Economia civile e gestione delle risorse ambientali nelle aree interne

Adaptive Reuse Practices and Sustainable Urban Development: Perspectives of Innovation for European Historic Spa Towns

“…The investigation 'captured' the paradoxical condition of decay of cities that, historically, made of health and quality the generative cultural factors of their urban structures [11]. The coexistence between these conditions of fragility and the complex value of spa towns as cultural landscapes has led to questioning the relationship between spa towns and another fragile territorial context: that of the Inner Areas, which are peripheral areas of the Italian territory that currently, after years of strategic disinvestment [33,34], are the target of a national strategy aimed at territorial cohesion and urban-rural rebalancing [95][96][97]. An initial survey on the degree of interaction between these two contexts was carried out superimposing territorial datasets.…”

“…The question of the possible integration between these two territorial contexts becomes particularly significant when considering their common traits. On one hand, the critical elements such as an underused territorial capital, high social costs generated by production and consumption processes and, especially for the Inner Areas, social discomfort linked to the lack of accessibility to essential services, such as work, instruction, health The coexistence between these conditions of fragility and the complex value of spa towns as cultural landscapes has led to questioning the relationship between spa towns and another fragile territorial context: that of the Inner Areas, which are peripheral areas of the Italian territory that currently, after years of strategic disinvestment [33,34], are the target of a national strategy aimed at territorial cohesion and urban-rural rebalancing [95][96][97]. An initial survey on the degree of interaction between these two contexts was carried out superimposing territorial datasets.…”

“…The question of the possible integration between these two territorial contexts becomes particularly significant when considering their common traits. On one hand, the critical elements such as an underused territorial capital, high social costs generated by production and consumption processes and, especially for the Inner Areas, social discomfort linked to the lack of accessibility to essential services, such as work, instruction, health and digital services [33,34,95,96,98,99]. On the other hand, the strategic objectives such as quality of life, social inclusion and job creation, aimed to reignite local development mechanisms and to rebalance demographic trends [33,34,95,96,98].…”

“…This hypothesis assumes primary importance within the contemporary debate that advocates a renewed approach to the city and the territory, in search of new urbanities [31]. Smalland medium-sized historic settlements, and therefore spa towns, can be interpreted as strategic fields for territorial development [32]: fundamental resources to improve urban and environmental qualities; opportunities to rethink the ways of living, working and gathering; and potential laboratories of social experimentations and ambassadors of new development models [33,34]. Likewise, the underused or abandoned built cultural heritage can be reframed and transformed from an environmental, social and economic cost into an opportunity space.…”

Sustainable Tourism, Young Entrepreneurship, and Social Innovation in Peripheral Rural Areas: Case Studies from Southern Italy

“…As a matter of fact, a complex whole of concurrent causes characterizes the post-crisis situation, such as a higher digital and analogical literacy, a wider availability of ethical knowledge, a deeper environmental consciousness, and a growth of post-materialistic values. Therefore, these areas are now facing some important challenges, which also relate to new sustainability-oriented tourist practices that may trigger big changes on a socio-economic and cultural level (Carrosio 2019 ).…”