono confrontate e interpretate dando alcune prospettive di integrazione delle pratiche in relazione ai suddetti cambiamenti climatici.
Resilience, smart, transition. From theoretical approaches to integrating perspectives through practices' comparison and taxonomies
PANDISCIA, MICHELA DALILA
2016/2017
Abstract
Climate change is considered one of the main environmental issues challenging contemporary cities. Three main families of literature are identi ed to promote resilience as a key strategy: resilience and sustainability as a way to gain sustainable environments; resilience and adaptation as a concept to the adaptation strategies for climate change; and resilience and territorial risk as a key concept for innovation of territorial risk mitigation. The research focuses on the notion of Smart City conceptualizing its dimensions of technology, people and institutions. The two terms are examined in all their meanings to understand their relationships. This study focuses on the Smart City and Resilient City models; in detail, based on the review of existing literature, it analyses the synergies between the two concepts, highlighting how the Smart City idea is more and more widely interpreted as a process addressed to make cities more liveable and resilient and, hence, able to respond quickly to new challenges. How Smart and Resilience City can support transition processes, with respect to climate change? The second part of the thesis focuses on concepts of transition initiatives and its related social innovations, explaining how they can be interpreted and what they mean with respect to this milieu, facilitating the construction of general reading grids, helpful to understand the basic characteristics of complex systems and sustainability approaches. The third part analyses the application of the three metaphors (smartness, resilience and transition), creating reading grids/taxonomies of practices, presenting different backgrounds and characteristics for addressed topics and subject matter of intervention, by size or geographical scope of intervention (from local scale or point to scale/territorial scale), investigated in the Observatory of Resilience Practices (ORP) aiming to develop re ections and insight on the panorama of resilience related to the theme of adaptation to climate change and peak oil. In addition, in the last part of the research, all the evidences illustrated in the previous chapters are compared and interpreted giving some integration perspectives of the practices in relation to climate change.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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