The Evaluation of Green Investments in Urban Areas: A Proposal of an eco-social-green Model of the City

Luisa Sturiale and Alessandro Scuderi
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Luisa Sturiale: DICAR, University of Catania, 95127 Catania, Italy
Alessandro Scuderi: D3A, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-22

Abstract: The new and more conscious sensibility towards the environmental sphere supports the idea of “green city”, promotes initiatives of structural integration of the green with the built environment and involves a considerable number of disciplines in a cultural and social debate. The literature reports different experiences of collaborative governance , between administrations and citizens, which tend to enhance the interaction between the different social actors involved in the investments of Green Infrastructures, to share objectives and management methods and to assess the extent of ecosystem services. The objective of this article is to propose a methodological approach to assessing green investments in the urban area, which is able to internalize the social perception of citizens regarding this important component for the urban landscape, with a view to guiding the city’s government towards a new urban eco-social-green planning and evaluation model. It presents a concise framework of the scientific debate on climate change and on the effects of urban planning issues; some relevant experiences of Green Infrastructures; and the proposed methodology, applied to the reality of the “urban green system” of Catania, based on an integrated approach between participatory planning and the method NAIADE (Novel Approach to Imprecise Assessment and Decision Environments).

Keywords: green infrastructures; social multi criteria evaluation (SMCE); multilevel governance; citizens participation; collaborative governance; multidimensional evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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