The reaction of communities to the development of energy facilities is based on the environmental impact of the investment, but it also reflects the ex-ante propensity of residents to engage in collective actions. In this work we have examined the requests of authorization of Italian power...

Purpose of this paperThis paper offers quantitative evidence on how surplus food, i.e. safe food that is not sold to the intended customers, is generated and recovered within Italian manufacturing and retail firms. The ultimate aim is to enlighten the process through which the food supply chain...

This paper explores the political-administrative process which determines the release of siting permits in Italian power generation. The empirical analysis is an attempt to test whether the national and regional governments are efficient when they approve the location requests made by power...