Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Franco Sotte Title: L'evoluzione del rurale. Teoria e politica per lo sviluppo integrato del territorio Abstract: L'evoluzione del rurale. Teoria e politica per lo sviluppo integrato del territorio ABSTRACT: The rural areas in the European Union represent 91% of the territory and 56% of the population. The analysis of their development, is a topic often ne-glected by the regional economists, and delegated to agricultural economists. A condition that appears more and more anachronistic in consideration that, in many cases, rural areas have been able to actively participate to economic and social development taking advantage from the integration between eco-nomic sectors and environmental resources. This article analyses rurality with an evolutionary approach. Three following stages of rurality, named re-spectively agrarian rurality, industrial rurality and post-industrial rurality are analytically presented. They are the result of the redistribution of employment and value between economic sectors along time, but also of the changes in the citizens? and consumers? expectations with rurality. Passing from one stage to the other, role of agriculture itself changes. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:5-26 Volume: 2008/22 Year: 2008 Issue:22 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=33179&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:argarg:v:html10.3280/Arg2008-022001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Andrea Arzeni Title: Sviluppo rurale e approccio distrettuale. Analisi e prospettive per un modello di sviluppo economico diversificato Abstract: Sviluppo rurale e approccio distrettuale. Analisi e prospettive per un modello di sviluppo economico diversificato ABSTRACT: Food supply is not the present main role of European agriculture, because it is assured by international trade, but the new objective is the sustainable land management. Actually the territory can?t only be considered as a container of economic activities but it is a capital to manage and exploit, by promoting productions and other human activities. This active role of the territory for the socio-economic development is evident in the law of agriculture modernization and orienting, that introduces two different territorial entities: the rural district and the agro-food quality district. The rural district is quite different from the concept of industrial district because it is not based on geographical concentration and specialization of production but its main characteristic is horizontal integration. Mainly, the rural district can be considered as a governance approach to manage the territory based on public and private cooperation. In the rural district approach there is the complexity of a reality, not only economic but social and environmental, so there are elements in conflict with some developing interests of a territory that can block its effective application. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:27-45 Volume: 2008/22 Year: 2008 Issue:22 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=33180&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:argarg:v:html10.3280/Arg2008-022002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gianni Moriani Title: Dai distretti rurali ai parchi agroalimentari Abstract: Dai distretti rurali ai parchi agroalimentari ABSTRACT: These years of market globalization have caused the spreading of agricultural products with a poor territorial content. As a consequence to the unrecognizability of foodstuffs, critical consumers are becoming popular in Italy too; they want quality and local products, therefore they force the agricultural sector to adapt to the new situation. To face this scenario, the body of agricultural rules has been obliged to reform: the Law 228/01 gives more importance to typical products and establishes the quality rural foodstuffs Districts. The following article analyses the short experience of these Districts and compares it to the agricultural parks one and to the first foodstuffs park experiences. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:47-65 Volume: 2008/22 Year: 2008 Issue:22 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=33181&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:argarg:v:html10.3280/Arg2008-022003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Alberto Violante Title: Cambiamenti socio-economici e rescaling amministrativo: il caso del Lazio Abstract: Cambiamenti socio-economici e rescaling amministrativo: il caso del Lazio ABSTRACT: This article explores the territorial dimension of institutional rescaling in Italian regional context through the case study of one of the biggest Italian region. It is argued that institutional rescaling it?s not simply devolution of powers to lower administrative levels. A dialectical relation between territorial reorganization of labour market, residential location of demographic changes and Institutional reforms, rules the way in which geographic scales intermingle with each other. In the Italian case Regions took more and more importance since Constitutional reform of 2001, but not every administrative region is also a region in a geographical sense. Lazio?s territory has the distinctive features of being divided between the periphery of Rome (a city containing millions of inhabitant by itself) and rural counties. The consequence is the over- representation of Rome in the distributions of Institutional competences and resources dedicated to social policies. The Municipality of Rome has indeed a parallel importance in Social and Activation policies and assume several additional task compared not only to other municipalities, bit to the other counties. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:67-94 Volume: 2008/22 Year: 2008 Issue:22 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=33182&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:argarg:v:html10.3280/Arg2008-022004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anna Bonanno Title: L'analisi economica del crimine organizzato: Abstract: L'analisi economica del crimine organizzato ABSTRACT: The paper analyses the harmful effects that the presence of organized crime has in the process of economic development. It examines the racket and the acting of organized crime in the legal market. In the legal market, the racket and, more generally, the presence of mafia alter the structure of economic incentives and hence the efficient allocation of resources, and reduce the overall well-being, present and future, with a direct impact on the prospects for development economics. Organized crime alters the competitive impersonal rule of the market and it imposes its own rules and their own personal relational systems to maintain control of the territory. In an analysis of legislation, then, the prevailing view in the international organizations is that the lack of credibility of the institutions, not the certainty and effectiveness of law (rule of law) allows entry into markets legal organizations criminals, thus triggering a vicious circle that depresses the economic and social growth of a country. One last, but not least important consideration, concerns the impact of the criminal action has to reduce the scope of choice for traders. This is a crucial aspect of economic development that is not only given by material wealth but also of values, law and with what freedom of choice. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:95-125 Volume: 2008/22 Year: 2008 Issue:22 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=33183&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:argarg:v:html10.3280/Arg2008-022005 Number: 5