Territorial Impact Assessment of Territorial Cohesion in Italy is the main
topic as well as the title of this special issue, which makes available the intermediate
results of an Italian National Research Project PRIN2015 which will
be closed in February 2020 (Project 73. PI Maria Prezioso - 20155NXJ8T -
SH3 “Territorial Impact Assessment della coesione territoriale delle regioni
italiane. Modello, su base place evidence, per la valutazione di policy rivolte
allo sviluppo della green economy in aree interne e periferie metropolitane”).
From February 2017, ten academic groups acting in collaborative partnership
have discussed and implemented visions by literature review and
experimental application of an innovative methodological approach, methods
and tools, producing data, mapping and geographical studies. - is intensive
activity, which is involving more than sixty researchers, national and regional
policy/decision makers, stakeholders and practitioners is already collected
in a book (Prezioso, ed., Quale Territorial Impact Assessment della coesione
territoriale nelle regioni italiane. La concettualizzazione del problema, Bologna,
Pàtron, 2018). It preceded as theoretical contribution and methodological
addresses the applied phase presented in this issue.
- e research has been the shared space where working together and,
consequently, growing and confronting each other by a critical review with
European experts and large audience. - e dialogue ha seveloped around
the STeMA-Territorial Impact Assessment methodological approach and the
related ex-ante evaluation (data, mapping and place evidence of status quo
at 2018 by the related STeMA GIS) of Italian Territorial Cohesion, analysing
four main dominions (pillars and . ags) of the Europe 2020 Strategy: smart,
sustainable, inclusive growth and funds spending. Processing and applying
a new STeMA-TIA 3.0 version devoted to territorial Cohesion in Italy, the
research selected 73 representative indicators; they have been covered and
mapped at NUTS 2 (regions) and NUTS 3 (sub-regional level), referring to
new 7 Systemic Regional Functional Typologies that territorialise spatial data
to the geographical diversity of Country