Oggi Il Centro ospita un’intervista ad @pfaggy.bsky.social sul tema cruciale degli andamenti demografici in Abruzzo, mettendo in risalto il ruolo della precarizzazione del mercato del lavoro e dei servizi educativi e di welfare 🏫🤰📉
New year starts great with the CfA for the Workshop ‘Regional Inequalities & Perceived Left-Behindness’(w @regstud.bsky.social, YSI & Edgenet)
📅 11–13/05 2026 | 📍 L’Aquila
PhD & Early Career
Keynote speakers: @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social @simonaiammarino.bsky.social @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social
🆕 paper by Martina Locorotondo (w A. Fishwick) in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
“Repair and Reconstruction for Urban Commoning: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples” examines repair & reconstruction practices & urban commons
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🎄✨ We wish our community and network a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year🎉
🎊Congrats to our PhD alumna Thea Jansen for winning the Tommaso Fasciani Award for her doctoral thesis "Remote Work as a Catalyst for Change: Implications for Residential Mobility, Family Planning, and Female Employment" (supervised by Andrea Ascani, @pfaggy.bsky.social, @sandoralp.bsky.social)
🆕 paper in the @jpube.bsky.social by @sandoralp.bsky.social (w Depalo Domenico & Gabriele Curci).
“Air Pollution and Workplace Accidents: Evidence and Implications” uses Italy to measure what happens to accident rates when air quality gets worse.
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🎉👏We are proud to announce that our PhD student Giulia Finardi has been selected for the 2026 Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Young Scientists Programme (YSP) — a prestigious initiative supporting and empowering the next generation of disaster risk reduction experts
📚🗓 Save the date: Presentazione del libro 'Sviluppo territoriale e valorizzazione dei patrimoni locali: il caso dell’Abruzzo aquilano post-terremoto' di Giovanni Baiocchetti
🗓 13-12-2025 h:16:00
📍 GSSI, viale Crispi 7, L’Aquila
Modera @pfaggy.bsky.social
we are hiring🔊🔊
2️⃣ Research Contracts in Regional Science & Economic Geography within our Department (duration 2 years)👩💻 🧑💻
⏳ Application deadline: 12 January 2026
🔗 call alboufficiale.gssi.it/download/106...
🔗 Link to the application platform in the image below.
🆕 paper 📚 by @giubreglia.bsky.social & @mrmodica.bsky.social out in @regionalstudies.bsky.social “A world of shocks: mapping multi-shock and multilayer resilience, assessing resilience markers and drivers”.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
If you have any questions, please contact
joel.cuatianquis@gssi.it
🚨 CfA – PhD & Early Career Workshop 2026
Regional Inequalities & Perceived Left-Behindness (w @regstud.bsky.social, Young Scholar Initiative & Edgenet)
📅 11–13/05 2026 | 📍 L’Aquila, Italy
Keynote speakers: @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social @simonaiammarino.bsky.social @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social
Ugo Rossi analyzes the social and economic vulnerabilities facing the Campania region in a recent piece for La Repubblica.
napoli.repubblica.it/commenti/202...
They find:
📝 Previous employment experience and proficiency in Italian are crucial
🧠Many refugees suffer professional downgrading
🧳Settlement patterns of refugees and long-term Ukrainian immigrants notably differ across Italian regions
Read the paper 👇
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🆕 paper out in our Discussion Paper Series 'Labour market integration of Ukrainian refugees in Italy’ 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 by @kateryna-tkach.bsky.social @pfaggy.bsky.social & Alessandra Michelangeli
They use new data to provide new findings the geography of employment and skills of Ukrainian refugees in Italy.
Welcome to our new cohort of PhD students 🥳🤩
Il Centro dedica una lunga intervista a @pfaggy.bsky.social sullo stato dell’economia dell’Abruzzo e sulle strategie per favorirne ulteriormente lo sviluppo economico puntando su giovani, qualità istituzionale, salari e FDI
We're thrilled to announce our upcoming seminar lineup for November 2025 - May 2026.
We will host distinguished researchers from leading institutions across Europe to engage with cutting-edge scholarship and foster academic exchange.
We look forward to an enriching series of discussions
. @pfaggy.bsky.social was featured on Rai Settegiorni program to discuss which socioeconomic characteristics and policies make places attractive for young, educated people, and how to reverse Italy's human capital drain 🧠 🧳 .
👀 👉 www.raiplay.it/video/2025/1...
Last week @giubreglia.bsky.social & Aydan Ege Güven were among the presenters at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre ERICE Workshop.
Their contributions dealt with
resilience complexity & the geography of critical Infrastructure
. @pfaggy.bsky.social è stata ospite di Spoiler su TV6 per parlare di ‘Giovani in fuga dall’Abruzzo e giovani in fuga verso l’Abruzzo’
La puntata ha affrontato i temi della fuga dei cervelli e dell’attrattività della regione per le giovani generazioni 🧠🧳
📺 youtu.be/UdgHuN6YSWY?...
Day 1 of the 8th ASC conference with keynote lectures by Philip McCann & Chiara Farronato and paper sessions on climate change 🌪️, institutions🏛️, development , AI & digitalization 💻
Key findings:
✅ Knowledge economy reduces pro-environmental activism 2x more than anti-environmental activism
✅ Green transition should focus on how economic contexts shape mobilization
✅ Challenge isn't just resistance in vulnerable areas, but also reduced collective action in knowledge hubs
🆕 paper in our DP series 'Green with Anger. Polarised environmental mobilisation & the knowledge economy' (Compagnucci, @dariadenti.bsky.social @pfaggy.bsky.social , Perrot)
tinyurl.com/5xt6e3md
Sul quotidiano Il Centro @pfaggy.bsky.social parla delle attuali criticità legate all’erosione del potere d’acquisto delle famiglie italiane e alle soluzioni possibili
In a 🆕 paper in Applied Geography, Andrea Ascani and Yibo Qiao explore the role of high-speed railway in helping the industrial upgrading of cities in the context of China.
Read it here (OA): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🆕 paper in Regional Studies, Regional Science by @pven.bsky.social & Nicola Pontarollo 🏙️ 🇪🇺
"Cities for living" finds that environmental quality & social diversity matter more than economic indicators for city liveability
Read the paper www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🆕 paper in our DP Series by Maria Giovanna Brandano & @martidalmolin.bsky.social shows walking routes boost economic growth in Italy 🇮🇹
They found walking-paths slow tourism has significant economic impact.
An alternative to mass tourism that benefits local communities.
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