Pierpaolo Mudu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierpaolo Mudu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierpaolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Mudu |
| SIGNATURE | MUDU P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Between Policy and Risk Communication: Coverage of Air Pollution in Ghanaian Newspapers
Mass media plays an increasingly persuasive role in orienting political decisions, shaping social agendas, influencing individuals' actions, and interpreting scientific evidence for the public. With growing scientific understanding of the health, social and environmental consequences of air pollution, there is an urgent need to understand how media coverage frames these links, particularly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. This paper examines …
How Many Trees Are Planted in African Cities? Expectations of and Challenges to Planning Considering Current Tree Planting Projects
Africa is a particularly vulnerable continent to the effects of climate and environmental changes. Several tree planting projects were launched as one of the plausible solutions to climate action. This paper reviews the recent tree planting projects in African cities, initiated between 2009 to 2021, focusing on analyzing the expected benefits to the populations. Indeed, these projects have become a widespread instrument to promise planning soluti…
Rethinking the Migrant Position
Care without Control: The Humanitarian Industrial Complex and the Criminalisation of Solidarity
In this paper, we discuss the criminalisation of migrant solidarity, intended as practices of resistance to the current regulation and management of borders in Europe. We argue that the target of criminalisation is not simply humanitarian assistance: rather, we propose a differentiation between autonomous solidarity and humanitarianism, arguing that while the first is criminalised, the latter is often complicit in the harms and violence of border…
How can vegetation protect us from air pollution? A critical review on green spaces' mitigation abilities for air-borne particles from a public health perspective - with implications for urban plannin…
Air pollution causes the largest death toll among environmental risks globally, but interventions to purify ambient air remain inadequate. Vegetation and green spaces have shown reductive effects on air-borne pollutants concentrations, especially of particulate matter (PM). Guidance on green space utilisation for air quality control remains scarce, however, as does its application in practise. To strengthen the foundation for research and interve…
Green spaces and mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies
Health Impacts and Economic Costs of Air Pollution in the Metropolitan Area of Skopje
Besides its health impacts in terms of increased premature mortality and hospitalizations, air pollution entails significant economic costs to the population of Skopje. Reductions in PM 2.5 concentrations could provide substantial health and economic gains to the city
Dies-non: Refusal of work in the 21st century
My comments aim to cast light on a specific political proposal that can arise from a discussion of the topic of the ‘refusal of work’ and its implications for a social radical change. Autonomist, anarchist and feminist activism, have been and are the main sources of a long-term conceptual and empirical work on the refusal of work. Refusal of work is a very complex concept that has traversed history and is reduced for uncritical dominant common se…
Radical Urban Horticulture for Food Autonomy: Beyond the Community Gardens Experience
For those who are interested in radical changes, it is important to analyze the forms of resistance that promote self‐managed practices, also at apparently very small scale. In Italy the experience of “community gardens” is usually named “ orti urbani ”. In the last 10 years, the occupation of abandoned urban spaces to set up orti urbani has increased within the squatting movement. The case of the city of Rome is interesting because there has bee…
Introduction: Italians Do It Better? The Occupation of Spaces for Radical Struggles in Italy
Italy could be considered a social laboratory in relation to radical theories, practices, struggles and radical political conditions. It is worth exploring what kind of laboratory Italy is and investigating some of the features of current struggles that challenge neoliberalism and the revival of fascism. One way to grasp the specificity of the Italian context is by considering an inherent set of social conflicts that take the form of multidimensi…
Effects of Urban Green Space on Environmental Health, Equity and Resilience
Modern urban life style is associated with chronic stress, insufficient physical activity and exposure to anthropogenic environmental hazards. Urban green space, such as parks, playgrounds, and residential greenery, can promote mental and physical health and reduce morbidity and mortality in urban residents by providing psychological relaxation and stress alleviation, stimulating social cohesion, supporting physical activity, and reducing exposur…
Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy: Resistance and destabilization of racist regulatory policies and b/ordering mechanisms
This chapter highlights the history of Lampedusa in Hamburg and examines the impact of the mobilization and the transformations this brought to the social, political and cultural atmosphere of living together in Hamburg. It focuses on the campaign's development and its ability to raise the question of who belongs and what it means for 'a community' when not all people living in it are recognized as having equal rights and access to its resources …
Development of a Quantitative Methodology to Assess the Impacts of Urban Transport Interventions and Related Noise on Well-Being
Well-being impact assessments of urban interventions are a difficult challenge, as there is no agreed methodology and scarce evidence on the relationship between environmental conditions and well-being. The European Union (EU) project "Urban Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in China and Europe" (URGENCHE) explored a methodological approach to assess traffic noise-related well-being impacts of transport interventions in three European cities …
Navigating scientific routes to risk assessment: A tortuous path☆
International audience
I Centri Sociali italiani: Verso tre decadi di occupazioni e di spazi autogestiti
In the 1970s, Italy experienced a difficult crisis that marked the end of the economic model carried out after world war two. The resulting changes in production relations led to the disappearance of traditional public spaces and meeting places such as open squares, workplaces, party offices or the premises of left extra-parliamentary groups. Within this context, in the 1980s and 1990s, these groups managed to create new social and political spac…
The people’s food: The ingredients of “ethnic” hierarchies and the development of Chinese restaurants in Rome
Patterns of Segregation in Contemporary Rome
Significant migratory flows to Italy in the last 20 years have created much change in the major cities. Among them, Rome has the largest number of immigrants. Besides describing changes that are currently being observed in metropolitan Rome (e.g., specific trends toward segregation emerging in synch with international migration flows), this paper provides an analysis of available official statistics to identify whether, and to what extent, the Ro…
Resisting and Challenging Neoliberalism: The Development of Italian Social Centers
In the 1970s, Italy experienced a difficult transition from Fordism to a flexible accumulation regime. The resulting changes in production relations led to the disappearance of traditional public spaces and meeting places such as open squares, workplaces, party offices or the premises of groups involved in the antagonistic, ie anti‐capitalist and anti‐fascist, movement. Within this context, in the 1980s and 1990s, these groups managed to create n…
Repressive tolerance: The gay movement and the Vatican in Rome
Care without Control: The Humanitarian Industrial Complex and the Criminalisation of Solidarity
In this paper, we discuss the criminalisation of migrant solidarity, intended as practices of resistance to the current regulation and management of borders in Europe. We argue that the target of criminalisation is not simply humanitarian assistance: rather, we propose a differentiation between autonomous solidarity and humanitarianism, arguing that while the first is criminalised, the latter is often complicit in the harms and violence of border…
Resisting and Challenging Neoliberalism: The Development of Italian Social Centers
In the 1970s, Italy experienced a difficult transition from Fordism to a flexible accumulation regime. The resulting changes in production relations led to the disappearance of traditional public spaces and meeting places such as open squares, workplaces, party offices or the premises of groups involved in the antagonistic, ie anti‐capitalist and anti‐fascist, movement. Within this context, in the 1980s and 1990s, these groups managed to create n…
Patterns of Segregation in Contemporary Rome
Significant migratory flows to Italy in the last 20 years have created much change in the major cities. Among them, Rome has the largest number of immigrants. Besides describing changes that are currently being observed in metropolitan Rome (e.g., specific trends toward segregation emerging in synch with international migration flows), this paper provides an analysis of available official statistics to identify whether, and to what extent, the Ro…
Radical Urban Horticulture for Food Autonomy: Beyond the Community Gardens Experience
For those who are interested in radical changes, it is important to analyze the forms of resistance that promote self‐managed practices, also at apparently very small scale. In Italy the experience of “community gardens” is usually named “ orti urbani ”. In the last 10 years, the occupation of abandoned urban spaces to set up orti urbani has increased within the squatting movement. The case of the city of Rome is interesting because there has bee…
I Centri Sociali italiani: Verso tre decadi di occupazioni e di spazi autogestiti
In the 1970s, Italy experienced a difficult crisis that marked the end of the economic model carried out after world war two. The resulting changes in production relations led to the disappearance of traditional public spaces and meeting places such as open squares, workplaces, party offices or the premises of left extra-parliamentary groups. Within this context, in the 1980s and 1990s, these groups managed to create new social and political spac…
Repressive tolerance: The gay movement and the Vatican in Rome
Introduction: Italians Do It Better? The Occupation of Spaces for Radical Struggles in Italy
Italy could be considered a social laboratory in relation to radical theories, practices, struggles and radical political conditions. It is worth exploring what kind of laboratory Italy is and investigating some of the features of current struggles that challenge neoliberalism and the revival of fascism. One way to grasp the specificity of the Italian context is by considering an inherent set of social conflicts that take the form of multidimensi…
Dies-non: Refusal of work in the 21st century
My comments aim to cast light on a specific political proposal that can arise from a discussion of the topic of the ‘refusal of work’ and its implications for a social radical change. Autonomist, anarchist and feminist activism, have been and are the main sources of a long-term conceptual and empirical work on the refusal of work. Refusal of work is a very complex concept that has traversed history and is reduced for uncritical dominant common se…
The people’s food: The ingredients of “ethnic” hierarchies and the development of Chinese restaurants in Rome
How Many Trees Are Planted in African Cities? Expectations of and Challenges to Planning Considering Current Tree Planting Projects
Africa is a particularly vulnerable continent to the effects of climate and environmental changes. Several tree planting projects were launched as one of the plausible solutions to climate action. This paper reviews the recent tree planting projects in African cities, initiated between 2009 to 2021, focusing on analyzing the expected benefits to the populations. Indeed, these projects have become a widespread instrument to promise planning soluti…
Repressive tolerance: The gay movement and the Vatican in Rome
Resisting and Challenging Neoliberalism: The Development of Italian Social Centers
In the 1970s, Italy experienced a difficult transition from Fordism to a flexible accumulation regime. The resulting changes in production relations led to the disappearance of traditional public spaces and meeting places such as open squares, workplaces, party offices or the premises of groups involved in the antagonistic, ie anti‐capitalist and anti‐fascist, movement. Within this context, in the 1980s and 1990s, these groups managed to create n…
Patterns of Segregation in Contemporary Rome
Significant migratory flows to Italy in the last 20 years have created much change in the major cities. Among them, Rome has the largest number of immigrants. Besides describing changes that are currently being observed in metropolitan Rome (e.g., specific trends toward segregation emerging in synch with international migration flows), this paper provides an analysis of available official statistics to identify whether, and to what extent, the Ro…
The people’s food: The ingredients of “ethnic” hierarchies and the development of Chinese restaurants in Rome
Navigating scientific routes to risk assessment: A tortuous path☆
International audience
I Centri Sociali italiani: Verso tre decadi di occupazioni e di spazi autogestiti
In the 1970s, Italy experienced a difficult crisis that marked the end of the economic model carried out after world war two. The resulting changes in production relations led to the disappearance of traditional public spaces and meeting places such as open squares, workplaces, party offices or the premises of left extra-parliamentary groups. Within this context, in the 1980s and 1990s, these groups managed to create new social and political spac…
Development of a Quantitative Methodology to Assess the Impacts of Urban Transport Interventions and Related Noise on Well-Being
Well-being impact assessments of urban interventions are a difficult challenge, as there is no agreed methodology and scarce evidence on the relationship between environmental conditions and well-being. The European Union (EU) project "Urban Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in China and Europe" (URGENCHE) explored a methodological approach to assess traffic noise-related well-being impacts of transport interventions in three European cities …
Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy: Resistance and destabilization of racist regulatory policies and b/ordering mechanisms
This chapter highlights the history of Lampedusa in Hamburg and examines the impact of the mobilization and the transformations this brought to the social, political and cultural atmosphere of living together in Hamburg. It focuses on the campaign's development and its ability to raise the question of who belongs and what it means for 'a community' when not all people living in it are recognized as having equal rights and access to its resources …
Effects of Urban Green Space on Environmental Health, Equity and Resilience
Modern urban life style is associated with chronic stress, insufficient physical activity and exposure to anthropogenic environmental hazards. Urban green space, such as parks, playgrounds, and residential greenery, can promote mental and physical health and reduce morbidity and mortality in urban residents by providing psychological relaxation and stress alleviation, stimulating social cohesion, supporting physical activity, and reducing exposur…
Health Impacts and Economic Costs of Air Pollution in the Metropolitan Area of Skopje
Besides its health impacts in terms of increased premature mortality and hospitalizations, air pollution entails significant economic costs to the population of Skopje. Reductions in PM 2.5 concentrations could provide substantial health and economic gains to the city
Dies-non: Refusal of work in the 21st century
My comments aim to cast light on a specific political proposal that can arise from a discussion of the topic of the ‘refusal of work’ and its implications for a social radical change. Autonomist, anarchist and feminist activism, have been and are the main sources of a long-term conceptual and empirical work on the refusal of work. Refusal of work is a very complex concept that has traversed history and is reduced for uncritical dominant common se…
Radical Urban Horticulture for Food Autonomy: Beyond the Community Gardens Experience
For those who are interested in radical changes, it is important to analyze the forms of resistance that promote self‐managed practices, also at apparently very small scale. In Italy the experience of “community gardens” is usually named “ orti urbani ”. In the last 10 years, the occupation of abandoned urban spaces to set up orti urbani has increased within the squatting movement. The case of the city of Rome is interesting because there has bee…
Introduction: Italians Do It Better? The Occupation of Spaces for Radical Struggles in Italy
Italy could be considered a social laboratory in relation to radical theories, practices, struggles and radical political conditions. It is worth exploring what kind of laboratory Italy is and investigating some of the features of current struggles that challenge neoliberalism and the revival of fascism. One way to grasp the specificity of the Italian context is by considering an inherent set of social conflicts that take the form of multidimensi…
Green spaces and mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies
How can vegetation protect us from air pollution? A critical review on green spaces' mitigation abilities for air-borne particles from a public health perspective - with implications for urban plannin…
Air pollution causes the largest death toll among environmental risks globally, but interventions to purify ambient air remain inadequate. Vegetation and green spaces have shown reductive effects on air-borne pollutants concentrations, especially of particulate matter (PM). Guidance on green space utilisation for air quality control remains scarce, however, as does its application in practise. To strengthen the foundation for research and interve…
Between Policy and Risk Communication: Coverage of Air Pollution in Ghanaian Newspapers
Mass media plays an increasingly persuasive role in orienting political decisions, shaping social agendas, influencing individuals' actions, and interpreting scientific evidence for the public. With growing scientific understanding of the health, social and environmental consequences of air pollution, there is an urgent need to understand how media coverage frames these links, particularly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. This paper examines …
How Many Trees Are Planted in African Cities? Expectations of and Challenges to Planning Considering Current Tree Planting Projects
Africa is a particularly vulnerable continent to the effects of climate and environmental changes. Several tree planting projects were launched as one of the plausible solutions to climate action. This paper reviews the recent tree planting projects in African cities, initiated between 2009 to 2021, focusing on analyzing the expected benefits to the populations. Indeed, these projects have become a widespread instrument to promise planning soluti…
Rethinking the Migrant Position
Care without Control: The Humanitarian Industrial Complex and the Criminalisation of Solidarity
In this paper, we discuss the criminalisation of migrant solidarity, intended as practices of resistance to the current regulation and management of borders in Europe. We argue that the target of criminalisation is not simply humanitarian assistance: rather, we propose a differentiation between autonomous solidarity and humanitarianism, arguing that while the first is criminalised, the latter is often complicit in the harms and violence of border…
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