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Increasing Urban Sustainability Designing Vertical Garden: The Experience of Pisticci Municipality (Southern Italy)

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Climate change is one of the significant challenges and risks for the environment, economy, and society. It is a phenomenon that involves a persistent alteration of global or regional weather patterns, leading to variations in temperature, precipitation, and extreme weather events. This transformation is primarily caused by human actions such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation, which produce greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, causing global warming. This problem can be addressed by reducing urban fragmentation, land take, soil sealing, urban sprawl, urban sprinkling, and loss of ecosystem services. These phenomena can be tackled on various levels. On a larger scale, it involves implementing urban strategies and regulations that can mitigate these trends. At a local scale, realizing green spaces and infrastructure could reduce this trend. Vertical gardens have the potential to increase green space in several situations.

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The authors are grateful to Pisticci Municipality Administration and the technical staff for supporting the project’s development.

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante & Domenico Laviola

  2. Studio Tecnico Giuseppe Trabace, Via San Francesco, 7, 75019, Tricarico, Matera, Italy

    Giuseppe Trabace, Veronica Vespe & Domenico Laviola

  3. Studio Geologo Domenico Laviola, Corso Metaponto 13, 75015, Pisticci, Matera, Italy

    Domenico Laviola

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  1. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  3. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A. C. Rocha

  4. University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Chiara Garau

  5. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

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  6. University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

    Yeliz Karaca

  7. Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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Murgante, B., Trabace, G., Vespe, V., Laviola, D. (2023). Increasing Urban Sustainability Designing Vertical Garden: The Experience of Pisticci Municipality (Southern Italy). In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops. ICCSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14107. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37114-1_31

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