In the present work we tried to identify methods to rationalize culture with particular reference to practices that lead to higher costs of production, or the use of irrigation water resource and treatment of tobacco research as a whole was aimed at evaluating the sustainability of the supply...

European Union addresses environmental and climatic issues through different instruments (research and innovation programs, various categories of structural funds, etc. Among them, LIFE (L'Instrument Financier pour l'Environnement) is the EU’s financial instrument supporting environmental,...

The pricing of non market services/goods is a mean to recognise their role in the decision processes of public interest. The choice of how to consider and handle to use the corresponding values is influenced by goods’ definitions assigned by neoclassical economics – common, public, natural...

The paper does analyse the approach used in the rural development operational program of the Latium Region to fulfil the strategic requirements of the rural policies at the national and Euorpean level. The main aspects of the approach were the reinforcing of the managing authority and local...

LEZs (Low Emission Zones),is a defined area in many cities where access by certain polluting vehicles is restricted or deterred with the aim of improving the air quality. In many LEZs local governments introduces road pricing schemes in order to reduce social and environmental negative...

Italian Abstract: Le posizioni di avversione contro la globalizzazione, a partire dagli scontri di Seattle del 1999 nati durante le manifestazioni di protesta contro la conferenza ministeriale dell'Organizzazione Mondiale del Commercio (OMC) fino ad arrivare al movimento “Occupy Wall...

Italian Abstract: La strategia di Europa 2020 impegna l'Italia a ridurre le emissioni di circa il 16 per cento nel 2020 rispetto al 2005. Nel caso dei trasporti, il comparto che maggiormente ha contribuito alla crescita delle emissioni totali tra il 1990 e il 2008, un'opzione per raggiungere...

Italian Abstract: Il volume sintetizza i risultati del progetto di ricerca “Gli effetti del cambiamento climatico sull’economia italiana”. Il progetto si compone di 17 lavori di ricerca che (a) misurano l’impatto delle variazioni climatiche sull’attività economica, in particolare di...