Bollettino dell'Associazione Italiana di Cartografia 175

La globalizzazione non ha seguito un percorso evolutivo uniforme. In particolare, il periodo fra il 1914 ed il 1945 segnò un deciso rallentamento, se non una vera e propria battuta d’arresto delle dinamiche commerciali a livello internazionale. Il presente lavoro intende proporre un interessante caso studio, relativo all’attività economica di una “maison” svizzera produttrice di orologi, nella prima metà del XX secolo. La maison in oggetto, West End Watch (WEW), nacque alla fine del XIX secolo in Svizzera ma fin dall’inizio della sua storia si distinse per una dimensione fortemente globalizzata della propria attività. Il nome stesso dell’azienda, ispirato da un quartiere alla moda di Londra, suggeriva un forte legame con la Gran Bretagna ed i suoi interessi nel vicino e lontano oriente. WEW godeva (e gode tutt’ora) di una particolare reputazione, legata ai suoi principali mercati ed alle caratteristiche funzionali dei suoi prodotti: orologi solidi ed affidabili, adatti ad ambienti sfavorevoli (se non estremi), perciò ideali per un uso militare e venduti principalmente in India, nel Medio Oriente, in Cina e nel Sud-Est asiatico. Bombay, in particolare, era un importante nodo per il successivo smistamento degli orologi, che qui erano sottoposti ad un controllo funzionale. Il viaggio della merce, infatti, non era sempre tranquillo e scevro da pericoli. Nel presente contributo viene descritto l’itinerario seguito dagli orologi nel loro viaggio dalla Svizzera a Bombay. Tale percorso è stato ricostruito sulla base del diario di M. De Siebenthal, un giovane impiegato di WEW nel 1922. Costui fu incaricato di portare una partita di orologi a Bombay, prima del temuto raddoppio delle tasse d’importazione in India.

In questo contributo si dà conto, facendo ricorso a una serie di fonti primarie – dati catastali e statistiche fornite dagli uffici amministrativi d’ateneo – e fonti secondarie, dell’impatto esercitato dall’Università di Pisa sul bacino territoriale di proprio riferimento. Questo ateneo, con una storia ultracentenaria, insiste infatti su di una città di dimensioni medio-piccole (88 mila abitanti nel 2022); generando di fatto, a partire dalla poderosa crescita del numero di studenti avvenuta a partire dalla fine degli anni ’60 (ad oggi si contano 47 mila iscritti e poco meno di 5.000 dipendenti), una profonda trasformazione del tessuto urbano sia in merito all’occupazione di edifici a uso abitativo del centro storico, sia relativamente al settore dei servizi che ha risentito fortemente di questi andamenti, sia ancora della necessità di spazi funzionali alla stessa università (aule, biblioteche, uffici, mense ecc.). Per poter pienamente apprezzare queste dinamiche si è ritenuto utile ricorrere a strumenti GIS per spazializzare i dati catastali e individuare come le diverse componenti dell’università (relative alle differenti aree disciplinari) insistono tanto sul tessuto cittadino quanto su quello esterno a quello municipale e pure provinciale.

The contribution presents work on the definition of the structure of the local ecological network within the territorial context of the Po Valley in the section from Saluzzo to Pian del Re in Piedmont, using the new Corine Land Cover of Piedmont 2021. The geospa-tial analyses and cartographic representations are aimed at the identification and predisposition on the territory of interventions useful for the protection of habitats and species of interest for the biodiversity conservation, which become strategic for reason-ing about the overall ecological quality of these internal moun-tain areas. The mapping of the territory’s ecological functional-ity was carried out using a methodology that assesses the level of ecological status, starting from the different types of land use and five defined indicators (Naturalness, Relevance for Conservation, Extroversion, Fragility, Irreversibility). Having assessed the level of ecological functionality, the best connections between the ecologi-cally strongest areas were determined by identifying the least-cost paths. The product of this analysis is a small piece to be read in a broader context of the valorisation of the natural capital of this valley, known for its uncontaminated high mountain landscapes as well as a tourist destination for trekking enthusiasts as users of the rich trail network.

In recent years, the applications of GIS software for the processing, analysis and representation of geographic data have expanded to in-clude the georeferencing of literary works. In particular, the travel writ-ings of the past, rich in precise topographical spatial references, allow the development of literary geographic information systems, the so-called “Literary GIS”. Literary GIS can support research regarding the practices of travelers as well as their categories of reading and describ-ing territories and landscape that may have disappeared today. Given the existing interest in literary tourism, tthese information systems could be of interest for the development of cultural itineraries. The pa-per presents an ongoing project aiming to the development of a his-torical and literary GIS; such dataset involves travel literature describ-ing the territory of Trentino and produced between the 18th and 19th centuries during the era of the Grand Tour. Texts of travel writings that represent local spaces and landscapes have been transcribed, classi-fied and georeferenced on the basis of present references. In this paper, we specifically explore the potential of such dataset to develop specific cultural routes to enable tourists to dwell the territory in the footsteps of famous travelers of the past, benefiting from literary descriptions of disappeared or still existing landscapes to enrich their experience. As a result, a cartography of some itineraries for widespread and sustain-able tourism development and placetelling for lesser-known contexts of the Trentino territory is proposed.

ritorial transformations: in fact, its authors are geographers, physicists and environmental engineers who are experts in remote sensing. The aim is to study the recent expansion of agricultural capitalism in a strategic region for the economy of the South: the Sele Plain. In just a few years, this territory with a strong agricultural vocation has experienced a drastic alteration of the land cover: in 2012 there was a substantial bal-ance between arable land and greenhouses, but in 2018, in just six years, there was a substantial growth of greenhouses own detriment of arable land. This is the consequence of the expansion of the so-called “fourth range” in the fruit and vegetable market - which has also grown up in Italy in the last two decades - or rather the greenhouse production of fresh, washed and ready-to-eat products. It is a phenomenon which, in addition to its commercial value, has first-rate geo-economic, social and environmental effects. First, the penetration of local markets by large ag-ricultural capitalists; secondly, the reduction of the ability of ecosystems to provide goods and services; thirdly, the depletion of the landscape and the potential increase in hydrogeological risk. The survey methodology involves the analysis of land cover changes in the municipalities of Battipaglia and Bellizzi, in the province of Salerno, in the 2012-2018 time span through the Urban Atlas Copernicus, created using very high resolution satellite data. Through the InVEST software, the observed changes were combined with the quantification of the loss generated by the reduction of the ecosystem goods and services.

In recent years, maritime transport has become increasingly important due to its primary role in containing the mobility of goods by road. The need to make the logistics system more sustainable from an en-vironmental point of view and more competitive in economic terms has led the European Union to promote the use of combined maritime transport, with particular attention to the so-called “Motorways of the Sea”. The latter identify the segment of maritime transport based on fixed lines at a defined interval that use Ro-Ro ships in which the loading and unloading of the cargo does not require the aid of cranes or other external mechanical means, because the goods are arranged on platforms or in containers, loaded and unloaded by means of self-propelled vehicles. Despite the growth recorded by Ro-Ro traffic in recent years in Europe, the interest of the literature for this freight transport option is still limited since the focus is mainly on container traffic. Therefore, it is considered important to deepen the analysis of this in-termodal solution that appears relevant in particular in our country. Indeed, fact, in addition to being widespread in Italian ports, Ro-Ro plays a fundamental role both in intra-national connections and in infra-Mediterranean connections. In the light of these considerations, the paper proposes a research that, starting from the creation of a database of Ro-Ro traffic in Italian ports in the period 2011-2022, leads to the thematic repre-sentation of the aforementioned data through the support of the car-tographic tool. The latter constitutes a fundamental requirement for carrying out the analysis of the evolution of the combined sea-road traffic. The aim is to evaluate its impact on the port geography, the differences between the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic shores as well as the territorial effects induced in terms of ports centrality and port regions development.

La narrazione dominante, che dal Green Deal si è traslata nel PNRR italiano, tende sovente a considerare le due dinamiche, ambientale e digitale, in forma congiunta, come elementi complementari di un binomio. Il documento afferma, infatti, che “la trasformazione digitale offre gli strumenti necessari per realizzare i cambiamenti, migliorando le capacità di comprendere ed affrontare le sfide ambientali”. Obiettivo della ricerca è comprendere se davvero questa rappresentazione corrisponda a verità, nello status quo italiano. Il lavoro intende, pertanto, analizzare i differenziali territoriali a scala provinciale nelle roadmap verde e digitale e verificarne il grado di correlazione

This work first provides a framework focused on a number of literary re-views carried out at international level to summarise and highlight the possible benefits that can be obtained by GIS and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications to tackle the emergency caused by the COVID-19 pan-demic. Later, the present work gives a synthesis of the applied research conducted in Italy to provide added value, through geospatial and tem-poral analysis and specific elaborations and functionalities, in the in-terpretative examination and territorial comparison, the dynamic rep-resentation of the phenomenon, the predictive hypotheses and in the implementational measures for the management of critical phases. In the field of the geotechnological proposals, this study then focuses on the Dynamic Space-Time Diffusion Simulator in a GIS Environment de-veloped to analyse the COVID-19 spread in Rome, showing some demon-strative applications based on the data provided by the UOC Hygiene and Public Health Service – Local Health Unit Rome 1, for the period from February 25th to September 26th 2020, which have been elaborated af-ter ad hoc processes of data cleaning and optimisation. In particular, some sets of screenshots extracted by the Simulator are discussed and analysed in order to put in evidence the spatial and diachronic evolu-tion of the phenomenon with reference to: the total number of cases of COVID-19; the total number of deaths due to COVID-19; the total number of cases of COVID-19 with information regarding the different outcomes. Based on accurate geocoding processes and devised as a real-time mon-itoring and surveillance tool, the Simulator makes it possible to move in the perspectives of precision preparedness, highly detailed territorial screening and interdisciplinary integration, in order to test effective and replicable operational solutions in the cases of emergency.