16th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies 3-6 April 2023, Athens, Greece

The transformation of cities and urban and peri-urban districts into flexible, adaptive and sustainable organisms, under the most recent European policy proposals on climate, energy, transportation, land and resource use, have become today's issues that can no longer be postponed. Climate change, increases in impacts from carbon emissions, accelerated in the last year by greater reliance on coal due to the ongoing energy and geopolitical crisis, the increased cost of finding and supplying natural gas on which member countries depend for more than 54 percent, determine urgent policy measures to make city dwellers more responsible and resilient toward impacts generated and derived from economic, social and environmental changes.