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Perceived Diversity of Complex Environmental Systems: Multidimensional Measurement and Synthetic Indicators

Gasparino, Ugo; Corpo, Barbara Del; Pinelli, Dino - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

The general attitude towards the sustainable management of environmental resources is evolving towards the implementation of ‘participatory’ (as opposed to the classical ‘command and control’) and, especially at local scale, ‘bottom up’ (as opposed to the classical ‘top down’)...

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Multivariate and Multicriteria Evaluation of Labour Market Situation

Sedenkova, Monika; Horak, Jiri - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Nowadays the analysts of labour markets have a lot of different data and indicators that can be used for the evaluation of the labour market and monitor its development. But such a great number of monitoring determinants can create problems both with the evaluation and with the description of...

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Waste Prevention and Social Preferences: The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations

Cecere, Grazia; Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

management incentives mainly concerning waste recovery and recycling, in addition to actions aimed at reducing disposal in … increase the likelihood of producing more waste. Green consumption / recycling-oriented attitudes and individualistic thinking … about waste management relate to ‘waste producers’. This shows that in order to go beyond a recycling-oriented society …

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Flexible Waste Management under Uncertainty

Corato, Luca Di; Montinari, Natalia - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

with recycling, keeping the option to switch back to landfilling, if profitable. We determine the optimal share of waste to … program rather than a non-flexible one, the municipality: i) invests in recycling capacity under circumstances where it would …

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Economic Instruments and Induced Innovation: The Case of End-of-Life Vehicles European Policies

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

) and downstream (car recycling/recovery) of the ELV system can give rise to different “innovation paths”, in accordance … difficulties concerning the transmission of incentives between different industries can prevent the creation of new recycling …

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Land, Environmental Externalities and Tourism Development

Ibáñez, Javier Lozano; Palmer, Javier Rey-Maquieira; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

In a two sectors dynamic model we analyze the process of tourism development based on the accumulation of capital … (building of tourism facilities) and the reallocation of land from traditional activities to the tourism sector. The model … incorporates the conflict between occupation of the territory by the tourism facilities, other productive activities and …

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A Quantitative Assessment of the Implications of Including non-CO2 Emissions in the European ETS

Orecchia, Carlo; Parrado, Ramiro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Although CO2 emissions stand for most of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the contribution of mitigation efforts based on non-CO2 emissions is still a field that needs to be explored more thoroughly. Extending abatement opportunities to non-CO2 could reduce overall mitigation costs but it could...

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Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience

Ranson, Matthew; Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

The last ten years have seen the growth of linkages between many of the world’s cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gases (GHGs), both directly between systems, and indirectly via connections to credit systems such as the Clean Development Mechanism. If nations have tried to act in their own...

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Addressing Climate Change with a Comprehensive U.S. Cap-and-Trade System

Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

There is growing impetus for a domestic U.S. climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. I describe and analyze an up- stream, economy-wide CO2 cap-and-trade system which implements a gradual trajectory of emissions reductions (with...

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A Meaningful U.S. Cap-and-Trade System to Address Climate Change

Stavins, Robert N. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

There is growing impetus for a domestic U.S. climate policy that can provide meaningful reductions in emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. In this article, I propose and analyze a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically feasible approach for the United States to...

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