Landfill redevelopment

Landfill redevelopment plays a significant role in efficient land use management acting as a catalyst in sustainable planning: the demand of more room for city growth makes abandoned landfills a sort of “recycled” resource that can upgrade spaces and activities in terms of city form, land value and environment features. Risk’s issues concern environmental, social, financial and political aspects of redevelopment. Moreover risk could be determined by a single topic but it rapidly involves the whole project (see risk definition below). Risk is not only a technical matter regarding engineering solution or environment vulnerability: it is more a general issue that decides the failure in terms of social and financial expectation and political credibility. It represents the main obstacle in order to promote redevelopment policies by public sector. So to enhance redevelopment, it’s important to improve the decision process by an innovative approach, concerning not only the engineering solution but also social and financial aspects of redevelopment that involve a quantity of subjects that play a role in the project course: public sectors, developers, site residents, associations, and expert’s lead decision process toward a flow that needs a continuous feedback among the different stages of knowledge, assessment and decision.