NEW TENDENCIES OF ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHIC EXPERIMENTATION: FROM ECONOMIC-FINANCIAL TOOLS TO SUSTAINABLE LOCAL TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT

摘要

The experimentation in applying typical business techniques and methodologies toterritory and its articulation is a topic that is gaining more and more importance in cultural andacademic debates (Bencardino, Napolitano, 2003), but also in actual governmental action interritory, in view of the increasing weight that territorial development policies have assumedin economic and social growth processes at all administrative levels: from communal toprovincial, regional to national.This experimentation was conceived with the goal of identifying, in a synthetic manner,the coherence between tools regarded as useful and to correctly apply those that have alwaysbeen strictly business methodologies to the “product” territory.The experimentation in progress, not new in the international context but certainly in thenational one, finds its justification partly from the increase in competition and partly from theraised awareness of the importance of satisfaction of various actors/clients of territory.Competition between territories and geographic areas into which they have been divided andmanaged (INU, 2003) is the triggering cause of an experimentation that sees in the dialogueand multidisciplinarity an unavoidable need for defining new territorial planning models thatgive value to geographic areas at varying degrees.