10.6092/1970-9870/2519Cialdea, DonatellaMastronardi, LuigiMarginality Phenomena and New Uses on the Agricultural Land. Diachronic and Spatial Analyses of the Molise Coastal AreaTema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment2014Rural Land; Marginality; Landscape; AgricultureArgiolas, A., Cannata, G. (1989), “Molise”, in Cannata G. (ed.), I sistemi agricoli territoriali italiani, FrancoAngeli, Milano. Cannata, G., Forleo, M. (eds.) (1998), I sistemi agricoli territoriali delle re2014-05-152014-05-152014-05-162014-06-03engArticle3-171-2519<p>TeMA is an open access, online publication, with licence:</p><table width="100%"><tbody><tr><td width="82"><p><img title="cc-by-80x15_80" src="http://www.rmojs.unina.it/public/site/images/ojs/cc-by-80x15_80.png" alt="cc-by-80x15_80" width="80" height="15" /></p></td><td><em><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_blank">CCPL Creative Commons Attribution</a></em></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The author retains the copyright of his work whilst granting anyone the possibility “to reproduce, distribute, publicly communicate, publicly exhibit, display, perform and recite the work”, provided that the author and the title of the journal are cited correctly. When submitting the text for publication the author is furthermore required to declare that the contents and the structure of the work are original and that it does not by any means compromise the rights of third parties nor the obligations connected to the safeguard of the moral and economic rights of other authors or other right holders, both for texts, images, photographs, tables, as well as for other parts which compose the contribution. The author furthermore declares that he/she is conscious of the sanctions prescribed by the penal code and by the Italian Criminal and Special Laws for false documents and the use false documents, and that therefore TeMA is not liable to responsibilities of any nature, civil, administrative or penal, and that the author agrees to indemnify and hold TeMA harmless from all requests and claims by third parties.</p><br /><br />This paper analyzes the evolution of land use in the Molise Region. The attention is focused on the changes that occurred primarily on the rural area of the coastal area in this Region. The presence of urban centers of limited dimension, both for the demographic performance and for the dimensional order, is the main characteristic of this area. The historic part of rural tradition, at the same time, no longer emerges as a primary component of the regional landscape. This trend is particularly evident in the coastal zone, which is analyzed in this work not only in the range of areas that directly bordering the Adriatic Sea, but also in its pre-coastal zone, which remains imprinted on a matrix rural, but suffering from marginalization phenomenaTema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2014: INPUT 2014 - Smart City: planning for energy, transportation and sustainability of the urban system