The precarious rights of senior citizens, especially those who are highly educated and who are expected to counsel and guide the younger generations, has stimulated the creation internationally of advocacy associations and opinion leader groups. The strength of these groups, however, varies from...

The benefit transfer refers to the use and adaptation of benefit measures obtained for a specific site (study site), to assess the benefits in another site (policy site), for which no original valuation is possible. Relying on relatively simplicity of application, and allowing saving time and...

The aim of this work is to illustrate the historical evolution of man's intervention in water resource management in the Veneto region in order to highlight, from both the technical and financial points of view, the ability of the institution of the consortia to join public and private interests...