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Revisiting Worst-case DEA for Composite Indicators

Athanassoglou, Stergios - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

Composite indicators are becoming increasingly infuential tools of environmental assessment and advocacy. Nonetheless, their use is controversial as they often rely on ad-hoc and theoretically problematic assumptions regarding normalization, aggregation, and weighting. Nonparametric data...

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Key Environmental Innovations

Huber, Joseph - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper is based on empirical research on a taxonomy of technological environmental innovations. It draws on a databank with over 500 examples of new technologies (materials, products, processes and practices) which come with benign environmental effects. The approaches applied to...

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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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The GMO Dispute before the WTO: Legal Implications for the Trade and Environment Debate

Sindico, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

USA, Canada and Argentina have challenged before the World Trade Organisation the European Communities’ (EC) denial of Genetically Modified (GM) product imports, which took place from 1998 to 2004 . Against this background, the goal of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we will determine which...

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Equity and Justice in Global Warming Policy

Kverndokk, Snorre; Rose, Adam - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Many countries are implementing or at least considering policies to counter increasingly certain negative impacts from climate change. An increasing amount of research has been devoted to the analysis of the costs of climate change and its mitigation, as well as to the design of policies, such...

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Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa

Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …

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Migration, Unemployment and Net Benefits of Inbound Tourism in a Developing Country

Sahli, Mondher; Nowak, Jean-Jacques - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

International tourism is increasingly viewed as one of the best opportunities for a sustainable economic and social development of developing countries. There is also an increasing concern from public policy makers as to whether mass tourism coastal resorts can play a catalytic role in the...

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Diversities in Diversity: Exploring Moroccan Migrants’ Livelihood in Genoa

Alzetta, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

-layered diversification process in Western societies. Migration phenomena are largely responsible for this process both in receiving European … societies as well as in original sending countries. Migration has been and continues to be a ubiquitous human experience. Yet …

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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and …

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Returns to Migration, Education, and Externalities in the European Union

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Tselios, Vassilis - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

migration. This paper addresses this gap, using microeconomic data for more than 100,000 individuals living in the European …

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