Scientific Coordinator

Stefania Oppido

Objectives and contents

The project deals with the issue of marginalisation processes affecting territories progressively excluded from development trajectories, resulting in the contraction of economic activities, reduction of essential services, depopulation, and decay of the historical, cultural and environmental heritage. The focus is on marginalised areas of the Italian territory, such as villages and inland areas, which often suffer a state of decline and abandonment but, at the same time, with a great potential represented by cultural landscapes and tangible and intangible assets.

The aim of the project is to activate regeneration processes based on enhancing the landscape as a driver of social, cultural and economic innovation of these territories and on the synergy between top-down policies and bottom-up initiatives. With reference to the national framework represented by the National Strategy for Inner Areas and by Law no. 158/2017 known as the “Salva Borghi” (“Save Villages”) law, the research aims to contribute for reducing territorial inequalities through processes of community empowerment and territorial improvement which can foster a more equitable and balanced development between “core” and peripheral areas.

Research Group IRISS

Gabriella Esposito Stefania Ragozino Maria Cerreta Maria Scalisi

Collaborations

Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria – Dipartimento Patrimonio, Architettura, Urbanistica; Società Italiana degli Urbanisti (SIU); Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Dipartimento di Architettura (DiARC); Ente Parco Regionale dei Monti Picentini, Ente Riserve Naturali “Foce Sele-Tanagro” e “Monti Eremita-Marzano”; Alleanza per la Mobilità Dolce (AMODO); InLocoMotivi APS; IPSEOA Manlio Rossi-Doria di Avellino; Gruppo Tecnico SIU “Aree Interne e dintorni”.

Featured scientific publications

• Oltre la retorica del borgo: un approccio sistemico per il bilanciamento territoriale
  2021 - Stefania Oppido, Stefania Ragozino, Katia Fabbricatti, Gabriella Esposito De Vita

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• Exploring territorial imbalances: a systematic literature review of meanings and terms
  2020 - Stefania Oppido; Stefania Ragozino; Gabriella Esposito De Vita

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• Patrimonializzazione del paesaggio irpino: verso comunità di paesaggio sperimentando la ricerca-azione
  2020 - Stefania Oppido, Stefania Ragozino, Donatella Icolari, Valentina Corvigno, Gabriella Esposito De Vita

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• Disequilibri territoriali. Dalla terminologia alle questioni verso nuove traiettorie di bilanciamento
  2020 - Stefania Oppido, Stefania Ragozino

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• Sharing responsibilities to regenerate publicness and cultural values of marginalized landscapes:Case of Alta Irpinia, Italy
  2018 - Stefania Oppido, Stefania Ragozino, Serena Micheletti, Gabriella Esposito De Vita

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• Landscape as Driver to Build Regeneration Strategies in Inner Areas. A Critical Literature Review
  2018 - Stefania Oppido, Stefania Ragozino, Donatella Icolari, Serena Micheletti

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Duration

Start 2017 | End 2024

Amount and source of financing

Progetto interno

Administrative reference

DUS.AD013.040.006 – Sottoprogetto di “Un approccio innovativo di rigenerazione place-based  per bilanciare marginalizzazione e pressione antropica” (DUS.AD013.040)

Administrative manager

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