Irrigated arable land values and socio-economic characteristics of the territory

The making of land values is conditioned not only by the specific soil production capacities, but also by socio-demographic and economic parameters of the territory. The research aims to highlight the logical-dimensional relationships existing between the land values of a cultivated quality widely spread over a large area and the variables population density and average taxable income, representative of the socio-demographic and income conditions of the population. The elaborations are carried out through spatial correlation analysis, which also makes use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). An application is developed with regard to the average land values of irrigated arable land in the Campania region (Italy). (*) The contribution to this paper is the result of the joint work of the three authors, to which the paper has to be attributed in equal parts.