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In recent years, the climate has come to play an important role in the international agenda. The current debate highlights that sustainability is not just about the ecological dimension, but it is closely linked to lifestyles and the allocation of social resources. Starting from the concept of social ecology, the paper adopts a holistic approach to interpret and act in the contemporary situation.

L’indiscriminato sfruttamento delle risorse ambientali, l’elevato consumo di suolo, l’aumento della popolazione urbana, gli effetti del global warming, la mancanza di spazi e servizi pubblici, di trasporti collettivi e di adeguate politiche sociali, insieme alle problematiche legate all’emergenza socio-sanitaria in atto, richiamano, l’esigenza di implementare una strategia unitaria, integrata e interscalare che assuma come matrice di riferimento la costruzione della città pubblica finalizzata alla rigenerazione urbana.

Un eco-distretto è un quartiere impegnato sul piano del perseguimento della sostenibilità con persone responsabilizzate, edifici verdi e infrastrutture intelligenti. Gli eco-distretti sono una strategia globale per accelerare lo sviluppo sostenibile su scala di quartiere integrando progetti di edifici e infrastrutture con azioni comunitarie e individuali. Rappresentano una scala importante per accelerare la sostenibilità: abbastanza piccoli da innovare rapidamente e abbastanza grandi da avere un impatto significativo.

Climate change affects the buildings’ performance, significantly influencing energy consumption, as well as the indoor thermal comfort. As a consequence, the growing outdoor environmental temperatures entail a slight reduction in heating consumption and an increase in cooling consumption, with different overall effects depending on the latitudes. This document focuses attention on the Italian residential sector, considering the current and reduced meteorological data, in anticipation of future climate scenarios.

This article attempts to investigate the significance and implications of the United States’ decision to withdraw from and cease implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change, as announced in the statement released by President Trump on 1st June 2017. It is argued that that decision risks giving rise to a serious setback for the international protection of climate. Yet, the Parties to the Paris Agreement have so far been reluctant to react to the United States’ conduct.

Building energy need simulations are usually performed using input files that contain information about the averaged weather data based on historical patterns. Therefore, the simulations performed are not able to provide information about possible future scenarios due to climate change. In this work, future trends of building energy demands due to the climate change across Europe were studied by comparing three time steps (present, 2050, and -2080) in three different European cities, characterized by different Köppen-Geiger climatic classes.

Climate change is considered an important global threat, with a significant impact on the energy performance, since buildings will be subjected to higher average outdoor temperatures. This paper explores the relative impact of global warming across the different regional climates of Europe comparing present and estimated future energy needs of a hypothetical residential house located in 19 cities characterized by different latitude and Köppen-Geiger class.

Climate change is considered an important global threat, with a significant impact on the energy performance, since buildings will be subjected to higher average outdoor temperatures. This article explores the relative impact of global warming across the different regional climates of Europe comparing present and estimated future energy needs of a hypothetical residential house located in 19 cities characterized by different latitude and Köppen-Geiger class.

The key theme evoked by the triad morality-freedom-responsibility is the main focus in the theoretical enterprise of one of the great thinkers of the 20th century, Hans Jonas, whose conclusions I would like to draw upon in order to further investigate at least some of crucial elements related to a new anthropological reflection useful for safeguarding the life of the whole biosphere as a task to be fulfilled by both humanistic and scientific culture.