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

Margherita Carlucci

• Publisher: River Publishers
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9788770227384
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000846553
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Economic Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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 the ones in the Mediterranean basin, characterized by greater informality of the sector and limited public/social housing. Our objective is to provide a contribution to sustainability planning, explaining the linkage between forms of urban development and economic growth, providing policy indications for integrated spatial planning, and for cohesion policies that may leverage social and economic competitiveness.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgment
• List of Contributors
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Urban Transformations, Land-use, and Territorial Change Before and After Crisis: A Mediterranean Perspective
• 2 The Future Paths of Urbanization: A Brief Review
• 3 Land Resource Consumption in a Tourism Destination: Long-term Dynamics in Mykonos, Greece
• 4 Beyond Crisis: Demographic Dynamics, Long-term Settlement Patterns, and the Intrinsic Evolution of Local Systems Along a Coastal and Inland Gradient
• 5 Toward a Sustainable Urbanization in Rural Districts? Insights from a Case Study in Central Italy
• 6 Like Father Like Son? An Analysis of Opportunity and Discrimination in Tertiary Education for OECD Countries
• Index
• About the Editor