Abstract
In the light of recent emergencies represented by climate change and global warming, with the consequent policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, this research aims at offering a response to the need for decarbonization of anthropization processes of territories, on a building and urban scale. This study elaborates a methodology, according to an integrated qualitative-quantitative approach, which combines the strategic need for sustainable mobility with the need to enhance the value of natural and environmental interesting places, typical of the Mediterranean area and in particular the ones which represented the heart of Magna Graecia. This strategy is implemented through a growing mobility offer in recent years: sustainable cycling tourism, which is included in the wider and more widespread strategic action of greenways. However, these strategies do not often meet the interests of the public administration, which is refractory to face great costs in exchange for a hypothetical return on investment, in the long term; the result is the abandonment and degradation of territories characterized by a remarkable naturalistic, landscape and environmental value. The aim of this study, therefore, is to provide operators in the sector (public administration, Cilento National Park Authority, economic operators, etc.) with a decision-maintenance tool, through the definition of priority criteria for interventions, according to an economic sustainability approach of the intervention and adopting an integrated qualitative-quantitative methodology. The intervention, as a whole, involves a cycle path of about 600 km, passing through 70 countries of the territory. Therefore, assuming the impossibility of being carried out at the same time, as a whole, it has been divided into 23 functional lots: the methodology intends, precisely, to define the priority and necessity criteria that determine the classification of importance of the 23 routes (sub-interventions), identified in this study.
Highlights
The aim of this research is the valorization of abandoned areas through sustainable mobility strategies
As a key financing mechanism for investments in EU transport systems, the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) will contribute to the decarbonization of the mobility sector and to the achievement of the 2050 climate neutral target [2]
It is estimated that a cyclist spends an average of about twenty-five euros a day on food and services, compared to a traveler who moves by car and spends only seven euros a day; this is because those who travel by car take everything they need with them, while a cyclist, having little space available, has to get what he needs on the way
Summary
The aim of this research is the valorization of abandoned areas through sustainable mobility strategies. More than 40% of European regions are losing their population and the population of predominantly rural regions is expected to decrease by 7.9 million by 2050 [1]. About sustainable mobility, this is one of the main objectives of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for the period 2021–2027. As a key financing mechanism for investments in EU transport systems, the CEF will contribute to the decarbonization of the mobility sector and to the achievement of the 2050 climate neutral target [2]. One of its priorities is to develop a European transport network, while helping the European Union’s (EU’s) transition to connected, sustainable, inclusive, safe and secure mobility
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