The Integrated Project of an Energy and Sustainable Community as an Input for Urban Regeneration and Development

Today the ways in which urban regeneration and development planning
is tackled are an important aspect to reflect on to manage a sustainable urban
growth scenario. European impulses to counter the effects of climate change and
recent Local Authorities reforms have paved the way for the definition of flexible
tools to foster a multi-level governance. This paper presents the policymaking process
for the Sustainable Development Agenda of theMetropolitan City of Cagliari
(Italy), as a continuous process of contextualisation of the SDGs and discusses
the institutional context for promoting integrated projects for sustainability as an
opportunity to agree mutual commitments and obligations for their implementation.
A decision support tool based on the cognitive mapping technique together
with specific selection criteria allow to build several clusters, representative of
embryonic forms of integrated projects for sustainability. An integrated project
for an energy and sustainable community will be started to test the method, as a
starting point for the activation of initiatives of an aggregative nature, starting from
subjects who have the ability to operate independently in the field of production
and more rationale use of energy: They also canmake an important contribution to
initiating a broader change in behaviour in the use of spaces and in the management
of services.