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The Role of Spatial Circular Planning in Urban Governance. A Set of Indicators to Evaluate Performance in Urban Regeneration

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Abstract

Cities are strategic places for development, but also places where many environmental, social, and economic problems arise. The scenario that by 2050 two thirds of the world's population will live in cities confirms that cities will still be responsible for growing consumption and, consequently, for a significant production of waste. Within this worrying situation, the principles of the Circular Economy (recovery, recycling and sharing) offers the opportunity to rethink the way goods and services are produced and used, exploring new approaches to ensure long-term prosperity. These principles find direct application in energy planning and urban governance at different scales.

In this framework, the manuscript proposes a methodology for the evaluation of a set of indicators capable of measuring the degree of circularity in the various urban scales (from small to extra large), with particular attention to energy performance.

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by Projects Ecosystem of Innovation for Next Generation Sardinia (e.INS) - approved by MUR, prot. n. 1056 of 23/06/2022.

This paper is the result of the joint work of the authors. In particular: Section 1 and Section 1.1 have been written by G. Balletto; Section 2 by M. Ladu; Section 3 and Section 4 by G. Balletto and M. Ladu.

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Glossary

CDDA

Common Database on Designated Areas

CI

Circular Index

EFET

Ratio between energy fed to the grid and energy withdrawn from the grid over a set period

EU

European Union

IUCN

International Union for Conservation of Nature

KPI

Key Performance Indicator

MaaS

Mobility as a Service

NECP

National Energy and Climate Plan

NGEU

Next Generation EU

NRRP

National Recovery and Resilience Plan

PREA

Publi c Real-Estate Assets

REC

Renewable Energy Communities

SCSTC

Ratio between the sum of self-consumed and shared energy over the total energy consumption of the community over a set period

SCP

Self-consumed over the total energy produced over a set period in the city district

STC

Shared energy over total energy consumption of the community over a set period in the city district

US

Urban Scale

WDPA

World Database of Protected Areas

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Balletto, G., Ladu, M. (2023). The Role of Spatial Circular Planning in Urban Governance. A Set of Indicators to Evaluate Performance in Urban Regeneration. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops. ICCSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14111. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37126-4_8

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