Purpose – This paper promotes a critical approach to co-operative studies by contributing new theoretical insights. The aim is to propose a new view on the co-operative firm as a socioeconomic phenomenon embedded into the local contexts in which it is situated. Sociological and economic...

In recent years, interest has been growing in developing new possibilities to maximize the conversion of waste into energy. Technologies allowing for efficient Waste-To-Energy (WTE) conversion are supported in the EU, by the European Waste Framework Directive, suggesting an efficiency criteria...

During the last years, the regeneration of spaces and buildings inside cities has become an important issue, which involves public governments, private actors and the third sector. The failure of neoliberal market-oriented models, as a tool against social exclusion, has led to the re-thinking of...

This article focuses its attention on inner cities and asks questions about their possible redevelopment. How can an urban regeneration project improve its social innovation effects? We argue that community-led enterprises with social values can drastically improve social innovation in urban...

Italian Abstract: I profondi cambiamenti economici che hanno caratterizzato gli ultimi anni sono stati studiati sotto molti punti di vista da diversi accademici. La rigenerazione urbana ha suscitato molto interesse, in particolare il tema dell’innovazione sociale (Moulaert e Vicari, 2009;...

The aim of this paper is to provide general guidelines for the design of micro-CHP systems for the heating of residential buildings. A micro-CHP system is intended as a system composed of a prime mover, a thermal storage system and an auxiliary boiler. In particular, the analyses carried out in...

In this paper we derive closed-form solutions for the cumulative density function and the average value-at-risk for five subclasses of the infinitely divisible distributions: classical tempered stable distribution, Kim-Rachev distribution, modified tempered stable distribution, normal tempered...

In 2013 Chinese government unveiled one of the biggest transport plan schemes worldwide: the One Belt One Road (OBOR) strategy, now called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This scheme includes the development of a group of specific transport and logistics corridors that encompass three...