Notes on Spatial Implications of COVID-19. Evidence from Piedmont Region, Italy
Author(s): Grazia Brunetta, Ombretta Caldarice, Danial Mohabat Doost, Franco Pellerey
More info: The COVID-19 pandemic has been studied by many scholars from a wide range of disciplines. Among these investigations, planners and regional scientists have researched the spatial spread of the contagion. Most of these studies tried to explore the spread of the disease in a fixed period, like annually, and analysed the spatial variables that are most influential on the COVID-19 spread over territories. On the same line, the chapter investigates the pattern of virus transmission in the 1.181 municipalities of the Piedmont Region during two years of the pandemic over different periods by providing 24 monthly and two annual hot spot maps using the Spatial Statistics Tools on ArcGIS. Consequently, the chapter analyses the correlation between the spread of contagion with three spatial variables (population density, annual average traffic flow, and the ageing index) by performing a statistical analysis on the municipalities which showed unexpectedly higher or unexpectedly lower numbers of contagion. The results show that the impacts of population density and annual average traffic flow are verified on the transmission rate of the cities with unexpectedly higher or lower exposure to COVID-19 contagion than their neighbours both in the first and the second year of the pandemic. For the ageing index, an association is noticed during the first year while not confirmed for the second. In conclusion, the chapter proposes that studying the disease’s variations—at different times and on a regional scale—uncovers the spatial dimension of the phenomenon and would suggest insights for both scientists and policymakers to enrich preparedness as the preferable approach in future planning policies towards transformative resilience.
2023 | Book Section
Chiese abbandonate, chiese invisibili, chiese resilienti: storie di architetture ecclesiali, tra conoscenza e rigenerazione
Author(s): Andrea Longhi
More info: The essay highlights some crux of history and criticism of architecture concerning the destinies of underused, decommissioned and deconsecrated churches. The interpretation proposed in the paper follows a long-term processual perspective: the continued adaptivity of every Christian architecture is a founding element of the history of Christian architecture, an expression of communities, liturgies and cultures necessarily in transformation. The study of the architectures from the point of view of the client communities allows us to imagine different destinies for abandoned churches, thanks to a reactivation of diversified community stakeholders, who can propose sustainable and resilient projects and processes, in which the memory of the places is preserved, but in a dimension of regeneration of values and relational dynamics.
2020 | Journal Articles
Evaluating and Planning Green Infrastructure: A Strategic Perspective for Sustainability and Resilience
Author(s): Angioletta Voghera, Benedetta Giudice
More info: In the light of the current changing global scenarios, green infrastructure is obtaining increasing relevance in planning policies, especially due to its ecological, environmental and social components which contribute to pursuing sustainable and resilient planning and designing of cities and territories. The issue of green infrastructure is framed within the conceptual contexts of sustainability and resilience, which are described through the analysis of their common aspects and differences with a particular focus on planning elements. In particular, the paper uses two distinct case studies of green infrastructure as representative: the green infrastructure of the Region Languedoc-Roussillon in France and the one of the Province of Turin in Italy. The analysis of two case studies focuses on the evaluation process carried on about the social-ecological system and describes the methodologies and the social-ecological indicators used to define the green infrastructure network. We related these indicators to their possible contribution to the measurement of sustainability and resilience. The analysis of this relationship led us to outline some conclusive considerations on the complex role of the design of green infrastructure with reference to sustainability and resilience.
2019 | Journal Articles
A multi-discipline method to assess the human performance in manufacturing industry for safety and quality optimization
Author(s): Lorenzo Comberti, Micaela Demichela, Maria Chiara Leva
More info: Nowadays the majority of organizations operating in manufacturing field recognize the importance ...of including the Human Factor contribution in the industrial process optimization (Hong et al. 2007). Technical measures and work organization procedures have been optimized in order to reduce the defects and waste generation but the Human Performance prediction still represents for Managers a difficult task to deal with.The prediction of the human performances of all workers involved in a production system would help Managers in better allocating the human resources. In order to reach this objective, a model to quantify the human capability of managing a complex task in a working context characterized by a set of physical, organizational and cognitive factors was designed.This paper presents the preliminary results of a three years industry/academia partnership project to assess the human performance in manufacturing plant. A multi-discipline approach involving both technical and individual factors was adopted.
2018 | Conference Proceedings
Evaluation of LENI in a case study of a retirement home
Author(s): Guglielmina Mutani, Edoardo De Nicolò, Laura Blaso, Fumagalli S., Tundo A.
More info: This work aims to propose a case study for the calculation of the energy performance of lighting systems in a retirement home. The proposed methodology evaluates the energy consumption of lighting systems in the presence of daytime lighting and occupancy control strategies with the Lighting Energy Numerical Indicator (LENI). The effect of natural light, the LED sources, the external obstructions, as well as building orientation and shading systems, can influence the energy consumption of the lighting systems. The case study analysed was the “Brancaccio retirement home” located in Matera (Southern part of Italy). The results of this work refer to both annual and monthly energy consumptions, and underline how important it is to evaluate the amount of energy throughout the year in the presence of control systems, given the considerable monthly variation. Furthermore, the LED source is able to significantly reduce energy consumption compared to fluorescent lamps, and this energy saving can be further increased in the presence of control systems.
2022 | Conference Proceedings
Categorical Multifactor Design to Evaluate Different Operative Parameters During the Bioremediation of Hydrocarbon-Polluted Soil in Early Experimental Stages
Author(s): David Javier Castro Rodriguez, Omar Gutiérrez Benitez, Enmanuel Casals Pérez, Micaela Demichela, Alberto Godio, Fulvia Chiampo
More info: Congresso Nazionale GRICU2022 : book of abstracts
2022 | Conference Proceedings