Recovery and Resilience of the Inner Areas: Identifying Collective Policy Actions through PROMETHEE II

Inner areas are rural with low population density, distant from the main hotspots offering essential welfare services and endowed significant environmental assets cultural heritage. In Italy, their development is at core of national strategy for inner areas. Specific documents program agreements were issued each area summarized intervention themes projects to implement. However, when considered within a regional territorial ‘matrix’, further collective policy actions have be identified, through comparison in-depth analysis features influence on development. Therefore, this research aims identify analyse needs potentialities areas, strengthening improving recovery resilience actions. The Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) method PROMETHEE II was applied as methodology four in Puglia region (southern Italy), using 43 indicators organized into seven thematic dimensions setting specific parameters. results enabled delineate overall score profile based every indicator dimension. By analysing profile, key where direct related mainly contrast depopulation by (e.g., digitalization, health, education) foster agriculture, tourism, This can first step future broader studies, guide process making European Italian multi-perspective approach.