Barbara Staniscia
Sapienza University of Rome
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European Planning Studies | 2009
Armando Montanari; Barbara Staniscia
This paper is the result of research undertaken into the relationship between quality agriculture and wine-and-food tourism on the Apennines of central and southern Italy. Food is not merely a source of nourishment: depending on production methods, food can also become a cultural reference point, an element of regional development and a tourist resource. This occurs with “local” food, representing a model of production and consumption which suggests a strong link with the region in which the food is produced. In the marginal mountainous regions of central Italy, there is an important productive segment involving motivated and innovative entrepreneurs, regardless of the public sector that is not always up to the situation. Tourism linked to quality agriculture has not only proved to be an economic lever but a form of protection of a territory that is fragile and at risk; it is a sort of contemporary sustainable development. The process is at the initial phases and in need of public support according to a bottom-up approach.
Archive | 2013
Armando Montanari; Barbara Staniscia
Three cases of environmental conflicts occurring in Italian coastal areas are analysed in the present chapter: Civitavecchia, Costa Teatina National Park and Ostia. Civitavecchia and Ostia are included in the Rome Metropolitan Area, while the Costa Teatina National Park is in the Chieti-Pescara urban area. In Civitavecchia the major conflict is environmental: about air quality and pollution due to the presence of two power stations close to the city centre and the mooring of cruise ships. The second conflict is about the use and management of water and the processing of waste water and drainage systems in Ostia, besides coastal erosion. The third conflict is linked to the spatial definition of the boundaries of the Costa Teatina National Park. The current conflict concerns the definition of the spatial boundaries of the park even if bias against the existence of the Park itself does exist. All the three conflicts concern the contrast between economic development and environmental protection. The first and the second also include competition for the use of resources at a time characterized by extensive human mobility. The third case study specifically concerns conflicts occurring over the protection of the natural environment and biodiversity. It will be shown that those conflicts are chronic, critical for the development of the concerned areas, and their solutions are urgently needed.
Archive | 2016
Armando Montanari; Barbara Staniscia
The chapter retraces the stages which led to the theorisation and the affirmation of the concept of human mobility in social sciences. Moving from comparative analyses concerning urban development in the 1960s and 1970s of the twentieth century, the chapter comes to the latest theories on immaterial and virtual mobilities. Human mobility is the core of the discussion; in the background are the main events that have revolutionised the global world, in its political, economic, technological aspects.
Urban Studies Research | 2012
Armando Montanari; Barbara Staniscia
This paper analyses the relationship between deconcentration processes, planning policies, and governance in the metropolitan area of Rome, Italy, from 1991 to 2001. It points out that Rome does not have an explicit policy either in favor of or against deconcentration and that the public authorities are not in fact aware of the problem. Deconcentration is mainly driven by market forces and business location decisions. These decisions are strongly influenced by material factors such as accessibility, land availability, and real estate prices, as well as immaterial factors such as the natural, cultural, and social environment. Public players can take action to influence these factors. Even though Italy has a very strictly regulated planning system, there has traditionally been a high degree of freedom in actual behaviors.
Archive | 2007
Armando Montanari; Barbara Staniscia; Simone Di Zio
In this paper we deal with the topic of deconcentration in two Italian metropolitan areas: Rome, the capital city; and Chieti-Pescara, a medium-sized urban area. The paper reveals the particular patterns of deconcentration in those areas, exemplifying the Italian approach to deconcentration. These metropolitan areas show that deconcentration is an undesired phenomenon; enterprises choose peripheral areas for their lower costs on the real-estate market and for better accessibility; central locations are still favoured by the ICT sector and the front office functions in the tertiary sector; and deconcentration is showing an upward trend.
Journal of Transport and Land Use | 2010
Simone Di Zio; Armando Montanari; Barbara Staniscia
International Review of Sociology | 2012
Barbara Staniscia
Archive | 2006
Armando Montanari; Barbara Staniscia
Belgeo. Revue belge de géographie | 2011
Armando Montanari; Barbara Staniscia
Ocean & Coastal Management | 2014
Armando Montanari; Alessandro Londei; Barbara Staniscia