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Le Politiche Ambientali
No full textLo sviluppo economico degli ultimi decenni ha determinato rilevanti conseguenze negative in termini di impatto ambientale. La problematicità del rapporto tra salvaguardia dell'ambiente e sviluppo economico sta assumendo dimensioni preoccupanti, tanto da divenire un impegno prioritario nelle agende delle politche pubbliche. Il testo fornisce un quadro sintetico ed aggiornato degli indirizzi generali della politica dell'ambiente definiti a livello internazionale, comunitario e nazionale, e un'analisi degli strumenti utili per la loro attuazione. Una particolare attenzione è riservata alle politche volte a ridurre e controllare i problemi di vivibilità nei centri urbani e di degrado dell'ambiente rurale e a quelle per il recupero e la conservazione dell'ambiente naturale
Etichettatura dei prodotti alimentari: ruolo, funzioni e aspetti normativi
No full textConsumer demand for higher quality foods has beeen increasing especially in high income countries, based on consumers' increased knowledge about links between diet and health; awareness of quality characteristics and access to information about new production and processing technologies. Labelling is a very important tool to pass information about product attributes on to consumers. According to this, a review of the various functions of labelling is presented in this article. Current information levels on food labels are examined relating to food labelling regulations and firms' voluntary labelling decision. A particular focus is given to issues about country origin labelling
Politiche della sicurezza alimentare nell'Unione europea
No full textIn recent years consumers show rising interest in safety, nutritional and process chsracteristics of food products. This has led to increased demand for higher quality foods and the need for more information. The market is not always capable of providing consumers with proper information in order to identify the attributes of a specific product and check whether it meets their specific needs. Problems of asymmetric or incomplete information can occur where important product attributes are experience and credence. With respect to these characteristics, given the impossibility for consumers to observe and check these attributes, manufacturers' trend to have moral hazard-based behaviours triggers adverse selection mechanism. Particularly, false labelling and counterfeiting involve food products and this constitutes a real danger to consumers
“Informazione, etichettatura e comportamento del consumatore: un’analisi sull’uso delle etichette alimentari da parte del consumatore”
No full textLa percezione della qualità dei prodotti agro-alimentari attraverso i marchi presenti in etichetta: un'analisi sui consumatori
No full textThe article provides some empirical evidence on consumers'ability to interpret the information on the markets in relation to specific attributes of agricultural and food products certified by European quality labels as organic farming, protected designation of origin, protected geographical indication, traditional specialty guaranteed. On the basis of results from studies carried out on consumers, we put forward the hypothesis that consumers have considerable difficulty in finding the link between information received and the specific attribute information refers to and in evaluating the degree of reliability of information itself. These difficulties are linked to a series of factors about which this article proposes some reflections
Young People's Propensity to use Sustainability Labels on Food Products: A Case Study in the South of Italy
No full textThis study analyses young people’s awareness of and attitudes towards environmental sustainability labels on food
products as a basis for suggesting recommendations to promote a more widespread use of such labels in the future. To
achieve this aim, a survey was conducted on a sample of 400 university students in Naples (South of Italy). The data
were processed in two different stages. First, we performed descriptive analysis to determine: (i) socio-demographic
aspects; (ii) students’ propensity to read labels before consuming food products; (iii) the degree of knowledge regarding
sustainability labels. A multivariate analysis approach was then implemented. We adopted a segmentation approach,
performing factorial and cluster analysis to identify different segments of students based on their attitude to using
sustainability labels
A strategic framework for the Constitutional Court
No full textThe Constitutional Court should change its role and develop a cooperative context between the parties, rather than continue with a Manichean vision between the parties (especially in conflicts between lobbies and government). The current decision-making process of the Court, at least in the Italian experience, has shown an inadequacy: it does not have the necessary tools to sentence. In fact, the requests for the unconstitutionality of government policies, often advanced, through judges, by different lobbies fall into different contexts (juridical-political and economic) and in these contexts the judgments of the Court risk creating uncertainty in the economy. Rather a different role could be to generate a focal point on which the parties should converge
Water Conservation Behavior and Environmental Concerns
Full text linkWater conservation represents one important pro-environmental behavior for a sustainable environment. This paper investigates the link between water conservation behavior and general environmental concerns using a large dataset as the1998 wave of Multipurpose Household Survey conducted annually by the Italian Central Statistical Office. Univariate probit models show that pollution and resource exhaustion are positively related to individual water conservation behavior while alteration of environmental heritage exhibits a negative relationship with water saving behavior. These findings are robust to the inclusion of environment knowledge and social capital variables. The robustness analysis also indicates that television and radio, participation to environmental initiatives, money for environmental protection and churchgoing are significant determinants of water conservation behavior
Attitude and awareness of EU quality labels: an analysis of Italian consumers
No full textLo studio analizza l'interesse per le "cues" che rivelano informazioni sugli attributi del prodotto, con lo scopo di identificare quelle che sono maggiormente ricercate per le informazioni su specifiche caratteristiche di qualità e tali da influenzare rispettivamente le decisioni di acquisto e le abitudini alimentari. Un aprticolare attenzione è stata riservata a due differenti fonti di informazione: la marca e la certificazione di qualità nell'Unione Europea (marchi DOP, IGP, Agricoltura Biologica), al fine di determinare il tipo di informazione ricavata dal consumatore. L'indagine è stata condotta in due delle principali città italiane (Milano e Napoli) ed ha interessato un campione di 200 consumatori responsabili di acquisto. I dati sono stati elaborati in due fasi. La prima, è un'analisi descrittiva basata sulla costruzione delle tavole di contingenza. Nella seconda fase si è proceduto alla individuazione, mediante analisi fattoriale e cluster, di differenti gruppi di consumatori sulla base della loro conoscenza relativa alla informazione trasmessa dai marchi di qualità europea
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