It is no longer possible postpone the challenges of Climate Change and the sustainable of cities. This is evident both in the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and in the international summit COP21 Paris, outcome of 2015. To respond at these challenges, Planning for Resilience, starting from University (structures and communities), can be considered a strategic goal, as a way to ensure new models of sustainable development of socio-ecological systems. Indeed, Global universities are among the main innovation areas. They internally develop and consolidate knowledge-based economies. The major International Institutions have a key role in the tertiary education, scientific research and technology transfer, and they are considered more and more as urban institutions and as a driving force for human communities development.The Italian Universities, by participating at the RUS (Italian Network of Universities for Sustainable Development) network, represent a good example. In addition, this network among Italian Universities, moved by new experimentation objectives and sustainability processes, initiated a collaboration with another excellent Italian scientific institution, The New Study Center for Urban Policies, Urban@it, which unites 11 Italian universities, that with a multidisciplinary approach, looks at the construction of an Urban Italian Agenda with a focus on the University-City topic. The University can allow the construction and dissemination of best practices in sustainability and urban resilience, supported by an unprecedented smart community. Furthermore, the university network may contribute to the knowledge and models transfer for policies and practices implementation of the local contexts and it is facilitated by paths educational-training support to change. Thanks to these assumptions, this research highlights the strategic role of Universities for the sustainable regional and urban planning and how the Universities have activated strategies in this direction, through a survey that highlights how universities perceive themselves as engines of the sustainability of cities and a focus on the Polimi ( Polytechnic of Milan) and Unimi ( University of Milan) best practices

The Strategic Role Of Universities For Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Mitigate Climate Change / Martinelli, Nicola; Calvano, Gabriella; Palmieri, Ada; Santoro, Antonella. - ELETTRONICO. - (2018), pp. 43-50. (Intervento presentato al convegno Tirana architecture week (TAW) : international scientific conference tenutosi a Tirana, Albania nel September 20-23, 2018).

The Strategic Role Of Universities For Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Mitigate Climate Change

Nicola Martinelli
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2018-01-01

Abstract

It is no longer possible postpone the challenges of Climate Change and the sustainable of cities. This is evident both in the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and in the international summit COP21 Paris, outcome of 2015. To respond at these challenges, Planning for Resilience, starting from University (structures and communities), can be considered a strategic goal, as a way to ensure new models of sustainable development of socio-ecological systems. Indeed, Global universities are among the main innovation areas. They internally develop and consolidate knowledge-based economies. The major International Institutions have a key role in the tertiary education, scientific research and technology transfer, and they are considered more and more as urban institutions and as a driving force for human communities development.The Italian Universities, by participating at the RUS (Italian Network of Universities for Sustainable Development) network, represent a good example. In addition, this network among Italian Universities, moved by new experimentation objectives and sustainability processes, initiated a collaboration with another excellent Italian scientific institution, The New Study Center for Urban Policies, Urban@it, which unites 11 Italian universities, that with a multidisciplinary approach, looks at the construction of an Urban Italian Agenda with a focus on the University-City topic. The University can allow the construction and dissemination of best practices in sustainability and urban resilience, supported by an unprecedented smart community. Furthermore, the university network may contribute to the knowledge and models transfer for policies and practices implementation of the local contexts and it is facilitated by paths educational-training support to change. Thanks to these assumptions, this research highlights the strategic role of Universities for the sustainable regional and urban planning and how the Universities have activated strategies in this direction, through a survey that highlights how universities perceive themselves as engines of the sustainability of cities and a focus on the Polimi ( Polytechnic of Milan) and Unimi ( University of Milan) best practices
2018
Tirana architecture week (TAW) : international scientific conference
978-9928-4459-6-4
The Strategic Role Of Universities For Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Mitigate Climate Change / Martinelli, Nicola; Calvano, Gabriella; Palmieri, Ada; Santoro, Antonella. - ELETTRONICO. - (2018), pp. 43-50. (Intervento presentato al convegno Tirana architecture week (TAW) : international scientific conference tenutosi a Tirana, Albania nel September 20-23, 2018).
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