Through lectures, seminars, and activities of discussion and guided exercises, the objective of the course is to provide students with methods, skills and tools, both theoretical and technical, for the investigation and assessment of the vulnerabilities and potentialities of marine and coastal contexts, (of their spatial, anthropic and landscape-environmental resources), and for the governance of their sustainable and adaptive transformation to complex crises and climate change. D1. Knowledge and understanding. To develop the ability to analyze and assess marine and coastal contexts, in particular: spatial and functional features at different scales (from large areas to specific parts of cities and territories); complex evolutions and vulnerabilities (spatial configurations and environmental and landscape resources, social, ecological and economic dynamics). To develop the knowledge of planning techniques and spatial governance processes that policies and tools for an integrated and sustainable transition of marine and coastal contexts are built on. D2. Applying knowledge and understanding. To develop the capacity to apply the theoretical and technical knowledge acquired in the construction and evaluation of scenarios for a sustainable and integrated transformation of marine and coastal contexts. To develop the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams, within the chain of actions and tools addressed to spatial planning and sustainable management of marine and coastal spaces. An interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of interactions between the natural environment and human activities is understood as fundamental in the assessment and sustainable use of natural resources, in accordance with the modern European vision of the Marine Strategy. D3. Making judgments. To develop the ability to autonomously integrate different readings and analyses, and to build interpretations of specific marine and coastal contexts. To develop the ability to autonomously identify actions and priorities for a sustainable and integrated transformation of marine and coastal contexts. D4. Communication skills. To develop the ability to describe and argue acquired knowledge and proposals for sustainable governance and transformation, using different means and tools: collective verbal presentations; drafting critical reports of proposed analyses, assessments, and scenarios for specific marine and coastal contexts. D5. Learning skills. To develop the necessary skills to address, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the construction of investigation processes aimed at drafting analyses and interpretations of current dynamics and sustainable transition of marine and coastal contexts.

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The course deals with spatial planning and governance of transformations and interactions between marine and coastal areas, focusing on sustainable and balanced management of human activities, landscape, and environmental resources. Today, working on the interface between water and land prompts spatial governance policies and tools to tackle issues that are increasingly relevant and urgent: sustainable development and Blue Economy; adaptation to climate change; regeneration of infrastructures and coastal spaces through the application of nature-based solutions. These topics are dealt with by focusing on the following issues: - Climate change, spatial vulnerability, and challenges for spatial planning; - Integrated, resilient, and sustainable planning of marine and coastal spaces; - Urban and spatial regeneration of coastal areas.

- Couling N., Hein C., 2020, eds., The urbanisation of the sea: from concepts and analysis to design. Amsterdam: nai010 publishers. - Ferrario V., Sampieri A., Viganò P., 2011, eds., Landscapes of Urbanism. Roma: Officina Edizioni. - Ghosh A., 2016, The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. - Kahn M.E., 2010, Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future. New York City: Basic Books. - Magni F., Carraretto G., Musco F., 2021, Towards the Adriatic Climate-Transition: a methodological framework for adaptation spatial planning processes. Conegliano: Anteferma. - Mechler R., Bouwer L.M., Schinko T., Surminski S., Linnerooth-Bayer J., 2019,eds., Loss and Damage from Climate Change. Concepts, Methods and Policy Options. Cham: Springer. - Moretti B., 2020, Beyond the Port City. Berlin: Jovis. - Russo M., Attademo A., Formato E., Garzilli F., 2023, eds., Transitional Landscapes. Recanati: Quodlibet. Further bibliographical references are provided at the end of the single lectures and seminars.

The course develops its activities through: lectures; seminars held in collaboration with researchers and planners who are active in relevant national and international experiences; an exercise on a specific marine and coastal context in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region (critical analysis and transformation scenarios). This set of activities aims to provide students with a repertoire of critical approaches, techniques, and good practices on the topics covered by the course. Specifically, the main perspectives and fields of technical and operational reflection proposed to the students concern: - Integrated, resilient and sustainable planning between sea and coast. A series of lectures and seminars illustrate how, increasingly in recent years, a number of internationally promoted policy documents and funding programs (from the UN Ocean Decade 2021-2030, to the EU Blue Economy for a Sustainable Future, 2021) emphasize the importance of developing the technical skills needed to build Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) and Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) tools addressed to the governance of the interactions between sea and land. - Climate change and challenges for spatial planning. A second cycle of lectures and seminars focuses on conceptual and operational tools for the elaboration of spatial plans and projects aimed at climate change adaptation in the cities and coastal areas. - Territorial and urban regeneration. Finally, a third series of lectures focuses on plans, projects, and policies for governing the transition of coastal areas and the interface between land, sea and inland waters. Today, in the face of huge environmental, social, and economic changes, these territories are understood as particularly vulnerable (e.g., urban and tourist coastal settlements, reclamation areas, wetlands and protected areas, port and logistics settlements, etc.). The exercise developed in groups of students (maximum 3-4) is an opportunity to critically apply the knowledge acquired through lectures and seminars to specific territorial contexts (one for each group, identified with the professors). The output is a report (a written and graphical report in A4 format) that collects the various phases developed and discussed with the professors during the course: - Phase 1. Analysis of the context and its main spatial, anthropic, and environmental features; - Phase 2. Identification of vulnerabilities and potentials for sustainable transition; - Phase 3. Construction and evaluation of scenarios for the definition of sustainable territorial governance strategies.

Lectures, thematic seminars (held in collaboration with external scholars and professionals), interactive exercises, and teaching activities. Importance is given to classroom work and discussion among students and between students, professors and lecturers, in order to stimulate collaborative, critical and reflective learning.

Didactic materials are provided on MS TEAMS platform.

The evaluation includes: an oral interview; the delivery and discussion of a report summarizing the investigation, evaluation and transformation scenarios developed on a specific marine-coastal context agreed with the professors. Specifically, the oral interview is individual and consists of: - an interview on the lectures and seminars held during the course; - critical reading of a text from the bibliography (either from the course general bibliography or for that referring to individual lectures and seminars), agreed in advance with the professors. With regard to the delivery and discussion of the report referring to critical analysis and transformation scenarios (a written and graphic report in A4 format): - the report is the result of the work of a group of maximum 3-4 students; - the report concerns a specific marine-coastal context in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, agreed upon by the professors; it is prepared and refined with the support the professors provide during the exercise activities envisaged by the course. The vote of the final examination is awarded by means of a mark expressed in 30/30, that is calculated on the basis of the average of the marks accrued in the oral test and in the report about of critical analysis and transformation proposal of a marine-coastal context.

The course explores topics that are closely related to several goals of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (in particular: 11, 13).