Territorial Economics

Luca Salvati is an adjunct professor and staff researcher at Sapienza University of Rome. 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. Alessandro Muolo is a PhD candidate in Applied Economics at the Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory, and Finance (MEMOTEF), Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His research focuses on regional economic development and spatial economics, contributing to the understanding of economic processes and their spatial dimensions. Alessandro is dedicated to advancing knowledge in the field of territorial economics through rigorous analysis and innovative methodologies.

• 1. Space, Regions, Cities: Essentials in the ‘economics of places’2. Applied economics and regional science3. Globalization and the region: The rising importance of ‘territorial economics’4. From ‘global’ cities to ‘local’ tows: emerging paradigms in urbanization and economic growth5. Between morphology and functions: Settlements models, urban growth, and the uneven expansion of metropolitan regions6. Diversification, resilience, crisis7. Looking at the other side of the fringe: agricultural spaces and rural development8. The land-use conundrum: regional disparities, landscapes, and territorial governance9. Data sources, Variables, Indicators. A primer in official statistics for applied economics