This article contributes to the literature on environmental governance in industrialized democracies by showing that effectively conserving biodiversity requires different institutional strategies than reducing air emissions. Institutional effectiveness diminishes as the politically...

Le tematiche relative alla sostenibilità ambientale sono caratterizzate da approcci interdisciplinari. Fra i vari strumenti che tentano di integrare le componenti economiche e le componenti ambientali si menzionano i conti integrati economici e ambientali le cui diverse tipologie sono contenute...

I dati regionali Namea (National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts), prodotti per la prima volta dall’Istat per il 2005, presentano le emissioni atmo- sferiche causate dalle attività produttive - affiancate al valore aggiunto e all’occupazione relativi alle stesse attività...

I conti patrimoniali (asset accounts) sono fra i principali moduli di contabilità ambientale e fanno riferimento alle risorse e agli ecosistemi. Lo sviluppo dei conti patrimoniali delle risorse, grazie a diversi decenni di esperienze e applicazioni, sta giungendo alla standardizzazione delle...

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) should guarantee the "good status" of nearly all European waters by the year 2015, the achievement of this ambitious goal is made more difficult by climate change which is recognized to have a strong impact on freshwater resources. Agriculture has been...

In the mid-1990s, Tony Allan coined the term “virtual water” to describe international grain shipments, arguing that for purposes of economic efficiency and political legitimacy, governments in water-scarce nations would be better served by importing grain and diverting limited domestic...

Growing demands for water combined with supply constraints may lead to an increased potential for international water conflicts, because many of the world’s freshwater systems cut across national boundaries. Which international river basins are likely to experience greater conflict risks or...

This paper discusses the case for reforming the actual mechanism for charging water abstractions for hydropower production in Italy and proposes to introduce a performance-based environmental fee. This should be able, on the one hand, to internalize the environmental costs that hydropower...

This paper outlines the results a multi-criteria evaluation study applied to the integrated assessment of flood protection options in Northern Italy. The study aims at comparing advantages and disadvantage of a more traditional approach based on hard infrastructure calibrated on the event with a...