Sustainability And Planning. Thinking and Acting According to Thermodinamics Laws

  • Antonio Leone DAFNE Department, Tuscia University, Italy
  • Federica Gobattoni DAFNE Department, Tuscia University, Italy
  • Raffaele Pelorosso DAFNE Department, Tuscia University, Italy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/1970-9870/2551
Keywords: Landscape sustainability, Urban planning, Ecosystem Services, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Resilience

Abstract

The paper deals with environmental sustainability, in terms of intrinsic vulnerability and thermodynamics laws concepts, applied to urban green infrastructures. This approach gives also the track to build more resilient and complex landscapes. Integrating intrinsic vulnerability and thermodynamics laws concepts, an effective strategy could be conceived to face best management practices in planning more sustainable and healthy cities.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Antonio Leone, DAFNE Department, Tuscia University, Italy

Full professor of Land Engineering at University of Tuscia, Industrial Engineering course. Member of the Teaching College PhD “Land and Urban Planning” at Politecnico di Bari and “Environment and landscape design and planning” at Sapienza University of Rome. Participant and responsible in several projects financed by the European Union within 5th Framework Programme, Interreg IIIB Research Program, COST-actions, LIFE programme and other national and regional research programs (e.g. Nature 2000 sites). Member of Scientific International Committee for Metropolitan Strategic Master Plan “Terra di Bari”. Member of Scientific Committee for University Consortium for Socio-economic and Environment Research (CURSA). Author of more than 100 scientific papers in the area of landscape and environmental planning.

Federica Gobattoni, DAFNE Department, Tuscia University, Italy

She has a Master Degree in Environmental Engineering at University of Perugia, PhD in “Science and Technology for the Forest and Environmental Management”, and she’s a post-doctoral researcher at University of Tuscia. Her research activity is mainly concerned with landscape dynamics, environmental modeling in GIS environment, decision support systems for planning and management of natural resources, development of mathematical models for landscape evolution and equilibrium scenarios assessment. She was Convener of the “Landscape functionality and conservation management” session at European Geosciences Union General Assembly of 2010, 2011 and 2012. She is peer reviewer for many international journals as: Journal of Water and Climate, Ecological Complexity, Water, Air and Soil Pollution, Chemical Engineering and Technology, Earth Science Informatics.

Raffaele Pelorosso, DAFNE Department, Tuscia University, Italy

He is a researcher in Landscape and Urban Planning at the University of Tuscia. He holds a PhD in “Science and Technology for the Forest and Environmental Management” at University of Tuscia. Lecturer in Ecology, Cartography and Planning. His research activity is mainly focused on landscape functionality, urban green, land use planning, analysis of landscape dynamics, land cover and land use change. Associate Editor of International Journal of Sustainable Land Use and Urban Planning. He is authors of more than 50 scientific papers and peer reviewer for many international journals as: Land Use Policy, Landscape and Urban Planning, Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Management, Advanced in Space Research, Science of the Total Environment.

References

Ahern, J. (2012), “Urban landscape sustainability and resilience: the promise and challenges of integrating ecology with urban planning and design”, Landscape Ecology, 28(6), 1203–1212.

Akbari, H. (2003), “Measured energy savings from the application of reflective roofs in 2 small non-residential buildings”, Energy, 28, 953-967.

Blankenship, R.E., Tiede D.M., Barber, J., Brudvig, G.W., Fleming, G., Ghirardi, M., Gunner, M.R., Junge, W., Kramer, D.M., Melis, A., Moore, T.A., Moser, C.C., Nocera, D.G., Nozik, A.J., Ort, D.R., Parson, W.W., Prince, R.C., Sayre, R.T. (2011), “Comparing Photosynthetic and Photovoltaic Efficiencies and Recognizing the Potential for Improvement”, www.sciencemag.org (accessed in January 2014). Science, 6.

Cassano, F. (1996), Il pensiero meridiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza.

Costanza, R., Kubiszewsky, I., Giovannini, E., Hunter, L., McGlade, J. (2014), “Time to leave GDP behind”, Nature, 505, 2-7.

Georgescu-Roegen, N. (1998), Energia e miti economici, Bollati Boringhieri, Padova.

Gobattoni, F., Pelorosso, R., Lauro, G., Leone, A., Monaco, R. (2011), “A procedure for mathematical analysis of landscape evolution and equilibrium scenarios assessment”, Landscape and Urban Planning, 103, 289-302.

Leone, A. (2013), Smart cities, smart people, smart planning, mimeo.

Licinio, R. (1998), Masserie medioevali. Masserie, massari e carestie da Federico II alla dogana delle pecore, Mario Adda Editore, Bari.

Mckinney, L.A. (2012), “Entropic disorder: new frontiers in environmental sociology”, Sociological Perspectives, 55(2), 295-317.

Naveh, Z. (1987), “Biocybernetic and thermodynamic perspectives of landscape functions and land use patterns”, Landscape Ecology, 1(2), 75-83.

Pelorosso, R., Gobattoni, F., Lopez, N., Leone, A. (2013), “Verde urbano e processi ambientali: per una progettazione di paesaggio multifunzionale”, TeMA, Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 6(1), 95-111.

Pelorosso, R., Gobattoni, F., Lauriola, D., Leone, A. (2014), “Pianificazione territoriale e termodinamica: nuova declinazione della sostenibilità”, Paper presented at XVII SIU Conference, Milano, May.

Rees, W., Wackernagel, M. (1996), “Urban ecological footprints: why the cities cannot be sustainable and why they are a key to sustainability”, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 16, 223-248.

Rydin, Y., Bleahu, A., Davies, M., Dávila, J.D., Friel, S., De Grandis, G., Groce, N., Hallal, P.C., Hamilton, I., Howden-Chapman, P., Lai, K.-M., Lim, C.J., Martins, J., Osrin, D., Ridley, I., Scott, I., Taylor, M., Wilkinson, P., Wilson, J. (2012), “Shaping cities for health: complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century”, Lancet, 379(9831), 2079-2108.

Salzano, E. (2007), Fondamenti di urbanistica, IV edizione, Editori Laterza, Bari.

Scandurra, E. (1995). L’ambiente dell’uomo. Verso il progetto della città sostenibile, Etas Libri, Milano.

Stremke, S., Van den Dobbelsteen, A., Koh, J. (2011), “Exergy landscapes: exploration of second-law thinking towards sustainable landscape design”, International Journal of Exergy, 8(2), 148-174.

Published
2014-05-18
How to Cite
LeoneA., GobattoniF., & PelorossoR. (2014). Sustainability And Planning. Thinking and Acting According to Thermodinamics Laws. TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment. https://doi.org/10.6092/1970-9870/2551
Issue
2014: INPUT 2014 - Smart City: planning for energy, transportation and sustainability of the urban system
Section
input2014

Copyright (c) 2014 Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following:

1. Authors retain the rights to their work and give in to the journal the right of first publication of the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons License - Attribution that allows others to share the work indicating the authorship and the initial publication in this journal.

 

2. Authors can adhere to other agreements of non-exclusive license for the distribution of the published version of the work (ex. To deposit it in an institutional repository or to publish it in a monography), provided to indicate that the document was first published in this journal.


3. Authors can distribute their work online (ex. In institutional repositories or in their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges and it can increase the quotations of the published work (See The Effect of Open Access)