We counts every tree because every tree counts.
RUMA monitors environmental regenerative projects to create more accurate data on their impacts and benefits, such as carbon emissions removals, temperature regulation, and biodiversity support.
RUMA helps organisations understand how their projects are improving the environment.
Our systematic and transparent approach, based on our RUMA multi-sided platform and property software, reveals detailed spatial information for any projects anywhere.
The RUMA platform is the first global monitoring system to evaluate carbon, biodiversity, and ecosystem services in ecosystem regenerating project.
We deliver science-driven data to any organization looking to make a true and measured impact in the race to reduce carbon emissions, face climate change and improve biodiversity.
Our data are transparent, accurate, and scientifically proved.
CEO
Scientific Advisor
Scientific Advisor
Differentiating carbon and biodiversity strategies to generate additional value for the landscape
We create match-making between companies who want to demonstrate their environmental commitment with local entities looking for investment for green infrastructures.
We support local governments to identify the projects and offer companies the possibility to visualize the open projects and their benefits for the territory.
Empowering Ecosystems and Landscapes
We offer our clients a wide range of services within different levels of development and scales to design resilient and sustainable scenarios. Through our support, local governments could better understand the critical sustainability issues of their landscapes, align the efforts between public and private sectors to address the problems and establish a baseline to measure their efforts to address the challenges.
We cover variable scales and tools, including:
We embrace four key aspects of resilient/healthy territories:
Empowering communities
We facilitate participatory mapping and planning exercises through co-creative approaches. We apply multicriteria analysis to compare alternative planning options and support socially acceptable planning decisions and consider the opinion of different groups (citizens, experts, planners).
Modeling and sensing
We conduct spatially explicit studies to highlight the potential for future improvements of the territory and its natural, cultural and landscape resources, by employing advanced and recent tools to model urban and territorial environments. We use data acquisition techniques to generate spatial information about environmental qualities with high resolution. We run complex and multi-scale models providing spatially explicit data and quantifying properties of the environment across scales.
For the urban scale, we cover:
Support to design and planning
We are committed to evidence-based, performance-based and landscape-inclusive knowledge. We provide support to include sustainable and resilient design and planning strategies in the urban and territorial planning tools and scenarios. We use a transdisciplinary and multiscale approach involving experts coming from different disciplines, such as ecologists, urban planners, architects, sociologists.
Co-creation processes
Our interest is to create inclusive landscapes involving people in our processes. Our approach relies on the integration of subjective data by involving people through several initiatives. We involve stakeholders such as administrations, experts, citizens to facilitate co-creative design and planning processes through a bottom-up perspective. Moreover, we offer training and teaching for private and public bodies, schools and universities.
Our portfolio includes:
Urban greening models
Urban Green Infrastructure has a key role in improving human and environmental health in cities and contributes to several services related to climate adaptation.
We provide accurate localization and quantification of pervious surfaces and canopy cover, to facilitate urban greening knowledge, management and monitoring, and to address sustainable spatial planning.
We use high resolution aerial images with infrared information to map pervious surfaces and canopy cover, combining Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) with Digital Elevation Models.
The method is simple and replicable, to continue to monitor urban greening through time.
With this approach, we can map public and private areas and provide very precise results for the urban cover, distinguishing different urban green elements, such as bushes and small green patches.
Urban Heat Island models
The human dimension is a key concern for healthy urban living and to manage the risks related to climate change. For this purpose, we use experimental approaches to gather data on urban heat islands and microclimatic variations within the urban environment. We use low cost sensors to measure, analyze and visualize the urban heat island effect. We measure in a short period of time with many systems temperature and humidity in the city and connect the measurements with the locations through GPS. The system can be mounted on bikes..
Sustainable energy planning
The use of renewable energy systems will massively increase to address climate change and meet the EU ambitious energy targets. Such systems require planning and management tools to control the landscape transformation and to ensure that the changes are accepted by the citizens. We offer tools to control landscape transformations derived by the RES and envision inclusive energy landscapes in urban and territorial environments. Such tools include strategies to define suitable locations and design solutions integrated in the context.
We propose an integrated approach to inform and guide transformation processes, based on empirical evidence and spatio-technological feasibility, accepted by the community and integrated in the landscape. The results can be used for the development of local spatial plans for renewable energy implementation or to set an energy transition landscape impact assessment.
We can combine quantitative data for solar energy potential, such as climatological and topographical data, visual impact and landscape sensitivity, cultural and social data, with qualitative information derived from the citizens and the relevant stakeholders.
The procedure can be used for cities as well as regions.
Our expertise include photovoltaic solutions (on ground and building-integrated) and wind power.
Participatory planning
Achieving ecological transition leads to immediate landscape transformations, which change the physical landscape and the experience of the users. To balance the different drivers of landscape transformations, processes of negotiation between stakeholders (e.g. decision-makers, inhabitants, developers) are needed to define and shape the values and functions of landscape. We can provide support to negotiate trade-offs and manage transformations, and to optimize scenarios highlighting physical landscape and social considerations. Specifically, we can gather the community perceptions through various methods and facilitate their integration in the planning tools.
RUMA S.r.l.. Società Benefit
telephone: +39 378 3045050
address: viale degli Olmi 34, Trento 38123, Italy
mail: info@ruma.agency
P.IVA 02676040229