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Urban Transformations, Land-use, and Environmental Change: Quantitative Approaches for Territorial Data book cover

1st Edition

Urban Transformations, Land-use, and Environmental Change: Quantitative Approaches for Territorial Data

Edited By Margherita Carlucci Copyright 2023
142 Pages 3 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by River Publishers

142 Pages 3 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by River Publishers
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This book provides interesting insights for the identification of socioeconomic, demographic and territorial factors that affect structural disparities in local economies. Urban development is the result of demographic dynamics at the local level, connected to socioeconomic factors, and of economic growth, whose fluctuations are particularly sensitive to the economic cycle in countries, such as... Read more

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Biography

Margherita Carlucci is Full Professor of Economic Statistics at the Department of Social and Economics Sciences of Sapienza University of Rome, member of Sapienza University Quality Assurance Committee. Former Director of the Department of Economics of Sapienza University of Rome and Vice-President of IS.CO.NA (Institute of National Accounts). Currently her research interests include integrated systems of economic, social and environmental accounting; the relationship between socioeconomic factors and land degradation; the dynamics of urban development; the definition and measurement of indicators of sustainable development.

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