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The purpose of this research is demonstrating that the network strategy influences the complex tourist product quality and if the firms pursue a co-planning value strategy, this latter affects marketing choices of tourist product. Authors propose a theoretical model which represents an application of service-dominant logic according to resource- based theory, with specific attention to a particular branch and precisely how the "relational view" leads to value co-creation and that takes into account the central issue of tourism and in particular hotel quality management. They demonstrate the usefulness of this framework through a structured questionnaire, submitted to a sample of hotels, helpful to understand the club’s implications on the quality co-creation process.

Il termine smart è entrato recentemente a far parte del vocabolario comune in relazione principalmente all’impatto che la rivoluzione tecnologica sta avendo sulla vita quotidiana e sulle dinamiche di mercato. La ricerca qui presentata intende offrire un primo momento di riflessione su quale sia l’interpretazione che domanda e offerta, ovvero consumatori e imprese, stanno dando di smart e, più nello specifico di smart life, e su quale sia il rapporto tra smart, tecnologia e reale orientamento al mercato. La ricerca, di tipo esplorativo-qualitativo, individua alcune aree emergenti di significato legate alla smart life e opportunità di sviluppo per le imprese ad esse connesse.

Germany, as well as Italy and the rest of Western Europe, after the Second World War experiences Americanization of a consumption and becomes a consumer society. Italian Catering successfully develops and finds its place in this new of consumption democracy. In the meantime, we can observe a paradigm shift with regard not only to the debate on consumption and consumerism but also to its practices, where the ecological consequences of consumerism have now taken on a global aspect.

In relation to the global propagation of malnutrition and food lack phenomena, the concept of food sovereignty necessarily invokes the recognition and proper application of the "food right", fundamental human right. In fact, it is a legal instrument to ensure legal standards and policy measures to fight hunger and malnutrition, recognizing the need of national and international agricultural policies. Selecting priority areas of intervention, the States obligations are consequently to make available adequate and healthy food, resulting by sustainable and environmentally productions with a reorganization of the food trade system, not considering it as other goods.

The accelerated process of globalization has dramatically changed social structures and, consequently, practices. This demographic dynamic creates heterogeneous realities, that require adaptation of communication paradigms, social interaction and cooperation, in order to develop new sustainable models of coexistence that can create a basis for well-being. In order to achieve this purpose, it is fundamental to guarantee fundamental rights for everyone, in particular a healthy sustenance, consumed in an enjoyable socio-cultural environment.

Food is not only a collection of products that can be used for statistical or nutritional studies. It is also a system of symbols and images, a protocol of usages, situations and behaviours. And this may also involve a belief in spiritual, invisible and transcendent entities. In brief, it can infer religion. Besides, food consumption cannot be seen as an isolated and innocent act. On the contrary, it is a part of the chains of interdependencies, which bind people together across the world, calling for a change in eating behaviours. To become more sustainable, the act of consuming food needs to be changed, in order to decrease diseases caused by food, eliminating the unreasonable- unfair exploitation and distributions of earth’s natural resources. In order to understand if religion can be seen as a sustainable medium in alimentation, the Author will briefly evaluate some theological roots and religious practices associated with food. His attention is in particular focused on selected examples referring to main Abrahamic religious organizations, that is Catholicism and Islam. Then, he underlines the relationships and interconnections between religious rules and consumerism, the ways in which both are reacting to the problems related to food. In this sense, he tries to explore the interplay and intersections between religion and "consuming passions" in contemporary society. This analysis will lead to better understand how religious and secular values responses to above-mentioned problems; the ways in which both can contribute to a more sustainable-fairly food consumption.

The paper suggests that the diverse livelihoods could properly be taken into account to endeavour the effort for more sustainable, flexible and adaptive small-scale fisheries. Diversification contributes to increase income and well-being, thereby providing an adaptive model that is consistent with the concepts of empowerment and social inclusion. Strategies embedded in the regional/local situation could provide results in order to involve individuals, and groups of actors and stakeholders in a decision making process based on an operational approach. The study described in this article is aimed at encouraging and strengthening the diversification activities of small-scale fisheries in the Ionian coastal area of Sicily. The cognitive maps and the AHP method have been used to work with groups of actors, experts and stakeholders active in the local coastal area through a structured and personalized process aimed at creating a shared visions of strategic actions directed to the policy makers.

The current agricultural crisis has to do with the scarcity and poor quality of food, along with problems related to consumer health issues and environmental damage. In light of this situation, there is an urgent need to build sustainable systems capable of balancing social, environmental and economic needs in the long term. In order to implement these systems, lessons can be learned from the corrective measures adopted in previous crises, particularly in the financial one, and applied to the current dynamics of the agricultural market under scrutiny. Based on this study, the paper illustrates possible forms of government intervention to would allow the rise of responsible systems that would satisfy the demand for food (primary need) through an adequate supply and would allow resources to be transferred effectively and efficiently.

Quantity and quality food production is a key component of well-being in its most modern and complete meaning. In this view, it has a significant impact on all aspects of social, cultural, environmental and economic development. For the future, the great challenge of agri-food sector is to carry out production systems that simultaneously adapt agriculture to territory, ensuring food supply, and significantly affect the health of consumers. The aim of this work is to reflect on the use of some minor crops, eco-friendly and rich in bioactive compounds, for sustainable production of ingredients for healthy foods.

According to the concept of sustainable development, available natural resources are limited and disproportionately exploited. The growing depletion of these resources is leading to intergenerational disparities, as it systematically deprives future generations of a standard of living even remotely comparable to the current one. Sustainability is an integrative and dynamic concept, composed of issues that have often been described as crossroads of interests and social initiatives, both economic and environmental. Being such a complex and multidimensional phenomenon, sustainability is thus very difficult to explore through traditional measurement approaches. The objective of this study is to define the research questions that subtend the concept of sustainability. In particular, the complexity of sustainability measurement in food security contexts and the approaches used for incorporating its economic, environmental and social facets will be analyzed.

Scopo di questo lavoro è sottolineare l’importanza per i servizi pubblici psico-sociali, ma non solo, di avere uno spazio di riflessione periodico all’interno di un gruppo di supervisione interdisciplinare e - laddove sia possibile - interistituzionale, dove si possano costruire "ponti" tra servizi diversi e tra professionalità diverse, unendo le risorse che le varie formazioni possiedono, creando un "sistema" (una mente collettiva) in grado di potenziare la capacità riflessiva e di conseguenza la qualità degli interventi attraverso la comunicazione e la ritualità degli incontri.