The case study of Bitti (Sardinia): Risk perception and local best practices. – In alignment with Goal 13 of the UN 2030 Agenda, strengthening risk awareness within local communities can provide a framework for effective citizenship in managing extreme weather and climate events. In Sardinia, the community of Bitti (an inland area in the province of Nuoro, northeastern Sardinia) experienced a devastating flood in 2020. In response, local institutions and the community demonstrated resilience and implemented sound institutional practices. Following a field survey initiated through meetings with local authorities, this work presents the results of research aimed at understanding the risk perception among the municipality’s population. This insight aims to support the future implementation of participatory processes and citizen science tools designed to foster the development of communities resilient to meteorological disasters.

Proximity tourism. The perception of locations as rediscovery and development of local destinations. – The Covid-19 pandemic fundamentally reshaped the concept of mobility across the globe. People had to rethink their own lives and above all their usual mobility spaces. After restrictions, people could move to nearby rediscovering a proximity tourism which is characterized by an increased emphasis on local and regional experiences. It reflects a desire for safer, more sustainable, and easily accessible travel options, as tourists prioritize health concerns, lower carbon footprints, and less crowded environments. In this article we are going to understand how some locations have been changed due to pandemic and which geographical transformation have experienced.

Con il ritorno dei flussi turistici ai livelli pre-Covid (UNWTO, 2022a, 2024), nell’estate del 2024 è tornata a diffondersi una percezione del turismo, che mette in evidenza l’insofferenza delle comunità locali per gli effetti del sovraffollamento turistico sulla qualità della vita, la perdita di identità dei luoghi, la gentrification delle città, l’usura delle risorse naturali, in particolare quelle idriche, e l’enorme produzione di rifiuti.

Recensione a: DANIELA SANTUS, LAURA BELTRAMO, HaTikva - Spazio e percezione nel Tanakh e in Eretz Israel. Collana “Geografia, culture e società”, Torino, Nuova Trauben, 2021.

The garden as a projection of a political space. – The creation of a garden repre-sents the effort to create, in a defined space, a project that refers to client in its representation. This element, which is the basis of his creation, suf-fers from a basic ambiguity. On the one hand the garden is definitely oriented towards his personality, on the other hand it is still an open space, natural and therefore usable and available.
These two elements become particularly evident in those gardens that have the explicit function of concretely representing their political character and therefore oriented towards establishing a strong relationship between the client and those who frequent it.
The example of the garden of Versailles represents the complete identifi-cation between the sovereign and his garden, providing many elements to understand how the perception of the park is a key element of Louis XIV’s own political project.

Perception and communication in the time of Covid-19