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The Politicization Effect of the Environment Issue in Labour Claim-Making: The case of Italy
Full text linkDrawing on the Italian case, this article demonstrates how labour organizations strategically leverage environ- mental issues to politicize their claims when necessary. Italy serves as a critical case due to its strong tradition of trade union protest mobilization. This study argues that, given the rising prominence of environmental concerns in public debate, environmental issues have not only revitalized environmental movements but have also reignited labour conflicts, with some stemming from the adverse consequences of the environmental transition paradigm. The article combines the recent perspective of social movement unionism with the older “political exchange” theory developed by Alessandro Pizzorno and proceeds in two phases. First, through a protest event analysis based on an original dataset, it statistically demonstrates that the use of environmental issues in claim-making is associated with four indicators of politicized claims: coalitional coordination, social inclusion, a repertoire of actions extending beyond striking, and the generalization of claims. In the second phase, the study reconstructs a case of labour conflict in the automotive sector, offering a qualitative examination of the underlying mecha- nisms that drive this association
Le trasformazioni del movimento ambientalista in Italia tra istituzionalizzazione e conflitto
No full textThis paper aims at exploring the current Italian ecologist archipelago by focusing on three main dimensions: organization, «frame» and action repertoire. By investigating these dimensions, we would like to address some fundamental questions: a) how does the environmental movement in Italy look like today? Who are the protagonists? What are their patterns of action and their claims? b) How the relationships between protest and ecologist groups are? c) Where environmental claims can be placed between materialist and post-materialist
perspectives? By drawing on a mixed qualitative/quantitative methodology, we aim to provide an updated overview about Italian environmentalism. We first use the Protest Event Analysis (PEA) to trace the main trends in terms of institutionalization/radicalization, territorialisation, alliance structure and other aspects of the environmental protest, and eventually further explore the issue through the frame analysis approach based mainly on in-depth interviews and the analysis of documents drafted by social movement actors
Protest and Arguments: The Citizen's Committees' Campaigns Against Traffic in Four Italian Cities
No full textCitizens’ committees have become an increasingly frequent, relevant phenomenon in Italian local politics and policy over the last decade or so. This article examines protest campaigns concerning traffic policies in four medium-size cities in which such committees have played a pivotal role. Though the ability of such actors to successfully impose their preferences on the policy agenda appears to be at the very least uncertain, an analysis of these campaigns reveals some of the factors that can increase their chances of exerting influence on policy decisions. Such factors include the resources these campaigns can mobilize – namely various forms of human, social and political capital –, how politically opportune they are, and their ability to structure public discourse within a global framework that fosters the building of coalitions supporting their claims
Protestare e argomentare: le campagne dei comitati di cittadini contro il traffico in quattro città italiane
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The screening evaluation of environmental odors: a new dispersion modelling-based tool
Full text linkOdor pollution is the biggest source of complaints from citizens concerning environmental issues after noise. Often, the need for corrective actions is evaluated through simulations performed with atmospheric dispersion models. To save resources, air pollution control institutions perform a first-level odor impact assessment, for screening purposes. This is often based on Gaussian dispersion models (GDM), which does not need high computational power. However, their outputs tend to be conservative regarding the analyzed situation, rather than representative of the real in-site conditions. Hence, regulations and guidelines adopted at an institutional level for authorization/control purposes are based on Lagrangian particle dispersion models (LPDM). These models grant a more accurate simulation of the pollutants’ dispersion even if they are more demanding regarding both technical skills and computing power. The present study aims to increase the accuracy of screening odor impact assessment by identifying the correlation function of the outputs derived from the two simulation models. The case study is placed in northern Italy, where a single-point source, with various stack heights, was considered. The case study is placed in northern Italy, where a single-point source, with various stack heights, was considered. The obtained correlation functions allow the practitioner to have a more accurate first-level odor impact assessment, to save time for training, and to reduce the site-specific meteorological data before proceeding with the simulation. The identified functions could allow institutions to estimate the results that would have been forecasted with the application of the more complex LPDM, applying, however, the much simpler GDM. This solution grants an accurate tool which can be used to address citizens’ concerns while saving workforce and technical resources. Limitations are related to the specificity of the method regarding type sources, orography, and meteorological conditions. Comparison with other screening tools is also presented and discussed. Graphical Abstract: (Figure presented.
Application of the quality norms to the monitoring and the preventive conservation analysis of the cultural heritage
Full text linkIn recent years, the study of the indoor microclimate has assumed increasing importance, especially for the problems associated with the conservation of the cultural heritage housed in museums, galleries and libraries. In this paper, we describe the most important national standards relative to the procedures for the measurements and the analysis of the environmental conditions regarding the preservation of the works of art. These methods are related to the measurement techniques, which have to be applied for monitoring and analyzing the microclimatic conditions of museums, galleries and archives; these norms report, also, the threshold reference values for optimal climatic conditions. Furthermore, we present some considerations on the importance and on the foundations of the proposed scientific/methodological approaches. Finally, we have done a reasoned analysis on some reference values reported by the international regulations with some considerations on the possible chemical/physical mechanisms of degradation of the valuable objects
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