RISULTATI RICERCA

This September marks the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Luigi Bonanate, Giovanni Borgognone and Paolo Di Motoli discuss the main transformations intervened in international relations and in our knowledge of them. What emerges clearly is the dramatic absence of a shared and convincing project for a new global order. Debates and reflections on future challenges have not produced new theoretical and practical solutions to the structural deficiencies of international organizations. Moreover, the relationship between Islam and the West has seen an increase in demagoguery, xenophobia, intolerance and extremism.

International ranking for history journals - The history of the initiative of the European Science Foundation (Esf) to create a European Reference Index for the Humanities (Erih), intended to replace peer review by metrics, is reconstructed, with an analysis of the multiple limitations, distortions and negative consequences, that are apparent in the initial list, rendered public on the web in 2007. This followed by three case studies, of this followed by accounts of the highly negative responses to the initiative of the research communities and funding bodies in Germany, France and England.

Key words: Ranking, History journals, Erih, Humanities, Peer Review.

Parole chiave: Ranking, riviste di storia, Erih, Scienze umane, Peer Review.

Questo servizio propone una riflessione sul possibile ruolo di una disciplina, la landscape ecology o ecologia del paesaggio all’interno della complessa macchina che regola oggi la programmazione e la pianificazione territoriale. A tal fine si sono richiesti contributi e saggi a importanti esponenti del settore disciplinare, chiarendo loro di approfondire il rapporto tra i contributi di merito che regolano la necessità di mantenere la biodiversità e lo spazio ecologico che la preserva e le ricadute sugli strumenti di pianificazione alle diverse scale di intervento. Sia i contributi di esperti, istituzioni e organismi internazionali (Canada, Olanda, Brasile) che quelli nazionali (Università dell’Aquila, di Pavia, di Urbino, di Genova, Politecnico di Milano e Regione Lombardia) evidenziano la possibilità di utilizzo della rete ecologica come paradigma di sviluppo sostenibile dal punto di vista ambientale, ma anche insediativo e sociale.

Urban well-being. Approaches, methods and practices to support the capacity to "be OK" in urban space - How do people live in towns and cities today? Because in the final analysis, is it so difficult to ‘be OK in a city’ today? And how can urban planners regain their capacity to promote conditions for general ‘well-being’ in urban space? This review tries to outline a new approach to ‘urban well-being’ intended as the chance and the capacity for everyone to ‘be OK’ in their own living space. What results is a change in the focus of attention onto behaviours and practices which inhabitants experience in their everyday lives and onto forms of responsibility and of making citizens active in the care and treatment of those common assets which create ‘urban well-being’. It is a shift of viewpoint which in order to become actual practice requires getting much closer to people by using polyphonic and inclusive approaches to investigation and decision-making which give preference to the dimensions of communication, expression and art, able to go far enough to include subjective sensory perceptions of space in planning and design.