Eurispes’ Observatory on Insularity extends its reach to inland areas
The islands are remote places, which are often far, more than any other place, from the delivery centres of essential services. This is why, from 2022, the law has qualified the smaller ones (therefore excluding Sicily and Sardinia) as seventy third inland area, thus bringing them within the National Strategy of Inland Areas (SNAI).
The Eurispes Observatory on Insularity, established in April 2023, is in charge of monitoring all issues related to insular peripherality and is therefore best placed to deal with the issue in all its aspects, providing analyses and proposals that will embrace the issues and problems of inland areas as well.
«Inland and island areas represent the vast majority of our country. They highlight problems, such as depopulation, abandonment, and the rarefaction of public and private facilities, which, neglected for too long, have become much more severe and require analysis and proposals that cannot be postponed», commented Prof.Lawyer Aldo Berlinguer, president of the Observatory.
«We are working on ideas and visions for our country and in particular for its most fragile areas», added Prof. Gian Maria Fara, President of Eurispes. «We have always thought that research should play a proactive, visionary and scientific support role for the benefit of public and private decision-makers. We will not fail to play our part in this too», Fara concluded.