The course aims to provide students the following knowledges and skills: D1. Knowledge and understanding. at the end of the course, students will have to know the problems relating to the relationship between design and management of territorial transformations, the sustainability of resources and the management and control of emergencies and environmental damages. D2. Applying knowledge and understanding. By the end of the course, students will be able to apply knowledges acquired in point 1, with particular attention to sustainable design basics and tools, planning processes, environmental resources and urban spaces management and enhancement to different scales, paying attention to flexibility, resilience and antifragility, over a long term timeline analysis. D3. Making judgments. By the end of the course, students will be able to work out on their own about results' analysis, evaluation, selection and control related to design actions' making up and environmental impacts' management connected with complex urban systems, through the application of the models and analytical techniques examined during the course. D4. Communication skills. By the end of the course, students will be able to explain, discuss and clearly apply concepts, models and tools acquired in points 1 and 2. D5. Learning skills. By the end of the course, students will be able to examine and debate on their own all the topics covered in the course, also by consulting specific bibliography and site texts, making up both institutional and regulatory framework and technical national and international in-depth analysis of interest.

No prerequisites are required to attend the course. Preparatory knowledge of legislation on environmental protection and territorial management may be useful.

The course introduces the issues of protection and management of the territory and its resources by addressing the following topics: - Climate change and Global warming - Concepts of: vulnerability, danger, risk, emergency, environmental damage - Integrated Risk Management - Adaptation, mitigation, compensation and management of environmental impact - Evaluation tools and construction of intervention devices: SWOT Analysis e OST - Open Space Technology - Management and control techniques of environmental impact: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA); Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA); DNSH (Do no Significant Harm) - Governance and participation approach. Environment, Society and Economics: comparisons and relationships - Resources and sustainability in the urban environment - Environmental quality in urban areas: analysis and evaluation - Tools and devices for management and control of environmental emergencies at urban and territorial scale: green roofs, naturalistic engineering, urban gardens, water squares. - Governance of the territory exposed to risks (hydrogeological, sismic, etc.) through tools and policies of protection, sustainability and environmental resilience

Reading list: Addink H. (2019), Good Governance. Concept and Context, OXFORD University Press, UK, ISBN: 978-0-19-884115-9. Ulrich Beck, Carlo Sandrelli (2008), Conditio humana: il rischio nell'età globale, GLF editori Laterza, Roma. Carlo Carraro, Alessandra Mazzai (2015), Il clima che cambia. Non solo un problema ambientale, il Mulino, Bologna. Gianni Latini, Marco Bagliani, Tommaso Orusa (eds) (2020), Lessico e nuvole: le parole del cambiamento climatico, UNITO. Bruno Latour (2020), La sfida di Gaia. Il nuovo regime climatico, Meltemi, Milano. Ugo Leone (2015), Fragile: il rischio ambientale oggi, Carocci Editore, Roma. Nicolò Leotta (a cura di) (2008), Cooperazione decentrata : sviluppo umano, territorio, turismo, Franco Angeli Edizioni, Milano. Filippo Magni (2019), Climate proof planning, Franco Angeli Edizioni, Milano. Luca Mercalli (2011), Prepariamoci. A vivere in un mondo con meno risorse, meno energia [...] più felicità, Chiarelettere, Milano. Luca Mercalli (2018), Non c’è più tempo, Come reagire agli allarmi ambientali, Einaudi, Torino. Timothy Morton (2018), Noi, esseri ecologici, Laterza, Torino. Blecic I,, Cecchini A. (2016), Verso una pianificazione antifragile. Come pensare al futuro senza prevederlo, Franco Angeli Edizioni, Milano, ISBN: 889172775X. Patrizia Nanz e Miriam Fritsche (2014), La partecipazione dei cittadini: un manuale, Regione Emilia Romagna, Bologna. Giancarlo Sturloni (2018), La comunicazione del rischio per la salute e l’ambiente, Edumond Divisione Scuola, Milano. Nick Wates (2000), Community Planning Handbook, Earthscan, London, UK. Vince G. (2023), Il secondo nomade. Come sopravvivere al disastro climatico, Bollati Boringhieri editore, Torino. Gates B. (2021), CLIMA. Come evitare un disastro. Le soluzioni di oggi. Le sfide di domani, La nave di Teseo editore, Milano, ISBN: 978-88-346-0467-0. Mezzi P., Pelizzaro P. (2016), La città resiliente. Strategie e azioni di resilienza urbana in Italia e nel mondo, Altra Economia, Milano, ISNB: 9788865162:978-88-6965-824-2. Pievani T. (a cura di) (2020), PLANET BOOK. Il mondo, l’emergenza climatica., le soluzioni. 200 fotografie raccolte da 40 ragazzi impegnati a cambiare il futuro, Contrasto Editore, Roma, ISBN 978-88-6965-824-2.

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The course will take place through frontal lessons and seminar meetings planned with the presence of scholars and experts in the field, with discussion and classroom computation according to the following structure: - presentation of themes and theoretical topics; - case studies; - in-depth seminars. Lessons, seminars and other activities will be held in Gorizia, at the Polo headquarters.

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The exam is aimed at ascertaining the acquisition of logical-critical and expressive-communicative skills, in addition to the knowledge as by the programme. Attending students are expected to study in-depth at least one volume agreed with the teacher, in addition to critical knowledge of the topics covered in class. Non-attending students are requested to contact the teacher no later than 31 May 2026 to define a specific preparation path, consisting of agreed bibliographic indications (at least two books), in addition to critical knowledge of the topics relevant to the course. The check of learning will take place through an exam consisting of an individual interview with open questions concerning the reading of the text(s) chosen and the theoretical themes and the seminar insights covered in class. The final evaluation will be equally distributed between the report of the book/s read (weight equal to 50%) and the presentation of the theoretical notions and seminar insights acquired (weight equal to 50%). The final vote is expressed in thirtieths.

This course explores topics closely related to one or more goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs)