Green Infrastructure

Benedetta Giudice is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Urban Planning at Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico and Università di Torino, Italy. Her main research activities focus on land take containment policies and green infrastructure planning and design. She participated in national and international research projects working on cultural and landscape heritage, territorial vulnerabilities, and public spaces. Currently, she collaborates with the Responsible Risk Resilience Centre, R3C, of Politecnico di Torino and the European Documentation Centre on Nature Park Planning (CED PPN). In 2021, she published "Planning and Design Perspectives for Land Take Containment: An Operative Framework" (Springer).
Gilles Novarina is an economist, planner, emeritus professor at Grenoble Alpes University and researcher in the Centre of Excellence in Architecture Environment & Building Cultures (Grenoble School of Architecture). He is the author of "Plan et projet. L'urbanisme en France et en Italie" (Anthropos, 2003), co-author of "Société urbaine et nouvelle économie" (L'Harmattan, 2010) and of "De la technopole à la métropole ? L'exemple de Grenoble" (Paris, Éditions du Moniteur, 2015). His main research themes are territorial planning, sustainable mobility, heritage and landscape valorisation. For the Ministry of ecological transition, he was involved in an assessment approach of the effects of UNESCO Word Heritage Sites on local development. He is preparing, for the first quarter of 2023, the publication of a book about planning theory (Éditions du Moniteur).
Angioletta Voghera is an architect and full professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Interuniversity Department of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning (DIST), Politecnico of Torino. She isthe Coordinator of the Master of Science in Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning since 2021 and Vice-coordinator of the 2nd level Master in "Methods and techniques for the governance of resilient territories. Towards integrated risk management" since 2021. Her main research activities are in the field of Regional and Landscape and Protected Areas Planning, and Urban Design with reference to European contexts. On these topics, she is the author of over 230 publications in books and national and international journals. In the last 10 years, she collaborated and coordinated many research projects within institutional agencies (IUCN; ICROM, ICCROM; Europarc; Iranian Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organisation; ISPRA; Federparchi; MIBACT/Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism; Piedmont Region; Province of Turin; Metropolitan City of Turin; INU; municipalities) and others financed by EuropeanFP7 and Horizon 2020.