Urban Transformations, Land-use, and Environmental Change: Quantitative Approaches for Territorial Data

✍ Scribed by Margherita Carlucci

• Publisher: River Publishers
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 142
• Series: River Publishers Series in Chemical and Environmental Engineering
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides interesting insights for the identification of socioeconomic, demographic and territorial factors that affect structural disparities in local economies. Urban development is the result of demographic dynamics at the local level, connected to socioeconomic factors, and of economic growth, whose fluctuations are particularly sensitive to the economic cycle in countries, such as the ones in the Mediterranean basin, characterized by greater informality of the sector and limited public/social housing. Our objective is to provide a contribution to sustainability planning, explaining the linkage between forms of urban development and economic growth, providing policy indications for integrated spatial planning, and for cohesion policies that may leverage social and economic competitiveness.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgment
List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Urban Transformations, Land-use, and Territorial Change Before and After Crisis: A Mediterranean Perspective
1.1: Introduction
1.2: The Quest for Permanent Monitoring and Quantitative Assessment of Complex Socioeconomic Dynamics
1.3: Environmental Challenges, Socioeconomic Dynamics, and Sustainable Development
1.4: Urbanization, Resilience, and Sustainability
1.5: Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 2: The Future Paths of Urbanization: A Brief Review
2.1: Introduction
2.2: Monocentricity vs. Polycentricity
2.3: Demographic Dynamics in Metropolitan Areas
2.4: Urban Transformations, Socioeconomic Wellbeing, and Natural Amenities
2.5: Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 3: Land Resource Consumption in a Tourism Destination: Long-term Dynamics in Mykonos, Greece
3.1: Introduction
3.2: Methodology
3.2.1: Study area
3.2.2: Statistical analysis
3.3: Results
3.4: Discussion
3.5: Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 4: Beyond Crisis: Demographic Dynamics, Long-term Settlement Patterns, and the Intrinsic Evolution of Local Systems Along a Coastal and Inland Gradient
4.1: Introduction
4.2: Methodology
4.3: Results
4.4: Discussion
4.5: Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 5: Toward a Sustainable Urbanization in Rural Districts? Insights from a Case Study in Central Italy
5.1: Introduction
5.2: Methods
5.2.1: Study area
5.2.2: Characteristics of Tuscia landscapes
5.2.3: Early processes of urbanization in Tuscia
5.2.4: Data analysis
5.3: Results
5.4: Discussion
5.5: Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 6: Like Father Like Son? An Analysis of Opportunity and Discrimination in Tertiary Education for OECD Countries
6.1: Introduction
6.2: Data and Basic Notation
6.2.1: Data
6.2.2: Basic definitions and notation
6.3: Mobility and Opportunity: Two Sides of the Same Coin
6.3.1: Discrimination Index
6.3.1.1: Mobility and discrimination
6.3.1.2: Properties of the index
6.3.1.3: Ranking OECD countries by mobility
6.3.1.4: The opportunity index
6.3.2.1: The opportunity index
6.3.2.2: Ranking OECD countries by opportunity
6.3.3: Mobility vs. Opportunity
6.4: A New Aggregate for Mobility and Opportunity
6.4.1: A comparison of the methods
6.4.2: The relationship with expenditure
6.5: Conclusion
References
Index
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