Scientific Outreach
2024
SISP Conference 12-14 September 2024 in Trieste
Presentation of the paper Territorial Vulnerability. From an Interdisciplinary Systematic Literature Review to a Compounded Index in Section 10 - Panel 10.7 Measurement and Indicators in Political Science
Linda Basile, Silvia Bolgherini, Giorgia Borgnino, Selena Grimaldi
Measuring vulnerability requires disentangling the concept across several dimensions, which usually are the socio-economic and the environmental ones. Nonetheless, the political-institutional dimension of vulnerability stands out, since it determines a territory’s ability to effectively deliver policies and provide timely responses to crises through effective and democratic institutions. And it is instead, more often than not, neglected. This article aims to fill this gap by constructing a novel composite index of territorial vulnerability based on all three dimensions (environmental, socio-economic, and political-institutional). To this end, we first conducted a systematic literature review to identify the methods and indicators employed by previous empirical studies to measure vulnerability. Then, we propose new indices to assess vulnerability and resilience of Italian municipalities to current and future challenges (economic crises, health emergencies, hydrogeological hazards).
Seminar Prof. Charron on April 2024 in Perugia
Corruption and indicators of quality of government
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