(English) An important aspect of science education is represented by textbooks. Textbooks provide a context for understanding the relationship between knowledge and values, and to observe how the research results are presented to the society. In this working paper we analyze how the phenomenon...

(English) This article questions the increasing use of “happiness” or “subjective well-being” in order to evaluate public policies and social conditions. In more scientific words, can the blossoming economics of happiness revive the economics of welfare, which is said to be dying? The...

(English) The article afford the issue of human resources in Italy and the contribution that its development might have to a sustainable recovery of the Italian economy. With the start of the new seven-year program of the European Social Fund (ESF), there is a concrete opportunity of consistent...

(English) The modern didactic of statistics may use techniques and methods now available and that they are providing new perspectives on teaching. So, simply using a software to collect data transforms a learning time into an opportunity to capture the attention of young learners. This...

(English) This paper examines the issue of participatory processes in the waste management, particularly its integration into planning and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) processes. The attention is focused on the dialogic aspects of the public participation: after an analysis of the...

(English) In this working paper I have analyzed the migration trend in Italy and the implemented politics in favor of immigrates in the local welfare systems during the last 10 years, the main goal has been to evaluate the effect of PDZ in the municipalities studied and analyze their real...

(English) The Italian population is ageing at a considerable pace and will continue so even more intensively in the next decades, when the more crowded generations of the baby boom of the sixties of the last century will be entering old age. The impact of this growing number of elderly is an...

(English) Brain drain is a phenomenon that Greece has experienced since late 1950, which has continued in subsequent decades and intensified over the 1990s. Although there was, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, a political and economic situation more stable than in the past, the...

(English) This working paper presents the results of a research project financed by the Province of Rome and conducted by the CNR IRPPS and the Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome. During the last decade international migration and urban spread have been the main...

(English) The report focuses on the social information system as a tool for local governancemanagement, starting also from the experience of territorial systems analyzed on the basis of available documentation. The research results have revealed how the design of an information system -first-...