An Axiology of Weak Areas: The Estimation of an Index of Abandonment for the Definition of a Cognitive Tool to Support the Enhancement of Inland Areas in Sicily

Maria Rosa Trovato () and Ludovica Nasca
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Maria Rosa Trovato: Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy
Ludovica Nasca: Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 12, 1-52

Abstract: The marginalization of areas due to a progressive increase in social, material, economic, and infrastructural vulnerability is a phenomenon that afflicts many countries today, and it is growing rapidly. Agenda 2030, in highlighting the need to identify measures to counter this phenomenon, has promoted the development of a growing awareness of addressing this issue that cannot be postponed. With this in mind, in Italy, a map of inland areas was produced by the Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning and Sustainable Development (ICEPSD), a publication aimed at measuring the extent of the phenomenon and support the development of specific strategies that collectively define the National Strategy for Inland Areas (NSIA). In this study, starting from a critical analysis of the classification of areas in the National Strategy for Inner Areas, we propose a new cognitive tool of the phenomenon of abandonment developed from the perspective of an axiological approach of marginal areas. This tool is based on the mapping of an abandonment index I a on QGIS with reference to the clusters of municipalities identified based on the quartiles of its values. This index was estimated as an aggregate weighted sum of the components identified because of the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) used to analyze the indicators of different forms of territorial capital of weak areas.

Keywords: inland area; territorial capital; axiological approach; principal component analysis (PCA); abandonment index; map of abandonment; National Strategy for Inner Areas (NSIA); vulnerability of territories; resilience of territories; National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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