Internal and inner areas: the potential development in European and Italian scenario. Forward to the issue.

All European countries have internal areas, but only few of them, as Italy, developed strategic policies and devoted investments concerning the role of urban-rural, small-medium towns, services of general interest within the application of the Europe 2020 Strategy. In the following and by the geographical vision, this topic is summarised in order to open a national debate aiming to overcome the gap between academic and decision making methodological approaches. Starting from both the theme conceptualization in the European language and discourse, internal areas are introduced.


Keywords: Internal Areas, Scenarios, European Union, Italy.