In this article the authors point out main problems and perspectives related to the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol in Italy. After a brief and general introduction for explaining main concerns and institutional frameworks involved in the development of international procedures suitable to...

As a direct consequence of the new Basel 2 Accord for banking and Solvency 2 for insurance, the financial services industry is searching for the development of new quantitative approaches in order to evaluate operational credit risks more effectively. Starting from these premises, this paper...

The progressive commitment towards a more sustainable model of current civil/economic societies has come to prominence, both in industrialised and developing countries. This paradigm encounters widespread acceptance encompassing the forms of external communication and the evaluation of specific...

This article underlines the main implications of the interrelations between the energy problem and that of environmental pollution, using the most widely used macroeconomic indicators in the field of policy analysis. In fact, carbon dioxide (CO₂) emission intensity and energy intensity trends...

In this work the authors, after a brief outlook concerning the markets of main energy commodities, propose an alternative mechanism for fuel pricing consisted with a sustainable development. Technological change and technological pluralism, costs and environmental issues are the benchmarks of...

In this article the authors provide a quantitative definition of evolutionary materials using some different parameters. Attention has been paid about this question, from a technical, commercial and political point of view, but quantitative parameters have never been utilized. Our proposal,...

The question of the validity of the "so called" Kondratieff's theory of long waves has been a well-known controversial issue among historians, economic, social and political science scholars. In this work, the author analyses its consistency and cycles general framework investigating both...

Analytical techniques usually employed in making project selection decisions are of strictly financial origin and, traditionally, tend to consider projects as separate entities from undertaking organizations. This fact underestimates potential negative (and pervasive) outcomes considering that...