DOCUMENTI GEOGRAFICI - N. 1 (2017)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articoli

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The Geographic Approach to the Analysis of the Consequences of “Brexit”. Who will Benefit? – The outcome of the referendum on the Brexit opened an era of uncertainty, questioning the relationship between UK and European Union, making it difficult to define future paths. The aim of this work is to analyse the possible consequences of Brexit through a geoeconomic approach which, focusing on foreign trade, will explore the different issues at international, national and regional levels. Aknowledging that from now on the British decisions will be crucial in defining the outcomes, the purpose of this study is not to achieve an indisputable conclusion but rather to present arguments to feed and enrich the debate on the matter within the scientific community of geographers.

 

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New Synergies Between Territories and Enterprises: The Benefit Corporation as Potential Actors of Sustainable Development. – Recently, in Italy, have been introduced the Benefit Corporation (BC), ie a new legal form once a formal recognition of those companies intending to pursue a different business model: the “for benefit”. These companies, in fact, are placed in a limbo between non-profit and for-profit, associating profit targets with requirements of transparency and accountability to a wider number of stakeholders such as employees and citizens, reaching the interest for the natural environment and the territory. The challenge launched by the BC is that to get a rapprochement between doing business and society that goes beyond a simple and residual integration of social concerns, introducing into the reasons of being of the company's one or more purposes turned to the common benefit. In this sense, the classical concept of corporate social responsibility undergoes a transformation and becomes more strong.
This study has two objectives, firstly to clarify the nature, the struc-ture and the geographic distribution of those enterprises, on the other hand it aims to check as this modern way of understanding the business may affect on the territory and the extent to which the context where the companies are placed can to contribute on their functioning. To achieve the ultimate goal will be analyzed recent experiences in the Italian system, taking into account some of the existing realities.

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Geography of International Trade: An Empirical Analysis. – The development of economic relations between Italy and Egypt has ancient origins. However, recently researchers have focused their attention on opportunities and risks that have to face Italian firms operating in Egypt. This article is based on an empirical analysis of direct experience of Italian actors involved in internationalization strategies. The article, therefore, offers an original perspective on geography of trade between Italy and Egypt.

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Ernesto Massi and Italian Geopolitics. A “Simbiotic” Report. – In Italy, “geopolitics” was born, grew and fully matured alongside the figure of Ernesto Massi. Their relationship was basically symbiotic and covered a substantial part of the last century. Geopolitical discipline in Italy, as is known, saw its affirmation with Massi and Giorgio Roletto and later developed in other countries (first Germany and France, but then Great Britain and the United States), thus emerging as a fully autonomous school with its own raison d'être.

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An Overview of the Tourism Planning of the City of Recife. – Recife is a beautiful city located in the North east of Brazil. Like the majority of Brazilian cities, it had never had a proper tourism plan before the one developed in 2013 – even considering its innate potential. This article aims to share that plan, in which a few field researches were done, as well as informal interviews with the main actors involved. Throughout the years of implementation and execution, not only the impact of external factors was sensitively perceived but also the importance of a dynamic (and participative) revaluation of the plan itself.