1st Edition

Resilient Landscapes Post-crisis Local Development and Sustainable Society

212 Pages 8 Color & 27 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

212 Pages 8 Color & 27 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

212 Pages 8 Color & 27 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

In recent years, resilient districts have become territorial contexts for projects designed to respond to the needs of local communities, through the exploitation of landscape peculiarities to overcome the economic crisis. This volume offers a comprehensive insight on sustainable development of local territories. It recommends the planning of local interventions through the integration of... Read more

Introduction

Matteo Clemente, Barbara Ermini, Francesco Chelli and Jesús Rodrigo-Comino

Smart Districts, Smart Landscapes?

Matteo Clemente, Clio Ciaschini, Giovanni Quaranta, Rosanna Salvia and Luca Salvati

Landscape Resilience and Territorial Dynamics in Inner Areas Affected by Landslides

Tiziana Simoniello, Clio Ciaschini and Vito Imbrenda

Rural Resilience Landscapes and Farmers’ Perception Facing Land Degradation Due to Soil Erosion in the Mediterranean: The Use of Nature-based Solutions for Cultivated Land

Jesús Rodrigo-Comino and Artemi Cerdà

Attitudes and Behavior of the Society of Mytilene Island, Greece towards Refugee-Immigrant Issue

Kostas Rontos, Nikolaos Nagopoulos, Maria-Eleni Syrmali, Nikolaos Panagos and Elisavet Thravalou

Population Contexts, Economic Crisis, and the Non-Demographic Policy Implementation in Greece

Konstantinos Rontos, Clio Ciaschini and Barbara Ermini

Can European Mechanisms Contribute to the Effective Control of the Phenomenon of Political Budget Cycles? The Case of Greece

George Petrakos, Kostas Rontos, Chara Vavoura and Ioannis Vavouras

Fact or Myth? The Modifiable Area Unit Problem (MAUP) in Measuring Residential Segregation of Foreigners in Italy

Federico Benassi and Salvatore Strozza

Resilience, Talent Attraction, and Brain Drain since the 2008 Economic Crisis in Spanish Regions

Miguel González–Leonardo and Antonio–López–Gay

Setting–up the Public Space: From the Temporary use of the City to user–centered Design for Resilient Communities

Matteo Clemente

Biography

Matteo Clemente, PhD, is Researcher in Landscape Architecture at Tuscia University (Viterbo) and he holds courses in Landscape Planning. His research interests are focused on the themes of redevelopment of the contemporary city, with particular reference to the re-design of public space, from the scale of urban design to that of landscape design and temporary installations.

Jesús Rodrigo-Comino, Assistant Professor in the Department of Regional and Physical Geography at the University of Granada (Spain). He completed his first PhD in Geography at the University of Málaga (Spain) and Trier (Germany) in 2018 and the second one in the engineering of Geomatics and Topography at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2023). His current research interests include soil geography, regional geography and land degradation.

Francesco M. Chelli is Full-time Professor of Economic Statistics at the Department of Economics and Social Sciences of Polytechnic University of Marche (Ancona), and, at the moment, member of ISTAT Council. He holds courses of Economic and Methodological Statistics. His research interests range from topics as Input-Output models, welfare indicators, spatial statistics and demographic dynamics.