(English) An important aspect of science education is represented by textbooks. Textbooks provide a context for understanding the relationship between knowledge and values, and to observe how the research results are presented to the society. In this working paper we analyze how the phenomenon...

(English) In this work the Delphi participative methodology is analyzed, considering and critically discussing the most relevant literature. The main results are reorganized in a strengths and weaknesses scheme. The analysis of Delphi methodology is preceded by a general introduction on the...

(English) This article questions the increasing use of “happiness” or “subjective well-being” in order to evaluate public policies and social conditions. In more scientific words, can the blossoming economics of happiness revive the economics of welfare, which is said to be dying? The...

(English) Il presente Working Paper contiene il rapporto di ricerca dell’indagine Policy Delphi realizzata per contribuire alla definizione di un modello di Valutazione di Impatto Sanitario(VIS). L’esigenza di condurre questa indagine è nata per validare i contenuti teorici e metodologici...

(English) This paper explores two research projects, the Farm Scale Evaluation (FSE) in the UK and GMOs in Agriculture in Italy. It asks what political, social or economic factors contributed to scientific responses to negative public opinion. The data I use for this paper range from mass media...

(English) Brain drain is a phenomenon that Greece has experienced since late 1950, which has continued in subsequent decades and intensified over the 1990s. Although there was, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, a political and economic situation more stable than in the past, the...

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(English) The report focuses on the social information system as a tool for local governancemanagement, starting also from the experience of territorial systems analyzed on the basis of available documentation. The research results have revealed how the design of an information system -first-...

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(English) The management and data storage activities are under the responsibility of the IRPPS service of "processing information and data bank". As has already been exposed in many other technical reports (see WP 7 / 2005 and WP 8 / 2005), the main objective of the service is to support the...