Regional Science Inquiry

Anastasia STRATIGEA

Dept. of Geography and Regional Planning School of Rural and Surveying Engineering National Technical University of Athens
stratige@central.ntua.gr

Abstract

Setting targets in a foresight exercise is of crucial importance for both orienting future policy directions as well as assessing the achievement of policy concerns. The focus of the present paper is on the development of a methodological framework for setting objectives and targets in a foresight study. This framework builds upon a range of approaches that run in parallel in order to assure that all important issues as to the problem at hand are taken into consideration, while it is also combined with participatory approaches, where experts’ knowledge is used for serving validation purposes. The framework developed is then applied in AG2020 – a foresight exercise at the EU level, exploring potential policy options for the sustainable development of agriculture in EU by 2020 – with the aim to present the experience gained and difficulties raising towards finalizing objectives and targets used in this specific foresight exercise.
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Carmen BIZZARRI

European University of Rome

Abstract
The paper focuses on the human mobility in Mediterranean cities. This stream of immigrants change to the space of urban life for the historical, geographical and cultural factors leaded to themselves. The paper‘ll analyse two cities, Naples and Valencia, because both are very interested of this phenomenon, that changing the articulation of metropolitan areas.The methodology used to compare the different way of new territorialisation based on some indicators: density for districts, the distribution of non EU immigrants in districts, the population pyramid of the non Eu immigrants living in that cities and the place of worship. Starting of this comparison it is possible to understand which is the city, between Naples or Valencia, highlights more integration and new form of territorialisation than the other.

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Bernard De MYTTENAERE

Institute of Environmental Management and Regional Planning
the Free University of Brussels.
bdemytte@ulb.ac.be

Abstract

By means of an exploratory and comparative study focusing on the three rural destinations in Wallonia (Chimay, Orval and Rochefort), we have put forward reflections on the role and influence of gastronomic confraternities, both as actors in local economic and tourist development and in terms of their leadership capacity. By means of this exploratory research, we are not seeking to analyse the effectiveness or economic performance generated by the activities of the gastronomic confraternities, but rather to show the opportunities they offer for local actors to form and gain access to such networks. After having identified the many reasons and advantages to local actors of joining a gastronomic confraternity, we will try to understand why some of them do not seem to be interested in local actors, whereas others draw attract members of the local economic, political  and social elites.

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