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Depopulation is a problem felt in many regions of the European Union, mainly affecting inland and rural areas. In many cases, these areas are characterized by economic, social, and infrastructural marginalization. Their rehabilitation is desirable in view of a better balance of social and infrastructural management. This said, there are no proven solutions for depopulation that can be applied to all territories in the same way. On the contrary, if we examine progress in the fields of ITC and digitization, we can gather interesting suggestions on how to deal with this issue. This essay intends to analyze these aspects and to examine ways to strengthen, through programs and instruments of the sharing economy, the competitiveness and potential attraction of geographical areas considered marginal and that risk demographic collapse.
Silvia Battino; Salvatore Lampreu. The Role of the Sharing Economy for a Sustainable and Innovative Development of Rural Areas: A Case Study in Sardinia (Italy). Sustainability 2019, 11, 3004 .
AMA StyleSilvia Battino, Salvatore Lampreu. The Role of the Sharing Economy for a Sustainable and Innovative Development of Rural Areas: A Case Study in Sardinia (Italy). Sustainability. 2019; 11 (11):3004.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSilvia Battino; Salvatore Lampreu. 2019. "The Role of the Sharing Economy for a Sustainable and Innovative Development of Rural Areas: A Case Study in Sardinia (Italy)." Sustainability 11, no. 11: 3004.
The paper tackle the issue related to the promotion of internal areas of Sardinia, considered the contrast existing between a strong, peak coastal tourism and a lower development in the internal areas. Considered the vast amount of cultural and environmental goods present in the territory, particularly in internal areas, in this paper we promote a mixed qualitative – quantitative method for highlighting more promising areas for targeting ad hoc policies of development. We start with a hot spot analysis of cultural and environmental goods in Sardinia Region, with particular reference to the internal areas. We then proceed with highlighting the municipalities or aggregation of municipalities presenting the highest concentrations of such goods. Then we qualitatively evaluate those events or sites generally more renown and appreciated, observing if local – municipal or regional – policies have been activated for their promotion. Observed that, we suggest possible interventions to enhance the touristic offer of such part of the Sardinia island.
Silvia Battino; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Carlo Donato. Internal Areas and Smart Tourism. Promoting Territories in Sardinia Island. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2018, 44 -57.
AMA StyleSilvia Battino, Ginevra Balletto, Giuseppe Borruso, Carlo Donato. Internal Areas and Smart Tourism. Promoting Territories in Sardinia Island. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2018; ():44-57.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSilvia Battino; Ginevra Balletto; Giuseppe Borruso; Carlo Donato. 2018. "Internal Areas and Smart Tourism. Promoting Territories in Sardinia Island." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 44-57.
Research concerned about cities paid a particular attention, particularly in the past, related to the central places of a city, or the areas where central activities characterizing cities are located. That led to the definition of the so called Central Business District - also known as “Downtown” or “the City”. Some related concepts have been also developed for addressing tourism and recreation. That led to defining the Recreational Business District, a – not necessarily geographically – central part of a city generally hosting free time and leisure, lived by locals, visitors and tourists. Here a research is carried on, in order to evaluate the ways in which recreational areas tend to distribute and concentrate on urban environments. The analysis is carried on considering the municipality of Olbia in Sardinia (Italy). The idea is that of comparing the spatial distribution and extent of such Recreational areas in parts of a territory quite different in shapes, population and, in general geographical characters. The analysis was also performed over recreational activities considering their level of connectedness by means of social networks ad media, examining the pattern they draw in a tourist area. Different techniques are used, including a point pattern analysis based on Kernel Density Estimation.
Silvia Battino; Giuseppe Borruso; Carlo Donato. Recreation Tourist Areas. An Exam on Recreational Business Districts in Olbia (Sardinia). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2015, 662 -674.
AMA StyleSilvia Battino, Giuseppe Borruso, Carlo Donato. Recreation Tourist Areas. An Exam on Recreational Business Districts in Olbia (Sardinia). Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2015; ():662-674.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSilvia Battino; Giuseppe Borruso; Carlo Donato. 2015. "Recreation Tourist Areas. An Exam on Recreational Business Districts in Olbia (Sardinia)." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 662-674.
The cities are places where people, goods and information flows concentrate and, even if they differ in position, dimension and functions, they remain the main players of local, national and international development. Every city, even if represented by its "historic centre" - space that not always has maintained its role of principal central position in the urban evolutionary processes - has experimented developing areas of specialization and concentrations of functions, as districts marked by one or more dominant functions: commercial, administrative, residential or cultural. Starting from the definition of the Central Business District (CBD) or "central place" of the city and keeping as reference the "urban environments" or "districts" of the most recent town-planning project of the city of Sassari, we performed a quantitative and distributive analysis of the core urban activities of the whole territory of the Municipality of Sassari. Such analysis was realized on a point pattern represented by the spatial distribution of ‘high level’ urban activities and their elaboration by means of spatial indexes and density estimation. The spatial indexes, referred also to urban roads’ length and to the number of residents of every urban subunit considered, highlighted that such kinds of activities refer mainly to the city center area and concentrate in just four of the thirty-two districts. The GIS elaboration and processing allowed us to represent the central area (CBD), highlighting a core, as Piazza d’Italia, where a limited number of residents corresponds to a greater presence of rare activities.
Silvia Battino; Giuseppe Borruso; Carlo Donato. Analyzing the Central Business District: The Case of Sassari in the Sardinia Island. Computer Vision 2012, 7334, 624 -639.
AMA StyleSilvia Battino, Giuseppe Borruso, Carlo Donato. Analyzing the Central Business District: The Case of Sassari in the Sardinia Island. Computer Vision. 2012; 7334 ():624-639.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSilvia Battino; Giuseppe Borruso; Carlo Donato. 2012. "Analyzing the Central Business District: The Case of Sassari in the Sardinia Island." Computer Vision 7334, no. : 624-639.