2025 Reports

Genoa: A Circular Path Towards Resilience

Giannini, Valentina; Manca, Stefania; Martinasco, Elena

The municipality’s planning documents, mainly the “Lighthouse Genoa’s City Strategy” and the “Genoa 2050 Action Plan for a Lighthouse City”, were developed to increase detailed analysis referring to the following impacts and propose actions and plans to mitigate them:
- effects on human health that could increase mortality and morbidity related to heat waves and warm spells stress, diseases and mortality from air pollution, allergic disorders, diseases related in change of vector-borne, water-borne and food-borne disease spreading;
- change on the hydro-geological regime with potentially increased risk of flash-flood in the 65 river basins, and widespread related risk of landslides;
- increased risk of forest fires and wild-urban interface fires in the most critical areas of urban boundaries;
- increased occurrence of extreme weather events combined with sea level rise, and related risk of coastal flooding and coastal erosion;
- losses in key economic sectors, such as energy, tourism, declining productivity in fishery and agriculture, infrastructure, transport and human activities, human settlements and socio-economic activities as a whole.

The Lighthouse Strategy was organized according to the three major assets (green, grey, soft), characterized by key elements and by their own particular themes. Needs were investigated, and solutions, methods, and actions were developed to support and anticipate changes, and to enable the city’s necessary transformation process.

Keywords: Transformative actions, multi-level governance, capacity building