LIBRI DI PASQUALE DE TORO

As the world continues to urbanize, sustainable development challenges will be more and more concentrated in cities requiring new approaches, models and tools. In particular, this paper is focused on the implementation of the Performance- Based Approach in urban planning in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the decision-making processes. In this paper, this methodological proposal is used in the case study of Pomigliano d’Arco (Italy).

The paper explores how "integrated assessment" can represent a specific multimethodological framework that can include the cognitive skills and habits of the stakeholders and experts involved in mutual, joint, and dynamic learning processes, where interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are an essential element. The paper selects three case studies, and analyses how assessment can be a tool for building dialogue and interaction among different types of expertise that can support these learning processes, knowledge management, and the construction of shared choices, thereby creating a network of relationship among technical, social and political assessments, and referring to complex values that are constitutive of conflicting and changing realities.

Il paper intende esplorare, attraverso un caso studio selezionato, come la Valutazione Ambientale Strategica (VAS) possa essere uno strumento di dialogo e di interazione tra differenti saperi, in grado di supportare processi di apprendimento, di gestione della conoscenza e di costruzione di scelte condivise, avvalendosi di approcci e tecniche opportuni. In questa prospettiva, la VAS può rivelarsi utile per supportare i processi decisionali a differenti scale e livelli, in grado di far dialogare valutazioni tecniche e politiche, con riferimento a valori complessi, parte integrante di realtà in conflitto ed in continua evoluzione, dove è necessario intervenire in coerenza con i principi della sostenibilità.