The Valuation of Idle Real Estate in Rural Areas: Analysis and Territorial Strategies

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper concerns the interesting and actual problem. It is very well written, structured, and documented. It shows no noticeable flaws in its methodological approach or its argumentation. The graphic section is complete, but you can add a figure with the location of the research object on the map of Italy (but this is not necessary). In my opinion, it is a reliable, practical case study.
I have noticed minor editing errors, which will certainly be corrected during the proofreading.

Author Response

Thanks for the review.
I added in figure 3 (figure 1 in the previous version) the image of Italy with an indication of the location of the case study.

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper addresses a very interesting and topical issue by proposing a methodology that classifies abandoned buildings on the basis of their "attractiveness" to be candidates for renovation or reuse projects. The topic is certainly interesting for the implications - among other things highlighted by the author himself - regarding the possibility of contributing to the reduction of soil consumption and soil sealing and assumes even greater importance in Italy where a large percentage of real estate has a particular historical or architectural value. I share with the author the need to carry out a census of the abandoned real estate heritage, but also to develop a monitoring methodology that allows a continuous and systematic updating of what happens on the territory. In this the proposed methodology is a little lacking as it needs to acquire a large amount of data from paper documents whose availability is also rather questionable. A strength that is not enough highlighted in the text, however, is the possibility to integrate what is proposed with additional data in the gis environment; I am thinking for example of the wide availability of remote sensing data that are now available free of charge with very high spatial and temporal resolutions. What could significantly improve the quality of the methodology, making it more "place-based", is a spatial multi-criteria analysis that can catch the greater significance of some parameters (or even bundles of parameters) compared to the reference context. Overall, however, the paper is well written and structured. 

 

 

 

 

 

Author Response

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Reviewer 3 Report

The paper presents the methodology for identification and mapping of idle real estate in rural areas, demonstrating the case study of the municipality of Chiari, Italy. In my opinion, the paper is generally clearly structured and well written. There are several issues that should be improved.

 

Since the focus of the paper is on the methodology, the structure of the Section 2. must be improved. The section is too long. At least two subsections should be introduced to the Section 2. I suggest presenting the methodology (lines 136-147) as a figure, i.e., methodology flowchart. It would be easier to follow the steps of the procedure.

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he author can also consider presenting other stated issues in methodology as figures, rather than just describing it (e.g., lines 206, 207 – would it be interesting to precise/present buildings in good/poor condition? just for a reconsideration)

 

Line 120: six different databases? Which ones? Can you be more specific? These databases should be listed, especially if the additional ones are listed (Lines 127-134).

 

In both the Introduction and Abstract at least one sentence should be dedicated to the method used in the study. Although the purpose of the study is pointed out, a brief information on the method used is missing.

Author Response

Thanks for the review.

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