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The Value of Water: an Opportunity for the Eco-Social Regeneration of Mediterranean Metropolitan Areas

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New Metropolitan Perspectives (ISHT 2018)

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The quantitative limitation policies, adopted for environmental, ecological and socio-economic aims, in the Mediterranean metropolitan areas, do not seem to have had the desired effect. In fact, the coercive restraining approach of the metropolitan public Authorities which have tried to impose ecological and cultural objectives collide with the expectations and concrete needs of the citizen. In this way, there is among the stakeholders the distorted perception for which the public and the private interests seem naturally contrasting elements such that the protection of one must necessarily result in the mortification of the other.

On the contrary, the Mediterranean Water Sensitive Urban Planning research Project has assessed the hypothesis that the key to the effectiveness of the strategies aimed at ecology, safety and environment, both because of the evident multiscalarity and the potential multi-functionality of the issues and solutions, is in the ability to make the necessary actions consistent with the legitimate aspirations of the various stakeholders, especially when the low available financial resources impose stringent limits on public spending.

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    National Center for Urban Studies.

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    About 11 m2 per inhabitant, although much lower than the minimum legal requirement, it is more than two times the average endowment of the Metropolitan City of Naples municipalities.

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    For the detailed description, please consult the complete research report [39].

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    Mainly due to the local property market mistrust.

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    A description of the plant, especially designed for the purposes of this research Project, can be found in the articles by Moccia and Sgobbo [37, 38].

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    The amount of savings is dependent on the quantity and quality of organic waste delivered to the anaerobic biogas plant by this group of residents. For the others, according to a classical scheme already implemented in other cities, the profit boils down to a decrease in local taxes however very limited because of legislation, that depend on various parameters not directly controllable by the citizens.

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Sgobbo, A. (2019). The Value of Water: an Opportunity for the Eco-Social Regeneration of Mediterranean Metropolitan Areas. In: Calabrò, F., Della Spina, L., Bevilacqua, C. (eds) New Metropolitan Perspectives. ISHT 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 101. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92102-0_53

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