Maria Beatrice Andreucci

Maria Beatrice Andreucci, Ph.D. (Environmental Design), MBA, M.Sc. (Economics), M.Sc. (Landscape Architecture) is a social scientist and designer who studies the application of social-ecological theories, principles and methods on architecture and urban design projects within the built environment. Her earlier work looked at green-blue infrastructure as integrated systems, linking climate-resilient spatial configuration with ecosystem services and salutogenic strategies. Her work contributes to fostering trans-disciplinarily between the academic and professional fields of architecture and economy leading to innovative concepts such as ‘circular building’ and ‘landscape economy’. She publishes to disseminate emerging principles and tools, meaningfully credibly, to a diverse audience of students, academics, and practitioners. Her current research is focused on the intertwined challenges for human centered energy transition, positive energy districts, and carbon neutral cities, in a climate change scenario. Her work continues to engage circularity and landscape economy as synergistic approaches to integrate the emerging, fine-scaled research and professional practice of nature-based solutions across scales towards smart resilient cities and communities. She is very active internationally, combining her teaching activity at Sapienza University of Rome with her passion for transdisciplinary research and evidence-based design.