GSSI Social Sciences

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

REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples Commoning requires repair. Where capitalist logics of accumulation, enclosure and exclusion produce abandoned space through the city, urban commoners remake that space to serve the needs of inhabitan...

🆕 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)

Air pollution and workplace accidents: Evidence and implications We estimate the impact of air pollution on workplace accidents and permanent disabilities in Italy, a setting characterized by stringent air pollution…

🆕 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

Serve una strategia contro la crisi sociale L’intervento

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 👇
www.gssi.it/images/discu...

🆕 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

Settegiorni - Parlamento - Rai Parlamento Settegiorni - Video - RaiPlay

. @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

IN FUGA - SPOILER 3.10.25 YouTube video by TV SEI

. @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

High-speed railway and city industrial upgrading in China: A quasi-experimental study This paper investigates the effect of High-speed Railway (HSR) on city industrial upgrading. Using the Annual Survey of Industrial Firms (1998–2015) a…

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...

Cities for living. Identifying the local conditions driving life satisfaction in European cities This paper analyses differences in life satisfaction across European cities. It contributes to the geography of well-being literature by identifying the individual and the contextual factors that e...

🆕 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.

www.gssi.it/images/discu...

🆕 paper out in the Journal of Rural Studies by our PhD candidate Borys Cieślak

He studied the emotional-caring labor of postmasters in the Appennines to shows they help enhance wellbeing, & belonging among rural communities. 📯⛰️

More here doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

Thematic Encyclopedia of Regional Science This thematic Encyclopedia explores the multifaceted world of regional science, presenting a systematic and coherent overview of its central topics. It highlights the interdisciplinary nature of the f...

📚🆕 Thematic Encyclopedia of Regional Science is out w contributions from our members @giubreglia.bsky.social , Carlo Caporali, @dariadenti.bsky.social, @pfaggy.bsky.social & @mrmodica.bsky.social 🌍​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

More ➡️ www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the...