1. Towards resilient cities: Advancements allowed by a multi-criteria optimization tool to face the new challenges of European Union’s climate and energy goals
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Gianfranco Rizzo, Chiara Tambani, Maria La Gennusa, Antonio Buggin, Luigi Schibuola, Massimiliano Scarpa, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Giorgia Peri, Antonio Buggin, Maria La Gennusa, Giorgia Peri, Gianfranco Rizzo, Gianluca Scaccianoce, Massimiliano Scarpa, Luigi Schibuola, and Chiara Tambani
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green roof ,Energy (esotericism) ,cool roof ,Green roof ,Face (sociological concept) ,Indoor air pollution ,Historic preservation ,Energy conservation ,multicriteria assessment ,Environmental protection ,Multi criteria ,Sustainable development ,media_common.cataloged_instance ,European union ,Resilience (network) ,Concrete pavements ,Environmental planning ,media_common ,Multiobjective optimization ,Resilience ,Public administration ,Air quality ,Decision making ,AHP method ,Business ,priority-setting process - Abstract
The United Nations as well as the European Union are strongly committed in promoting a transition towards more sustainable and resilient cities. Indeed, they are increasingly affected by different types of threats, among which the natural ones such as earthquakes, fires, and floods (shocks) and climate variability (stresses). Cities are quite often unable to cope with the adverse effects of such natural hazards. This circumstance leads to the need of introducing resilience-related criteria (besides commonly used sustainability indicators) in decision-making processes. This paper investigates at which extent the inclusion of such new indicators, within multi-criteria assessment tools for supporting the decision-making process by Public Administrations, modifies the prioritization processes of a given set of planned actions to be implemented in cities, which are based instead on the above-cited commonly used indicators. The outcomes of the analysis demonstrated that the introduction of resilience among the prioritization criteria significantly modifies the list of priorities established using only sustainability indicators.
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- 2019