This report presents a brief survey of the regional development process and socioeconomic problems of Tuscany. The purpose is to define the main issues that should be addressed by regional planners, with special reference to those items that can be analyzed with the use of models. Thus, the report lays the foundations for the applied modeling activity of the Tuscany case study.
The main aim of this case study is to use systems-analytical methods and models already developed at IIASA and elsewhere, and to create new methodologies for studying this region, in order to be able to solve existing and future development problems
