The new challenges related to climate change invite us to reflect on the choices to be made in urban areas. Technology and new scientific advances can not only be used to make the city function better, but also to achieve sustainability goals. To do this, new technologies must be added to 'ancient' knowledge, confirming that the objectives set must be able to exploit all available knowledge. Urban sustainability cannot ignore the recognition of the city as a public and social good, activating urban, infrastructural, and resource distribution policies aimed at consolidating density and intensity between physical space and the space of flows. The city is not just 'nature', which is why the urban ecosystem is assumed to be similar to 'an ecosystem in transition', the dynamics of which are determined by human action, the reaction of natural elements and mutual conditioning. The green and digital transition is based on sustainable development principles and should become an activator in enhancing the attractiveness of territories, also affecting the tourism sector worldwide. Tourism resilience implies providing unique cultural and natural experiences and digitally facilitated booking and travel planning, avoiding an imbalance in the tourism ecosystem. In 2022, the European Commission presented the 'Transition Pathway for Tourism', a plan jointly created with the tourism ecosystem players that details key actions, objectives, and conditions to be realised with the involvement of the tourism community. In this way, tourism and business development opportunities can be revealed in territories that contain, in their very marginality, new resources to bring about lasting change. Matera is known as the city built into the stone, an example of historical resilience, a UNESCO heritage site, and European Capital of Culture in 2019. In this area, humans have been able to adapt the territory according to their needs, exploiting the workability of tuff (Gravina calcarenite), a calcarenitic sedimentary rock that characterises the entire Murgia plateau and the Murgia Materana. However, the transformations of the territory combined with new climatic emergencies and large tourist flows entail risks to which it is necessary to respond with innovative targeted techniques. The surveying, mapping, and monitoring of the built environment are indispensable for understanding phenomena that develop on an urban scale such as water management in the light of climate change. A smart vision of the city is proposed inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular the protection and eco-sustainable promotion of the territory (SDG 15), the availability and smart management of water resources (SDG 6), and the promotion of actions to combat climate change.
Methods and techniques for the governance of resilient territories: the case study of the City of Matera.
GARNERO, G.
2024-01-01
Abstract
The new challenges related to climate change invite us to reflect on the choices to be made in urban areas. Technology and new scientific advances can not only be used to make the city function better, but also to achieve sustainability goals. To do this, new technologies must be added to 'ancient' knowledge, confirming that the objectives set must be able to exploit all available knowledge. Urban sustainability cannot ignore the recognition of the city as a public and social good, activating urban, infrastructural, and resource distribution policies aimed at consolidating density and intensity between physical space and the space of flows. The city is not just 'nature', which is why the urban ecosystem is assumed to be similar to 'an ecosystem in transition', the dynamics of which are determined by human action, the reaction of natural elements and mutual conditioning. The green and digital transition is based on sustainable development principles and should become an activator in enhancing the attractiveness of territories, also affecting the tourism sector worldwide. Tourism resilience implies providing unique cultural and natural experiences and digitally facilitated booking and travel planning, avoiding an imbalance in the tourism ecosystem. In 2022, the European Commission presented the 'Transition Pathway for Tourism', a plan jointly created with the tourism ecosystem players that details key actions, objectives, and conditions to be realised with the involvement of the tourism community. In this way, tourism and business development opportunities can be revealed in territories that contain, in their very marginality, new resources to bring about lasting change. Matera is known as the city built into the stone, an example of historical resilience, a UNESCO heritage site, and European Capital of Culture in 2019. In this area, humans have been able to adapt the territory according to their needs, exploiting the workability of tuff (Gravina calcarenite), a calcarenitic sedimentary rock that characterises the entire Murgia plateau and the Murgia Materana. However, the transformations of the territory combined with new climatic emergencies and large tourist flows entail risks to which it is necessary to respond with innovative targeted techniques. The surveying, mapping, and monitoring of the built environment are indispensable for understanding phenomena that develop on an urban scale such as water management in the light of climate change. A smart vision of the city is proposed inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular the protection and eco-sustainable promotion of the territory (SDG 15), the availability and smart management of water resources (SDG 6), and the promotion of actions to combat climate change.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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