Environmental Engineering

CARLO CELLAMARE

The course aims to provide the student with the fundamental principles of territorial planning according to a systemic approach, the tools and methods of territorial, environmental, landscape and urban planning at different scales, as well as to develop the integrated analysis of the territory in a sustainability perspective. Objectives are also the overall vision of territorial management processes with a view to sustainability and local development, and the interdependencies between physical and socio-economic factors.

Regarding the autonomy of judgment, given the specificities of operating in complex territorial situations, with relevant political and social components, the student will have to develop the ability to use his or her knowledge to manage complex and systemic problems, even those little known or interdisciplinary. To mature ability to interact with social and cultural processes; ability to operate in conditions of uncertainty; ability to develop management of complex processes and programs for sustainable local development.
With regard to communicative skills, knowing how to manage relationships with the plurality of subjects, specialists and non-specialists, institutions, technicians and citizens, involved in problems of environmental protection, eco-compatible use of resources, management and requalification territorial and environmental aspects looking at sustainable development. Knowing how to develop participatory planning processes. able to operate independently, but also to work as a component (or coordinator) of an interdisciplinary group and to relate to competent subjects in different disciplines.
Regarding learning ability, developing a capacity for knowledge and evaluation of the interdependencies between the various anthropic, environmental, socio-economic and territorial factors. To provide the basic concepts of spatial planning, illustrate the main planning tools and deepen the environmental aspects of planning. To develop a mastery of the approaches and methods of planning and environmental and territorial evaluation, within the framework of participatory planning, local development and sustainable development

Ability to evaluate environmental and territorial problems. Ability to evaluate planning indications, as well as programs and policies with respect to the response to existing problems. Ability to assess environmental and territorial impacts. Ability to develop project proposals and planning indications.

Knowledge of the basic elements of environmental and territorial analysis

1. Introduction to planning. Objectives, functions and limits of planning. Different approaches to planning. Environmental planning.
2. Methodologies of analysis and assessment of the interdipendencies between different human aspects, environmental, socio-economical and territorial. Different environmental components. Evaluation and design approaches. Evaluation and assessment of the environmental impacts; capability and suitability analysis.
3. Management of the idrographic basins. Risk analysis and planning. Relationship between territorial government and soil management
4. Environmental balances. Fragmentation and connectivity. Environmental networks (methodology and design)
5. Institutional planning systems. Evolution of law systems, environmental protection, plans tools
6. Different kinds of tools and planning systems at the regional level: territorial, environmental, landscape, etc. Planning at the local level. Relationships between disciplines and competences.
7. Planning tools and examples. Public-private partenership, negotiation and planning.
8. System of institutional subjects, stakeholders, socio-economic operators and promoters, etc. Planning processes. Partecipation.
9. Evaluation and assessment. EIA - Evaluation Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment
10. Indicators and Environmental indicators
11. The relationship between development and territory, local development, sustainable development. Territory and commons. River contracts/agreements
12. City and sustainability

• Steiner F. (1994), Costruire il paesaggio. Un approccio ecologico alla pianificazione del territorio,
ed. it. a cura di M.C. Treu e D. Palazzo, McGraw-Hill, Milano
• Indovina F. (2005), Governare la città con l’urbanistica. Guida agli strumenti di pianificazione
urbana e del territorio, Maggioli Editore, Rimini
Lecture notes, handouts by the teacher, available on elearning course website
Information and maps of the base

Alberto Magnaghi (2010), Il progetto locale. Verso la coscienza di luogo, Bollati Boringhieri
Alberto Magnaghi (2014), La regola e il progetto. Un approccio bioregionalista alla pianificazione territoriale, FUP-Firenze University Press
Edoardo Salzano (2003), Fondamenti di urbanistica. La storia e la norma, Laterza
Luca Gaeta, Umberto Janin Rivolin, Luigi Mazza (2013), Governo del territorio e pianificazione spaziale, CittàStudi

The lessons are distributed on three days a week.
Each lesson consists of a first part of lectures on the contents of the course and a second part in which case studies are presented, in-depth (even in operational terms) the topics treated in a more theoretical way, exercises are held.
The students must carry out a more projectual part which will become part of the final exam and consists in the discussion of a planning tool or of different planning instruments converging on the same territory and their foreseen or foreseeable territorial effects, also in relation to Sustainable Development. Everything must be referred to the territorial, legislative and planning context. Starting from the second half of the course, after the illustration and the explanation of the procedures for carrying out the project, the second part of the lessons will also be dedicated to the verification, discussion and deepening of the students' work.
Some lessons will have a seminar character, inviting scholars, administrators, experts and planners to illustrate interesting case studies.

Attendance is not mandatory but is strongly recommended. In particular, it is important to follow in the classroom the activity illustrative, explanatory and evaluative of the project work

The evaluation consists of two parts: the design processing part and the evaluation of learning related to the theoretical parts and the critical study of the course.
As regards the part of the project elaboration, this will be evaluated already during the course and the access to the final exam will be allowed when the completion of the project work will be verified. The design work is group (2-3 components), but the contribution of each component must be recognizable. It consists, inter alia, of a report and a presentation, elaborated according to the indications provided in the classroom and available in a clear and detailed manner on the e-learning platform of the course.
During the exam, in the first part some questions of in-depth analysis and critical reading of the project-type work will be carried out, while in the second part some questions will be asked to verify the learning related to the theoretical parts and the critical study of the course.
The two parts will weigh each for 50% of the final score of the exam, which then will correspond to the average between the votes attributed to the two parties.
The critical capacity and autonomy of the student will be particularly appreciated.
The presentations of the project work will be used to evaluate the exhibition, communication and argumentative skills.

What are the tools and characteristics of basin planning?
What are the tools and characteristics of landscape planning?
What are SECAPs?
What do the municipal regulatory plans regulate and what indications do they give?
What are the components of the urban rent?
What do we mean by planning, territorial governance, policies, etc.?