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Energy Regulation, Roll Call Votes and Regional Resources: Evidence from Russia

Grigoriadis, Theocharis N.; Torgler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper investigates the relative impact of regional energy production on the legislative choices of Russian Duma deputies on energy regulation between 1994 and 2003. We apply Poole’s optimal classification method of roll call votes using an ordered probit model to explain energy law reform...

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Conceptualizing Urban Adaptation to Climate Change Findings from an Applied Adaptation Assessment Framework

Johnson, Katie; Breil, Margaretha - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

choices, and the roles of governance and finance in urban adaptation to climate change. Lessons learned from these seven cases …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552195

Foreigners, Immigrants, Host Cities: The Policies of Multi-Ethnicity in Rome. Reading Governance in a Local Context

Rossi, Claudio; Coen, Franca Eckert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

feature of the local political strategy is the “Pact of Integration”. The adoption of the Pact proposes governance as a model …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423179

Participatory Modelling and Decision Support for Natural Resources Management in Climate Change Research

Giupponi, Carlo; Mysiak, Jaroslav; Sgobbi, Alessandra - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

The ever greater role given to public participation by laws and regulations, in particular in the field of environmental management calls for new operational methods and tools for managers and practitioners. This paper analyses the potentials and the critical limitations of current approaches in...

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Bioprospection: From the Economics of Contracts to Reflexive Governance

Dedeurwaerdere, Tom - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

governance in the context of the problem of the emergent regime on access and benefit sharing. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570339

HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa: Trends and Challenges

Luboobi, Livingstone S.; Mugisha, Joseph Y.T. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Three-quarters of the world’s AIDS population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa; most have no access to lifesaving drugs …, testing facilities or even basic preventative health care. One of the major factors inhibiting medical professionals in Africa … submit designs for a mobile HIV/AIDS health clinic. The pandemic is changing the demographic structure of Africa and wiping …

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The Evolution of Enterprise Reform in Africa: From State-owned Enterprises to Private Participation in Infrastructure — and Back?

Nellis, John - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

public. The findings of recent studies in Africa suggest that PPI should not be jettisoned, and that the more productive path …

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Climate Policies: a Burden or a Gain?

Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...

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Climate Coalitions: A Theoretical and Computational Appraisal

Bréchet, Thierry; Gerard, François - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

Using an updated version of the CWS model (introduced by Eyckmans and Tulkens in Resource and Energy Economics 2003), this paper intends to evaluate with numbers the respective merits of two competing notions of coalition stability in the standard global public goods model as customarily applied...

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Technology Agreements with Heterogeneous Countries

Hoel, Michael; Zeeuw, Aart de - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

For sufficiently low abatement costs many countries might undertake significant emission reductions even without any international agreement on emission reductions. We consider a situation where a coalition of countries does not cooperate on emission reductions but cooperates on the development...

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