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Principi Guida per l’innesco di processi di sviluppo orientati alla sostenibilità nei territori interni
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European Strategies and Initiatives to Tackle Climate Change: Toward an Integrated Approach
No full textSince the Kyoto Protocol adopted in 1997, Climate Change has become a priority for the European Union. The key role attributed to climate issues triggered a long process characterized by a first phase, mainly devoted to reduce GHG emissions through adequate mitigation strategies; a second phase, addressed to counterbalance the impacts of climate-related events through adaptation strategies and a third phase, still on-going, dedicated to pursue a more effective integration between mitigation and adaptation strategies. This chapter discusses how Climate Change has been so far addressed in Europe, identifying phases, turning points and reasons that led to shift from one phase to another, highlighting the potentialities of existing policies and the obstacles to their actualization. As a matter of fact, the success of climate strategies largely depends on the cooperation among different actors, from a local up to a global scale. Hence Europe, in spite of its strong commitment towards Climate Change, finds itself in grip between local and global choices that inevitably affect the outcomes of the proposed strategies
La piana del Basso Volturno: nuove polarità, infrastrutture verdi e blu e mobilità sostenibile
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Italian small villages: strengths and weaknesses of on-going strategies for revitalizing a fragile heritage
No full textThe depopulation of small villages in Italy is often due not only to socio-economic factors but also to the occurring of hazardous events that, very often, contributed to accelerate the depopulation process, leading sometimes to the total abandonment of inner areas. In Italy, a process addressed to guide and sustain communities living in inners areas in setting up new development perspectives aimed to increase the well-being of citizens and the employment opportunities and to consequntly slow down causes and dynamics of abandonment, has been started in 2012. A key step along this process was the approval of the National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI) in 2014. This paper, grounding on the analysis of two case studies selected among the pilot areas singled out by the SNAI, explores the role of socio-economic causes as well as of geomorphological and environmental factors in the abandonment of Italian small villages, shedding light on the persisting lack of multidimensional approaches to development policies. Such a lack might lead, once again, to marginalize the issue of risk prevention and mitigation, which represents, on the opposite, a precondition for the sustainable development of fragile territories
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