The thesis investigates the defensive architectures built in Sardinia during the Second World War, with particular attention to the coastal system of the Gulf of Cagliari. Bunkers, casemates, batteries, observation posts and complementary military works are not considered as isolated objects, but as components of a wider territorial device, structured through relationships between morphology, infrastructure, fields of fire, access routes, strategic nodes and forms of landscape control.
The r...
The research addresses the digitisation of twentieth-century architectural archives as a question of cognitive accessibility, interpretation and communication of design knowledge. The online availability of records, inventories and digital surrogates extends the consultation of archival holdings, yet it often leaves implicit the relationships between sources, design sequences, variants, gaps and interpretative decisions. For this reason, the thesis adopts the notion of "paper architectures" i...
This dissertation investigates the European Union’s strategy for securing Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) within the framework of Open Strategic Autonomy (OSA). Against the backdrop of rapidly increasing demand driven by the green and digital transitions, the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) establishes ambitious 2030 targets for domestic extraction, processing, and recycling, with the aim of reducing the EU’s dependence on geographically concentrated foreign suppliers. The dissertation first ...
This dissertation investigates how early non-cognitive characteristics shape academic achievement, educational trajectories, and gender differences in educational outcomes. In particular, it examines whether students' attitudes toward learning and test anxiety, measured during primary school, are associated with subsequent academic achievement and educational choices within the Italian educational system.
The empirical analyses exploit longitudinal administrative data from the Italian Nation...
Floods are among the most dangerous natural disasters, affecting thousands of people
worldwide every year. Their frequency and intensity are expected to increase due to climate
change and ongoing urbanization, making the identification of effective mitigation
strategies increasingly important. However, flooding includes different types of events,
such as pluvial, fluvial, and coastal floods, which differ in their governing physical processes
and in the current level of scientific understandin...
The transition toward a decentralized and decarbonized energy paradigm finds a pivotal instrument in Renewable Energy Communities (RECs). However, their operational dissemination is often hindered by the structural limitations of current planning tools, which are typically confined to a purely techno-economic approach that treats the end-user as a perfectly rational actor, ignoring their behavioral complexity.
This thesis presents the development, validation, and empirical application of an ...
Contemporary cities constitute increasingly complex environmental systems characterized by heterogeneous environmental conditions. Within this context, urban vegetation plays a central role in climate adaptation, environmental regulation, and urban sustainability, highlighting the need for tools capable of monitoring its variability under environmental conditions.
However, available approaches, ranging from structural indicators to physiological and biochemical measurements, often provide inf...
Urban mobility systems are undergoing significant transformation due to infrastructural developments, technological innovations, and external disruptions. Understanding how individuals adapt their travel behavior in response to these changes is critical for promoting sustainable transportation. In this context, discrete choice modelling has been widely used to analyze travel behavior and mode choice. However, most existing studies adopt a static perspective, often overlooking the dynamic natu...
This thesis provides an integrated, multi-archive reconstruction of coastal sedimentary sequences in Sardinia, spanning the Middle–Late Pleistocene to historical timescales, and addressing the gap between long-term sea-level trends and high-frequency coastal responses. In particular, it explores how coastal sequences respond to interactions among tectonics, climate, and eustatic fluctuations over timescales ranging from hundreds to thousands of years, focusing on successions from different ar...
The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the design of management systems for Sardinian coastal alluvial aquifers affected by saltwater intrusion, within the framework of the PNRR e.INS project, Spoke 9. The study focuses on the Quaternary alluvial aquifer of the Muravera coastal plain (Sardinia, Italy), selected as a pilot area because of the relevance of the salinization issue and the availability of a large body of previous data, further integrated with new monitoring tools and field act...