On the academic side, the change in perspective was triggered by the collection and dissemination of important scientific data that highlighted a reversal of the trend in demographic dynamics, starting from the early 1990s at the level of the whole Alpine arc. [...] LITERATURE REVIEW │ 13 It was not until the so-called “migration crisis” of 2015,7 and the policy of extra-urban territorial dispersion of asylum-seekers implemented by the Italian Government, that the first thematization of the international migrant as one of the factors in the field of mountain transformation processes took place. [...] The settlement of this category of migrants in the Alps and Apennines (particularly in the period 2015–2018) has also highlighted, in addition to obvious critical aspects related to local fragilities and the lack of national coordination of migrants’ redistribution policies, important forms of territorial resilience around the bottom-up reception projects of the System of Protection for Asylum-see. [...] In the second step, a structured survey questionnaire was applied to a statistically representative sample of people living in the central-southern Apennines to: (i) Collect information on the perception of the main environmental risks at the local level in mountainous and inner areas; (ii) Explore the perception of the presence of in-migrants in these territories and the assessment of their socio. [...] The third input aimed to understand how in- migrants can impact the natural resources in the medium to long term and the 3.3 RESEARCH TOOLS │ 29 care of the territory, especially in the context of the climate crisis and what local policies or interventions would be necessary to increase the attractiveness of the area towards migrants.
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