The PhD in Landscape and Environment is aimed at training researchers in the field of landscape design and interpretation, able of dealing with the contemporary environmental conditions.
Climate change, ecological crisis, loss of biodiversity are not a "sector" ; they are drivers of change across all research sectors , highlitghing the growing, transversal role of landscape project.
Extremely complex global challenges have shown the need for a paradigm shift in the relationship between man and nature, a Green New Deal, which is already transforming the European Union's policies on climate, energy, transport, agriculture, forests according to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It also appears increasingly evident that it is impossible to separate the environmental crisis and the social crisis, given the very close links between ecological exploitation, environmental destruction, poverty and exclusion, with reference to the increasingly large groups of populations living in conditions of poverty, overpopulation and forced removal from the territories to which they belong.
RESEARCH TOPICS
The research themes of the PhD are based on the assumption that innovation takes place in collaborative constellations, that the contamination between disciplines allow to find solutions to the needs of society . At the same time, it is necessary to build a fruitful dialogue, to feed interdisciplinarity, sharing perspectives and interests.
The transdisciplinary approach is therefore a tool and not an end, a way of working which, in line with the National Research Plan "serves to bring together different scientific approaches, skills, methods and abilities to pursue and solve complex problems of real life, (..) a tool, as an incubator to inspire scientific discoveries through the exchange of ideas and the germination of new synergies (serendipity) to change consolidated research perspectives, routines and paradigms (PNR 2021-2027, p.24).
The comparison with the major areas of research related to the Green New Deal- which will be at the center of national research strategies- has guided the selection of some themes within the landscape research field:
_health and wellness
_cultural heritage
_ social transformations and society of inclusion.
_ risk reduction for settlements, infrastructures, natural systems and communities
_ climate, energy, sustainable mobility
_ food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture, environment
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