University of Turin, Torino, Italy.
Sustainability Manager, Torino, Italy.
Health Informatics J. 2021 Jan-Mar;27(1):1460458220987278. doi: 10.1177/1460458220987278.
Cities with their innovative capacity are key places to address critical climate, environmental and health challenges. Urban experimentations, such as Living Labs, can represent a starting point to reintroduce resources into the production cycle and reduce environmental impacts, embracing the paradigm of the circular economy (CE). According to recent studies, Living Labs at a city scale could generate significant environmental benefits, improvements in quality of life and positive impacts on citizens' health. This paper aims at presenting the case of the Torino Living Lab on Sharing and Circular Economy (LLSC) to point out possible future scenarios of urban sustainable policies. The case study is analysed in five sections: (1) the description of the new permanent laboratory proposed by the City of Turin; (2) the past experiences of Living Labs in Turin; (3) the birth of LLSC and the involvement strategy; (4) the introduction of the eight admitted experimentations. In the light of the results collected, the last paragraph (5) came up with the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Treaths (SWOT) analysis in the LLSC. Eventually, it deals with the research question by offering a common ground for global and local policies focused on sustainability and CE.
城市具有创新能力，是应对气候、环境和健康等重大挑战的关键场所。城市实验，如“生活实验室”，可以作为重新引入资源到生产周期、减少环境影响的起点，拥抱循环经济（CE）的范式。根据最近的研究，在城市规模上的“生活实验室”可以带来显著的环境效益，提高生活质量，并对公民健康产生积极影响。本文旨在介绍都灵共享和循环经济生活实验室（LLSC）的案例，以指出城市可持续政策的可能未来情景。该案例研究分为五个部分：（1）都灵市提出的新永久性实验室的描述；（2）都灵生活实验室的过去经验；（3）LLSC 的诞生和参与策略；（4）引入的八项实验。根据收集到的结果，最后一段（5）在 LLSC 中进行了优势、劣势、机会、威胁（SWOT）分析。最终，它通过为关注可持续性和 CE 的全球和地方政策提供共同点来解决研究问题。
