Assessing Urban Green Spaces Availability: A Comparison Between Planning Standards and a High-Fidelity Accessibility Evaluation

Blečić, Ivan; Saiu, Valeria

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68824-0_37

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“…In response, one of the main aims of the EU governments and policymakers is to strength the territorial dimension of sector policies at all governance levels for ensuring Land 2023, 12, 312 2 of 14 a balanced development of all territories. Within a common framework, specific operational programmes and development instruments dedicated for them are needed to correct imbalances between different Member States and to boost territorial development, with particular attention to urbanization processes and their effects upon the affected territories, [7][8][9]. The European Green Deal, with its Sustainable Europe Investment Plan and Just Transition Mechanism (2020), the Union Recovery Programme (2020) and the EU Territorial Agenda 2030 (2020), are among the most recent major European policies for local-oriented strategies at national, regional and local levels aimed at pursuing territorial equity through sustainable development [10].…”

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Addressing Peripherality in Italy: A Critical Comparison between Inner Areas and Territorial Capital-Based Evaluations

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Muroni

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As highlighted by the UN 2030 Agenda, sustainable development is a complex and multidimensional issue that can be effectively implemented and reached at the local level. This implies the evaluation of differences and disparities between territories in order to define local priorities and support cohesion policy objectives. This need has been addressed by the Italian “National Strategy for Inner Areas”, which aims to support the growth of territories with a continuous economic and population decline. However, Inner Areas are identified by a set of indicators related to the low accessibility to Services of General Interest, neglecting other important factors that contribute to this condition. This paper proposes a critical analysis of this measurement and of the related “territorialization” of Inner Areas, by introducing a more comprehensive assessment model based on the concept of Territorial Capital (TC), which highlights a more nuanced understanding of complexities and diversities related to the potential development of a territory. In particular, the proposed model evaluates eight TC dimensions (human, social, cognitive, infrastructural, productive, relational, environmental and settlement capital), which cover a broad spectrum of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In order to accurately demonstrate the differences between the results of the two evaluation methods, this paper presents the results of a case study application concerning all 377 municipalities, which compose the Autonomous Region of Sardinia (Italy). The findings of this study confirm the potential of an approach based on the Territorial Capital for place-based policymaking. TC, in fact, can become relevant for defining local priorities and supporting complex decisions, allowing governments to better design and tailor interventions for the effective and efficient management of available resources. Furthermore, these results pose new questions for future research developments in the field of sustainable and equitable development.

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