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A Multicriteria Economic Analysis Model for Urban Forestry Projects

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New Metropolitan Perspectives (ISHT 2018)

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The urban green areas represent a strategic resource for the contemporary city sustainable development. In addition to aesthetic and recreational functions, their presence contributes to increase the environmental quality level by improving the microclimate, preserving the biodiversity and promoting the territory economic growth. However, the interventions execution designed to provide the built areas of the so-called urban forests is rarely indicated as a priority action in the urban spaces planning because often a different allocation of available resources is preferred. In this work, starting from the definition of a indicators set useful for expressing the not only financial, but also social, cultural and environmental components of value of the projects for urban forestry, the aim is to build a multi-criteria economic analysis protocol purposeful at predicting the correct funds distribution between initiatives for realization of urban forests at a district scale. The characterization of the model is carried out through the logical-mathematical tools of the Operational Research developed according to Continuous Linear Programming principles.

The contribution to this paper is the result of the joint work of the four authors to which the paper has to be attributed in equal parts.

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  1. Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Maria Rosaria Guarini & Francesco Sica

  2. University of Salerno, 84084, Fisciano, Italy

    Antonio Nesticò

  3. Polytechnic University of Bari, 70126, Bari, Italy

    Pierluigi Morano

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    Francesco Calabrò

  2. Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

    Lucia Della Spina

  3. University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

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Guarini, M.R., Nesticò, A., Morano, P., Sica, F. (2019). A Multicriteria Economic Analysis Model for Urban Forestry Projects. In: Calabrò, F., Della Spina, L., Bevilacqua, C. (eds) New Metropolitan Perspectives. ISHT 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 100. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92099-3_63

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