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Advanced topics in sustainability of heritage

Objectives and competences

• To provide the ability to analyse and debate heritage conservation and sustainability, critically and systematically review and report on relevant bibliography in the field ;
• To update students, through open discussion and presentation among peers, with the contemporary research trends in the field
• To train students to critically analyse, understand and use concepts, new information and ideas employed in heritage conservation and sustainability
• To consolidate the holistic approach to planning and to the research through understanding of the values, issues and potentials of historic territorial contexts and broader environment;

Prerequisites

Ni predpisanih predpogojev.

Content

• Seminars, open discussions in different fields of knowledge involved in heritage studies focusing on contemporary research perspectives and trends in the field of sustainable heritage preservation, planning and management.
• In particular the course will discuss specific synergies and gaps between heritage preservation as social or ecological process in relation to wide range of contemporary issues and disciplines such as social and cultural sustainability, sustainable design, urban studies and regional development, environmental history, circular economy, cultural ecology;
• The course will consider recent scientific and technological research and development addressing energy efficiency and renewable energy resources , climate change challenges as well as Nature Based Solutions;

Intended learning outcomes

• Student’s capacity to pursue independent bibliographical research within broad and complex range of topics inherent to sustainable heritage studies
• Publication and communication potential, learning interactive –scientific discussion
• Successful written and public presentation of research proposal focusing on critical presentation of bibliographical background related to the contemporary research trends

Readings

Selected literature may differ each year and will be given accordingly to the selected thematic field.

Assessment

• Active participation in classroom • Written report

Lecturer's references

Massimiliano Mazzanti is Full Professor (ECON-02/A) at University of Ferrara, Italy. he is a director of Department and Delegate for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).

Main Publications
1. Mazzanti M. (2006), Metodi e tecniche di analisi per la valutazione economica dei beni culturali, Franco Angeli
2. Mazzanti, M. (2006), Metodi e strumenti per la valutazione economica del patrimonio culturale, Franco Angeli
3. Mazzanti, M. (2007), Dinamiche innovative, relazioni industriali, performance nelle imprese manifatturiere. Seconda indagine sul sistema locale di Reggio Emilia, FrancoAngeli
4. Mazzanti, M. (2009), Waste & Environmental Policy, Routledge, Routledge explorations in environmental economics
5. Mazzanti, M. (2010), Environmental efficiency, innovation and economic performance, Routledge, Routledge explorations in environmental economics
6. Costantini, V.; Mazzanti, Massimiliano (2011), Hybrid Economic Environmental Accounts, Routledge
7. Pini, Paolo; Antonioli, Davide; Bianchi, Annaflavia; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro (2011), Strategie di innovazione e risultati economici. Un’indagine sulle imprese manifatturiere dell’Emilia-Romagna, FrancoAngeli
8. Costantini, V.; Mazzanti, Massimiliano (2013), The dynamics of economic and environmental systems. Environmental policy, innovation and competitiveness, Springer
9. Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, A. (2013), Waste Management in Spatial Environments, Routledge
10. Barbieri, Nicolò; Beretta, Ilaria; Costantini, Valeria; D’Amato, Alessio; Gilli, Marianna; Marin, Giovanni; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Tagliapietra, Simone; Zoboli, Roberto; Zoli, Mariangela; Paleari, Susanna; Bassi, Andrea M.; Ulrich Speck, Stefan (2021), Sustainability Transition and the European Green Deal: A Macro-Dynamic Perspective, European Environmental Agency
11. Zoboli, Roberto; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Paleari, Susanna; Bonacorsi, Laura; Chioatto, Elisa; D’Amato, Alessio; Ghisetti, Claudia; Maggioni, Mario A.; Zecca, Emy (2020), Energy and the Circular Economy: How to Fill the Integration Gap?, Fondazione Enrico Mattei
12. Speck, S.; Zoboli, R.; Paleari, S.; Marin, G.; Mazzanti, M.; Costantini, V.; Barbieri, N.; Gilli, M.; D'Amato, A.; Zoli, M.; Sforna, G.; Bassi, A. (2020), The Sustainability Transition in Europe in an Age of Demographic and Technological Change, European Environment Agency
13. Zoboli, Roberto; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Paleari, Susanna; Bonacorsi, Laura; Chioatto, Elisa; DʼAmato, Alessio; Ghisetti, Claudia; Maggioni, Mario A.; Zecca, Emy (2020), Energy and the Circular Economy: Filling the Gap Through New Business Models Within the EGD, Fondazione Enrico Mattei
14. Diaz Lopez, F. J.; Mazzanti, M.; Zoboli, R. (2023), Handbook on Innovation, Society and the Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

All publications
https://docente.unife.it/massimiliano.mazzanti/pubblicazioni