NAPLES IN TRANSITION: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESS FOR THE SUSTAINABLE PORT AREA DEVELOPMENT

Nowadays in order to make cities more resilient, policymakers are required to consider the various challenges that climate change related to urban development can bring under conditions of uncertainty. Usually, dealing with climate change means to face mitigation, that is more related to the technological way to reduce the causes of climate change, and adaptation, which strategy aim to reduce negative impacts.In accord with several studies in landscape ecology, the key environmental transformation is recognised as the primary drivers responsible for the changes. It is believed that the drivers of change, also defined as driving forces, are be able to determine the type, intensity and direction of change. The historical trajectory of the region and its natural characteristics, instead, are regarded responsible for influencing the sequence, intensity and duration of the driving forces in a certain location. Studying climate change mitigation and adaptation, several approaches and conceptual models have been adopted in order to direct the transition toward a sustainable urban development.The paper aims to develop an approach to the transition of the city of Naples, Italy, able to taking into account specific sector, and identifying common planning and design criteria. Within the conceptual framework that defines the design process as a decision-making process (ED 2014/89, Maritime Spatial Planning), climate change focus is changing from a problem-oriented to a decision-oriented approach. Considering the interaction among the cities several dimensions and the multi-level governance, it's possible to understand the complex governance system as urban transition management, in order to evaluate and implement alternatives within uncertain, dynamic and complex socio-ecological systems. The study objective is to experiment a transition model, taking into account adaptation and mitigation to climate change of the whole city, addressing the commercial port of the city of Naples with its potential sustainable development.