Procedimenti amministrativi per la transizione ecologica e l’economia circolare: modelli di semplificazione

La ricerca analizza il ruolo del procedimento amministrativo nella transizione ecologica e nell’affermazione dei modelli di economia circolare, muovendo dalla constatazione di una tensione strutturale tra accelerazione decisionale e tutela degli interessi ambientali. L’evoluzione normativa europea e nazionale, rafforzata dalla riforma costituzionale del 2022 e dagli obiettivi del Green Deal e del PNRR, assegna infatti alla p.A. una funzione non più soltanto repressiva, ma abilitante e c...

Development of Sustainable Strategies to Control Plant Parasitic Nematodes by Using Plant Derived Formulations

This PhD thesis is the result of a convention agreement between the CNR, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP), Bari, Italy, and the University of Basilicata, Italy. The main protagonists are Plant-Parasitic Nematodes (PPNs), which are some of the most economically important pathogens of crops worldwide, causing yield losses of over US$157 billion annually. The foundation of this thesis was laid through the morphological and molecular characterisation of some PPNs economi...

Culture alimentari in trasformazione. Un’etnografia delle donne marocchine a Matera

Nella presente ricerca, Culture alimentari in trasformazione. Un’etnografia delle donne marocchine a Matera, il cibo è adottato come una lente privilegiata attraverso cui osservare i processi di trasformazione sociale e culturale che caratterizzano i contesti urbani contemporanei. Sviluppata nell'ambito del progetto Tech4You e in linea con i suoi obiettivi applicativi, la ricerca combina l'analisi antropologica dei significati associati al cibo e alle pratiche alimentari con un processo di ri...

The STESY (Specialized Tourism Eco-Systems) Framework: A Data-Driven Taxonomy and Advanced Spatial Analytics for Managing Territorial Complexity and Sustainable Tourism Planning

Tourism is increasingly recognised as a spatially embedded phenomenon whose development reshapes land use, infrastructure systems, local economies, environmental resources, and social relations. However, tourism planning still frequently relies on fragmented conceptual classifications, aggregated administrative data, and sectoral strategies that do not adequately represent the functional geographies, internal heterogeneity, and cumulative impacts of tourism systems. This thesis addresses thes...

Valutazione integrata del rischio sismico urbano mediante caratterizzazione dinamica suolo–struttura: il caso studio della città di Potenza

In recent years, the growing attention toward the safety of the built environment and the resilience of Italian cities has highlighted the need for tools capable of realistically describing the seismic behaviour of buildings. Recent earthquake sequences in Italy have shown how structural vulnerability, combined with the geological complexity of the territory, can amplify seismic effects and produce widespread damage even at considerable distances from the epicentre. In this context, seismic r...

Landscape Impacts of Renewable Energy Systems on Ecosystem Services: An Integrated Assessment Framework for Sustainable Spatial Planning in Basilicata, Southern Italy. A Multi-Method Approach Combining Expert Knowledge, GIS-Based Multi-Criteria Analysis, and Unsupervised Machine Learning.

Spatial Interaction Model: a shift towards network-based territorial configurations assessment for data-driven sustainable planning

Cartographic representation reveals where territorial phenomena occur, but not how they are generated. The location of services, infrastructures, attractors, and socio-economic activities reflects deeper spatial processes structured by proximity, accessibility, complementarity, hierarchy, and interaction. The difficulty of defining these processes lies in the complexity of territorial systems, which are not fixed in space but relational configurations shaped by flows, dependencies, feedba...

Rilevamento e analisi degli indicatori geomorfologici del cambiamento climatico in aree interne dell'Italia meridionale

Il lavoro analizza i marker geomorfologici del cambiamento climatico in aree interne semi-aride del Mediterraneo, con particolare riferimento ad aree-campione della Basilicata (Italia meridionale) e dell’Aragona (Spagna nord-orientale). La ricerca adotta un approccio multi-scala e multitemporale che integra il quadro geocronologico del Quaternario, la ricostruzione paleoclimatica e il dibattito scientifico sull’Antropocene, interpretato come un processo graduale e cumulativo piuttosto che com...

Evaluation of urban green walls benefits in Mediterranean area: species selection, definition of sustainable irrigation strategies and ecosystem services assessment

The increasing climatic and environmental pressure on Mediterranean cities makes it necessary to adopt Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) capable of integrating climate adaptation, environmental mitigation, and urban regeneration. In this context, vertical green walls represent a type of green infrastructure particularly suited to compact urban fabrics, where limited land availability requires an efficient use of building surfaces. This PhD thesis analyzes and evaluates an experimental prototype of...