ESPON Territorial Studies - Quality of Life in the Alpine area

Analysing the quality of life needs of urban and rural residents The granular analysis of tangible and intangible QoL aspects that are localised in the vicinity of the place of residence would help to measure with the needed level of territorial resolution the quality of life of people living in high or medium density settlements (urban and peri-urban areas) but would be much less useful to measur. [...] The results of the study are presented in the following sections, answering to policy questions raised in the Terms of Reference of the study: Territorial Quality of Life measurement: Answering the first policy question “how can we use the ESPON (place-based and citizen-centered) approach to measure QoL in the region?”, section 2 illustrates the results and recommendations stemming from the anal. [...] 17 In the case of Canton Ticino the intensely populated portion of the region corresponds to the valley floor, identified thanks to the GEOSTAT data of the Federal Statistics Office (UST) as a territory below 500 metres above sea level, equal to 12% of the cantonal territory and in which 86.6% of the resident population was concentrated in 2018, and 92.7% of the total employees in 2017 (another el. [...] In relation to the ecological sphere of the TQoL scheme, the importance of raising more and better awareness among the population on the nature and importance of ecosystems in the territory was underlined, to bring awareness of the consequences of one's behaviour and possible impacts on the ecosystem balance. [...] Looking forward more broadly to future development and the prospects for quality of life, the following elements have been suggested by the participants to the living lab as winning factors for the city of Trento: Centrality of the individual and human capital, which means recognising and nurturing talents, passing on knowledge of entrepreneurship and the culture of work to shape the generations.