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Munda, Giuseppe |
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dc.contributor.advisor |
Giampietro, Mario |
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dc.contributor.author |
Siciliano, Giuseppina <1976> |
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2010-03-20T10:08:11Z |
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2012-07-30T15:50:49Z |
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2010-03-20T10:08:11Z |
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2012-07-30T15:50:49Z |
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2010-03-12 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/10579/933 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Tesi cartacea |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia |
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dc.rights |
© Giuseppina Siciliano, 2010 |
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Multi-criteria analysis |
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Rural-urban migration strategies |
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Agriculture |
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Rural development |
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Sustainability |
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Multi-scale analysis |
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Societal metabolism |
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dc.title |
Integrated approaches for evaluating development strategies in rural areas: case studies from Italy and China |
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dc.type |
Doctoral Thesis |
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dc.degree.name |
Analisi e governance dello sviluppo sostenibile |
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dc.degree.level |
Dottorato di ricerca |
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dc.degree.grantor |
Interfacoltà Economia - Scienze matematiche fisiche e naturali |
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dc.description.academicyear |
2008/2009 |
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dc.description.cycle |
22 |
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dc.degree.coordinator |
Zuppi, Giovanni Maria |
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dc.location.shelfmark |
D000864 |
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Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
openAccess |
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dc.thesis.matricno |
955281 |
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XVI, 206 p. |
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SECS-P/01 ECONOMIA POLITICA |
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Doctor Europaeus |
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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 |
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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. |
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economia ecologica |
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