Sustainable Mediterranean Construction

Sustainable Mediterranean Construction

AN APPROACH TO ASSESS URBAN RESILIENCE TO FLOOD RISK THROUGH SPATIAL ANALYSIS

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Angela Esposito

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Spatial features of settlements at risk to be flooded can contribute to detail several aspects of urban resilience. Based on this consideration, this contribute presents the results of a doctoral research aimed at analyzing urban resilience to floods assuming a spatial analysis approach. Based on the relevant literature, the research aimed at developing a conceptual spatial-based definition of urban resilience to flood, as a basic step toward a quantitative resilience assessment methodology. Importance of developing urban systems able to cope with natural calamities is fundamental within urban planning processes. Human activities and settlements have been located over time in a way to take advantage of available natural resources. As a result, the link between urban areas and natural environment results a key-element of the urbanization process.
Urban rivers reflect the outlined circumstance: water resources have been an attractor for urban development of nearby located areas. While appropriate use and protection of water bodies contribute to suitably preserving water resources, flood risk reduction strategies contribute to reduce the total risk of flooding. Urban areas crossed by rivers are inevitably at risk to be flooded and vulnerability of exposed elements (e.g. people, activities, buildings and infrastructures) determines different impacts. Mitigation of flood impacts can be achieved linking flood risk prevention and reduction to event preparedness, emergency recovery and adaptability to flood-induced effects: considering all event phases, the resulting flood risk management process globally improves urban resilience to floods. Structuring a resilient urban system implicitly requires to individuate suitable resilience’s measurement and assessment methodologies. The latter, in turn, need a precisely outlined definition of the concept of resilience itself. The relevant literature offers several different meanings and characteristics of resilience, on varying on the adopted analysis perspectives. […]

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SMC N.03 2016

SMC MAGAZINE N. THREE/2016

001_ COVER

003_VIEW_ The Air as Parameter for Designing Man’s Space
Dora Francese

010_ BOARDS AND INFORMATION

FOCUS ON AIR AND ENVIRONMENT

011_ From the Chimney to the Air Conditioning in the Mediterranean Buildings
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016_ From the Redrawing of the Papyri to the Paradigms of Passive Ventilation in Architecture
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023_ Impact of Natural Ventilation Options on Architectural Synthesis. Floor Plan, Section, Façade
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029_ Ventilation Performance in Semi-buried Buildings in Greek Architecture
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034_ Ventilation in patient’s room
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038_ Wind Turbines and Landscape Transformation. A Necessity Turned to an Artifact
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042_ The Wind as a Musical Mapping Tool of the Urban Environment in the Mediterranean Area. The Example of the City of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dimitra Sideridou, George Sideridis

STUDIES AND RESEARCHES

046_ Exercises in Sustainability: Another Case Study
Anca Mitrache, Anca Mihaela Costantin

050_ An Approach to Assess Urban Resilience to Flood Risk Through Spatial Analysis
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054_The Restoration of the Pisè Heritage: Experienced Results from Safeguarding Operations for the Marrakech Walling
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058_ Towers, Urns and Castlets. Historical Evidence of Ancient Systems of Water Supply and Conveyance in Palermo
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PHD RESULTS

066_ The Role of Fluid Dynamics for Green Buildings Performance
Valeria Cecafosso

067_Technological Design for Bioclimatic Architecture. Strategies and Natural Ventilation Systems for Passive Cooling in Environmental and Energy Retrofit in the Mediterranean Climate
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069_ LIST OF AUTHORS

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