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Examining the Factors Influencing Environmental Innovations
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
Technological innovation is a key factor for achieving a better environmental performance of firms and the economy as a whole, to the extent that it helps to increase the material/energy efficiency of production processes and to reduce emission/effluents associated to outputs. Environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423204
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Environmental Innovations, Local Networks and Internationalization
Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002700
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Local Communities in front of Big External Investors: An Opportunity or a Risk?
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
In the current age of trade and financial openness, local economies in developing countries are becoming increasingly exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide an insight into the interaction between external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674328
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Structural Change, Environment and Well-being: Interactions Between Production and Consumption Choices of the Rich and the Poor in Developing Countries
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
Vulnerability to scarcity or to reduction of natural capital depends on defensive substitution possibilities that, in turn, are affected by the availability of other productive factors. However, in several developing countries asset distribution tends to be highly skewed. Taking into ac- count...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230914
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Environmental Resources Depletion and Interplay Between Negative and Positive Externalities in a Growth Model
Antoci, Angelo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
We analyse growth dynamics in an economy where the well-being of economic agents depends on three goods: leisure, a free access environmental good and a private good which can be produced by each agent through his own labour input. The private good can be consumed as a substitute for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570343
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Criteria for Assessing Sustainable Development: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence for the Case of Greece
Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Vouvaki, Dimitra - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
We formulate two kinds of sustainability criteria by using feedback and arbitrary rules for selecting policy variables in non optimizing economies. We show that when policy variables are selected arbitrarily their accounting prices could determine sustainability in addition to the accounting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005392557
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Sustainability and Optimality in Economic Development: Theoretical Insights and Policy Prospects
Farzin, Y. Hossein - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal development path can also be sustainable. It argues that the general “zero-net-aggregate-investment” condition for an optimal development path to be sustainable in the sense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230804
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Policies and Practices of Low Carbon City Development in China
Wang, Can; Lin, Jie; Cai, Wenjia; Zhang, ZhongXiang - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014
Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to most CO2 emissions. In particular, given unprecedented urbanization, cities will play an even greater role in shaping energy demand and CO2 emissions. Therefore, cities are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010833948
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Biodiversity and Economic Growth: Stabilization Versus Preservation of the Ecological Dynamics
Borghesi, Simone; Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
This work examines the impact that economic growth can have on biodiversity and on the ecological dynamics that would … naturally emerge in the absence of human activity. The loss of biodiversity may induce policy-makers to implement defensive … exist in the absence of human intervention. This suggests that there might exist a conflict between preserving biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570256
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Reducing Acidification: The Benefits of Increased Nature Quality. Investigating the Possibilities of the Contingent Valuation Method
Ruijgrok, E.C.M. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
In order to complete cost benefit analyses of acidification policies, an attempt was made to monetarize the benefits of increased nature quality. So far, several benefits of acidification abatement, such as reduced health risks, had been determined, but the benefits of increased nature quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005570276