95862 - OPTIMIZING ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTIVENESS

Learning outcomes

Once completed the course, the student owns an adequate knowledge of the principles and knows how to apply the methods to be used to draw up cost-benefit analyses relating to the economic-environmental effects expected from the planned interventions.

Course contents

The teaching is included in the Integrated Lab "Making the city resilient" and represents the economic core of the integrated course, while the course "Low-energy buildings and cities" represents its technical-scientific core. In conjunction with the two courses, the supplementary teaching "Environmental Design for Future Cities" forms the environmental core.

The course aims to provide students with knowledge related to estimative and evaluative theories and methods for investigating the costs and benefits of interventions to transform the built environment. The course will be divided into two modules: module 1 will focus on evaluation to support decision-making in the sustainable urban and architectural context through indicators and multicriteria analysis; module 2 introduces the economic aspects to describe and plan resilient cities as well as the topic of economic evaluation of projects.

Course schedule:

Module 1

• Purposes and characteristics of evaluations in urban and spatial decision-making processes
• SWOT analysis
• Sustainability and measurement: indicators
• Examples of energy-sustainable neighborhoods in Europe
• Cities and architectural spaces in the sustainable context: sustainable dimensions/values
• Multicriteria analysis

Module 2

• Economy and innovation: industrial revolutions
• Innovations in construction and planning
• Smart cities - the urban resilience
• The project management: LCC models
• Appraisal references (methods)
• Environmental valuation (introduction)

Readings/Bibliography

Additional lectures and scholarly articles available on the in the Virtual platform.

 

Roscelli R. (a cura di), 2014, Manuale di Estimo, Valutazioni Economiche ed Esercizio della professione, Utet, Torino

Belton V., Stewart T.J. (2002), Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: An Integrated Approach, Kluwer Academic Press, Boston

Roscelli, R. (2005) Misurare nell’incertezza. Valutazioni e trasformazioni territoriali, Celid, Torino

Saaty, T.L. (1980) The Analytic Hierarchy Process ; McGraw Hill: New York, NY, USA

Maria Karagianni (2013) Making Thessaloniki Resilient? The Enclosing Process of the Urban Green Commons; Urban Planning (ISSN: 2183–7635) 2023, Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 346–360

Vittorio Gallerani - Manuale di Estimo 2/ed - McGraw Hill, Milano 2011

Egor Selivanov, Petra Hlaváčková (2019) Methods for monetary valuation of ecosystem services: A scoping review Journal of Forest Science, 67, 2021 (11): 499–511

Teaching methods

Teaching activities include frontal lectures and classroom work.

Assessment methods

The learning assessment will be performed through a final exam, which will consist of:

 

Module 1

Written assignment produced in groups.

The final assessment will take into account the learning outcomes achieved by the student on the content of all parts that constitute the module program.

 

Module 2

One-man multiple choice test of 10 question and 5 simple exercises (with multiple choice options)

The average of the marks achieved in the two modules will constitute the evaluation of the course (expressed in thirtieths) and will weigh 40% on the evaluation of the entire integrated course.

Teaching tools

Lectures with use of multimedia tools, integrated with scientific articles and additional bibliographic references. Slides used to support lectures will be made available on the Virtual Teaching Platform.

Office hours

See the website of Isabella Maria Lami

See the website of Stefano Stanzani