The last 15th December 2017, the International Workshop on “Measuring Progresses towards the 2030 Agenda: An Updated Assessment” took place in Milan. The event was organized by FEEM – Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and AsVis – Alleanza Italiana per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile. If it is too early to assess the whole process of achievement of SDGs, adopted in 2015 by…
From the 30th November to the 2nd December 2017 it took place in Florence the IV AIQUAV Conference “Life Quality and Sustainability”. It was the first edition at which CED – Center for Economic Development & Social Change participated actively by presenting four research proposals and by proposing an entire session. The CED Director and the four CED members Carlo…
Fonte: Adam Cohn Introduction: the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) The relationship between economic development and environmental sustainability is represented at best by the so-called Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). The reasoning behind the curve grounds on the idea that countries in the early stage of economic development are likely to pollute more, suggesting further economic development as an essential tool to…
The notion of reflexive governance is widely proposed to tackle the challenges of the infrastructure sector in terms of design and implementation of resilient infrastructures capable to respond to climate change and vulnerability. While the traditional policy approach involves a long-range, wide-scale and highly interventionist public planning, the latest approach shifts towards a so-called reflexive governance of infrastructure. Reflexive Governance…
