Proposal of an Environmental-Economic Accounting System for Urban Renewal Projects

Abstract

The multiple features of the urban systems require actions designed according to integrated logics. In line to current European dispositions on ecological transition and digital innovation, worldwide attention is focused on the programming-planning interventions in view of intergenerational equity. The valorization of existing built-natural environment by eco-systemic services is a strategic asset by European cities (and not ones) to become greening. Nowadays, the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) constitutes the reference framework at international level that integrates economic and environmental data to provide a more comprehensive and multipurpose view of the interrelationships between the economy and the environment in urban contexts. Few applications and logical-operational transpositions of the framework, like the SEEA one, in decision-making systems are found in the literature, especially to support the design of nature-solutions initiatives in urban contexts from the environmental, economic and social points of view. In this view, the aim of this work is to favor urban interventions analyzed with an integrated logic namely that of ecosystem services. The objective consists in the descriptions of logic-operative framework of multi-criteria matrix for supporting the feasibility of design proposals evaluated in terms of trade-off concerning the environmental-social and economic frame of reference urban context. Expectations on possible operative transcription of the proposed ecosystem workflow assessment for urban projects will be outlined.