Territorial governance and climate adaptation. Towards an environmental perspective of urban regeneration

The literature, the scientific and disciplinary debate and the growing awareness on the part of national and international bodies of the impact of climate change on the territory (European Green Deal, 2019, Horizon Europe 2021-2027) have highlighted, in recent years, the need for climate-proof policies, strategies, tools and actions as a goal to be achieved through the updating and innovation of spatial government tools, according to an integrated and inter-scalar approach for the construction of urban regeneration strategies in coherence with the objectives of the European Strategy on adaptation to climate change (EU, 2021) and the addresses of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN, 2015) and the Climate Conference (COP26, 2021). This scenario is reflected in the most recent EU programming and policies and is, moreover, a transversal objective of the PNRR (Mission 5 Inclusion and Cohesion (Urban Regeneration and Social Housing), as well as of the PNR 2021/2027 (AT 2 Humanistic Culture, Creativity, Social Transformation, Inclusive Society in close correlation with AT 5 Climate and AT 6 Environment). In this context, the contribution presents some of the results of the research activities carried out by the authors that highlight, starting from the analysis of national and international planning experiences and best practices, the urgency of defining new perspectives and new theoretical-methodological and operational references for an innovative planning system, as a tool for a sustainable and resilient regeneration of contemporary cities and territories, at the supra-municipal, municipal and local scale, with significant impacts on mitigation and adaptation to the effects of climate change.