Ricerc@Sapienza

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2015) can be considered the synthesis of a
debate, which sets the sustainable development as a priority for the International Community.
The achievement of the sustainable development goals has made necessary to develop
a system of indicators. Indicators and data should be collected and reported sub-nationally,
giving attention to the territory. This is a necessity even more for Italy, a country historically
characterized by strong regional specificities and differences, which find their radicalization
in the so-called North–South gap. In this paper, we want to examine and monitor
the Italian situation as to the achievement of the SDGs, based on the analysis of the
Regions, to highlight potential differences or territorial homogeneity. In particular, we want
to emphasize not only how there is actually a gap between the North and the South of the
country, but also how the synthesis tends often to be representative of situations profoundly
different from each other, as a result of different values in the basic indicators, or similar
situations between them. Due to the difficulty of reporting on a paper a detailed analysis
of all 17 sustainable development goals, we focus only on the first three goals one. In particular,
for each goal we select indicators all useful for the analysis of regional realities and
appropriate some for monitoring the present condition, others for providing information on
the future one (risk). The research methodology is to use the Adjusted Mazziotta–Pareto
Index for creating a composite index for each goal considered. This analysis is preceded
by an exploratory analysis of the basic indicators over time through the use of within and
between correlations and the average PCA.