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Territorial Imbalances in the Post-pandemic Context: A Focus on Digital Divide in Italy’s Inner Areas
No full textAt EU level, geographical differences in terms of economic and social development can influence the quality of life (QoL). It is overly simplified to classify countries according to average scores in the dimensions of QoL, as large differences exist between different population groups (Eurofound 2014). However, in order to reduce inequalities (SDG 10) and improve the territories’ socio-economic conditions, a well-defined spatial connotation is necessary. In Italy, the National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI) has classified the national territory by first identifying the service ‘poles’ and then defining the “inner areas” in terms of spatial remoteness (update 2020). This study initially provides an in-depth look at how ‘inner’ the NUTS 3 regions are (Bertolini and Pagliacci 2017), and then focuses on digital divide in the post-pandemic context. For each ‘SNAI pilot area’ there are four indicators that monitor the digital divide, in terms of population percentage reached by fixed and mobile broadband (ISTAT). How much is really being done in disadvantaged areas to provide reliable, high-quality Internet access? On this issue, SNAI has programmed about 70 million euros (OpenCoesione), will this be enough to invest in Internet infrastructure and support local training opportunities? Remote working can become a tool for enhancing inner areas if it is included in an integrated strategy to improve the QoL. The main spin-offs for the environment concern the reduction of travel (lower emission of pollutants, especially PM10, 5, 2.5) and urbanisation (SDG 11)
INFRASTRUTTURE CICLABILI E LA CICLOVIA LAGONEGRO-ROTONDA, UN MODELLO DI GESTIONE BASATO SULLA COMUNITÀ: PROSPETTIVE ECO-CICLE
Get PDFCycle-tourism is a strategic way to promote the inland areas’ economic revival in a sustainable way. Both the improvement of regional operational programmes and concrete actions to raise user awareness are central to supporting local service chains for cycling tourism. In the framework of the ECO-CICLE project, aimed at strengthening the European cycle tourism network in natural areas, the University of Basilicata and the Basilicata Region planned to improve the cycle tourism sector in Basilicata (Italy) with the aim of making the bicycle the most adopted transport mode to access natural heritage. In Basilicata, the 'Lagonegro-Rotonda' cycle path was built as part of the Basilicata Region's Development Pact. This cycling project implementation involved eight municipalities, with the Nemoli municipality and FAL Ferrovie Appulo Lucane s.r.l. as lead partners. This work identifies the main methodological references to be considered in the project implementation. It contributes to provide effective integrated development strategies to improve active mobility on an urban and territorial scale
Training for Territorial Sustainable Development Design in Basilicata Remote Areas: GEODESIGN Workshop
No full textGEODESIGN represents an effective framework promoting collaborative planning and decision-making as an incremental process based on robust methodological guidance. In this paper, GEODESIGN has been adopted as supporting tool for preliminary activities oriented to the integrate risks mitigation and sustainable development in a wider research project MITIGO. Within this project, have been selected as case study area four Municipalities from inland areas of Basilicata Region, characterized by several risks (i.e. depopulation, hydro-geological risks, abandonment of traditional land uses{\ldots}). A knowledge framework process of future scenario building was produced through GEODESIGN Workshop, based on technical information concerning environmental and anthropic risks and combined with more traditional context analysis
“Back to the Villages”: Design Sustainable Development Scenarios for In-Land Areas
No full textIn-land Areas refers to territories that are farther from cities, often located in mountainous contexts, where job opportunities are less frequent. The National Strategy for Internal Areas (SNAI) represents an innovative national policy for development and territorial cohesion that aims to counter the marginalization and demographic decline phenomena specific to the In-land areas Italy and ultimately countering their “demographic negative trend”. This paper aims to structure a strategic planning process aimed at answering those critical issues within a specific marginal area of Basilicata including four municipalities: Albano di Lucania, Campomaggiore, Castelmezzano, and Pietrapertosa. The methodological framework is based on the Logical Framework Approach as a preliminary analytical-knowledge phase to a co-design exercise that will be carried out with the main actors of the context within a specific Geodesign workshop. The LFA main output are discussed in the paper pointing out the rational process of strategic planning development
UN'ANALISI DELLA DISTRIBUZIONE SPAZIALE DELLA POLITICA DI SVILUPPO REGIONALE POV E DEI FONDI STRUTTURALI UE IN VAL D’AGRI (BASILICATA - ITALY)
No full textAbstractThe Spatial Distribution Analysis arises from the need to investigate the issue of ongoing projects in Val d’Agri (Basilicata, Italy), within the RI.P.R.O.VA.RE. The purpose of the paper is to verify the effective distribution of resources in an internal area of the Basilicata Region and highlight the problems that lead to an imbalance in the use of resources belonging to a community and local policies. The structure of the paper is organized into four sections, preceded by an introduction to the topic: the first section contains a brief review of the main European Structural Funds and local policies in the area, of which it clarifies the objectives; the second illustrates the materials and methods used for the analysis of spatial distribution; the third section is dedicated to the Val d’Agri case study and the description of the first results; finally, in the last section, conclusions are drawn based on the analysis experience implemented
Applying Geodesign Towards an Integrated Local Development Strategy: The Val d’Agri Case (Italy)
No full textGeodesign is an effective collaborative methodology oriented towards designing spatial strategies with a multidisciplinary approach, involving not only the local community but also professionals from design, spatial sciences and information systems. This synergy acts as a driver for a general knowledge framework, which allows these established professional fields to develop further and collaborate effectively. This paper proposes the Geodesign workshop outcomes within the RI.P.R.O.VA.RE research project, oriented towards the definition of an integrated local development strategy in the Val d'Agri area, in the inland Basilicata region. The results, therefore, represent a component within a much broader project framework; however, the participatory design approach used in the Geodesign experience made it possible to evaluate the different project proposals, moderate the negotiation between two different focus groups and achieve a single and shared participatory design. A key role was played by the research team that moderated the organisation, localisation and expression phase of the different project proposals, having sufficient spatial and temporal knowledge to integrate the Geodesign outcomes and elaborate a future-oriented strategy. The paper is structured in four parts. In the introduction it is specified how the use of the Geodesign tool was brought into the case study. The second part briefly outlines the study area context: the Val d'agri. The third part focuses on the Geodesign Workshop description and, finally, the outcomes are illustrated, from which the research team defined the integrated local development strategy
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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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