2026: Special Issue. Urban and Territorial Resilience. Urbanism Facing Crisis
Special Issue. Urban and Territorial Resilience. Urbanism Facing Crisis

Innovative approaches to address territorial multi-risk: rethinking spatial planning processes in the era of transition

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  • Vittoria Ridolfi,
  • Elena Ferraioli,
  • Nicola Romanato,
  • Federica Gerla,
  • Filippo Magni
Vittoria Ridolfi
IUAV
Elena Ferraioli
IUAV
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/contest-16533

Published 2026-01-29

Keywords

  • spatial planning,
  • multi-risk transition,
  • territorial diagnosis,
  • adaptive governance

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Ridolfi, V., Ferraioli, E., Romanato, N., Gerla, F., & Magni, F. (2026). Innovative approaches to address territorial multi-risk: rethinking spatial planning processes in the era of transition. Contesti. Città, Territori, Progetti, 134–155. https://doi.org/10.36253/contest-16533

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Abstract

In a context marked by environmental crises and interdependent vulnerabilities, this article introduces an innovative methodological approach to spatial planning based on the paradigm of multi-risk transition. The L methodology combines a vertical axis, ensuring strategic coherence across governance levels, with a horizontal axis focused on territorial multi-risk diagnosis. The article primarily explores the latter through an experimental application in the UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserve of the Po Delta (Veneto Region). By integrating vulnerability and exposure data, the multi-risk assessment is conceived as both a cognitive and operational device to inform place-based visions and strategies. The proposed methodology serves as a transformative tool to rethink spatial planning as an adaptive governance process, capable of bridging scales, actors, and knowledge in complex territorial contexts.

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