Teaching - Università Roma Tre

Smart cities, digitalisation, e-commerce and sustainability (objectives)

The course provides both theoretical and practical knowledge on the interrelationships between the digitization process, which today's society is experiencing, and its implications in terms of environmental sustainability. The specific focus of the course is the cities where the majority of the world population is now concentrated and which are the driving force of knowledge. This interrelation will be analyzed, described and interpreted in the light of the concept of smart cities or those places where traditional networks and services are made more efficient thanks to the use of digital technologies and telecommunications for the benefit of its inhabitants and businesses, favoring a better use of resources and at the same time reducing the harmful emissions that the production process involves. There are several sectors in which smart cities can produce the improvements described above. In particular, the smart urban transport networks, the water supply, waste disposal systems, efficient lighting and heating systems, the improvement and enhancement of the functions of the public administration, the greater usability and safety of public spaces, especially in favor of a population that progressively ages on average. However, the phenomenon in which these changes have involved radical changes in functioning is that of electronic commerce which has had, and will have in the next few years, sustained growth rates with strong implications for the environmental and social sustainability of cities. Precisely for this reason, a substantial part of the course focuses on the study of the implications that this phenomenon has on cities and, consequently, of the intervention policies that can be adopted with specific reference to the urban distribution of goods in order to mitigate the negative effects and promote those advantageous for cities. Students, also thanks to an active participation in the course through: 1) critical discussions, 2) structured bibliographic research; 3) drafting of short documents, 4) public presentations, will learn both to deal rigorously and completely with the study of complex issues, such as those described above, and soft skills also useful for professional purposes.

Code

21810331

Language

ITA

Type of certificate

Profit certificate

Credits

Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code

SECS-P/02

Contact Hours

Type of Activity

Core compulsory activities

Teacher	MARCUCCI EDOARDO (syllabus) The course is divided into four parts and is distinguished between attending and non-attending. The first part focuses on smart cities, identifying their main characteristics, defining their key performance indicators to measure their evolution over time, and clarifying the economic, technological, social and environmental implications that the emergence of such a paradigm could have in concrete. The second part of the course focuses on the role of digitalization and the main underlying technologies, discussing its economic (new business models), social (possible greater participation in collective life), and environmental implications (reduction of pollutants). The third part focuses attention on electronic commerce by connecting, in a specific sector, both the concept of smart city and that of digitalization, showing the implications at a sectoral level in practice. The fourth part of the course explores the issue of sustainability by declining it into its main components (social, economic and environmental) and defining it in such a way as to clearly evaluate the effects of the possible intervention policies implemented in order to guarantee their achievement. (reference books) Attending Marcucci E., Gatta V., Le Pira M. (2023). Handbook on City Logistics and Urban Freight. Edward Elgar, UK. (Chapters - 1,2,3,8,11,15, 16, 19, 21,23) Articles and book chapters provided durig the course. Non attending Marcucci E., Gatta V., Le Pira M. (2023). Handbook on City Logistics and Urban Freight. Edward Elgar, UK. (Capitoli - 1,2,3,8,11,15, 16, 19, 21,23) Smart-cities Compulsory Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale, ARCHITETTURA PER LE COMUNITÀ INTELLIGENTI: VISIONE CONCETTUALE E RACCOMANDAZIONI ALLA PUBBLICA AMMINISTRAZIONE, Versione 2.0 del 03/10/2012, https://www.agid.gov.it/sites/default/files/repository_files/documenti_indirizzo/archsc_v2.0.pdf Optional de Santis, Roberta and Fasano, Alessandra and Mignolli, Nadia and Villa, Anna, 203, Il quadro concettuale e le esperienze di misurazione delle Smart Cities,{University Library of Munich, Germany, MPRA Paperhttps://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:50207. R De Santis, A Fasano, N Mignolli, A Villa, 2014 , Smart City: la città del futuro? Anno XLVIII Economia & Lavoro Saggi pp. 177-193, (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roberta-Santis/publication/260685739_Smart_City_the_future_city/links/557fe00908aec87640de1019/Smart-City-the-future-city.pdf) Digitalization Compulsory Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e resilienza (pp. 83 – 115) (https://www.governo.it/sites/governo.it/files/PNRR.pdf) Strategia per la crescita digitale 2014-2020, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Roma 03/3/2015(https://www.agid.gov.it/sites/default/files/repository_files/documentazione/strat_crescita_digit_3marzo_0.pdf) Optional Guarascio D., Sacchi S., (2017), Digitalizzazione, automazione e futuro del lavoro, Roma, Inapp https://oa.inapp.org/xmlui/handle/20.500.12916/64 E-commerce Compulsory Donata Tania Vergura, 2018, E-commerce e digital transformation. Nuovi scenzari per imprese omicanale e consumatori on-demand, capp. 1, 2 4, 5. Giappichelli Facoltativo/optional Mara Del Baldo, (2007), Domanda, offerta logistica e imprese minori, Piccola Impresa-Small Business, (https://journals.uniurb.it/index.php/piccola/article/view/2610/2351) Sustainability Compulsory L’agenda globale per lo sviluppo sostenibile, Quinta edizione, n. 89, novembre 2020, Ufficio Studi Camera dei Deputati, (http://documenti.camera.it/leg18/dossier/testi/UE0017.htm?_1574476466411) Optional Valera, Luca, 2012, La sostenibilità: un concetto da chiarire, Economia & diritto agroalimentare, Firenze University Press, P. 9-38. (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luca-Valera/publication/239851725_La_sostenibilita_un_concetto_da_chiarire/links/570bdffa08ae8883a1ffdde5/La-sostenibilita-un-concetto-da-chiarire.pdf)
Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities	From to
Delivery mode	Traditional
Attendance	not mandatory
Evaluation methods	Oral exam A project evaluation