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oapen-20.500.12657-572612022-07-07T02:55:41Z Margini di fragilità RIMONDI, TOMMASO Climate change, Adaptation, Inner areas, Fragility, Emilia-Romagna, Loss bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution & threats to the environment::RNPG Climate change bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNT Social impact of environmental issues The book focuses on the impact of climate change on the Italian inner areas as a privileged place to observe the ongoing environmental crisis. In the first chapter, the main stages through which sociology has approached climate change are discussed. Assuming loss as a dimension inevitably linked to climate change, the concepts of vulnerability and adaptation are established as the main research interests. A specific focus on the socio-spatial effects of climate change is needed in the inner areas: fragile territories showing vulnerabilities but also an important “green” capital. The Emilia-Romagna inner areas are then studied through a quantitative analysis at a municipal scale, identifying social, demographic and economic factors shaping fragility. The last section of the book focuses on the Delta del Po area in the province of Ferrara, and its conflictual relation with nature. Emphasizing the unstable human-environment relation that characterizes the area, the main features of the adaptation strategies adopted there to face the transformation caused by climate change are then analyzed. 2022-07-06T15:13:11Z 2022-07-06T15:13:11Z 2022 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57261 ita Sociologia del territorio application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9788835141648.pdf https://www.francoangeli.it/Home.aspx FrancoAngeli e2ddfb5e-9202-4851-8afe-1e09b020b018 144 Milan open access
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The book focuses on the impact of climate change on the Italian inner areas as a privileged place to observe the ongoing environmental crisis. In the first chapter, the main stages through which sociology has approached climate change are discussed. Assuming loss as a dimension inevitably linked to climate change, the concepts of vulnerability and adaptation are established as the main research interests. A specific focus on the socio-spatial effects of climate change is needed in the inner areas: fragile territories showing vulnerabilities but also an important “green” capital. The Emilia-Romagna inner areas are then studied through a quantitative analysis at a municipal scale, identifying social, demographic and economic factors shaping fragility. The last section of the book focuses on the Delta del Po area in the province of Ferrara, and its conflictual relation with nature. Emphasizing the unstable human-environment relation that characterizes the area, the main features of the adaptation strategies adopted there to face the transformation caused by climate change are then analyzed.
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