Consumption of agricultural land through various forms of degradation, erosion, compaction, waterproofing, has an impact on the entire primary sector, with increasing costs. Thus, if the Italian surface is 30 million hectares, 17 is the total agricultural (SAT), but only 12 is actually...

The objective of analyzing the incentive system for the agricultural landscape function of the Veneto Rural Development Plan is accompanied by the evaluation case, in appreciating the effectiveness of the proposed interventions, comparing its actual implementation with the dictation of...

Episodi di siccità sempre più frequenti e gravi minacciano il settore agricolo italiano. Si prevede che il cambiamento climatico accelererà questa tendenza, pertanto il settore deve sviluppare una resilienza nel lungo periodo. A questo fine, saranno necessarie una pianificazione e una...

This report assess the monetary valuation of non-use values of marine and coastal biodiversity in North Adriatic Sea by using the technique of the benefit transfer. In addition to non-use values, it is possible to infer to use values through the analysis of economic activities and phenomena...

Recent regulation on waste fees establishes the change from tax to tariff to cover the total management cost of the collection and selection services. It does not consider the external costs (externalities). This causes a distortion in the system of relative prices. In this paper, we focus on...

Environmental economics suggests a number of techniques to assess public goods. Such methods, surrogating traditional market mechanism, allow estimations of willingness to pay for improving environmental quality. In the case study proposed in this paper an hedonic price method is implemented to...

Italian Abstract: A partire dalle condizioni di operatività, dell'impatto ambientale e delle esternalità negative che il complesso siderurgico genera sulla salute e sulla collettività (attività produttive, territorio e cittadino), la trattazione muove dall'analisi di scenario attuale e della...