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Building the Urban Bioregion. Governance scenarios for urban and territorial planning
Get PDFThe book focuses on bioregionalist theories and experiences as an alternative way of reading and designing local contexts, based on the recovery of the co-evolutionary relationship between human settlements and territories to achieve a self-sustainable and non-hierarchical system of urban and rural centers, according to Alberto Magnaghi's vision. The work has developed a broader discussion among researchers from different European backgrounds about the ways in which processes related to bioregionalism, looked at in a transdisciplinary way, can lead to interesting
applications and analytical insights, that are useful for reviewing and strengthening community self-organization and reflecting on the constitutive foundations of the relationship between communities and their territories.
The collaboration between the French school of Bordeaux, the Tuscany school and the Cagliari school gives back a diversified overview of materials and references for the possible application of the bioregionalist model.The
contributions discuss many issues related to the governance of metropolitan areas and the management of the urban-rural relationship with suggestions for interpretation and design in a bioregionalist perspective, the themes of
urban green, land vulnerability, and agricultural supply chains in rural and peri-urban spaces and new food economies in metropolitan areas
Ripartire dal “centro”. Prospettive di sviluppo locale per le aree interne della Sardegna
No full textBuilding the Territory of Resilience. Present and Future Perspectives of the Bioregional Experience in Sardinia
No full textThis book provides insights and discusses the practical application of the theoretical concept of
urban bioregion complementing the general bio-regional planning cross-disciplinary issues
provided in Volume I. It examines planning practices, such as relocalisation of energy flows,
land protection for climate change, territorial heritage enhancement, the consideration of urban
ecosystems and agro-ecology. It presents discussions on regional contexts, practices and
projects for a bioregional recovery, and includes case studies from France, Belgium, Spain,
Greece, Austria and Italy, discussing topics that range from the reframing of local energy
production/delivery planning systems to soil protection and farmland sustainable exploitation
schemes. This volume concludes with three cross-European case studies that make clear the
worldwide relevance and potential of bioregional approach beyond the Global North or Western
countries
Pianificare la demilitarizzazione dei territori. Questioni urbanistiche sulla rigenerazione del patrimonio militare dismesso di La Maddalena
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Smart Tourism Governance for Urban Bioregion: An Evaluating Approach to the Relationship between Coastal and Inland Areas of South Sardinia
No full textIn recent years, the governance of smart tourism has been radically changed from a strictly technological approach to one that highlights the issues of place. This has led to the definition of territorial ecosystems, not necessarily linked to administrative boundaries, but which can be linked to the urban bioregion. The latter in fact allows for a polycentric organization of the tourism structure based on small territories, identified through the study of the relationships between human settlement and the environment. This polycentric bioregional approach is even more significant in island contexts that by their geographical configuration have natural and demographic disadvantages. The aim of this chapter, with this background, is to frame the concept of smart tourism in an island bioregion as a possible development approach for inner areas through linking tourism goals with coastal areas. To this end, the authors, starting with a theoretical discussion of the relationship between smart tourism and urban bioregion in an island system, analyse the historical region of Sulcis Iglesiente, characterised by a complex infrastructural and urban system polarized around two major centers (Carbonia and Iglesias). Smart tourism emerges as a central aspect of policies aimed at countering depopulation, social exclusion and economic depression in less developed inner areas. The methodological approach used combines geo-spatial analysis and spatial syntax techniques to describe in quantitative terms the distribution of cultural heritage components, relevant habitats, opportunities for recreational activities, tourism-related services and accessibility conditions. The paper concludes by identifying patterns of centrality and integration that can enhance tourism potential in an island bioregion
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