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

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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. 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 About the Editor