Climate Change Adaptation, Flood Risk, and Beyond

Massimiliano Granceri Bradaschia is a post-doc researcher at IUAV University of Venice and an independent consultant with more than 10 years of work experience in Urban and Environmental Planning, Climate Change Adaptation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Public policy analysis. He is a professional with diverse and multicultural experiences as both scholar and practitioner in Brazil, France, Spain, Italy, and in the lusophone African countries. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Development (2020) and a M.Sc. in Urban and Environmental Planning (2014). He is officially chartered to the Italian Urban Planning National Register (2014) and to the Turin Architects and Urbanists register (2020). He's been working at the services i) governments ii) private companies and consortia, iii) learning and research institutions, iv) donors and funding organizations, supporting the improvement and update of their operative frameworks with the aim to mainstream Sustainability and Climate Change Adaptation. 

Francesco Musco, urban and environmental planner, PhD in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development (Ca' Foscari, Venice), Full Professor in Urban and Environmental Planning at the Department of Architecture and Arts - University Iuav of Venice. Currently teaches "Environmental planning", "Spatial Planning for Climate Change", "Urban design". 

Currently is Director of Research at Iuav (2021-2024). Director of the MS in Urban Planning for Transition and professor of PhD program in "Spatial planning and public policies for the territory" at Iuav.

Scientific coordinator of numerous EU funded projects and research and he obtained more than 8 million euros of competitive research funds in the period 2011-20. Among his publications: with M. van Staden (2010), Local Government for Climate Change, Springer, NY; (2016); (ed) Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Scenario, Springer NY.

Filippo Magni, urban planner, holds a PhD in planning and public policies for the territory at Università Iuav di Venezia, a master's degree in planning at Iuav with a double-title from the International Master in Estudios Territorials i de la Poblaciò issued by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is currently a researcher (RTDa) in urban and regional planning (ICAR/20).

He has carried out research and teaching abroad at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Universidad de Sevilla, and the Drexel University of Philadelphia, where, through a multidisciplinary approach, he focused on the need to redesign urban planning tools, recognised as the main vectors capable of increasing greater resilience to climate change.

Chapter 1: Assessing hydrogeological vulnerability within Northern Apennines: an integrated spatial analysis at Forlì-Cesena (Italy).- Chapter 2: Susceptibility of flood-prone areas to remain inundated for shorter or longer periods during a flooding event: an assessment method applied in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Italy).- Chapter 3: Climate change adaptation and regional planning: the Liguria Region case.- Chapter 4: Spotting deficit areas: mapping ecosystem service demand and supply to define local preparedness to floods.- Chapter 5: Adapting to adaptation: Methodological support for multiscalar adaptation of the Venice Lagoon (Italy).- Chapter 6: Adaptation of coastal infrastructures to climate change: two examples of touristic facilities' adaptation in western mediterranean.- Chapter 7: Enabling adaptation to climate change through Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans: three case studies from Italy.- Chapter 8: Systemic Approaches and Principles for urban stormwater management.- Chapter 9: Flood and Adaptation financing: from "Project" mode to "Living with" mode at the service of the EU.- Chapter 10: How to improve M&E in climate adaptation action in the case of international projects dealing with socio-hydrological resilience.- Chapter 11: Rediscovering rivers in the Brazilian megacity of San Paolo: leveraging water sensitivity in the urban governance.- Chapter 12: The city of waters: art, perceptions, and historical-geographical studies on the hydrographic network of Belo Horizonte (Brazil).