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Linear Planning to Reduce Regional Inequality
This book explores the advantages of a linear model of planning in reducing regional inequalities. Linear planning, commonly discussed in the past as a method which plans the development of the city, is completely redefined here in the form of a design approach inspired by projects shaped by linear routes, such as cycle or walking paths. Such concept is applied to the urgent topic of territorial marginality which specifically neglects rural and mountainous areas and recently is coped by European and National policies. The analysis of these policies demonstrates the necessity of alternative strategies equipped to deal with both the internal and external causes that determine the critical cond...
Cycling & Walking for Regional Development
This book investigates why and how cycle and walking paths can help to promote the regeneration of marginalized areas facing depopulation and economic decline. In addition, it offers a broad overview of recent scientific research into slow tourism and marginality/spatial inequality and explores the linkages between these topics. Key issues are addressed by experts from various disciplinary backgrounds, and potential measures are proposed for the integration of slow tourism into strategies for regional development. Particular attention is devoted to the VENTO project, which involves the creation of a 700-km-long cycle route from Venice to Turin that passes through various rural and marginalized areas of northern Italy. The goal, research process, design, and early lessons from this important project are all discussed in detail. Moreover, the book describes policies and strategies that have successfully been used to enhance the slow tourism infrastructure in other European countries. Given its scope, the book will appeal to researchers, professionals, and students interested in e.g. policymaking, tourism planning, regional development, and landscape and urban planning.
Geography of World Pilgrimages
This book points out how pilgrimage studies rely on interdisciplinary academic interests, being always more determined by anthropological, social, cultural and economic factors. The volume gathers interdisciplinary contributions revealing different approaches and academic interests when researching pilgrimage. Finally, the proposal introduces a comparative international breath to reflect upon such complex phenomenon that since Antiquity still impregnates the history of human being across the world. As pilgrimage studies are closely related to mobility issues, how the contemporary mobile world is altering and re-signifying pilgrimage dynamics and meanings will also be discussed in detail. The term “pilgrimage” evokes key concepts deriving from different fields, all of them collected in the final glossary. The primary audience of this work are academics and researchers from different fields involved in pilgrimage studies. The work may also be useful in teaching (advanced) university courses.
Spanish Tourism Geographies
This book provides an overview of the progress in Spanish tourism geography, particularly after the overlay of financial, pandemic and climate crisis, by the scrutiny of the different geographical areas and variables of analysis. It shows the diversity of geographical environments and their varied relationship with tourism, from the emptied inland regions to urban heritage in historic centres to coastal resorts. The book also introduces the analysis of the most important variables when studying the implications of Spanish tourist specialization. How are the beaches with intensive tourist use managed? What socio-spatial processes do leisure-rooted migrations involve? What are the labour condi...
Strategic Environmental Assessment and Urban Planning
This volume gathers a selection of research contributions on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), including theoretical and methodological studies and real-world case studies. It sheds new light on the respective steps in the procedure defined in the SEA Directive from theoretical and operational standpoints, intended to enhance the sustainability of plans and programmes adopted by local, regional and national authorities. Improving the legitimacy and transparency of decision-making in the field of environmental management was one of the goals that led the European Commission (EU) to adopt Directive 2001/42/EC on the assessment of environmental programmes’ effects. This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to SEA, and addresses the demand for policies and strategies to strengthen resilience through concrete measures to reduce energy consumption, mitigate pollution, promote social inclusion and create urban identity.
I servizi di prossimità come beni comuni
Negli ultimi anni, e con maggiore intensità a partire dall’esplosione della pandemia, si sono registrati fenomeni di mobilità dalla città verso la montagna. Sempre più, abitanti delle aree urbane hanno scelto di trasferirsi in località di valle, spesso marginali e spopolate, per sfuggire alle città, percepite come malsane e pericolose, per promuovere nuove attività o per approfittare del telelavoro in una quotidianità più vicina alla natura. La prossimità crea legami sociali che strutturano la vita quotidiana degli individui, ma il ruolo e il rapporto con la dimensione geografica, relazionale e della quotidianità può variare a seconda del quadro storico e quindi degli specifici...
Dalla parte del suolo
In uno strato sottilissimo di terra c'è la più alta densità vitale del pianeta. Il suolo è un ecosistema unico nel suo genere, di cui continuiamo a ignorare la bellezza. È anche quello più altruista, che permette di sopravvivere a tutto ciò che sta sopra. Eppure noi lo maltrattiamo, avveleniamo, distruggiamo. Per fermare al più presto il suo consumo, serve riscoprire la meraviglia sotto i nostri piedi. Tornare a prendersi cura della terra, per salvare noi stessi insieme a lei. Il suolo è sotto attacco da innumerevoli fronti: cemento, asfalto, microplastiche, pesticidi, liquami zootecnici, erosione e incendi. Sono colpi che feriscono a morte l'ecosistema più fragile e vitale sulla f...
