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Place du Levant 1/L5.05.02
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Daniela Perrotti
Professeure
Daniela Perrotti is Professor Landscape Architecture at UCLouvain. Her research is an inquiry into the potential of urban metabolism theory and models to inform the planning and design of resource-efficient and climate-resilient cities. Her work positions itself distinctively in the landscape of research into urban metabolism applications in environmental planning and design by operating across two main areas.
The first area relates to the integration of ecosystem service frameworks into urban metabolism modelling approaches to inform green infrastructure planning and design. This includes investigation into nature-based solutions and green infrastructure options to reduce the demand on natural resources and mitigate the environmental pressure resulting from urbanization.
The second area focuses on the process of knowledge transfer between research and practice for the design of advanced urban metabolism assessment tools that can better assist policy making and urban planning practice. This includes retrospective evaluations of previously conducted research, as well as a set of pilot projects on the co-design of new urban metabolism models and decision support systems involving researchers and public/industry stakeholders.
Daniela serves/has served as Principal Investigator and co-Investigator for several research projects on integrated green infrastructure and urban metabolism modelling approaches, in collaboration with public/industry partners across Europe and South-America. These include academic/industry partners in the UK (Universities of Reading, Portsmouth, Leeds), Finland (Aalto University), Netherlands (Wageningen University and Research Centre, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions AMS), France (French National Institute for Agricultural Research INRA Versailles-Grignon, School of Landscape Architecture Versailles), Italy (Polytechnic University of Milan), Spain (Polytechnic University UP of Valencia), China (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Brazil (Federal University of Mato Grosso and Federal University of Goias).
Daniela is also founding member and scientific co-director of the international network Sustainable Urban Metabolisms (SUMs), bringing together leading academics as well as practitioners and decision-makers in Belgium, Finland, UK, Spain, Estonia, and the Netherlands. Among other activities, SUMs is implementing the first edition of an itinerant International Workshops series on Urban Metabolism and Green Infrastructure for Early-Career Researchers in top-ranked Universities in Europe.
Daniela has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and books.
Perrotti, Daniela ; Hyde, Katherine ; Otero Pena, Daniel. Do water systems enhance commoning practices? Analysing leverages for self-organization in urban water commons as socio-ecological systems.. In: Socio-Ecological Practice Research, Vol. 1, no.1, p. 1-22 (2019) (Soumis).
Perrotti, Daniela. Evaluating urban metabolism assessment methods and knowledge transfer between scientists and practitioners: A combined framework for supporting practice-relevant research. In: Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Vol. Theme issue: Urban Systems Design (2019). doi:10.1177/2399808319832611.
Galan, Juanjo ; Perrotti, Daniela. Incorporating Metabolic Thinking into Regional Planning: The Case of the Sierra Calderona Strategic Plan. In: Urban Planning, Vol. 4, no.1, p. 1-20 (2019). doi:https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v4i1.1549. doi:10.17645/up.v4i1.1549.
Perrotti, Daniela ; Stremke, Sven. Can urban metabolism models advance green infrastructure planning? Insights from ecosystem services research. In: Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Vol. Online First, no. 10/09/2018, p. 1-17 (2018). doi:10.1177/2399808318797131.
Voskamp, Ilse M. ; Stremke, Sven ; Spiller, Marc ; Perrotti, Daniela ; van der Hoek, Jan Peter ; Rijnaarts, Huub H. M.. Enhanced Performance of the Eurostat Method for Comprehensive Assessment of Urban Metabolism: A Material Flow Analysis of Amsterdam : Comprehensive Material Flow Analysis of Amsterdam. In: Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 21, no.4, p. 887-902 (2016). doi:10.1111/jiec.12461.
Perrotti, Daniela. Paysage-infrastructure ou de la dimension infrastructurelle du paysage. In: Les Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale et Urbaine, Vol. 28, no.1, p. 140-142 (2013).
Perrotti, Daniela ; Henrion, Stanislas. The Notion of Landscape Acceptability as a Key Factor in Integrated Energy-Landscape Policy. In: Environmental Practice, Vol. 15, no.1, p. 5-18 (2013). doi:10.1017/S1466046612000518.
Perrotti, Daniela. Conceiving the (everyday) landscape of energy as a transcalar infrastructural device. In: Projets de paysage, Vol. 7, no.1, p. - (2012).
Perrotti, Daniela. Ruralité urbaine. Les territoires périurbains du Parc Agricole Sud de Milan à l’épreuve de l’Expo Milan 2015 [Urban Rurality. The Periurban Areas of Milan Agricultural Park toward Expo Milan 2015]. In: Environnement urbain / Urban Environment, Vol. 6, no.1, p. 100-117 (2012).
Perrotti, Daniela. Une stratégie analytique et opérationnelle pour les transformations du territoire métropolitain de Vérone: paysage-infrastructure . In: Projets de Paysage, Vol. 4, no.1, p. 1-8 (2012).
Locardi, Chiara ; Occhipinti, Fausta ; Perrotti, Daniela. Seminar Report “Bernard Lassus and Gilles Clément. Debate over Landscape”. In: Projets de Paysage, Vol. 2, no.1, p. 1-8 (2009).
Perrotti, Daniela. The Alta Murgia National Park. A Landscape Perspective / Il Parco Nazionale dell’Alta Murgia. Un paesaggio , Preface by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Edizioni L'Orbicolare - Italian Ministry of the Environment: Milan, Italy, 2011. 9788895061795 .
Perrotti, Daniela ; Iuorio, Ornella. Green Infrastructure in the Space of Flows: An Urban Metabolism Approach to Bridge Environmental Performance and User’s Wellbeing. In: Lemes de Oliveira, Fabiano; Mell, Ian, Planning Cities with Nature: Theories, Strategies and Methods (Cities and Nature book series (CITIES)), Springer, 2019, p. 265-277. 978-3-030-01865-8. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01866-5_18.
Perrotti, Daniela. Piece of (art)work: Infrastructure. In: Roberta Amirante, Carmine Piscopo, Paola Scala, Beauty According to the Toad. Venustas, Architecture, Market, Democracy (Inhabiting the future), CLEAN: Neaple, Italy, 2017, p. 45-46. 978-88-8497-260-6.
Courtonne, Jean-Yves ; Chatzimpiros, Petros ; Perrotti, Daniela ; Vernay, Anne-Lorène ; Blouin, Manuel. Le métabolisme énergétique d’un territoire [The Energie Metabolism of a Region]. . In: Buclet, Nicolas (eds.), Essai d’écologie territoriale [Essay on Territorial Ecology] (CNRS Alpha), CNRS Editions: Paris - France, 2015, p. 179-204. 978-2-271-08887-1.
Perrotti, Daniela. Of Other (Energy) Spaces. Protected areas and everyday landscapes of energy in the southern Italian region of Alta Murgia. . In: Renewable Energies and European Landscapes, Springer, 2015, p. 193-215. 9789401798426. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9843-3_11.
Barataud, F ; Barles, S. ; Billen, G. ; Blouin, M. ; Bognon, S. ; Bonaudo, T. ; Buclet, N. ; Chatzimpiros, P. ; Cerceau, J. ; Courtonne, J.-Y. ; Debuisson, M. ; Dupre, D. ; Garnier, J. ; Herbelin , A. ; Maillefert, M. ; Marty, P. ; Metereau, R. ; Pech, P. ; Perrotti, Daniela ; Talandier, M. ; Vernay , A.L.. Pourquoi un livre sur Aussois?. In: Buclet, Nicolas (eds.), Essai d’écologie territoriale [Essay on Territorial Ecology] (CNRS Alpha), CNRS Editions: Paris - France, 2015, p. 7-11. 978-2-271-08887-1.
Barataud, F. ; Barles, S. ; Billen, G. ; Blouin, M. ; Bognon, S. ; Bonaudo, T. ; Buclet, N. ; Chatzimpiros, P. ; Cerceau, J. ; Courtonne, J.-Y. ; Debuisson, M. ; Dupre, D. ; Garnier, J. ; Herbelin , A. ; Maillefert, M. ; Marty, P. ; Metereau, R. ; Pech, P. ; Perrotti, Daniela ; Talandier, M. ; Vernay , A.L.. Quel avenir pour l’écologie territoriale. In: Buclet, Nicolas (eds.), Essai d’écologie territoriale [Essay on Territorial Ecology] (CNRS Alpha), CNRS Editions: Paris - France, 2015, p. 205-209. 978-2-271-08887-1.
Perrotti, Daniela. Architecture of the Networks in Contemporary Territories. Network Taxonomy and Operational Strategies. In: Cozza, C and Valente, I, The Arrow of the Time. Research and Projects on Infrastructure Architecture, PEARSON: Milan, Italy, 2014, p. 290-295. 9788861599932.
Perrotti, Daniela ; Pouteau, Sylvie. Faire la ville avec l’énergie du vivant [Making the City with the Energy of Living Systems]. In: Chomarat-Ruiz, Catherine (eds.), Nature Urbaine en Projets [Urban Nature in Projects], Archibooks + Sautereau Éditeu: Paris - France, 2014, p. 74-94. 978-2357332621.
Perrotti, Daniela. Landscape as Energy Infrastructure: Ecologic Approaches and Aesthetic Implications of Design. In: Revising Green Infrastructure, CRC Press - Taylor&Francis, 2014, p. 71-90. 9781482232202. doi:10.1201/b17639-6.