Resilience and Sectoral Composition Change of Italian Inner Areas in Response to the Great Recession

Urso, Giulia; Modica, Marco; Faggian, Alessandra

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“…Therefore, where the structural and functional relationships that link the three dimensions interrupt or fragment, the crisis of the territorial system is determined. This crisis, in inner and peripheral areas, where social, economic and environmental balances are more fragile, generates depopulation and abandonment processes [13,14].…”

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“…The implementation path of the strategy on one hand, has given rise to a multiplicity of design experiences in some inner territories [14]; moreover, as has been broadly documented by some scholars [9], the NSIA's application has favored a new focus on the search for new atlases, new "horizontal" representations [25] aimed to reveal the diversity of territorial frameworks. Based on these elements, we argue a reflection on the rural identity dimension: a survey that tries to explore agricultural and rural phenomenology in search of its identity dimension and its role in the framework of sustainable territorial development.…”

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Rural Identity, Authenticity, and Sustainability in Italian Inner Areas

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2020

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This paper focuses on the sustainable development conditions in Italian Inner Areas. Italy's Inner Areas are rural depopulated areas characterized by their distance from the main service centers of education, health, and mobility, according to the classification proposed by the National Strategy for Inner Areas in 2012. The inner and marginal areas are recently getting the interest of the market place and agricultural economics, as well as the attention of the regional and cohesion policies of national governments and the European Union. These places provide an intriguing perspective for a broader reflection on European peripheral areas and their development trajectories. The aim of this contribution is to interpret the determinants of the relationships between rural identity and perceptive components of authenticity, in order to understand the mechanisms by which they are positively reflected in socio-economic and environmental use, influencing in turn, the level of sustainability of territorial development. We found a specific role of the rural identity in the catalyzed phenomena of interaction between citizens/community and visitors/stakeholders, through the authenticity effect, identifying them as the basis of the spontaneous, bottom-up emersion of a symbolic platform, which characterizes the identification of a place brand and of the creation of the perception/destination of the inner territories' characteristics. Finally, the paper discusses an Italian Inner Areas project promoted by the common engagement of local institutions and social and economic actors.

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Rural Identity, Authenticity, and Sustainability in Italian Inner Areas

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“…This paper proposes a reflection on income inequality in its spatial characterization at the municipal level, starting from the classification of the National Strategy for Inner Areas (NSIA) proposed in Italy [1,2]. The contribution has a dual purpose.…”

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“…This contribution presents a spatial analysis of inequalities on a territorial scale and represents an advance compared to previous studies conducted at the national level limited to the north-south comparison [34,38,39] or to some geographical areas [2,[40][41][42].…”

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The Spatial Dimension of Income Inequality: An Analysis at Municipal Level

Mastronardi

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2020

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This paper focuses on the analysis on income inequality in Italy at the municipal level of the areas defined by the National Strategy for Inner Areas. We discuss an analysis of the economic and spatial dynamics of the phenomenon through the construction of the Gini's coefficient and the estimation of the regression model for the evaluation of the determinants of inequality. We highlight the influence of the spatial dimension on income inequality in Italy. Inequality appears to be greater in densely populated urban centers with a strong incidence of tertiary activities and young population. Conversely, in the inner areas, the distribution of income is more balanced due probably to the weakness of the social and economic structure that determines low levels of income and job opportunities mainly in the agricultural sector. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1622 2 of 18 Sustainability 2020, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 11 of 18 355 Figure 2. Map of significance of the LM index for the values of the Gini coefficient. Source: own 356 elaboration. 357Consequently, the analyses are based on a classic linear regression model. Table 4 shows its main 358 results. The histogram of the residuals is showed Figure 3. 359A first element of reflection is that the model explains 60% of the observed variability, 360 confirming the strong territorial characterization of inequality in Italy. A second consideration is that, 361 except L, all the selected variables are quite significant. In detail, the t ratio between coefficients and 362 standard errors reports the relative variation of Gini coefficent, associated with a unitary variation of 363 the explanatory variables. The last columns on the right show the p values and the relative 364 significance under the hypothesis of robust standard errors with respect to heteroskedasticity (i.e., in 365 the presence of a nonconstant variance between the residuals or discrepancies between observed and 366 estimated values of the dependent variable, a possible cause of distorted estimations of the model 367 parameters). 369Lisa significance map High-High (928) High-Low (39) Low-High (27) Low-Low (809)

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“…The most recent research on development strategies and policies in peripheral areas focus, among other issues, on the implications of two quite different, although equally important, processes: resilience (see e.g., Urso, Modica, & Faggian, ) and innovation (see e.g., Madureira & Torre, ). These two processes are highly intertwined with an ongoing specialization of peripheral areas, that has attracted a growing interest by scholars and policy‐makers: the creation and implementation of a tourism sector in such areas, that is supposed to generate new opportunities for sustainable development models and social inclusiveness (see i.e.…”

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Local entrepreneurship and tourism development in peripheral areas between policies and practices

Pezzi

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Reid

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Discussing the linkages between local entrepreneurship and tourism development in peripheral areas provides an intriguing starting point for a wider reflection on the role of existing policies and of emerging practices in fostering local development in such territories. Peripheral areas are typically considered as areas relatively far from urban hubs providing essential services, normally suffering from de-anthropisation and marginalisation, though often provided with a wide range of environmental, cultural and social resources. For a few decades now, and particularly since 2000s, we have witnessed the publication of a growing number of scientific research and policy reports aimed at fostering, triggering and sustaining an increasingly timely debate on what to do (if anything) with peripheral areas and lagging-behind regions ((2009) tackling persistent underutilization of potential for development in specific places; two OECD reports (2009a; 2009b) dealing with the disparities between regions that entail underutilizes potential for growth; a Word Bank's report (2009) that acknowledges the unbalanced nature of growth in lagging regions. Two approaches to the question of why peripheral areas are unable to pursue and succeed in exiting their condition, and of how to effectively counterbalance this ongoing process, have emerged (Barca, McCann, & Rodríguez-Pose, 2012): one is the invitation to reflect on the so called "spatially-blind" or "people-based" interventions, that see the implementation of policies that have not been designed to take into consideration the spaces and places of implementation; the other refers to "place-based" interventions, that assume that the local contextwidely understoodmatters, and that adequate degrees of citizenship are warranted by an improvement in peoples' lives and equal access to opportunities.Moreover, the place-based approach, emphasizes another central issue, that of knowledge in policy interventions and particularly of the potentialities provided by relying on the embedded local knowledge, in contrast with the space-blind approaches to regional development, which imply that the state has both the knowledge and the capacity to design policy interventions regardless of the specificities of the geographical contexts (Barca et al., 2012).

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Resilience and Sectoral Composition Change of Italian Inner Areas in Response to the Great Recession

Cited by 29 publications

References 41 publications

Rural Identity, Authenticity, and Sustainability in Italian Inner Areas

Rural Identity, Authenticity, and Sustainability in Italian Inner Areas

The Spatial Dimension of Income Inequality: An Analysis at Municipal Level

Local entrepreneurship and tourism development in peripheral areas between policies and practices

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