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Architect, Geographer with a PhD in Territorial Planning and Local Development. From 2006 to 2014 I was Research fellow at the Polytechnic and the University of Turin, also holding teaching positions. I have also been Senior Researcher at IRES Piemonte, with an organisational position (P.O.) in territorial planning and regional policies. Since November 2019 I am Full-time Researcher at IRCrES- Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth (CNR). I am in the editorial boards of the journals EyesReg and Politiche Piemonte. My research topics are: competitiveness, sustainability and development processes at the territorial scale.
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Central European Journal of Geography and Sustainable Development, 2024
The paper analyses the governance models of six peri-urban green infrastructures (GIs) in Europe ... more The paper analyses the governance models of six peri-urban green infrastructures (GIs) in Europe to reflect on GIs as critical loci to operationalize the sometimes naïve and rhetorical aim of sustainable development. In the study, the case of "Corona Verde", the green belt around the City of Turin (Italy), is compared with other peri-urban GIs to discuss the potential of territorial governance for the construction of objective-led deliberative arenas as promoted by the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As a result, the hypothesis that peri-urban GIs are the most appropriate territorial systems to organise and manage a viable system of sustainability objectives is discussed and reframed. Although limited in scope and data, original traits of this study are the development of a territorial benchmarking comparing governance models rather than territories and the operationalisation of the governance for sustainability in terms of a continuous negotiation between the socio-ecological actors of a given territorial system.
The paper presents the experimental attempt to apply the shift-share decomposition technique, mai... more The paper presents the experimental attempt to apply the shift-share decomposition technique, mainly used in the economic field to analyse regional differentials, to the growth dynamics of infections during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a partial readjustment of the initial formulations of this technique, the regional patterns of the spread of the infections in Italy are analysed, taking into account the influence exercised by the demographic characteristics (age composition) of the region. In this reformulation, the shift-share analysis (SSA) allows to break down the daily variation of COVID-19 cases according to four effects resulting from: the distribution of the population by age groups (measured through the demographic and allocative effects), the tendency of the regional dynamics to follow the trend of the nation (measured by the national effect) and the rising of specific local dynamics (measured by the local effect). The application of our proposed reformu...
The aim of this paper is to investigate on the process of investment by enterprises that decided ... more The aim of this paper is to investigate on the process of investment by enterprises that decided in past and recent years to “move” to Turin (Italy) and its surroundings, discussing which kind of “reality” has led to such a decision (hyper-reality is the situation where reality representations become “more real than the real”). This investigation is directed not only to detect and classify sensible external economies and location factors of the city, but also to analyze to what degree economic decisions are bound to necessarily simplified, or even stereotyped, mental geographies. The study is realized on the basis of in-deep interviews with managers of transnational enterprises, and it proposes an attempt of reconstruction of their perception of the city, the importance of these perceptions in the decision process, and the links between such images and “hard facts” concerning Turin. The focus of this analytical exercise will be posed on the investment process, taking a closer look o...
Sustainability
In the European literature on the regional and local development, the concept of resilience has p... more In the European literature on the regional and local development, the concept of resilience has progressively gained momentum, eventually overcoming that of competitiveness and posing a critical challenge for the future of territorial studies and the territorialisation of the policy discourse. In the current economic turmoil, the success of an urban and regional economy relies more and more on its capacity to react to sudden shocks in a positive and evolutionary perspective, i.e., in its resilience. Nevertheless, as a recent analysis of the employment dynamics of Italian metro-regions in the period before and after 2008 has demonstrated that the existing taxonomies may be distant from reality and hardly communicable. The paper proposes a taxonomy of regional resilience based on the consideration of the region’s capacity of both improving its employment rate during the pre-crisis period and overcoming the concurrent performance of the nation. Via a shift-share analysis of the employm...
This paper aims to analyse the interaction among the European regions involved in the path of Pan... more This paper aims to analyse the interaction among the European regions involved in the path of Paneuropean Corridors 5 (in its broad definition, which is to say the whole axis ranging from Lisbon to Kiev, excluding the Budapest-Kiev section) and 10, through the analysis of the inter- regional relations as expressed by the links between firms and their affiliates in
SCIENZE REGIONALI, 2012
Presentazione: Using data on public funds in Piedmont, the article argues that SMEs' access ... more Presentazione: Using data on public funds in Piedmont, the article argues that SMEs' access to innovation finance is influenced by firm-level determinants, as well as by framework conditions. Use of a Heckman two-step procedure shows that internal determinants are ...
Central European Journal of Geography and Sustainable Development, 2024
The paper analyses the governance models of six peri-urban green infrastructures (GIs) in Europe ... more The paper analyses the governance models of six peri-urban green infrastructures (GIs) in Europe to reflect on GIs as critical loci to operationalize the sometimes naïve and rhetorical aim of sustainable development. In the study, the case of "Corona Verde", the green belt around the City of Turin (Italy), is compared with other peri-urban GIs to discuss the potential of territorial governance for the construction of objective-led deliberative arenas as promoted by the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As a result, the hypothesis that peri-urban GIs are the most appropriate territorial systems to organise and manage a viable system of sustainability objectives is discussed and reframed. Although limited in scope and data, original traits of this study are the development of a territorial benchmarking comparing governance models rather than territories and the operationalisation of the governance for sustainability in terms of a continuous negotiation between the socio-ecological actors of a given territorial system.
The paper presents the experimental attempt to apply the shift-share decomposition technique, mai... more The paper presents the experimental attempt to apply the shift-share decomposition technique, mainly used in the economic field to analyse regional differentials, to the growth dynamics of infections during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a partial readjustment of the initial formulations of this technique, the regional patterns of the spread of the infections in Italy are analysed, taking into account the influence exercised by the demographic characteristics (age composition) of the region. In this reformulation, the shift-share analysis (SSA) allows to break down the daily variation of COVID-19 cases according to four effects resulting from: the distribution of the population by age groups (measured through the demographic and allocative effects), the tendency of the regional dynamics to follow the trend of the nation (measured by the national effect) and the rising of specific local dynamics (measured by the local effect). The application of our proposed reformu...
The aim of this paper is to investigate on the process of investment by enterprises that decided ... more The aim of this paper is to investigate on the process of investment by enterprises that decided in past and recent years to “move” to Turin (Italy) and its surroundings, discussing which kind of “reality” has led to such a decision (hyper-reality is the situation where reality representations become “more real than the real”). This investigation is directed not only to detect and classify sensible external economies and location factors of the city, but also to analyze to what degree economic decisions are bound to necessarily simplified, or even stereotyped, mental geographies. The study is realized on the basis of in-deep interviews with managers of transnational enterprises, and it proposes an attempt of reconstruction of their perception of the city, the importance of these perceptions in the decision process, and the links between such images and “hard facts” concerning Turin. The focus of this analytical exercise will be posed on the investment process, taking a closer look o...
Sustainability
In the European literature on the regional and local development, the concept of resilience has p... more In the European literature on the regional and local development, the concept of resilience has progressively gained momentum, eventually overcoming that of competitiveness and posing a critical challenge for the future of territorial studies and the territorialisation of the policy discourse. In the current economic turmoil, the success of an urban and regional economy relies more and more on its capacity to react to sudden shocks in a positive and evolutionary perspective, i.e., in its resilience. Nevertheless, as a recent analysis of the employment dynamics of Italian metro-regions in the period before and after 2008 has demonstrated that the existing taxonomies may be distant from reality and hardly communicable. The paper proposes a taxonomy of regional resilience based on the consideration of the region’s capacity of both improving its employment rate during the pre-crisis period and overcoming the concurrent performance of the nation. Via a shift-share analysis of the employm...
This paper aims to analyse the interaction among the European regions involved in the path of Pan... more This paper aims to analyse the interaction among the European regions involved in the path of Paneuropean Corridors 5 (in its broad definition, which is to say the whole axis ranging from Lisbon to Kiev, excluding the Budapest-Kiev section) and 10, through the analysis of the inter- regional relations as expressed by the links between firms and their affiliates in
SCIENZE REGIONALI, 2012
Presentazione: Using data on public funds in Piedmont, the article argues that SMEs' access ... more Presentazione: Using data on public funds in Piedmont, the article argues that SMEs' access to innovation finance is influenced by firm-level determinants, as well as by framework conditions. Use of a Heckman two-step procedure shows that internal determinants are ...
Da margine a centro (IRES Piemonte, Torino), 2021
La pubblicazione è uno degli esiti dell'intervento denominato Corona Verde: l'infrastruttura verd... more La pubblicazione è uno degli esiti dell'intervento denominato Corona Verde: l'infrastruttura verde per riqualificazione e ricucitura sostenibile delle periferie (TOP METRO/E1-CORV), che la Regione Piemonte ha sviluppato nell'ambito del progetto TOP METRO di Città metropolitana di Torino. In particolare, con questo lavoro si testimonia il percorso di analisi e confronto con gli stakeholder condotto da IRES Piemonte per la definizione di una nuova governance territoriale per Corona Verde. TOP METRO è un progetto di Città metropolitana di Torino avviato nel 2019 con i finanziamenti del Bando Periferie del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (DPCM 25 maggio 2016) destinati alla riqualificazione e rigenerazione delle aree periferiche e degradate del territorio metropolitano. Complessivamente, il progetto TOP METRO si articola in più scale e assi di intervento: ? Per la scala locale, il progetto ha sostenuto la realizzazione di oltre 91 iniziative di riqualificazione di natura urbano-locale, accompagnate da interventi trasversali per l'occupazione e le necessità alimentari delle fasce deboli. ? Per l'area vasta, la Regione Piemonte ha sviluppato interventi di tipo immateriale rivolti a tutto il territorio della Corona Verde, tra cui quelli realizzati con il contributo di IRES Piemonte per la realizzazione di un Piano di Formazione e la prefigurazione di un nuovo modello di governance dell'infrastruttura verde periurbana. Altri interventi di area vasta hanno riguardato la costruzione di un programma di azione della mobilità ciclabile metropolitana e la realizzazione di una iniziativa di marketing e animazione territoriale. In questa pubblicazione ci si concentra sulla questione del ripensamento della governance di Corona Verde e, in particolare, sulle attività di ricerca che hanno portato a identificare (e dettagliare dal punto di vista della traduzione operativa) tre potenziali modelli di governance, attuabili in tempi brevi.