A PROACTIVE APPROACH TO CHALLENGES

The strategy aim to structure an action plan that includes visions of environmental sustainability,adaptation and mitigation of climate change related effects and a better quality of life for citizenship with a holistic and inclusive approach clustering local and national stakeholders.

CIRCULAR PATH TO EMPOWER CITY CAPACITY BUILDING

GOAL:

To define a shared and inclusive strategy.
To establish priorities and tool to prevent, limit damages.
To strengthen the urban, economic and social dimension of the city.

HOW?

To write an Action Plan with cross-cutting elements such as:

legislation/regulation that support resilience of the territories;
effective PPP models to foster the transition to a resilient sustainable economy;
funding instruments framework to support the identified actions.

The strategy is based on 3 assets concerning different areas:

GREY ASSET

Regards the innovative development of infrastructures, and the proper use of existing ones.
The subsets of the asset gray are:

mapping;
conditions;
monitoring;
innovative planning.

GREEN ASSET

Concerns urban regeneration and climate changes.
The subsets of the green asset are:

adaptation (to climate changes);
prevention;
Sustainable Development;
Local Urban Agenda
SECAP (Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plan).

SOFT ASSET

Deals with the economic and social impacts on communities and businesses.
The subsets of the soft asset are:

Vulnerability (analysis);
Costs/benefits (analysis);
Information/knowledge tool;
Resilient community;
Welfare and related measures;
Integrated planning;
Socio-economic tissue;
Resilience in processes and organizations.

INCLUSIVE APPROACH: STAKEHOLDER CO-OWNERSHIP AND LEADERSHIP

Nowadays all the main initiatives of a city foresee a participatory enabling process to reach a better working on the ground. The City of Genoa foster the qualyfing perspective of a long term stakeholder engagement starting from the beginning in co-design the new Resilience strategy for the city.
With a new methodology of clustering stakeholder we gather 250 stakeholder as general contributors, 93 as active participants and 46 that after a progressive process could finally help in taking the coownership of the future actions that will fullfill the Action Plan.

Working together in thematic groups with: