@article{Caratti:37670,
      recid = {37670},
      author = {Caratti, Pietro and Ferraguto, Ludovico},
      title = {Analysing Regional Sustainability Through a Systemic  Approach: The Lombardy Case Study},
      address = {2008-05},
      number = {837-2016-55613},
      series = {Nota Di Lavoro},
      pages = {30},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {The intrinsic complexity of the sustainability concept  challenges research towards more sophisticated ways to  model and assess the dimensions underlying it. However,  currently adopted modelling techniques and indicators  frameworks are not able to give an integrated assessment  through the different components of sustainability,  providing incomplete visuals of the reality that they aim  to catch. This paper tries to assess how the INSURE  methodology can provide a contribution in the analysis of  sustainability through indicator frameworks, describing its  application to the Lombardy region (Italy). Developed on  the course of a 6th European Framework Program – financed  project to measure sustainability in the European regions,  the methodology provides two distinct sustainability  representations, based on a quantitative “top-down” System  Dynamics model and on a qualitative “bottom-up” System  Thinking approach. The models are then linked to a  hierarchical indicator framework setting policy priorities.  The overall objective is thus to create a set of regional  indicators, adapting the models of regional sustainability  to different policy agendas. The purpose of the paper is  twofold: defining a new approach to sustainability  appraisal, and assessing how the Region is holistically  behaving towards sustainable development. Starting from a  basis analysis of the main shortcomings highlighted by the  use of most adopted methodologies, the paper will verify  the contribution given by the INSURE methodology to  research in the fields of modelling and indicators  approaches, providing insights over methodological  adjustments and the results obtained from the application  to Lombardy. The conclusions will show how the methodology  has tried to overcome identified constraints in current  models, like the strong dependence on existing datasets of  the obtained representations, the under-coverage of  “immaterial factors” role and the scarce integration  between sustainability dimensions.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/37670},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.37670},
}