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As the energy consumption across the globe is increasing fast, every industry sector is trying to adapt best practices to achieve minimum environmental, economic and social footprint. In addition, the all increasing stress on the global freshwater supply necessitates the measurement of water consumption as a sustainability metric for every human activity. Irrigated agriculture constitutes one of the larger consumers of freshwater and energy worldwide, while providing a major source of income and employment for rural societies. Irrigation modernization can save water and energy consumption. Many technologies are actually included in the so-called smart farming, but not all are actually sustainable, economically viable and easily adaptable. This paper presents emerging technologies that can be used to maximize energy and water savings in agricultural irrigation and more specific on electric centrifugal pumps. The work is focused on two technologies that can be easily implemented on existing pumping stations, their use is simple enough for the average farmer to understand and manage and they require relatively low investment cost.

The circular economy refers to a development strategy that allows economic growth by optimising the use of natural resources, minimising environmental pressures, transforming supply chains and consumption patterns and redesigning production systems so that they are restorative or regenerative by intention and design. A transition to a more circular economy requires a systemic approach that considers the interconnections that exist within and between sectors, institutions and local actors. The aim of the paper is to reflect on the characteristics of a territorial model for a circular rural economy, which directs its actions through a local lens to promote closer interaction between actors, by optimising the use of resources, and between production processes and social and cultural matrices.

"Internet of Things" (IoT), is the vast network of devices communicating over the Internet without the human involvement. Nevertheless, circular economy predominates in recent research effort towards sustainability. The food issue predominates in 10 out of 17 of recently established Sustainable Development Goals. Thanks to the optimization of the supply chain and to shorter distribution lines, it will be possible to resolve problems within circular economy in the food aspect such as: decrease food waste, improve food traceability, improve food quality, acquire food authentication, optimize supply chain and logistics, etc.

The new framework within which to project the development strategies of the wine sector, in the face of both the consolidation of new competitors at international and European level, that the emergence of new social and environmental demands, emphasizes the role of this sector as a "bridge" between the territory and the society. Just with respect to this function, now more than ever, it is clear the central importance of this sector in building "well-being" guaranteeing health. On the basis of these considerations, the work aims to draw a theoretical framework for the determinants of a communication strategy more responsible to society experiencing, in a regional system of the Campania Region, traditionally suited to viticulture, the significance of such a strategy, providing important insights reflection to policy makers and stakeholders on governance tools needed to accompany and support the sector's development in terms of sustainability.

Facing the challenges to the sustainability of well-being, the main commitment to EU member countries will be to give themselves a sustainable structure for the people and for all its territories, where, through an appropriate governance you must ensure exclusive benefits able to win ideas, behaviors and activities "homologated" which essentially crush the value systems pertinent to the identity of people and territories. On the basis of these considerations, the present paper aim to underline the important role that the economist has to play, reinterpreting the limits of the theory in light of a new and practical idea of economy, able to build well-being and to guarantee its sustainability in all its dimensions. Starting from the role of European integration, the paper aim to underline the importance to reinstate the "food issue" in a new idea of European integration more sustainable for all.

What is tourism in new media era? What are green tourism and green business and should we adopt green marketing strategies in order to attract tourists? The book presents theory topics and supports with insight from case studies and successful paradigms from Greece and Italy such as: major trends of tourism market, the role of public policies in tourism, agritourism and social media marketing, sustainable approach of agrotourism, rural tourism development, the role of DMOs in the digital era…

The "Food system" needs suitable technical solutions to overcome the various restrictions of the well-being sustainability to proactively contribute to the achievement of Sustainability Empowerment In this context, the institutions involved in the creation of knowledge in its different forms should play a key role but it’s necessary to redirect the knowledge system to new behavioral models based on the interdisciplinarity and the real knowledge of the needs of the society The work, after a short analysis of the limitations of the segmented approach for Food System, focuses on the role of the knowledge system and puts forward some reflections about the features that should take to become a real lever of sustainability empowerment

The review of institutional organization of the municipalities in metropolitan cities leads us to reflect on the new role that agriculture and its stakeholders have to play in the pursuit of sustainability of well-being. In this context, this paper aims to highlight new models of governance for agriculture in the future, more appropriate to the emergence of a new proximity market, but especially more embedded in a feedback system that it will be able to offer in terms of lifestyles, mobility, work, health, leisure, social relationships and milieu. More precisely, agriculture can find a proximity market, whether it will be able to ensure the replicability of the stock of social, human, natural and economic capital, to respond to new lifestyles and to maintain and protect the identity of the territory.

Raccogliendo i contributi di diverse realtà territoriali ed evidenziando le relative esperienze su specifici strumenti e sull’adozione di determinate politiche, il volume propone una visione del territorio come punto di partenza fondamentale per l’impostazione di piani per la sostenibilità, facendo emergere la caratterizzazione di ciascun contesto e la necessità di adeguare gli strumenti non solo agli obiettivi ma soprattutto alle connotazioni identitarie dei relativi territori.