Full Description
Spatial Analysis for Complex Territorial Systems: Geo-information Technologies and European Official Statistics offers a multidisciplinary exploration of spatial analysis, geo-information technologies, and official statistics, focusing on their application to environmental, economic, and planning challenges in Europe and the Mediterranean. Comprising 16 insightful chapters authored by leading scholars from Southern and Eastern Europe, Ireland, and the United States, it delves into the complexities of socio-ecological monitoring through data integration and refined statistical indicators. Key topics include climate monitoring, land degradation, settlement patterns, and disaster resilience, providing a comprehensive understanding of local contexts and policy implications.
The book begins with contributions from a traditional ecological/agronomic/environmental vision, then continues with a set of studies having a more strict socio-demographic and economic focus. It then discusses how other quantitative approaches, e.g. based on big data and primary surveys, may clarify the role of policies and planning addressing sustainable development goals in the 'kaleidoscopic' European landscapes. The conclusions of this book confirm the urgent need of integrating the vast potential of geo-information techniques, together with spatial analysis and official statistics, into more flexible sustainable development strategies reflecting local conditions and spatially explicit background contexts, starting from the basic demands of local communities and topical environments.
Spatial Analysis for Complex Territorial Systems: Geo-information Technologies and European Official Statistics serves as an essential resource for academics, students, spatial planners, policymakers, architects, engineers, sociologists, and environmental demographers. It equips readers with practical tools and theoretical insights to inform data-driven approaches to sustainable development and regional planning, making it a vital addition to any academic curriculum in geographic information systems, applied statistics, and environmental science.
Contents
1. Spatial analysis, indicators, regional development: a challenge for official statistics and sustainable resource management
Section 1. Geo-information technologies and the environmental challenge
2. Still searching for climate change evidence? Soil aridity and geospatial information in Southern Europe
3. Unravelling bio-geo-physical drivers of land degradation in evolving Mediterranean landscapes under climate change
4. Forest and land-use monitoring: spatial analysis and the comprehensive experience of Italy
5. Sampling an infinite population in a geo-spatial framework: the case of forest species tree estimation
6. Land Consumption impact on Forest Ecosystem: surface loss and fragmentation analysis from remote sensing
Section 2. Socioeconomic analysis and spatial approaches
7. A comparative, geo-spatial analysis of settlement patterns of foreign population in Italy and Spain using population census data
8. Research Design Model on the Migrant-Refugee Issue- Lessons from an integrated large-scale survey in Greece
9. Do municipal data tell you more? The case of recent (2011-2020) dynamics of residential mobility of the elderly population in Italy and Spain
10. Assessing multidimensional influence of social media on consumer behavior using indicators: economic forces, cognitive perceptions, and social mechanisms in the contemporary digital era
11. Estimating belief toward Cohabitation in urban-rural Greece using a primary survey and demographic indicators
Section 3. Geo-spatial information for regional planning
12. Enhancing Disaster Resilience: Hellenic National Civil Protection Mechanism and Local Government Participation in Risk and Disaster Management
13. The Ageing Process and the City: An Intra-Urban Assessment of Hospital Accessibility for Older Adults in Italy
14. Spatial indicators of PNRR from the European Union: identifying the territorially complex Planning for Resilience in Italy
15. Monitoring local resilience of health financing system: Evidence from Covid-19 pandemic in Northern Italy
16. Local development and the role of geo-spatial information: a discussion with policy implications and some conclusive remarks
