Quality of life and territorial imbalances. A focus on italian inner and rural areas

Bertolini, Paola; Pagliacci, Francesco

doi:10.13128/bae-18518

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“…Current methodologies at mapping shrinking cities hardly take into account peripherization indicators, aimed at explaining the disadvantaged positions of localities, and multi-scalarity which is also important to better understand the «relations between centres and periphery/margins». This type of analysis was developed by the SNAI (National Strategy for Inner Areas) 2 , first in 2014 and subsequently updated in 2020. The result of this analysis performed by SNAI was considered as the 'Peripherization' variable for this study.…”

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“…Territorial transformation processes and socio-economic dynamics that took place in Italy after World War II have brought about an inexorable change in the country's morphology, production systems, and consequently, the distribution of resources [1]. The increasing urbanization, enhanced by the counterurbanization dynamics of the 1980s (Dematteis, 1986), has meant that small urban areas far from the main urban centers have established trends that have led to the current situation: negative demographic trends, reduction of economic activities, progressive closure of essential services, social marginality, increased costs in terms of land management [2]. As a result, there is now a clear disparity between major cities and villages located in marginal areas that have started lagging behind [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Renaissance of villages for the revitalization of marginal areas

Moghadam

Pignatelli

Collin

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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There is now a clear disparity between major cities and villages located in marginal areas of Italy. Progressive depopulation of inland areas and urban polarization such as consolidated territorial dynamics are difficult to dampen and adapt to the new paradigms of sustainable territorial development, although they have been abruptly redirected by the Covid 19 pandemic. The instability created by this pandemic offers the opportunity to redefine new parameters of intervention and new scenarios for the development of territories in relation to the new needs of decentralization and physical distancing. The project “Renaissance of villages for the revitalization of marginal areas” aims to create the conditions to repopulate and rebalance shrinking territories by establishing new centers of attractiveness. This project envisages the active involvement of municipalities and local authorities with the aims at implementing the multi-sectoral analysis of the tangible and intangible values of territories. It intends to develop an interactive web dashboard to be provided to municipalities in order to create both a learning environment and a spatial decision support system for future local policy actions towards a sustainable participatory local development. In this way, it is proposed a functional method with a place-based approach to managing the existing territorial complexity through innovative models of territorial governance and policymaking, among them the effective implementation of participatory and multi-actor visions of territorial development. Specifically, this paper provides the Italian villages’ archetypes through the quantitative spatial cluster multivariate analysis, which is the basis for the construction of the dashboard. To cluster the villages, the main variables have been identified, assesses, and mapped. The results are fundamental in order to define the future scenarios for each archetype assessing the Key Performance indicators (KPIs).

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Renaissance of villages for the revitalization of marginal areas

Moghadam

Pignatelli

Collin

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…Various authors refer that rural inner areas suffer from geographical, economic, and services marginality, while in urban contexts there is a wider provision of public and proximity services [ 118 , 119 , 120 ]. Inner areas are in fact peripheral and ultra-peripheral sites of the country, hard to reach zones that are characterized by intense processes of depopulation, socio-economic and housing contraction/depression.…”

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A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Care Arrangements of Older People with Limited Physical Abilities Living Alone in Italy

Melchiorre

Lamura

Socci

2021

IJERPH

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Older people with limited physical abilities, who live alone without cohabiting family members, need support ageing in place and to perform daily living activities. In this respect, both the available informal and formal care seem crucial. The present study aimed to explore the current role of the care arrangements of older people, especially if they have functional limitations. Qualitative interviews were carried out in 2019 within the “Inclusive ageing in place” (IN-AGE) research project, involving 120 older people who lived at home, alone, or with a private personal care assistant (PCA) in three Italian regions (Lombardy, Marche, and Calabria). A mixed-methods analysis was conducted. Results showed that support networks are still mainly made up of family members, but also of domestic home help (DHH) and PCAs, friends/neighbours, and public services, albeit the latter provide support in a residual way, while the former is not as intensive as it was in the past. Frequency and geographical/living proximity of help play a role, emerging also as a territorial differentiation. The paucity or absence of support, especially from the family, risks compromising the ability of ageing in place. It seems, thus, necessary to innovate and improve, in particular, home services, also through real formal and informal care integration.

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“…Studies of the spatial differentiation quality of life that simultaneously consider urban and rural spaces, and are carried out from the municipal to the regional level, often use data and products from national statistical offices (such as Bernini and Tampieri, 2017;Bertolini an Pagliacci, 2017;Székely 2006). Alternatively, data is gained from government commissions and organisations (Campanera and Higgins 2011) and specialised institutes (Gerdtham and Johannesson 2001).…”

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“…In general, researchers tend to focus mainly on the subjective dimension of quality of life, while studies of the objective dimension are in the minorityit is specifically considered by Bertolini and Pagliacci (2017), Campanera and Higgins (2011), Ma et al (2020) and Székely (2006).…”

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The quality of life in Czech rural and urban spaces

Rypl,

Macků,

Pászto

2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Quality of life is a frequently discussed topic among scientists, politicians and the general public; it touches on a wide range of scientific disciplines and is discussed in various contexts. Its relation to specific conditions of the external environment, which shape the individual and society, makes it possible to look at it through a geographical lens and study its spatial differentiation. The study aimed to explore and assess the relationships between the objective dimension of the quality of life and the degree of municipal membership in a rural and an urban continuum. Methodologically, the study builds on global and local analyses of the phenomena. Spatial autocorrelation indicated that quality of life data tends to cluster. A positive geographically weighted correlation implied that increased quality of life corresponds with increasing urban space membership. Further, a typology and quantification of the occurrence of the defined types was made. Through this, it was found that the potential for a high quality of life is in the intermediate spaces (suburbs) lying between urban and rural spaces.

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Quality of life and territorial imbalances. A focus on italian inner and rural areas

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Renaissance of villages for the revitalization of marginal areas

Renaissance of villages for the revitalization of marginal areas

A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Care Arrangements of Older People with Limited Physical Abilities Living Alone in Italy

The quality of life in Czech rural and urban spaces

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