Papers by Grazia Brunetta
Planning Practice and Research, Feb 16, 2023
Territorial Integrated Evaluation (TIE), the methodology being proposed and tested here, primaril... more Territorial Integrated Evaluation (TIE), the methodology being proposed and tested here, primarily aims to go beyond a merely one-dimensional approach to the regional planning of retail territorial development. In order to do this, it furnishes planners with information, thus laying more a solid foundation for the planning and design of territorial development scenarios in which the retail policy could play on a convincing role in the enhancement of urban areas. TIE methodology is not meant to take the place of legally mandated assessment procedures, such as Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). Rather, it is meant to be a voluntary act of institutional evaluation to help in decision-making for planning and designing territorial transformation and development. This methodology comes out of the conviction that Italy needs to change its approaches to the evaluation in spatial planning. In other words, evaluation is something that is significant not merely as a technical-scientific procedure subject only to rigid regulations (such as the SEA). Rather, evaluation requires something more than, obviously, a solid supportive foundation in regulations. It requires that there be a thorough administrative and technical capacity to reorganize the practices of the stakeholders who take part in the processes of territorial planning
Encyclopedia of the UN sustainable development goals, 2019
Environment And Planning B: Urban Analytics And City Science, Mar 12, 2022
Cities play an increasingly significant role in the challenges posed by climate change, mainly du... more Cities play an increasingly significant role in the challenges posed by climate change, mainly due to their role in economic and demographic drivers. It is generally agreed that the intensification of climate change effects, such as extreme weather events, requires strengthening in the mechanisms of adaptation and the endogenous self-organization of urban systems. An operative way to adapt is by mainstreaming climate resilience, i.e., the iterative process of integrating climate change considerations into policymaking, budgeting, implementation, and monitoring processes at national and subnational levels. This paper falls under this heading, and it aims at building an innovative methodology to experiment with data-driven approaches to support the resilient transition of the city of Turin in Italy. The process aims to create territorial knowledge of specific weather phenomenon, that cloudburst events are, by filling the gap of existing hazard information with original vulnerability datasets. The proposed approach will create a hydraulic vulnerability map by identifying cloudburst vulnerable areas with a GIS-based spatial overlay. The paper will employ an array of datasets combined with original modelling techniques elaborated with the help of the open-source InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs) software program. The results allow us to understand what would happen if the urban water network failed to discharge during a phenomenon of intense rain and, consequently, which city areas should undergo adaptation and transformation to reduce their flooding vulnerability.
Journal of civil engineering and architecture, Oct 28, 2016
The paper presents the recent evolution and development of Trentino retail planning policies and ... more The paper presents the recent evolution and development of Trentino retail planning policies and discusses an experimentation of a meta-evaluation methodology, namely TIE (Territorial Integrated Evaluation), for designing retail resilient scenarios. A research team from the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning of Politecnico di Torino applied this methodology experimentally to the practices of spatial planning in order to integrate territory and retail in the Trentino development policies. The application of TIE set out to design territorial retail scenarios that integrated various topics-retail, tourism, infrastructure, nature and landscape. On the base of TIE principles and criteria, each VC (Valley Community) is now implementing how to design its territorial scenarios assuming different approaches and visions according to its retail opportunities and risks. Starting from some best practices, the paper focuses on the innovative perspective for retail planning and for retail sites designed in Trentino. The emerging regional policy is aimed at linking quality of territorial retail development with environmental sustainability, respecting attractiveness and balance among different retail sites.
Energy and Buildings
Abstract The Clean Energy Package is aimed at making the energy transition recommended by the Eur... more Abstract The Clean Energy Package is aimed at making the energy transition recommended by the European Union more competitive. Such an energy transition can be achieved through a variety of measures aimed at improving the security, sustainability and competitiveness of energy supply systems. These measures include the introduction of physical and regulatory infrastructures that are adequate to satisfy the energy market requirements, integrate renewable energies and ensure security of the energy supply. A risk-based approach is generally suggested for the electricity sector to prevent and manage electricity problems. A risk-based methodology is proposed in this work, and an assessment has been made of the first “oil free zone” in North-West of Italy, which is located in the Pinerolo area (near Turin). A quantitative risk analysis method was conducted considering the risk of blackouts on the national electricity grid, the probability of such occurrences, the extent of damage and the risk of exposure. The risk assessment was applied through a place-based approach, considering different types of stakeholders: private and public consumers, producers and prosumers. The risks of the analysed case study were then compared with their tolerability limits and assessed for different scenarios to reduce the risk of energy supply blackouts, including: a reduced energy consumption, an increased energy production, and an optimised energy supply and demand. The possibility of establishing an energy community was considered in the latter scenario. The results show that all the actions taken to reduce the risk of energy supply blackouts produce different results, depending on the considered user. All the stakeholders can benefit from participation in the energy community, not only from an environmental point of view, through the production of energy from renewable sources, but also from an economic one. These results are in line with what the European Community and the Italian “Integrated National Plan for Energy and Climate” currently require, in terms of energy transition, pertaining to the sustainable development of a territory.
ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI, 2021
Declinare il paradigma della resilienza nella pianificazione territoriale dell'energia può co... more Declinare il paradigma della resilienza nella pianificazione territoriale dell'energia può contribuire ad orientare la transizione energetica verso modelli sostenibili di sviluppo. L'articolo discute il progetto pioniere delle Comunità Energetiche piemontesi. Sono qui presentati gli esiti della sperimentazione di una metodologia multidimensionale di analisi e valutazione dei territori, al fine di supportare la transizione energetica verso modelli green di sviluppo territoriale.
The Urban Book Series
This contribution addresses the issue of the availability and accessibility of data for urban and... more This contribution addresses the issue of the availability and accessibility of data for urban and regional studies. After an initial part in which tools and arguments are provided to frame the open data paradigm, the second part proceeds with the simulation of a GIS-based study on a territory of the Metropolitan City of Turin aimed at supporting post-COVID territorial planning, highlighting the areas in which there is a lack of data, the difficulty of access, such as in health care, or the obligation to have to use commercial data. In the last part, the results of the study are discussed, and the issue of the importance of the construction of digital models (digital twins) capable of receiving and processing data of different sources, and how these models should be developed according to an open and non-commercial paradigm.
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Papers by Grazia Brunetta
a meta-evaluation methodology for designing regional development scenarios. Trentino has a special need to harmonize economic development with the exceptional and internationally renowned value of its landscape which includes the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Therefore TIE set out to design regional development scenarios that integrated various topics - retail, tourism, infrastructures, nature and landscape.