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Operations to quantify the CO2eq emissions of a given territory encounter critical issues that make the
matter more complex because they are rooted in political/economic/social options carried out over time
and in other locations; options that “come from elsewhere and far in time” and therefore make partial the
technical solutions that are proposed today. Each intervention must therefore be “contextualized in space
and time” otherwise the technical initiative in progress, not well understood, can create the

The concept of participation in sustainable urban development practices is actually more and more
popular in Europe and all over the world. In parallel, there is a rapid growth of urban design and planning
projects including local communities in urban development planning activities. According to such
concepts, this chapter, starting from the description of the results of field and desk researches carried
out by ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome and related to communities involvement strategies currently