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Evaluating Projects and Assessing Sustainable Development in Imperfect Economies

Arrow, Kenneth; Dasgupta, Partha; Mäler, Karl-Göran - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

We are interested in three related questions: (1) How should accounting prices be estimated? (2) How should we evaluate policy change in an imperfect economy? (3) How can we check whether intergenerational well-being will be sustained along a projected economic programme? We do not presume that...

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Total Factor Productivity Growth and the Environment: A Case for Green Growth Accounting

Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Tzouvelekas, E.; Vouvaki, D. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

We examine whether the use of the environment, proxied by CO2 emissions, as a factor of production contributes, in … with environment as a factor of production which is unpaid in the absence of environmental policy is developed. Using data … environment as a not fully compensated factor of production. Our results point towards the need for developing a concept of "Green …

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Climate Change and Individual Decision Making: An Examination of Knowledge, Risk Perception, Self-interest and Their Interplay

Pongiglione, Francesca - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual’s direct experience of climate change and...

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Sustainability and Optimality in Economic Development: Theoretical Insights and Policy Prospects

Farzin, Y. Hossein - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal development path can also be sustainable. It argues that the general “zero-net-aggregate-investment” condition for an optimal development path to be sustainable in the sense...

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Why do Firms Hold Oil Stockpiles?

Mason, Charles F. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Persistent and significant privately-held stockpiles of crude oil have long been an important empirical regularity in the United States. Such stockpiles would not rationally be held in a traditional Hotelling-style model. How then can the existence of these inventories be explained? In the...

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: a Survey of the Literature

Borghesi, Simone - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

In the last few years, several studies have found an inverted-U relationship between per capita income and environmental degradation. This relationship, known as the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), suggests that environmental degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it...

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The Flushing Flow Cost: A Prohibitive River Restoration Alternative? The Case of the Lower Ebro River

Gómez, Carlos M.; Pérez-Blanco, C. Dionisio; Batalla, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Although the effectiveness of flushing floods in restoring basic environmental functions in highly engineered rivers has been extensively tested, the opportunity cost is still considered to represent an important limitation to putting these actions into practice. In this paper, we present a...

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The Possibilities for the Development of Tourism in the Appennino Lucano Val d'Agri Lagonegrese National Park: A Participative Qualitative-Quantitative Approach

Bencivenga, Angelo; Breil, Margaretha; Cassinelli, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Protected areas can represent a strategic laboratory for the realisation of initiatives capable of promoting sustainable economic development models at a local level. One of the duties of national parks is to provide value and promote, even for tourism purposes, natural, historical and cultural...

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Policy-relevant Assessment Method of Socio-economic Impacts of Floods: An Italian Case Study

Farinosi, Fabio; Carrera, Lorenzo; Maziotis, Alexandros; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper estimates the direct and indirect socio-economic impacts of the 2000 flood that took place in the Po river basin (Italy) using a combination of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model and Spatial and Multi-Criteria Analysis. A risk map for the whole basin is generated as a function...

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Destination Image Built by the Cinema: The Case of “Basilicata Coast to Coast”

Bencivenga, Angelo; Chiarulo, Livio; Colangelo, Delio; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Film tourism, meaning the phenomenon that is born of the desire to visit film locations, has been the object of increasing attention in recent years. This document presents the results of a field research conducted with the aim of analysing the effects of the film "Basilicata Coast to Coast", by...

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