Description
Book SynopsisThis book proposes an articulated and multidisciplinary research path that introduces to the potential of adopting territorial statistics, namely those elaborated at the level of Local Labour Systems, for carry out spatial analysis of apparent and latent interactions between socioeconomic phenomena and environmental dynamics at a sufficiently broad and efficient geographical unit of analysis. This allows to examine in a more exhaustive manner the complexity and non-linearity of several socio-economic and territorial processes and to address the multidimensional concept of sustainability from below. Studies included in this book contribute to an integrated, multidisciplinary reading that covers the three pillars of sustainability. Italy is relevant case study in this sense and can be assumed as a paradigmatic country also for other advanced European nations that undertook territorial analysis at a very disaggregated spatial level (i.e., UK, Spain, Germany and France among others).
Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: Regional Analysis of Complex Socioeconomic Processes. The Role of Local Districts; Toward a Complex Spatial History? Tracing the (non-stationary) Economic Disparities between Northern and Southern Italy; Agglomeration Economies and the Spatial Configuration of Local Labour Systems in Italy; Income Disparities, Metropolitan Hierarchy, and the Socioeconomic Background of Italian Local Districts; Industrial Specialization and Territorial Imbalance in the Wake of the Crisis. Some Evidence at the Level of Local Labour Systems in Italy; Sectoral structure, competitivity and territorial performance: the Italian Local Labour Systems after the Great Recession; Toward Resilient Districts? Regional Unemployment Divides and Local Job Markets before and after Crisis; A Local-scale Analysis of Unemployment and Growth in an Economically Divided Country; In-between Sustainability and Competitiveness: Local Districts Matter; Economic structure, urban growth and spatial distribution of soil sealing: an exploratory analysis; Analysis of economic-environmental phenomena using disaggregated territorial indicators: the case of land degradation; Assessing Multiple Dimensions of Socio-Ecological Resilience in Local Labour Systems: Statistical Indicators Give You More; Conclusion: Local Labour Systems. A New Vision for Urban Competitiveness, Regional Dynamics and Sustainability; Index.
