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The objective of Meglio Muoversi [Better Moving] is the pursuing of the sustainable mobility in its variations of social, economic and environmental sustainability, through the realization of a process of planning, integrated management and monitoring, of advanced mobility services, aimed at thickening tangible and intangible networks of connection (accessibility), changing the travel behaviours of users to discourage the use of private cars and foster the integration between various modes of transport (safety and environmental impacts, efficiency and efficacy). Two services of advanced mobility flexible in space and time have been activated: Chiamabus and C’Entro. Chiamabus is a service on demand, C'Entro is a Car-sharing service and provides for the promotion of the Car-pooling.

to quantify the temperature-related global health impacts of the Taranto steel plant CO2e emissions.using the risk functions available in the literature, a prospective global health impact assessment of the marginal CO2e emissions declared by the steel plant for 2020 was conducted.world population in the period 2020-2100.deaths in the period 2020-2100 attributable to the marginal CO2e emitted by the Taranto steel plant in 2020.considering the central estimates in the baseline emission scenario (4.1°C warming by 2100), the Taranto steel plant 2020 CO2e emissions will cause 1,876 deaths worldwide between 2020 and 2100. The largest part will be attributable to steelmaking processes, accounting for 1,093 deaths. The same emissions will cause 5.56 × 10-4 deaths worldwide between 2020 and 2100 per tonne of steel produced in 2020, i.e. one death for every 1,799 tonnes of steel. If the 2020 CO2e emissions of the steel plant had been reduced by 25%, 50% or 75%, the deaths avoided in the world in the period 2020-2100 would have been 469, 938 and 1,407 respectively.estimates predict a probably significant mortality impact worldwide by the end of the century associated with the greenhouse gases emissions of the Taranto steel plant. Just reducing emissions by 50% in a single year could maybe avoid over 900 deaths worldwide by the end of the century. This confirms the importance of implementing incisive policies to reduce greenhouse gases emissions in all sectors.

The focus of this work is to outline the actions that in the next years, at international and national level, will be implemented as a tool to contrast climate change and reduce the contribution of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. These actions go through an important transformation of the energy sector, with the progressive decrease in the use of fossil fuels for the energy production, starting with coal which is the most polluting. This conversion process can represent a possibility of a technological renewal of the current plants operating in Italy and an opportunity for an employment growth with reference to the construction of the new plants and to the decommissioning of the existing plants which will close in the future.

The present study aims to analyse the land market trend with particular reference to the main typologies of crop in Sicily (1992-2010). More specifically, after examining the trend in agricultural land average prices, both in current and constant terms, the dynamic formulation of Shift and Share Analysis (DSSA) was carried out, in order to check the growth gap between the average prices in the Sicilian provinces and the correspondent regional ones over the period, and trying to identify its causes also on the basis of the relationship between land values and the agro-food markets dynamics in the investigated period. The analysis of average land values shows a positive trend in current terms, but a steady erosion in constant values. The application of DSSA highlights that the average land values expressed in current prices have a positive market dynamics (except for the province of Palermo), but lower than the overall regional trend, whereas Agrigento and Ragusa growth rates are higher than the regional one. On the contrary, the analysis in real terms shows a heavily erosive dynamics of provincial average prices which is more marked than the overall regional one, with the exception of Agrigento where the negative growth rate is lower than the overall trend. The analysis also measured the growth differential between the dynamics of the average values for each crop typology and the overall regional trend. More specifically, the study pointed out the dichotomy characterising the Sicilian land market in the period 1992-2010: on the one hand, the positive data of arable and horticultural crops and, to a lesser extent, permanent grassland due to a good structural framework capable of absorbing the shortcomings at local level, on the other hand, negative growth differential recorded for tree crops, due almost exclusively to substantial structural weaknesses.

An internship period spent in the north of Morocco kingdom (Tetouan) gave a contribute to the organization activity in promoting sustainable development in the rural areas under the Kyoto Protocol. The multitasking project will increase biodiversity planting trees for wood, forage and fruits productions. The paper show a first step study to evaluate the possibility to reach an agreement with the propriety and the manager of these areas in a multifunctional reforestation project. The eligible site suitable for reforestation in accordance with the CDM international scheme is a large plateau (more than 5000 hectares) 600 meters high on the sea level far from the Cannabis crops area. The evaluation of the project costs and of the social benefits for the population consider (using different species) the indigenous communities necessity. The evaluation of carbon sequestration show the small scale of the reforestation project on behalf of the Kyoto Protocol, but give also an idea about the people rights and necessities. The normal afforestation and reforestation projects, under the Kyoto Protocol, try to maximize the CO2 sequestration in a short time, than business laws usually require. A small scale project could be self-managing, less expensive (international certification costs) and more interesting for local communities.

The research moves from the current global and local context and from shared development strategies. From the observation and the analysis of contemporary environmental and energy issues and redefined directions of growth of human activity, it is addressing the question of environmental sustainability and energy conservation of building hospital systems. The work has developed a field survey relating the specific topic of energy saving and efficiency of the Park Hospital in the Italian Lombardy Region. This has been articulated in a diagnosis of technology and efficiency of regional hospitals, implemented through a census, and in a subsequent identification of interventional cases, in order to show its economic, environmental and health performance of the energy efficiency consumption and the environmentally sound.

This work was carried out by a consortium of agencies and research institutes, in order to obtain indications on water demand and adaptation of irrigation management of important Italian crops in the coming decades, in the light of climatic scenarios provided by the Agroscenari project. The main results obtained regard integration and improvement of the Criteria crop water balance model and its use to evaluate future irrigation needs of crops like permanent meadows, maize, wheat, tomato, kiwifruit and citrus crops in diverse northern and southern Italy environments. We also developed and implemented an example of "climate service" for early crop classification and seasonal summer irrigation need forecasting in Emilia-Romagna.

DIPENDE è un sistema di supporto alle decisioni che permette di conoscere e visualizzare facilmente dati relativi al patrimonio edilizio residenziale. DIPENDE può essere utile a: - Amministrazioni (pianificatori) regionali e locali - Imprese e organizzazioni commerciali - Distributori di energia, investitori e fornitori di servizi - Associazioni e organizzazioni no-profit ai fini di ricerca/studi Come usare DIPENDE Si possono visualizzare i dati e gli indicatori rappresentativi di DIPENDE tramite due modalità di accesso: GIS DIPENDE (Analisi standard e web-GIS) Mapping tool (In costruzione). Excel DIPENDE_Tabelle/Queries per analisi mirate (informazioni su questo applicativo su richiesta) L’integrazione di diversi tipi di dati (sociali, geografici, energetici, di mercato), aggregati a livello comunale, consente elaborazioni e analisi nuove rispetto agli usi abituali del catasto dei certificati APE: la rappresentatività degli edifici certificati, il miglioramento dell’EE attraverso gli interventi incentivati, il rapporto tra tipologia, età e prestazione energetica media del patrimonio, etc. DIPENDE può facilitare l’individuazione delle aree con priorità di intervento e la definizione di politiche e programmi di miglioramento dell’efficienza energetica sul proprio territorio. DIPENDE- Integrated DataBase for the Energy Planning of Building Districts, is a prototype tool to facilitate the analysis and visualization of the energy performance of the building stock: for public authorities, to enhance control, monitoring, planning and, for private actors, to establish marketing and business strategies. The database was developed usng data from Lombardy region EPCs (CENED energy performance certification database), National Statistics and gouvernment incentives for building renovation. Data dates back to 2012.

Lo sviluppo economico aumenta la domanda di trasporto e, conseguentemente, la domanda di veicoli e di energia, fino ad ora soddisfatta quasi esclusivamente dai combustibili di origine fossile. Considerato che la popolazione mondiale è in aumento e che ampie zone del mondo hanno finora goduto di un accesso limitato alle infrastrutture ed ai veicoli, è naturale attendersi un aumento della domanda di trasporto ed un conseguente aumento della domanda di energia e delle emissioni di CO2. La sfida del contenimento delle emissioni di CO2 o addirittura della loro riduzione verso una progressiva decarbonizzazione, per quanto cruciale per mantenere il livello di aumento della temperatura, è quindi molto difficile da vincere. Il contributo si interroga su quali politiche possano efficacemente ed efficientemente contribuire ad avvicinare l’obiettivo non facile della decarbonizzazione dato che le politiche finora intraprese non hanno ridotto in modo significativo l’uso di mezzi di trasporto basati sui motori a combustione interna. Economic development increases transport demand and, consequently, the demand for vehicles and energy, which up to now has been met almost exclusively by fossil fuels. Since the world's population is growing and large areas of the world have currently enjoyed limited motorized mobility, it is obvious to anticipate an increase in transport demand, energy demand and CO2 emissions. The challenge of limiting CO2 emissions or even of reducing them, although crucial for curbing the increase of the average world temperatures, is therefore very difficult to meet. This contribution discusses which policies could effectively and efficiently help meeting the difficult goal of decarbonising transport, given that the policies currently undertaken have not significantly reduced the use of fossil fuel based transport vehicles.

The current growth of urbanization rate indicates that this trend is not going to stop, and therefore, it stresses the necessity of actions for mitigating the local and global pollution. Moreover, most of the actual stock is characterized by low energy performances since it pre-dates the energy regulation. The paper aims at addressing this issue by proposing the integration of Building Simulation (BS) approach, Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) methods and Geographic Information System (GIS) tool for developing a new Multi-Criteria Spatial Decision Support System (MC-SDSS) in urban context. The BS of relevant building archetypes allows to identify different resolutions of energy data: hour-by-hour data can be useful for demand-side management or renewable integration while aggregated data can be used for load forecasting and retrofit simulations. The MCA permits choosing between different building renovation alternatives by considering both qualitative and quantitative criteria. Moreover, the GIS support the method by creating geo-referenced databases. The method purposes in giving a comprehensive view to address the complexity of urban building energy planning; due to its flexibility, it can be applied to several urban areas. Three main phases characterize the study: i. overview of relevant existing techniques; ii. description of the integrated proposed method; iii. discussion and future application. The method can provide relevant feedbacks for ranking complex design energy options.