University of Trento

University of Trento

The University of Trento, Italy, has always aimed at academic excellence for the quality of teaching and research. Currently, the University has more than 16,000 students and 600 faculty members, structured into 11 Departments and 3 Research Centres and offers 15 PhD Programmes, 37 Master and 27 Bachelor degrees.

The involvement in the MOVE-ON project is undertaken by the Planning for Ecosystem Services Lab (PLANES), one of the research units of DICAM, the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Trento. The scientific mission of PLANES is to advance applied research about the production and use of ecosystem services knowledge to improve real-life decisions, and particularly to support urban and spatial planning processes, land-use policies, environmental assessments (EIA and SEA), and urban design. Current areas of research include the planning and design of nature-based solutions to promote health and environmental protection in cities; performance-based approaches in urban planning to enhance ecosystem services supply and benefits; ecosystem-based urban climate adaptation; methods for ecosystem services spatial assessment; and the exploration of equity issues associated to the fruition of ecosystem services in urban areas.


University of Trento (UniTrento)
Website: http://www.planningfores.com/
Italy

Members

Davide Geneletti

Davide Geneletti

Davide Geneletti is an Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Environmental Assessment at the University of Trento. Formerly Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Sustainability Science Program and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Woods Center for the Environment. He has over 20 years of research experience in biodiversity impact assessment; ecosystem services for urban and spatial planning and multicriteria analysis for environmental decision-making. He has been WP/team leader in 13 international research projects and authored over 160 publications, including the 2020 Springer books Planning for ecosystem services in cities and Ecosystem services for urban water security. He consulted on ecosystem services and environmental assessment-related matters for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UN-HABITAT, and the European Commission.

Email: davide.geneletti@unitn.it

Jarumi Kato

Jarumi Kato

Jarumi Kato holds a Master’s degree in Ecosystem Services by the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and a Degree in Biology. She has worked as a research assistant conducting technical-scientific environmental impact assessment studies to indicate the effects that infrastructure projects have had in highly biodiverse areas of Mexico. Currently, she is undertaking her PhD project at the University of Trento (Italy) under the research lab Planning for Ecosystem Services from the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering. Her project aims at integrating a spatially explicit framework for the deployment of Nature-based solutions in urban areas considering ecosystem services dynamics and environmental justice.

Email: jarumi.katohuerta@unitn.it

Coordinated by:
Governo Regional dos Açores
Frct
Partners:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Regional Agency for Development, Investment and Innovation
Reunion University
Asociación Biodiversidad Atlántica y Sostenibilidad
University of Portsmouth
World Wide Fund for Nature
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
SAERI Falklands Limited
University of Trento
Nova Blue Environment