Local economies and access to sensitive areas

In the last decades the subject concerning the relationship between internal (rural and mountain) areas and their opportunities of development has become relevant within the international debate also amongst economists. In particular relevance has been assumed by the issue related to the identification of attractiveness factors of internal areas and potential drivers that are able to favour growth and employment and reduce the abandonment. Attractiveness is to be understood as an expression of the ability of an area, territory or district to develop variables that will attract investment, promote innovative processes, attract tourists, residents and in particular skilled human and intellectual capital (the "talent"), thus ultimately increasing their competitiveness. In order to favour specific attractiveness processes, a specific territorial context has to identify and valorise specific resources (of tangible and intangible character), that have to be taken into consideration for designing the most correct local development paths.