Integrated approaches for evaluating development strategies in rural areas: case studies from Italy and China

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dc.contributor.advisor Munda, Giuseppe it_IT
dc.contributor.advisor Giampietro, Mario it_IT
dc.contributor.author Siciliano, Giuseppina <1976> it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2010-03-20T10:08:11Z it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2012-07-30T15:50:49Z
dc.date.available 2010-03-20T10:08:11Z it_IT
dc.date.available 2012-07-30T15:50:49Z
dc.date.issued 2010-03-12 it_IT
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10579/933 it_IT
dc.description.abstract L’obbiettivo della presente tesi e’ duplice: (i) analizzare la possibile integrazione di modelli multiscala e multicriteriali per valutare l’efficacia di politiche di sviluppo rurale nel raggiungimento di obiettivi di sostenibilita’; (ii) esplorare, tramite l’applicazione dei suddetti modelli, gli impatti economici, ambientali e sociali di specifiche strategie di sviluppo rurale in due aree di studio localizzate in Italia e Cina. L’analisi si basa sulla selezione e valutazione di indicatori multidimensionali, che fanno riferimento ai principali obiettivi delle politiche studiate. Inoltre, un’analisi multiscala e’ realizzata per definire i possibili limiti e trade-off di future politiche di sviluppo a diverse scale di analisi. L’utilizzo delle due metodologie si e’ dimostrato particolarmente efficace per la realizzazione di uno studio integrato in grado di rappresentare, tramite analisi qualitative e quantitative, l’aspetto multidimensionale delle politiche di sviluppo rurale. it_IT
dc.description.abstract The objective of this thesis is twofold: (1) to investigate the synergies arising from the implementation of multi-scale and multi-criteria approaches in the evaluation of rural development policies (RDP); (2) to explore the impacts and trade-offs of RDP in two selected case studies located in Italy and China. The thesis argues that multi-criteria and multi-scale approaches can be combined to provide a useful framework with which to structure an integrated analysis of RDP in order to assess their effectiveness in achieving sustainability goals across scales. The analysis is performed by selecting and evaluating multidimensional criteria, which represent the main goals of development policies in the areas of study. Moreover, multi-scale analysis is performed to define boundary conditions and trade-offs for future local development. The use of the two methodologies appears to be very significant to capture both the multidimensional and multi-scale aspects of the Rural Development Policies analysed and to generate several sets of “view-dependent” representations of rural systems that are useful for trade-off assessments. it_IT
dc.format.medium Tesi cartacea it_IT
dc.language.iso en it_IT
dc.publisher Università Ca' Foscari Venezia it_IT
dc.rights © Giuseppina Siciliano, 2010 it_IT
dc.subject Multi-criteria analysis it_IT
dc.subject Rural-urban migration strategies it_IT
dc.subject Agriculture it_IT
dc.subject Rural development it_IT
dc.subject Sustainability it_IT
dc.subject Multi-scale analysis it_IT
dc.subject Societal metabolism it_IT
dc.title Integrated approaches for evaluating development strategies in rural areas: case studies from Italy and China it_IT
dc.type Doctoral Thesis it_IT
dc.degree.name Analisi e governance dello sviluppo sostenibile it_IT
dc.degree.level Dottorato di ricerca it_IT
dc.degree.grantor Interfacoltà Economia - Scienze matematiche fisiche e naturali it_IT
dc.description.academicyear 2008/2009 it_IT
dc.description.cycle 22 it_IT
dc.degree.coordinator Zuppi, Giovanni Maria it_IT
dc.location.shelfmark D000864 it_IT
dc.location Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato it_IT
dc.rights.accessrights openAccess it_IT
dc.thesis.matricno 955281 it_IT
dc.format.pagenumber XVI, 206 p. it_IT
dc.subject.miur SECS-P/01 ECONOMIA POLITICA it_IT
dc.description.note Doctor Europaeus it_IT
dc.description.tableofcontent ACKNOWLEDGMENTS II ABSTRACT IV CONTENTS VI TABLES XI FIGURES XIV LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 1 INTRODUCTION 4 1. RURAL SYSTEMS AND COMPLEXITY: THE NECESSITY TO PERFORM MULTIPLE SCALE INTEGRATED ANALYSIS 9 1.1 Rural systems as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) 10 Heterogeneity and hierarchical organization of rural systems 12 1.2 Introducing integrated analyses of sustainability: descriptive versus normative models 14 2. MULTI-SCALE AND MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACHES TO ANALYZE RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY’S SUSTAINABILITY 18 2.1 Rural development policies and sustainability 20 2.1.1 Rural development policy in Europe/Italy 23 2.1.2 Rural development policy in China 25 China’s rural reform 25 China’s modern rural development policy 26 2.1.3 Europe and China, different but complementary development strategies 27 2.2 Multiple- Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and Social Multi-criteria Evaluation (SMCE) 28 2.2.1 The Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA): an introduction 28 2.2.2 Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) 30 Definition of the problem 32 Institutional analysis 32 Generation of the policy options 33 Construction of the multi-criteria impact matrix 34 Application of a mathematical procedure 34 Sensitivity analysis 35 2.3 Multiple-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolisms (MuSIASEM) 35 2.4 Combining multi-criteria and multi-scale approaches for the analysis of RDP 37 2.5 Putting the pieces together in practice: two case studies 39 2.5.1 The Tuscany case study: integrated analysis of different patterns of agricultural cultivations under soil erosion 40 2.5.2 The Chinese case study: integrated analysis of “rural-urban migration” policy with respect to different patterns of agriculture and typologies of household 41 3. SOCIAL MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION OF FARMING PRACTICES IN THE PRESENCE OF SOIL DEGRADATION. A CASE STUDY IN SOUTHERN TUSCANY, ITALY 42 3.1 Introduction 44 3.2 The Evaluation Process: Methodological Foundations and Operational Steps 46 3.3 The case study area and the erosion processes 48 3.4 The institutional analysis and the participatory process 52 3.5 Generation of alternatives 54 3.6 Identification of the evaluation criteria and criterion scores 56 3.6.1 Economic criteria 57 GSP 58 Direct costs 58 3.6.2 Ecological Criteria 60 Soil erosion 61 Energy intensity 62 Soil compacting 62 3.6.3 Social criteria 63 3.6.4 The impact matrix 65 3.7 Data Collection and description of the farms 66 3.8 Multi-Criteria evaluation of the alternatives 70 3.8.1 Definition of the preference relation 71 3.8.2 Determination of the credibility indexes 72 3.8.3 Definition of the parameters and aggregation algorithm 73 3.8.4 Evaluation results 74 Economic dimension result 75 Ecological dimension result 76 Social dimension result 76 Result integrating the three dimensions 77 Conventional Cultivation Practice (CCP) versus Integrated Cultivation Practice (ICP) 78 Conventional Cultivation Practice (CCP) versus Organic Cultivation Practice (OCP) 79 Integrated Cultivation Practice (ICP) versus Organic Cultivation Practice (OCP) 80 3.8.5 Sensitivity Analysis 80 3.9 The effects of the CAP on the soil erosion processes in the study area 81 3.10 Conclusions 82 4. COMBINING MULTI-SCALE AND MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACHES TO ANALYZE URBANIZATION STRATEGIES IN RURAL CHINA 84 4.1 Introduction: rapidly changing realities, rural development policies and the need for integrated analyses 86 4.2 The integrated framework of the research 89 4.3 The multi-scale approach: methodological aspects 93 4.3.1 The interactions between meta-agents: the fund-flow model 94 4.3.2 Multilevel matrices to establish a link across different hierarchical levels 95 4.4 Chongming island and Hongxing village: socioeconomic and environmental background 98 4.4.1 Geological environment and natural resources 101 Hongxing village: some basic information 101 4.5 Chongming development policies 102 4.6 Definition of the development scenarios 104 4.7 Definition of typologies of households in Hongxing village 107 4.8 The MuSIASEM approach applied to the analysis of rural systems. The case of Hongxing village, China 114 4.8.1 Multi-level representation of the fund human activity 116 4.8.2 Multi-level representation of the monetary flow 118 4.8.3 Multi-level representation of the fund land use 119 4.8.4 Multi-level representation of the energy flow 121 4.9 Identification of the evaluation criteria 123 4.10 Data collection 126 4.11 Attribution of the criteria scores: Hongxing village (BAU scenario) and household typologies 127 4.11.1 Net income (household level) 127 4.11.2 Labor productivity (household and village levels) 129 4.11.3 Quality of life (household and village levels) 131 4.11.4 Food self-sufficiency (household and village levels) 132 4.11.5 Diversification of risk (household and village levels) 133 4.11.6 Use of pesticides (household and village levels) 134 4.11.7 Nitrogen use (household and village levels) 135 4.11.8 Phosphorus use (household and village levels) 136 4.11.9 Energy intensity (household and village levels) 137 4.12 Attribution of the criteria scores: scenarios 2 (agriculture) and 3 (organic agriculture) 140 4.13 Construction of the impact matrices 143 4.14 Analysis of the results 145 4.14.1 Main results at the household level 146 4.14.2 Main results considering the three scenarios of development 148 4.15 Comparison of the scenarios based on the representation of the “socioeconomic” and “biophysical” dimensions. Indicators versus absolute values 150 4.16 Differences in density of energy and monetary flows generated by different land uses 157 4.17 Discussion 160 4.18 Conclusions 164 5 CONCLUSIONS 165 On future research 168 APPENDICES 170 Appendix to chapter 3 171 Appendix to chapter 4 178 BIBLIOGRAPHY 189 it_IT
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation Siciliano, G. (2010), Integrated approaches for evaluating development strategies in rural areas: case studies from Italy and China, Ph.D. Thesis, Ph.D. Programme in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. it_IT
dc.degree.discipline economia ecologica it_IT


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