The 'Blue Vision' of Ionian Coastal Rural Area

At the end of 2017, the Coastal Areas Consultation Group was established as part of the activities of the Italian National Rural Network where scholars, experts and active local development operators debated, compared ideas and paths and exchanged knowledge, skills and experience on ongoing initiatives in national rural coastal areas. This led researchers from the CREA Centre for Policy and Bio-economy Research (CREA PB) to start a study on the Ionic area to delve into the characteristics of integrated local development. The Ionic area is characterized by strong production sectors and weak economies, in which strategic choices have also been made in a multi-sector and integrated territorial approach, capable of re-understanding and considering, within it, the strength and weakness of the same production system in the area.