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Resilience and Smartness of Coastal Regions. A Tool for Spatial Evaluation

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The paper explores the potential of a method of analysis and evaluation in which the system of values are compared with the conditions of risk and degradation of landscape (due to environmental and man-made drivers) with the result of building maps of vulnerability, fragility and resilience.

A set of italian coastal regions and landscapes constitutes the case study and are interpreted as geographical spaces with high levels of sensitivity. The research objective is to build a spatial decision support system based on indicators, in which the relative parameters are measured to represent the resilient capacity of the system, taking into account indicators relating to the integration of technological system, system-law system, social system and economic system. The global indicator system provides the basis upon which to assess how much a territorial system is resilient and smart. The SDSS logical model allows to build different scenarios and to evaluate the effectiveness of policies and spatial strategies analyzed as intervention hypothesis.

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  1. Department Science for Architecture, University of Genoa (I), Stradone San’Agostino, 37, Genoa, Italy

    Giampiero Lombardini

  2. School of Engineering, Laboratory of Regional and Urban Systems Engineering (LISUT), University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Francesco Scorza

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  3. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  4. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A.C. Rocha

  5. Polytechnic University, Bari, Italy

    Carmelo M. Torre

  6. Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

    David Taniar

  7. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

  8. Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Elena Stankova

  9. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Shangguang Wang

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Lombardini, G., Scorza, F. (2016). Resilience and Smartness of Coastal Regions. A Tool for Spatial Evaluation. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9788. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42111-7_42

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