This paper provides an ex-ante assessment of the distributional impacts potentially generated by the extension of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) to transport fuels recently proposed by the European Commission with the "Fit for 55" package and intended to be phased in as...

The paper investigates the mechanisms of induced innovation in the renewable energy industry in Italy. Descriptive analysis reveals a decoupling of innovation and production: significant RES-related innovation in Northern Italy, high levels of renewable energy production in Southern Italy. A...

The paper adopts an epidemic model of innovation diffusion to investigate the influence of regulatory design on the market penetration of wind and photovoltaic energy production. In particular, we test whether the specificity of public incentives by technology and the level of decentralization...

The introduction of harmful non-indigenous species is generally acknowledged to depend both on the propagule pressure imposed by openness to international trade and on the health of the receiving ecosystem. Bio-geographical factors however play a crucial role in determining the level of risk...

The introduction of harmful non-indigenous species has long been acknowledged to depend both on the propagule pressure imposed by the openness to international trade, and on the health of the receiving ecosystem, largely determined by the level of anthropogenic disturbance due to local economic...

The study offers a comprehensive assessment of the externalities produced by High Voltage Transmission Lines as perceived by residents in the infrastructure corridors. A GIS approach has been experimented in the sampling design of a CV survey in order to obtain additional information about the...

Extending the application of integrated environmental and economic accounts from the national to the local level of government serves several purposes. They can be used not only as an instrument for communicating on the state of the environment and reporting the results of policies, but also as...