Local Development and Sustainability

Luca Salvati is an Associate (staff) professor of applied economics and economic statistics at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Since 2001 he has been staff researcher at the National Council for Research in Agriculture and the Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA). He is an expert in official statistics, spatial statistics, Geographic Information Systems and Remote sensing applied to socioeconomic and environmental issues. He has conducted studies on topics of economic statistics, urban economics, regional demography, and sustainable development, using exploratory multivariate statistics and geographic information systems for decision support. He has held courses in Economic Statistics (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Basic Mathematics (University of Rome La Sapienza), Multivariate Statistics (University of Roma Tre), Regional Economics (University of Camerino, University of Eastern Piedmont), Strategic Evaluation of environmental impact (University of Roma Tre). He has supervised master's and doctoral theses and has published more than 30 printed books and over 600 scientific publications in English. Ioannis Konaxis, M.Sc. Architecture, Ph.D. Landscape Architecture and planning at Sapienza University of Rome, is senior researcher and assistant professor (staff) of sustainable eco-tourism and nature conservation at the Business School of the public University of Piraeus, Greece. He teaches tourism business and economics, ecological conservation of protected areas, landscape, spatial planning, developmental policies, and sustainable development. He has published scientific articles on spatial planning, environmental protection, and regional issues in Europe. He also published theoretical and applied research in sustainable tourism management in prestigious international journals and book series.

• 1. Social inequalities, demographic change, territorial imbalances, and the environmental crisis: experiences from advanced economiesSection 1. Geo-Economic and Territorial Issues2. Urban expansion, economic growth and spatial convergence of background socio-demographic contexts in Europe3. Territorial disparities and optimal management of common resources: the role of landscape valorization in local development4. Urban challenges and local development: metropolitan trajectories revisited5. Local development and the contribution of Jane JacobsSection 2. Socio-Demographic Implications6. Territorial evaluation of socially equitable wellbeing: the case of Italy7. Local development and spatial demography: the case of Spain fertility at the municipal scale8. Education and local development: the contribution of students in contemporary Iran9. Looking at the global scene: the long-term evolution of mortality rates tells you more on local developmentSection 3. Socio-Environmental Perspectives10. A spatial Zipf's law applied to wildfire behavior in Greece11. Land consumption, soil sealing and local development in urban Mediterranean landscapes12. Land degradation, sustainable income and local development in complex socioeconomic contexts: understanding the European peculiarity13. Regional disparities and land-use: envisioning latent contributions to local developmentSection 4. Planning, Management, Governance14. Decentralization, administrative reforms, and local government performance: the impact of inter-communality in a pre-crisis time15. Land, environment and forests in local finance: a focus on municipal budgets16. The role of European resilience Plan (PNRR) at the local scale and its intrinsic contribution in local development