Mitigation and local adaptability to climate change of historic districts in mediterranean area. A case study

The necessity to identify strategies useful to management of issues strictly connected to climate changes at local scale supported the scientific and administrative fervour in determining adaptive actions at urban scale, suitable and complementary to the mitigation ones. On the contrary, in managing Urban Heat Island effect and energy retrofit issues of existent residential heritage, built enclosed in historic districts represents a challenge in both fields until now. In fact, the necessity to coordinate actions useful to the reduction of energy consumption of historic built heritage cannot overlook his inherent physical complexity, as well the future increasing trend of temperatures highlighted by scientific community and local amplification effects in urban areas. For these reasons, paper analyses the historic district of Molfetta, located along the coastal area of Apulia region (Italy) in order to identify a system of strategies useful to management and correction of energy level of criticism and to identify inherent factors of resilience to climate changes