Table Of ContentUrban Transformations, Land-use, and
Environmental Change: Quantitative
Approaches for Territorial Data
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Urban Transformations, Land-use, and
Environmental Change: Quantitative
Approaches for Territorial Data
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Margherita Carlucci
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Contents
Acknowledgment ix
List of Contributors xi
List of Figures xiii
List of Tables xv
List of Abbreviations xvii
1 U rban Transformations, Land-use, and Territorial Change
Before and After Crisis: A Mediterranean Perspective 1
Margherita Carlucci and Luca Salvati
1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 The Quest for Permanent Monitoring and Quantitative
Assessment of Complex Socioeconomic Dynamics . . . . . . . 2
1.3 Environmental Challenges, Socioeconomic Dynamics,
and Sustainable Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.4 Urbanization, Resilience, and Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.5 Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 The Future Paths of Urbanization: A Brief Review 11
Clio Ciaschini and Barbara Ermini
2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.2 Monocentricity vs. Polycentricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.3 Demographic Dynamics in Metropolitan Areas . . . . . . . . . 15
2.4 Urban Transformations, Socioeconomic Wellbeing,
and Natural Amenities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.5 Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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3 Land Resource Consumption in a Tourism Destination:
Long-term Dynamics in Mykonos, Greece 37
Gianluigi Salvucci, Marco Zitti, and Kostas Rontos
3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.2 Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.2.1 Study area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.2.2 Statistical analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.3 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3.4 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.5 Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4 Beyond Crisis: Demographic Dynamics, Long-term
Settlement Patterns, and the Intrinsic Evolution of
Local Systems Along a Coastal and Inland Gradient 45
Kostas Rontos, Vito Imbrenda, Rosanna Salvia, and Giovanni Quaranta
4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.2 Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.3 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.4 Discussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
4.5 Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5 Toward a Sustainable Urbanization in Rural Districts?
Insights from a Case Study in Central Italy 63
Gianluca Egidi, Rosanna Salvia, Caterina Samela, Barbara Ermini,
Luca Salvati, and Leonardo Bianchini
5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
5.2 Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
5.2.1 Study area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
5.2.2 Characteristics of Tuscia landscapes . . . . . . . . . . 67
5.2.3 Early processes ofurbanizationin Tuscia. . . . . . . . 68
5.2.4 Data analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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5.3 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.4 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.5 Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
6 L ike Father Like Son? An Analysis of Opportunity and
Discrimination in Tertiary Education for OECD Countries 95
Mariateresa Ciommi, Francesca Mariani, Maria Cristina Recchioni,
Gloria Polinesi, and Giuseppe Ricciardo Lamonica
6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
6.2 Data and Basic Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
6.2.1 Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
6.2.2 Basic definitions and notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
6.3 Mobility and Opportunity: Two Sides of the Same Coin . . . . 101
6.3.1 Discrimination Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
6.3.1.1 Mobility and discrimination . . . . . . . . . . 102
6.3.1.2 Properties of the index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
6.3.1.3 Ranking OECD countries by mobility . . . . 104
6.3.1.4 The opportunity index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
6.3.2.1 The opportunity index . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
6.3.2.2 Ranking OECD countries by opportunity . . . 106
6.3.3 Mobility vs. Opportunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
6.4 A New Aggregate for Mobility and Opportunity . . . . . . . . 107
6.4.1 A comparison of the methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
6.4.2 The relationship with expenditure . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
6.5 Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Index 121
About the Editor 123
Acknowledgment
The publication of this book was funded by Sapienza University of Rome
under the research project POLY-DESERT.
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