The operations for the
online publication of the new civic network, the website of the Municipality of
Bologna, which will be progressively renewed thanks to a project approved and
financed within the framework of the PON Metro - Axis 1 Digital Services with
the aim of creating the "Digital House of the Citizen", have started.
The initiative of Bologna,
pilot city of the VEG-GAP project, will allow an even simpler and more
immediate comparison between the data and statistics that the VEG-GAP project
platform will soon publish online and those of the Municipality, coming from
its monitoring of environmental impact assessment
procedures and from its interactive map of air quality monitoring points, active since 1999.
The synergy between these
two information sources will enhance the effectiveness of both ICT applications
for the gain of both inhabitants and local decision makers. Thanks to these
comparisons for the VEG-GAP project platform, it will be possible to explicitly
show the links between nature-based actions for adaptation to and mitigation of
climate change effects and those aimed at improving air quality in urban
contexts.
In order to provide as
complete a picture as possible of the consequences of pollutant actions, the
VEG-GAP approach also takes into account the emissions generated by urban
vegetation itself. These are measured taking into account their spatial
location and paying close attention to their interactions with the urban
environment (photophysical and chemical processes).
The aim of VEG GAP is to
achieve a better understanding of urban greenery than is possible through a
simple census. Nowadays, the advancement of this knowledge becomes easier as
its vegetation scenarios can be compared to emission scenarios in an even
faster way.