The prevalence of mainstream media as source of information on environmental issues and their tendency to draw global attention around a few major, dramatic environmental disasters (melting of glaciers in the Arctic, desertification and drought in the African continent, deforestation of the Amazon, oil pollution in the oceans, etc.), is creating in less conative readers/audience a lack of awareness of the damages suffered in the local territorial systems to which they belong and low willingness to collective action. Therefore, crossing and comparing the highest possible number of sources of information, preferring those that can generate a proactive response to events and themes concerning environmental sustainability and highlight deep local/global interconnections, is essential to attain an independent, critical, and responsible narration. After shortly illustrating some theoretical and methodological considerations developed in the areas of popular geopolitics, anti-geopolitics and ecocriticism, this paper reviews two Italian graphic novels providing a bottom-up representation of local environmental issues: the first one deals with the eutrophication of the Orbetello Lagoon (Tuscan Maremma); the second one concerns the collapse of the tailings dams of the Prestavèl fluorite mines located in Val di Stava (Trentino Alto Adige), a disaster that caused the death of 268 people. We will try to point out how the authors, who are totally “embedded” in their works, provide a “translocal” narration, condemning effectively and immediately the environmental damages in the territorial context analysed and, at the same time, highlighting the interconnections between such site-specific events and global sustainability, inviting readers to adopt an holistic view of the nature-culture relationship, beyond the anthropocentric and instrumentalist production model which considers biosphere a mere tool to satisfy the contingent needs of contemporary society

Interdisciplinary bridging place-identity discourses with territorial images and social practices, the current volume tackles a critical approach focusing on Europe and its internal cultural borders as well as the key role of capitalizing on territorial identity. Although territorial and identity-related issues are frequent topics for the entire European space, territorial and urban planning, regional-continental identity, increasing spatial cohesion, developing competitiveness, and standard representation of internal migrations within the discursive methodology of this current volume, the dynamics of socioterritorial belonging is valued as an identity argument and criterion of a joint spatial system seen as a challenge rather than an intersection of geographic topics.

Deforestation has been considered an alarming issue where every developing country focuses on accelerating the digit of GDP growth backlogging the environment quality badly. The literacy rate is a handy and effective tool that has a long-lasting impact on the economy; a good government body can launch a sustainable learning system that can enrich the practice of a green economy. This paper aims to investigate the joint effect of good governance and literacy rate on sustainable forestland in developing countries. The author uses World Bank secondary open data where the author applies a multiple regression model to analyze the effect on forestland. Due to the use of secondary data, there are some missing values where the author implies interpolation in R studio to imply regression Model. A sound and effective educational policy with government intervention can maintain a good balance among ecology, economy and socio-culture.

An understanding of domestic tourists’ motivation and its relationship between perceived value and revisit intention is important for prediction of future travel demand. This study aims to examine domestic tourists’ motivation on revisit intention mediated by perceived benefits and perceived values. The quantitative data was collected through self-administered questionnaires from domestic tourists who travelled in Mongolia in the summer of 2019. An effect of domestic tourists’ travel motivation on revisit intentions; and the mediating effect of perceived benefit and perceived value were analyzed through factor analysis, regression analysis to test the proposed research hypotheses. The research result indicates that the mean ranking of the constructs of travel motivations for Mongolian domestic tourists were escape from daily life, relaxation, sightseeing, affordability of services, seeking variety, and culture were the top reasons to travel to the local destinations. The research findings contribute to the notion of domestic tourists’ travel motivation, its relationship between perceived benefit, perceived value of their trip on their willingness to return and recommendations to others. Furthermore, the research result could be beneficial for destination planners and tourism practitioners to enhance destination attributes and launch a variety of products, services, affordable pricing and accessible environment. Overall, the result provides background for an appropriate and effective marketing strategy to develop domestic tourism in Mongolia; and increase the competitiveness of the destinations with higher length of stay and more tourist spending.

Green Revolution and the birth of the current global economic system had two opposite, subsequent effects. If, initially, they led to processes of crop homogenization, seasonal adjustment, homogenization of the landscape and markets standardization, they have subsequently pushed local communities towards a recovery of endemic biodiversity at risk of extinction because of such planetary processes, as well as a fundamental element in terms of local development, food security and sovereignty and reduction of environmental impacts. Starting from these instances of recovery and protection, which are increasingly taking place in Apulia, this work will examine both projects created "from above" and initiatives "from below", being the latter the result of a new consciousness that renews social cohesion and gives new value to the territorial milieu. In this regard, the case of the «Salento km0» network will be examined: born in 2011 and now made up of 61 local subjects including producers, restaurateurs, associations, ethical purchasing groups and traditional stores, which represent a key symbol of a territory that resists and a population that has chosen to stay and innovate according to economic, social, cultural and environmental sustainability.

Under the conditions of frequent changes, of some edifying transformations and perpetual challenges, urban policy undergoes changes/adjustments/updates over certain time intervals. These changes generate increasingly more complex requirements that impose drafting a flexible multidisciplinary framework able to support the future development of a territory. In full debate-process, the new urban policy of Romania promotes sustainability, resilience and inclusive growth, on the background of a critical period under the dominance of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic. This new policy brings around the discussion table experts from relevant fields: decision factors, urbanists, economists, architects, citizens, civic initiative groups, etc. The national urban policy must address all categories of urban areas (defined as a city area considered as the inner city plus built-up environs, irrespective of local body administrative boundaries), being fundamental in implementing the goals set by the New EU Urban Agenda, approved in the framework of the Habitat III conference of the United Nations (2016) and the new provisions of the New Leipzig Charter (2020). Urban policy must ensure a single planning framework that would support the implementation of the programs and projects financed from European and national funds, preparing thus the financial exercise 2021-2027. Considering the above mentioned, the present paper aims to review the important and strategic elements of the future urban policy from Romania and its role in promoting and supporting balanced territorial development under the conditions of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic crisis which is far from over.