PROJECT WORKING PAPER EVALUATION REPORT FOR 3.4. “Mainstreaming adaptation into existing urban development and environmental management plans”

In this work, in the premise, the role of the evaluation process is considered necessary in order to determine the appropriateness of the approach that has been adopted. For this reason, the assessment report will try to: - underline some points, coming from the understanding of the on-going urban processes of the city; - make some comments, about the important implications that are located “behind this report”, since they could be helpful to locate this project within a larger theoretical framework. Moreover, it allows to further discuss, here and after these 3 years of work, and maybe, it suggests also how to go forward. Clearly, the most important and original elements of the work is already in the premises: to keep climate change within the planning processes and practices, and stop to start every time for the beginning, such as a sort of tabula rasa. In fact, in this case, we are talking about the mainstreaming adaptation into existing urban development and environmental management plans, in order to mainstreaming adaptation into the plans themself. In this frame, the double key word is existing: existing urban development and environmental management and existing plans; the existing real world and the existing work of someone else (other planners) and also plans implemented in the real word. Here, the challenging strategy is to cope with something that is there, before and after you (as planners, as officers as politicians) and beyond the project implementation, like the soil, the environment, the cities. In this sense, it is an useful approach that as to do with an active idea of “sustainability at work”, within an intrinsically ecological and sustainable way to do.