Themes & Tracks

The Conference encourages discussion on the major urban and environmental challenges at stake and promotes knowledge exchange among researchers, professionals, and public administrators and technicians, in order to look for insights into innovative planning methodologies, tools and experiences which may eventually provide a comprehensive and integrated overview on spatial planning related to nature and natural resources.

Participants are kindly invited to submit contributions that illustrate innovative approaches, implemented activities and achieved results in the research fields of spatial planning related to urban and metropolitan environments, and regions, which may involve national and international contexts.

Parallel sessions are the following:

1. Ecosystem services and spatial planning;

2. Integrated management of marine protected areas and Natura 2000 sites;

3. Rural development and conservation of nature and natural resources;

4. Geodesign, planning and urban regeneration;

5. Green and blue infrastructure;

6. Smart city planning;

7. Water resources, ecosystem services and nature-based solutions in spatial planning;

8. Conservation and valorisation of architectural and cultural heritage;

9. Accessibility, mobility and spatial planning;

10. Tourism and sustainability in the Sulcis area.

Special sessions are the following:

SP1. Ecological networks and landscape planning.

New themes and tracks are expected to emerge from proposed special sessions.

Authors who intend to propose a special session are invited to submit an abstract that must not exceed 2.000 characters in length and to identify at least five contributions to be presented in the proposed special session, which must be indicated in the special session proposed. The deadline for proposed special sessions is 3 December 2018. The added special sessions will be available on the conference website.