Territorial cohesion in insular contexts: assessing external attractiveness and internal strength of major Mediterranean islands

Garau, Chiara; Desogus, Giulia; Stratigea, Anastasia

doi:10.1080/09654313.2020.1840524

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“…Small islands have a series of common features and difficulties that differentiate them from continental territories [24], such as the generation or supply of energy, water, and food, transport in general, waste treatment, etc. In the case of those with Mediterranean, tropical, or subtropical climates, most of them are highly dependent on tourism and their insular condition means that their connectivity is based on aviation.…”

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Tourism, Transport and Climate Change: The Carbon Footprint of International Air Traffic on Islands

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Many small islands base their economy on tourism. This activity, based to a large extent on the movement of millions of people by air transport, depends on the use of fossil fuels and, therefore, generates a large amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In this work, these emissions are evaluated by means of various carbon calculators, taking the Canary Islands as an example, which is one of the most highly developed tourist archipelagos in the world. The result is that more than 6.4 million tonnes (Mt) of CO2 are produced per year exclusively due to the massive transport of tourists over an average distance of more than 3000 km. The relative weight of these emissions is of such magnitude that they are equivalent to more than 50% of the total amount produced by the socioeconomic activity of the archipelago. Although, individually, it is travelers from Russia and Nordic countries who generate the highest carbon footprint due to their greater traveling distance, the British and German tourists account for the greatest weight in the total, with two-thirds of emissions.

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Tourism, Transport and Climate Change: The Carbon Footprint of International Air Traffic on Islands

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“…It is an extremely interesting work, but not only it is poorly comprehensive (they focus only on inflows of tourists) but also it combines, without explanation, different concepts of territorial attractiveness 8perceived, revealed and real). In the same way, Garau et al (2020) built a synthetic index of tourist territorial attractiveness, analysing the case of the main Mediterranean islands. However, they also combined different conceptualisation of territorial attractiveness.…”

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A new territorial attractiveness index at the international scale: design, application and patterns in Italy

Musolino,

Kotosz

2023

Ann Reg Sci

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The attractiveness of regions and territories for firms, investments, tourists, students, talented people, and other categories is a relevant issue for regional economic development, due to the increasing importance of the relationships and flows on the global scale. The growing concern about this question requires a new comprehensive analytical approach that goes beyond partial approaches. The construction of a synthetic index that measures the territorial attractiveness from a multidimensional perspective is the strategy presented in this work to deal with this issue from a new point of view. We first introduce and present our methodological approach for the construction of the synthetic index, which makes use of both qualitative (budget allocation process) and quantitative (factor analysis) techniques. Our synthetic index is based on the main indicators about incoming flows from abroad (FDIs, workers, tourists, university students). Secondly, we illustrate and discuss the results of its application to the case of the international attractiveness of the Italian regions, based on an 8-year long dataset. The findings reveal that the North–South gap, the well-known Italian spatial pattern, is not fully satisfying to read and interpreter the geographical imbalances in terms of multidimensional territorial attractiveness. Thanks also to the calculation of the Moran’s Index, we show the complexity of the Italian economic geography.

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“…However, various researchers claim that sustainability barriers, faced by insular territories, are not really well reflected in the existing EU policy arsenal [22,61]. In fact, a common European insular strategy, based on the specific geographical peculiarities of islands, is missing, with the exception of the Outermost Regions [62]; while respective policies are mainly fragmented by field or sector, e.g., cohesion-, agriculture-, fishery-related etc.…”

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“…These are regions that are mostly grasped as synonymous with geographically self-contained and generally lagging behind, in developmental terms, areas. Developmental lag of insular regions, as various researchers claim, is due to insularitybased structural weaknesses [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. Concurrently, the majority of those regions are marked by an unbalanced economic structure, featured by a mono-sectoral, mass tourismrelated developmental pattern [24,25].…”

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Evidence-Based Exploration as the Ground for Heritage-Led Pathways in Insular Territories: Case Study Greek Islands

2022

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Global key drivers—e.g., climate change, COVID-19 outbreak—have initiated critical debates as to the sustainable future pathways of many regions around the globe. Among these fall islands, as distinct types of regions that are marked by insularity drawbacks and a mono-sectoral economic profile, grounded in mass tourism. Having as a case study area all Greek islands, this work addresses: sustainability concerns that are due to the mass tourism repercussions in these heritage-endowed territories; and efforts undertaken by the Greek insular municipalities to deploy, in a collaborative manner, strategic cultural tourism plans in support of the transition from a resource-intensive mass tourism pattern to natural and cultural heritage-led future developmental trails. Towards this end, a two-stream methodological approach is used that relies on: quantitative, spatially-defined data elaboration/interpretation and visualization, highlighting the dynamics of tourism development in island territories; and qualitative data on issues related to the aforementioned plans from all insular municipalities, gathered through a web-based questionnaire. Research results unveil the unsustainable spatial and developmental patterns of Greek insular contexts and the shortage of mainstream planning expertise for collaboratively establishing attractive cultural-tourism ensembles. These factors restrain sustainability achievements and the repositioning of Greek islands in the global scenery as authentic heritage-led destinations.

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Territorial cohesion in insular contexts: assessing external attractiveness and internal strength of major Mediterranean islands

Cited by 13 publications

References 20 publications

Tourism, Transport and Climate Change: The Carbon Footprint of International Air Traffic on Islands

Tourism, Transport and Climate Change: The Carbon Footprint of International Air Traffic on Islands

A new territorial attractiveness index at the international scale: design, application and patterns in Italy

Evidence-Based Exploration as the Ground for Heritage-Led Pathways in Insular Territories: Case Study Greek Islands

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