A Case Study in Southern Italy to Estimate the Effectiveness of GSI for Quality Life Improvement in an Urban Context

The effect of climate change on the Mediterranean landscape requires environmental restoration projects based on interdisciplinary research methods that consider the integration of different evolving aspects mainly in urban contexts where the increase of severe rainfalls is significantly impacting citizen behaviour. Starting from a case study of Strada Statale 7 bis in South Italy (a boundary between four municipalities: Melito di Napoli, Sant'Antimo, Giugliano in Campania, and Aversa) in which flooding, since last twenty years, exposed the road system fragility, composed by a main road and its sidewalks to allow normal citizen activities. A multidisciplinary research group proposed an innovative re-design of the street aiming to improve the quality of life during stormwaters. This work explores the possibility of importing best practices from North America to Southern Italy and integrating them into the hydrological approaches suggested by Italian law for risk mitigation

Green Street Framework for Mediterranean Urban Fringe Areas

The interdisciplinary approach was applied to analyze the complexity of the Mediterranean landscape of a case study of urban and peri-urban areas surrounding the Strada Statale 7bis, in Campania. In order to mitigate the periodic flooding of the area, a Green Street network was studied for the sustainable management of rainwater and the reduction of waterproofing in the urban area, capable of improving the quality of the open space, wastewater, and air, recharge underground aquifers, counteract high-temperature regimes by decreasing the effects of urban heat island and the greenhouse gases