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An Efficient Analysis of Recycling in Italy at Regional Level
No full textcomportamenti pro-ambientali ed il tasso di raccolta sono un’emergenza
di ordine pubblico. La letteratura esistente sulla gestione dei rifiuti
raramente considera i fattori culturali le determinanti della raccolta differenziata.
L’obiettivo principale di questo lavoro è di verificare quali
regioni italiane sono classificate come efficienti nell’attività di raccolta
muovendo da un punto culturale. A questo scopo viene condotta un’analisi
dell’efficienza applicando il metodo Data Envelopment Analysis
(DEA) durante gli anni 2003-2007. I risultati delle analisi empiriche
hanno evidenziato una classifica delle regioni efficienti e non efficienti in
termini di relazione tra le questioni ambientali e la partecipazione culturale.
I risultati, inoltre, mostrano per ogni regione inefficiente un punto
di riferimento
A Conceptual Regulatory Framework for the Design and Evaluation of Complex, Participative Cultural Planning Strategies
No full textThe current hype about culture-led local development models is causing an increasing interest in cultural policies in the broader context of urban policy. This is not necessarily a transitory situation bound to fade once the hype is over. Under certain conditions, there is room to believe that culture may indeed become a main development driver of urban systems. For this to happen, however, it is necessary to abandon simple mono-causal developmental schemes (such as the ‘creative class’ model) and look for more articulated approaches. This calls in turn for a complex systems-based conceptual framework that is at the same time rich enough to capture the complexity of the interdependences among policy and state variables, and manageable enough to be of practical use, not only for policy design professionals but also for local stakeholders who want to take part in collective decision-making processes. Inclusiveness and collective decision making are almost unavoidable in the case of cultural planning strategies, as the social sustainability of culture-based value creation processes crucially depends on boosting the level of access to cultural opportunities by local residents. In this article we present an approach that may be a tentative first step in this direction
Il settore culturale nello sviluppo urbano: il caso di Ancona
No full textNella letteratura sugli studi urbani appare sempre più spesso il riferimento
al paradigma culturale come fattore causale dello sviluppo economico, ma
gli approcci teorici volti ad interpretare il processo economico culturale non
sembrano ancora delineati con sufficiente chiarezza. Un altro aspetto per il
quale non sembra esserci piena coerenza nella letteratura sull’economia
della cultura riguarda la definizione delle sue categorie più importanti,
quali quelle di “settore culturale” o “settore creativo”. In questo lavoro si
propongono, in via preliminare, dei fondamenti analitici in grado di
rappresentare con sufficiente chiarezza il processo economico culturale
nelle città, attraverso il tentativo di adattare al sistema economico culturale
il modello fondi-flussi di Georgescu-Roegen. Nell’assolvere questo
compito, si definisce la categoria di settore culturale sulla base dei più
recenti lavori pubblicati sul tema dalla Commissione Europea. Il lavoro si
conclude con uno studio di caso per la città di Ancona, effettuando una
mappatura delle principali strutture culturali urbane e tentando di
quantificare i flussi di input e di output utilizzati e prodotti dal settore in
questione
Effectiveness and efficiency of European Regional Development Fund on separate waste collection: evidence from Italian regions by a stochastic frontier approach
No full textThe purpose of the present paper is to analyze the results of the impact of
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in Convergence regions over the
2007–2013 on separate collection rate of Italian regions. The aim is twofold: propose
a groundbreaking analysis that allows us to control both for the effectiveness of
the Regulation (EC) No. 1080/2006, by a Difference in differences equation (DID),
and the Regions’ efficiency in the separate collection process, by a stochastic
frontier analysis (SFA). Specifically, the SFA allows us to model the DID equation
in order to take account the regions’ efficiency in the separate collection process in
terms of institutional quality. In particular, we use a panel with two dimensions:
temporal—9 yearly observations from 2004 to 2012; and cross-sectional—20
regions. The estimates suggest that ERDF have not contributed to reducing the
structural divide in Italy and its managerial slack has triggered in the failure of the
convergence objective. Policy implications are discussed
FROM SOCIAL CAPITAL TO NETWORK CAPITAL: SOME EVIDENCE FOR EUROPE
No full textA long rich intellectual debate grew up in social sciences focusing the qualitative dimension of socioeconomic development. We based our paper within the stream of research focused on network as economic interaction in a social context. Network as socioeconomic structure could be powerful category fostering development trajectories. Hence several aspects of social life as changing of value; culture, behaviours and attitudes of people become more and more relevant: among them, social capital became a more and more debated issue. In that way the present paper analyses the firms’ networks determinants by identifying the conditions for EU27 countries, by moving from social capital, as a local development driver, to network capital, as a global development driver. The methodology through which the results are obtained is the multidimensional scaling method, which allows to define relations between countries in terms of proximity/distance with respect to the considered determinants, providing a spatial representation of them
The cultural and creative economy in Italy: Spatial patterns in peripheral areas
No full textIn this article, we analyse the structure of the Italian cultural and creative economy, focusing on peripheral areas. We highlight patterns of specialisation and spatial dependency through employment data and firms' data. In addition, we develop a novel data set by collecting data that use the least aggregated territorial unit, that is, Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics level 4 (from the French version Nomenclature des Unites territoriales statistiques); thus, we create a harmonised taxonomy of cultural and creative industries at a four-digit level. Our multi-step analysis highlights specific geographical patterns and a clear spatial organisation in inner areas. This study's results may benefit evidence-based policy-setting in the under-investigated context of culture-led development and the creative economy of peripheral areas.JEL classifications: L8, R1
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