Maria Pizzorni

Maria Pizzorni is a PhD candidate and Research Assistant at the UNESCO Chair on Urban Resilience (SDU.Resilience) at the University of Southern Denmark. She holds a BSc in Sustainable Urban Development (2021-2024) and has completed advanced studies in Urban and Regional Planning (2018-2021) and Architecture and Museum Design for Archaeology (2020-2021). Her work bridges climate change adaptation with cultural heritage protection through frameworks for multi-hazard urban analysis of floods and droughts.

Research Interests:

• Multi-hazard analysis of urban flood and drought
• Climate change adaptation policies
• Science-policy-practice dialogue
• Cultural heritage and climate resilience
• Urban climate shelters as nature-based solutions
• International collaboration with UN-Habitat, UNDP, AfDB

Key Publications include methodological frameworks for climate policy analysis, case studies on Italian urban resilience governance, and global reviews of NDCs. Her work also explores schoolyard climate shelters, municipal action plans in Southern Denmark, and harmonizing heritage conservation with climate adaptation in Siena.

Networks: Collaborates with international institutions and contributes to workshops like the Urban Resilience Intensive Training. She has presented posters at events such as POLITO CLIMATE ACTION and co-developed educational materials for climate mitigation.