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Minimum Environmental Criteria and Climate Issue in the Metropolitan Urban Ecosystem

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Abstract

In Italy, the adoption of the Minimum Environmental Criteria (MEC) is associated with Legislative Decree 50/2016, which regulates public tenders. The main objective of the MECs is to promote the purchase of sustainable goods and services thus contributing to the reduction of the environmental impact and the protection of natural resources. Furthermore, the adoption of MEC by public authorities represents a strategic choice to promote the circular economy, reduce waste and greenhouse gas emissions, thus preserving the quality of environmental matrices. MECs, although they are innovative tools, are however lacking in geographic information related to context analysis. In this synthetic framework, the objective of this work is to evaluate a set of contextual environmental indicators to support the MECs. In fact, the knowledge and representation of the context constitutes a fundamental action for recognizing local problems, which are also useful for understanding global issues. Furthermore, how can MECs contribute to adaptation to climate change within the relative territorial context? This question guided the manuscript and the metropolitan city of Cagliari represents the case study.

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Acknowledgment

This study was supported by Projects Ecosystem of Innovation for Next Generation Sardinia (e.INS) - approved by MUR, prot. n. 1056 of 23/06/2022; also, this publication was produced while attending the PhD programme in Civil Engineering and Architecture at the University of Cagliari, Cycle XXXVIII, with the support of a scholarship co-financed by the Ministerial Decree no. 352 of 9th April 2022, based on the NRRP - funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU - Mission 4 “Education and Research”, Component 2 “From Research to Business”, Investment 3.3, and by the company MLab srl.

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  1. DICAAR – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, Via Marengo 2, Cagliari, Italy

    Martina Sinatra & Ginevra Balletto

  2. DEAMS - Department of Economics, Business, Mathematics and Statistics Sciences “Bruno de Finetti”, University of Trieste, 34127, Trieste, Italy

    Giuseppe Borruso

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Conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, materials and resources, software, data curation and validation: all authors. In particular: Balletto wrote Sect. 1, Sect. 2; Sect. 2.2; Borruso and Sinatra wrote Sect. 2.1; Sinatra wrote Sect. 2.2, Sect. 3; Balletto and Sinatra wrote Sect. 4; Balletto and Borruso wrote Sect. 5.

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Sinatra, M., Balletto, G., Borruso, G. (2023). Minimum Environmental Criteria and Climate Issue in the Metropolitan Urban Ecosystem. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops. ICCSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14109. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37120-2_4

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