An institutional periphery in discussion. Rethinking the inner areas in Italy

Vendemmia, Bruna; Pucci, Paola; Beria, Paolo

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102537

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“…Nevertheless, recent textbooks on population geography, such as Bailey (2014), Barcus and Halfacree (2018), and Newbold (2021), have insufficiently discussed the importance of depopulation. Furthermore, looking at the existing literature in geography, this topic has been studied in extremely diverse ways, but its spatial scale is largely cities, metropolitan areas, or rural areas, exemplified in Barakat (2014), Haase et al (2014), and Vendemmia et al (2021) as well as the previous works introduced below in the section “Geographical inequality of population decline,” suggesting a paucity of decline on a nationwide scale.…”

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Exploring the impact of depopulation on a country's population geography: Lessons learned from Japan

Inoue

Koike

Yamauchi

et al. 2021

Population Space and Place

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The total population of Japan reached its peak in 2008 and has since experienced population decline. This trend has had a profound effect on many of the country's spheres of activity. The purpose of this article is to comprehensively review the existing literature, mainly published since the peak year, through the perspective of the impact of Japan's depopulation on its population geography and to present future research issues based on the obtained findings. Consequently, three new research issues are presented as the lessons learned from the country. First, since the population decline of a country is a very serious problem, population geographers need to devote much more attention to this issue. Second, new analytical methods suitable for examining depopulation need to be developed carefully but actively. Third, population geographers should proactively state policy implications based on research findings associated with population decline. This is a great opportunity to improve the position of the sub-discipline in the countries whose populations have already started or are about to decline.

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Exploring the impact of depopulation on a country's population geography: Lessons learned from Japan

Inoue

Koike

Yamauchi

et al. 2021

Population Space and Place

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“…These differences suggest the importance of considering the accessibility to certain essential services when defining marginal areas. In other settings, the accessibility to basic services -the possibility to access places such as schools, hospitals or stations within a certain spatial or temporal distance -is a criterion used to define what areas are marginal (see for example Vendemmia et al 2021). Instead, in the case of Chile, this issue is considered only in relation to isolated areas, rather than including also lagging areas.…”

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“…While peripheral areas provide resources, the value they generate is captured by a few cities that act as gateways to the global economy (Atienza et al 2021). Therefore, the combined concentration of inhabitants and resources determines significant forms of territorial inequality and may easily configure non-urban areas as "places that don't matter" (Rodríguez-Pose 2018), lacking opportunities and quality of life for their inhabitants (Collantes 2019, Vendemmia et al 2021. Considering the future impact that ageing will also have on Latin American populations, it would be relevant to consider if, together with the concentration of wealth and inhabitants, also ageing acts as an additional factor that marginalises a specific territory.…”

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“…Instead, adverse demographic trends may be observed in areas that were already defined as marginal based on other criteria, such as spatial proximity and access to basic opportunities. This is, for example the case of Italy, a country where national strategies define marginal areas according to their (lack of) access to health, education and mobility: the elements that identify such "institutional periphery" are thus mainly spatial features, even if the resulting marginal areas have in common trends such as population degrowth and increasing ageing (Vendemmia et al 2021). Similarly, several regions of Spain experience the loss of population and a growing presence of older inhabitants, due to historical trend of migration towards urban, developed areas.…”

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Ageing, therefore marginal: demographic trends and institutional capacity in marginal Chilean municipalities

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2022

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In Global South countries, ageing is an incoming phenomenon with socio-spatial implications that are not much explored yet. Global North countries are already facing ageing trends with significant territorial consequences, such as declining populations that contribute to making certain areas marginal. However, different factors may determine the marginality of a municipality or a region in other settings. Drawing on these premises, the paper discusses whether ageing demographic trends contribute to territorial marginality also in a Global South setting. The paper focuses on the case of Chile, a country characterised by significant territorial inequalities and a population that is becoming older. In doing so, it has a twofold purpose: first, examine census data to define what areas are currently experiencing a demographic decline and if these correspond to the areas that national policies define as marginal; second, examine official documents to consider to what extent both national policies and local development plans define ageing as an element of marginality. The decline of population in Chile defines a geography of marginality that complements and expands the one defined in policy strategies, including more areas. In contrast, institutions at different levels are only partially prepared for dealing with the socio-spatial implications of an increasingly older population.

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“…At the same time, Mediterranean mountain areas are largely part of the so-called inner areas, i.e., rural areas that experience marginalization due to their geographical and socio-economic conditions ( [1,2] and references therein), and are significantly affected by demographic decline and population ageing, as well as landscape degradation caused primarily by agricultural abandonment ( [3] and references therein).…”

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A Step towards a Sustainable Tourism in Apennine Mountain Areas: A Proposal of Geoitinerary across the Matese Mountains (Central-Southern Italy)

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The Apennine mountain areas suffer progressive abandonment and marginality, although being characterized by an extraordinary richness in natural and cultural resources, and landscapes of great beauty. Therefore, their natural heritage, and especially their geoheritage, tranformed into geotourism initiatives, can represent an essential resource to support local economy andsustainable development. The present study illustrates the case of Matese Mountains (Southern Apennines), particularly rich in protected areas, including the Matese National Park currently taking off, which is characterized by a rich geoheritage, based on 59 geosites. Among these geosites, examining the specially built geosite GIS database, 16 geosites were selected to construct a geoitinerary crossing the Matese Mountains. The geoitinerary was delineated to optimally represent the major geomorphological and geological (especially geohistorical) features of the Matese area. The selected geosites were associated to a new procedure to assess their Scientific Value (SV) and Potential Tourism Use (PTU), and to confirm their suitability for the purpose. To illustrate the geoitinerary, a geoitinerary map, and illustration material such as descriptive cards were produced. As an overall result, the proposed geoitinerary represents a valuable contribution for the geotourism promotion of the Matese Mountains on which to base future studies and initiatives in this perspective.

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An institutional periphery in discussion. Rethinking the inner areas in Italy

Cited by 18 publications

References 22 publications

Exploring the impact of depopulation on a country's population geography: Lessons learned from Japan

Exploring the impact of depopulation on a country's population geography: Lessons learned from Japan

Ageing, therefore marginal: demographic trends and institutional capacity in marginal Chilean municipalities

A Step towards a Sustainable Tourism in Apennine Mountain Areas: A Proposal of Geoitinerary across the Matese Mountains (Central-Southern Italy)

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