Relationships among sustainability dimensions: evidence from an Alpine area case study using Dominance-based Rough Set Approach

Autor: Giacomo Ferraro, Maria Bruna Zolin, Paola Ferretti
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Dominance-based Rough Set Approach
Geography
Planning and Development
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
Settore SECS-P/06 - Economia Applicata
01 natural sciences
Odds
Sustainable development
Rural and mountain areas
Dominance-based Rough Set Approach
Sustainable development
Regional science
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Settore SECS-S/06 - Metodi mat. dell'economia e Scienze Attuariali e Finanziarie
Rural and mountain areas
Population variation
Dominance-based rough set approach
021107 urban & regional planning
Forestry
Decision rule
Geography
Dominance (economics)
Sustainability
Settore AGR/01 - Economia ed Estimo Rurale
Rough set
Rural area
Zdroj: Land Use Policy. 92:104457
ISSN: 0264-8377
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104457
Popis: The study provides a useful tool to enable local decision makers to define territorial sustainable policies. For this purpose, using selected indicators, we analyse, at the municipal level, the behaviour of and interactions among the socio-demographic, environmental, economic, and accessibility dimensions in two northern Italian provinces in the Alpine Chain (NUTS3), which are identified by the EU as predominantly rural areas. We adopt the dominance-based rough set approach, which allows for the discovery of hidden patterns among the data by means of the generation of decision rules. The population variation over time and number of foreign citizens are the decision attributes considered together with condition attributes belonging to the socio-demographic, environmental, economic, and accessibility dimensions. Our selected areas (rural, mountainous, and peripheral) present various facets at the sustainability level, largely due to their complexity, which was confirmed by the rules we found. Moreover, the socio-demographic and accessibility attributes are more commonly present in the rules and a low interaction characterizes the four dimensions. Finally, economic growth is often at odds with environmental sustainability.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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