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The contribution asks for a change of perspective, addressing inner areas as motors of innovation and test-fields for new dynamics of development and more adaptive processes, looking at co-creative communities and the potentials and resources specifically connected to space, settlements, and landscapes. The reactivation of small towns can catalyze tourism and community’s resilience through targeted transformations of built heritage and unused building stock, social innovation initiatives, and new forms of production. In order to return to inhabit inner areas, new infrastructures and basic services are needed, but also new perspectives and projects able to radically change production, consumption, and work/life models. Within the framework of the research project “B4R Branding4Resilience”, a research project of national interest coordinated by the Università Politecnica delle Marche (national coordinator Maddalena Ferretti) and that involves as partners the Università degli Studi di Palermo (local coordinator Barbara Lino), the University of Trento (local coordinator Sara Favargiotti) and the Politecnico di Torino (local coordinator Diana Rolando), the B4R of University of Palermo work in Sicani hills in Southern Sicily offers a framework for the region’s development and manages to describe a path to activate “reserves of resilience” for new sustainable lifestyles. The settlement development options that the study display can be used as a model for similar considerations in comparable regions of Europe.
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The Italian national strategy named “Strategia Nazionale Aree Interne” (SNAI) represents an existing and emerging governance approach looking at official authorities but also at informal governance groups to overcome the classic opposition between rural and urban.SNAI has fuelled the attention of Italian policymakers towards the need for improving socio-economic conditions of people living in inner areas: remote rural municipalities suffer from a lower availability of essential services (e.g. education, health, mobility), population shrinkage, reduction of economic activities, and disaggregation of the fabric of society.
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Branding4Resilience is a research project of national interest (PRIN 2017 Young Line) funded by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) with a three-year duration (2020–2023). The project is coordinated by the Università Politecnica delle Marche (national coordinator Maddalena Ferretti) and it involves as partners the Università degli Studi di Palermo (local coordinator Barbara Lino), the University of Trento (local coordinator Sara Favargiotti) and the Politecnico di Torino (local coordinator Diana Rolando).
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A selected group of towns in the Local Action Group will work to encourage the creation, start-up and development of extra-agricultural economic activities for the enhancement of the small towns.
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Between 2011 and 2019 the process of population decrease has a value of - 5.63%, the value of the old age index (as of 2011), equal to 162, shows that the presence of younger people is weaker (the regional average is 141). This figure is reinforced by the average value of the structural index of the working population of 104.8, which indicates the ageing of the working age population (the regional average is 114). The process of depopulation has had as effect a disposal and abandonment of the residential patrimony legible in the data relative to the “Index of underutilization of housing” that stands at 34.2%, “Incidence of residential buildings in a bad state of conservation” at 4.3% or the “Rate of inutilization of housing in urban centers” which stands at 24.9% (ISTAT, 2011).
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Lino, B. (2022). Co-creative Communities and Resilience Accelerators. Sicani Hills in Sicily. In: Carta, M., Perbellini, M.R., Lara-Hernandez, J.A. (eds) Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85847-6_15
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