Territorial Human Well-Being Matrix: A Geospatial Tool for the Calabria Region in Italy

The measurement of the well-being and progress of society has increasing importance both in the social sciences and for local and national governments. To evaluate these concepts, the monitoring of multiple indicators is required due to their complex and multidimensional nature. The Territorial Intelligence Center (CIT) of Adolfo Ibáñez University (UAI) develops the Territorial Human Wellbeing Matrix (MBHT) jointly using official information (comparative, available, and free) with geospatial analysis tools. The indicators that are part of the MBHT were built at the level of the minimum territorial unit, which allows them to be scaled to communes, and regions, among others. In this way, it is possible to develop a methodology and an information system that overcomes the limitations of conventional zoning used in geographic analysis, thus responding to the challenge of obtaining an adequate representation and spatial coherence of territorial indicators, in addition to allowing the correlation of these. in spatial units of different scales. The purpose of this work is to describe the first part of the application of the MBHT in the Calabria Region, to test the functionality of the model in other territorial realities quite different from the Chilean one and to define critical points and opportunities. This work was carried out jointly by the CIT and the SoSTE Laboratory (Sustainable Strategies for the Territory) of the Department of Environmental Engineering of the University of Calabria.