Multicriteria Spatial Analysis for Competitive Cultural Heritage in Fringe Areas: The Case of Valle d’Aosta Vastles

The Alpine territories show a strong potential in reaching the targets set out by the European policies related to smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The present paper reflects about the role of cultural heritage in supporting local development processes in mountain areas. In particular, Valle d’Aosta castles’ system (Italy) is considered in the study, with particular reference to the analysis of the opportunities and the risks at the regional scale. The results of the work delineate how Multicriteria-Spatial Decision Support Systems (MC-SDSS) can support the definition of enhancement strategies by providing a wide and integrated knowledge of the cultural heritage under investigation. The introduction of MC-SDSS in the field of historical assets’ conservation is quite innovative. Differently from the traditional analysis, the use of such an integrated approach allows decision maker to consider the spatial features of each development option and to evaluate simultaneously their multidimensional impacts.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Advanced Engineering Forum

• Publication date

  2014-06-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AEF.11.579
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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