Research for Development

How Slowness Regenerates Marginal Areas

By: Paolo Pileri (Editor), Rossella Moscarelli (Editor)

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Hardcover | 29 August 2020

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260 Pages

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This book investigates why and how cycle and walking paths can help to promote the regeneration of marginalized areas facing depopulation and economic decline. In addition, it offers a broad overview of recent scientific research into slow tourism and marginality/spatial inequality and explores the linkages between these topics. Key issues are addressed by experts from various disciplinary backgrounds, and potential measures are proposed for the integration of slow tourism into strategies for regional development. Particular attention is devoted to the VENTO project, which involves the creation of a 700-km-long cycle route from Venice to Turin that passes through various rural and marginalized areas of northern Italy. The goal, research process, design, and early lessons from this important project are all discussed in detail. Moreover, the book describes policies and strategies that have successfully been used to enhance the slow tourism infrastructure in other European countries.Given its scope, the book will appeal to researchers, professionals, and students interested in e.g. policymaking, tourism planning, regional development, and landscape and urban planning.

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"This volume is an essential contribution ... should be of interest to regional and rural development researchers and policymakers, regional planners, tourism scholars, mobilities researchers, and activists seeking to find the right synergies between active travel, sustainable tourism and the revaluation of marginalised territories. The book serves as an introduction to the intersection of these research domains and joins the exhaustive body of evidence that foregrounds place-based responses to lagging or regional discontent." (Wilbert den Hoed, Regional Studies, Vol. 57 (10), 2023)

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