Ilaria Greco

The main research interests fall within the traditional study areas of the scientific disciplinary sector of economic-political geography (SSD MGGR/02), ranging from geopolitical and geoeconomic analyzes of global economic systems to studies on an urban and regional scale, in continuity with the scientific path of the PhD in geographical subjects and with post-doc research activities.

Specifically, they represent the object of study and deepening:

1. the implications on regional territorial systems of increasingly complex global geoeconomic and geopolitical dynamics, read and interpreted according to the paradigm of the territorial dimension of development (from the geography of international trade to the geography of new migrations, etc.).

2. the settlement dynamics and the socio-economic transformation processes that have led to the definition of new interpretative paradigms of the urban and rural dimension of development such as the polycentric model, urban bio-regions, smart cities, etc. Special attention is paid was dedicated to the policies and territorial dynamics of implementation of the Lisbon/Gothenburg processes in the Italian regions and provinces and to the new "urban geography" of the territories through the study of the structural and functional transformations that characterize contemporary urban systems, towards a polycentric structure and balanced of which the «medium cities» are the protagonists.

3.the processes of definition, development and evolution of tourist spaces in relation to the so-called New tourisms and minor destinations, with a particular focus on thermal tourism and rural tourism, highlighting their characteristics, spaces and new forms of development in geographical key, and to the opportunities in terms of competitiveness and development deriving from the interrelationship between global networks and the local network in tourism communication (Tourism 2.0);

The study and applied research activity is aimed at re-reading the classic theoretical paradigms and at defining new geographical analysis models to better understand the socio-economic dynamics and their implications on the regional models of economic, urban-rural and tourist.

The main results of these lines of research have been presented at conferences and congresses, contributing to the ongoing debate, and are also the subject of numerous national and international scientific productions, even of a monographic nature, published in geographical journals and/or included in Collected volumes and certified Conference Proceedings.