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Agriculture, Water Resources and Water Policies in Italy

Massarutto, Antonio - 1999

agriculture and water resources, and emphasis on underground resources. Our objective is mainly descriptive at this level …; nonetheless, we try to evaluate patterns of interaction between agriculture and water resources policy from the point of view of … analysis of the most important issues and ongoing policies. We show that the link between agriculture and groundwater is but …

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Juridical framework of voluntary agreements in Italy and policy relevance at the local level

Milizia, Paola; Tamborra, Marialuisa - 2000

This paper investigates the existing Italian regulation regarding the so-called "administration by agreements" and the possibility to adapt the existing legal system to voluntary agreements in the environmental field in the light of the European guidelines on this issue. The research consists of...

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The effectiveness of provisions and quality of practices concerning public participation in the EIA procedures in Italy and the UK

DelFuria, Luca; Wallace-Jones, Jane - 1998

The Environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedure foresees that the information on the environmental effects of a specific activity is used to support the decision on whether to give a project consent, and has the ability to ensure no more than that the decision taken is an informed one. As...

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Willingness to pay for rural landscape preservation: A case study in Mediterranean agriculture

Cicia, Gianni; Scarpa, Riccardo - 2000

rural landscape preservation, are inadequate in the context of typical Mediterranean agriculture. Here the main cause of …

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Discounting environmental effects in project appraisal

Percoco, Marco - 2002

The aim of this paper is to present an alternative methodology for discounting far distant future externalities genereted by an investment project: time-declining discount rates. First I present the experimental evidence on individuals' time-inconsistency. Second I consider the theoretical...

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Policy-relevant assessment method of socio-economic impacts of floods: An Italian case study

Farinosi, Fabio; Carrera, Lorenzo; Maziotis, Alexandros; … - 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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Weather Impacts On Natural, Social And Economic System (WISE) Part II: Individual Perception of Climate Extremes in Italy

Galeotti, Marzio; Goria, Alessandra; Mombrini, Paolo; … - 2004

This paper focuses on the results of the research work carried out by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) within the WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very warm summers, mild winters and storms, on the...

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Weather Impacts On Natural, Social And Economic System (WISE) Part I: Sectoral Analysis of Climate Impacts in Italy

Galeotti, Marzio; Goria, Alessandra; Mombrini, Paolo; … - 2004

analysed include fires, health, energy use, tourism and agriculture. …

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Economic Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Italy

Goria, Alessandra; Gambarelli, Gretel - 2004

The paper deals with the social and economic dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation in Italy. The ultimate aim of the paper is to provide policy makers and experts with a conceptual framework, as well as methodological and operational tools for dealing with climate change impacts...

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Environmental effects of consumption: An approach using DEA and cost sharing

Keiding, Hans - 2002

In the paper we propose an to evaluation of the environmental effects of consumption activities. The approach consists of two steps, namely (1) assignment of environmental effects to consumption activities, for which we propose to use the methods of (multidimensional) cost sharing, and (2) a...

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