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The National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI) is a public policy designed to tackle depopulation in inner areas, defined according to the distance from centers offering essential services. Such a policy’s success is crucial to address the new challenges for planning brought to light by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this sense, there is a need to adequately support its implementation by providing handy decision support tools, understanding the power balances among municipalities, and defining proper interventions. The Indicator Grid, already used by the SNAI for project areas selection, can answer this need. However, the Grid’s application to support public policy at the municipality level requires reviewing some of its features, such as the indicators’ large number and the impossibility of defining some of them at the municipal scale. Based on these premises, this paper aims at supporting inner areas policies by carrying out a critical analysis of the current SNAI Grid, aimed at improving its effectiveness. It relies on a hybrid methodology that merges qualitative data interpretations and statistical analyses. Thanks to this method, defining a parsimonious Grid by leaving its complexity and information level untouched is possible. The so-defined set of indicators can represent a valuable reference tool in pinpointing priorities for actions or selecting further territorial scopes from the SNAI perspective, even if it still brings some criticalities to be faced.
Marco Rossitti; Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Francesca Torrieri. The Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI): A Critical Analysis of the Indicator Grid. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6927 .
AMA StyleMarco Rossitti, Marta Dell’Ovo, Alessandra Oppio, Francesca Torrieri. The Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI): A Critical Analysis of the Indicator Grid. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (12):6927.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarco Rossitti; Marta Dell’Ovo; Alessandra Oppio; Francesca Torrieri. 2021. "The Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI): A Critical Analysis of the Indicator Grid." Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6927.
In the light of the growing awareness of the importance of assessing cultural heritage social value and of community involvement in heritage-based planning processes, the paper hints an innovative and people-based approach, which attempts to base the process of appraisal of cultural heritage social value on a wide-spread participatory tool: community mapping. The paper moves from a review of the steps made by estimative theory in assessing cultural heritage social value, with a view to understanding what the current state of art is, what main issues can be pinpointed and, thus, how to enhance existing theories on this matter. Later, it focuses on community mapping, with the aim of understanding which benefits can stem from a participatory process based on this tool. Finally, the opportunity of applying community maps as a key element in the assessment of the social values of cultural heritage and its possible implications are discussed.
Francesca Torrieri; Alessandra Oppio; Marco Rossitti. Cultural Heritage Social Value and Community Mapping. New Metropolitan Perspectives 2020, 1786 -1795.
AMA StyleFrancesca Torrieri, Alessandra Oppio, Marco Rossitti. Cultural Heritage Social Value and Community Mapping. New Metropolitan Perspectives. 2020; ():1786-1795.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesca Torrieri; Alessandra Oppio; Marco Rossitti. 2020. "Cultural Heritage Social Value and Community Mapping." New Metropolitan Perspectives , no. : 1786-1795.