Bioregional Planning and Design: Volume II

Chapter 1. The recovery of a holistic and cross-disciplinary approach in a European prospect: some key points. Part I: Planning practice: Issues for bioregional re-localization.- Chapter 2. Towards connected self-sufficiency: relocalisation of energy flow.- Chapter 3. Socio-environmental Resilience, Demography and Land Degradation: a Bio-regional Approach.- Chapter 4. The representation process of local heritage for the territorial project.- Chapter 5. Agro-ecology: relocalizing agriculture accordingly with places.- Part II: Regional contexts, practices and projects for a bioregional recovery.- Chapter 6. Participative agri-food projects in the urban bioregion of the Vega of Granada, Spain.- Chapter 7. Social contexts, Local practices and Urban Projects for a Bio-regional Post-crisis Recovery: The emblematic Example of Athens' Fringe, Greece.- Chapter 8. The ecological transition of Vorarlberg ant its implementation in France.- Chapter 9. The Bruxellian bioregion between phenomenon and project: the agro-ecological horizon.- Chapter 10. Agro-urban public space in the European bioregional city: the case of the left riverside agricultural park in Florence.- Chapter 11. Building the territory of resilience. Present and future perspectives of the bioregional experience in Sardinia Island.- Chapter 12. The local food system in Lombardy region: a grassroot movement.- Part III: An Europe-worldwide crossing perspective.- Chapter 13. The Role of Regenerative Design and Biophilic Urbanism in Regional Sustainability. The case of Curitiba.- Chapter 14. Indonesia- A bioregional prospect for the Malang peri-urban area.- Chapter 15. The Role of Local Knowledge for Rural Revitalization in China: Social-Ecological Lessons Learned Through Disasters, Architecture, and Education.- Chapter 16. Concluding remarks. Rethinking territories from a Biocultural/Bioregional perspective.

David Fanfani (PhD) is Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the Department of Architecture at the Florence University, Italy. He teaches Master Science Course in Regional Planning and Design and Master Science in Architecture of Florence's Architecture School. His research activity focuses especially on analysis and design on the regional scale, addressing mainly matters related to peri-urban areas and their reconnection between city and countryside. He applies an integrated and cross-disciplinary bio-regional approach aimed at the recovery of a co-evolutionary relations between urban and rural domain. He is author of many publications and scientific papers on these subjects at Italian as well as international level. He is also editor in chief of Contesti. Città territori e Progetti, Journal of Urban and Regional Planning and Design, of the Architecture Department of Florence University.

Alberto Mataràn Ruiz is BsC and PhD in Environmental Science at the University of Granada, Spain, and MsC Waste Management at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Granada. Visiting scholar in different international universities and professor in several postgraduate programs including Urban and Regional Planning, Agroecology, Environmental History and International Cooperation. His research interest is centred on local self-sustainability including the importance of periurban areas and local food systems. According to this his methodological approach is based on an agroecological and decolonial perspective and considers the importance of participation for the transition processes in Europe and Latin America.