The sustainable lightness of environment sociology applied to hotels retrofit

The sociological approach to the issue of environmental renovation (or green retrofit) of hotels within the S.O.L.E.H. project interacts with other disciplines, providing operators in the construction chain with tools for evaluating costs, materials and retrofit practices. Specifically, it aims to offer information at three levels of analysis, according to an already tested scheme for energy and water issues [Osti, 2019; 2020]. A rigid hierarchical vision of disciplines is abandoned, in favour of a more flexible and interdisciplinary one. The paper is composed of two parts. In the first (longer one), the analysis scheme will be briefly illustrated and it will be exemplified with the specific case of retrofit, seeking analytical and practical connections with the S.O.L.E.H. research. In the second (shorter one), some considerations will be drawn on the usefulness of an integrated approach to the study of socio-environmental phenomena.