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Policies and Strategies for Ocean and Marine Governance: North-South participation for Economic and Social development of Coastal Regions
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Port cities as complex value-added systems: decision-making processes for a sustainable regenerative model
P-E2-02
Maria Cerreta* , University of Naples Federico II
Pasquale De Toro* , University of Naples Federico II
Maria Cerreta,
Pasquale De Toro,
Presenter Email: cerreta@unina.it; detoro@unina.it |
In general terms, cities along the coast form cosmopolitan sites, open to many cultures, spaces of creativity and innovation for the economy, culture and society. However, they are also places of significant conflicts between economy and ecology, between economy and culture, and between ecology and society. Consumption of natural resources and production of pollutants, together with the intensification of uses aimed at meeting the economic needs of coastal areas, contribute to compromise the complex ecological balance and to alter or destroy specific local characters. In many cases, the processes of environmental degradation and pollution are accompanied by the production of economic wealth, which entail not only ecological costs but also social and cultural costs, along with a progressive reduction in the well-being and quality of life. These cities have extraordinary value added that can play a decisive role in a strategic vision of urban development. In recent years, the concept of ater renaissance has been growing in the urban sphere to define that complex process of redevelopment and revitalization of waterfront areas which has characterized many renewal, recovery and retraining operations and valorisation in many cities around the world 鈥?rediscovering the value of water in the city. The port and coastal areas, therefore, represent sites where multiple contradictions often arise but are also the most suitable places to reduce conflicts and turn them into synergies through innovative approaches to governance, planning and territorial management. Port and coastal cities can become key to the implementation of a new model of sustainable development based on multiple value-added systems, focused on a synergistic and circular approach, capable of breaking the current linear organization of many traditional economic systems and allowing the local economy to strengthen through local resources integration. In this perspective, the study of the Campania Coastal Region and of the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy analyzes the opportunities for transformation and enhancement that the sea resource can offer to the territory, trying to identify the components that could interact to improve territorial productivity and make the urban and territorial regenerative city model operational, reducing the environmental and social conflicts.
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