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VALUTAZIONE DELLE MODIFICHE SULL'ARCATA INFERIORE IN SEGUITO ALL'USO DI ESPANSORI PALATALI, RAPIDI E LENTI. REVIEW SISTEMATICA
No full textComparing policy strategies for a transition to a bioeconomy in Europe: The case of Italy and Germany.
No full textGrand societal challenges call for a transition from a society based on finite fossil resources towards a bio-based economy, based on renewable resources. Such a transition should involve not only the energy sector, but also the manufacturing sector. As acknowledged in the European Bioeconomy Strategy, the promotion of a bioeconomy is dependent on policy efforts across a wide spectrum of policy spheres. In the literature on sustainability transitions, this insight is captured in the increasing interest in the concept of policy mixes or policy strategies for promoting transitions to more sustainable modes of production and consumption. In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of bioeconomy strategies in Germany and Italy with a focus on the bioplastics sector. The paper adds to the existing literature on policy mixes by extending the concept of a policy strategy and applying it for the purpose of the comparative analysis. Moreover, the analysis is linked to the discussion on multi-level systems of governance in the European Union. A key finding is that linkages between the two policy strategies via policy making within the European Union have helped in reinforcing the nascent transition to a bio-based economy in Europe
The role of the policy mix in the transition toward a circular forest bioeconomy.
No full textGrand societal challenges call for a sustainability transition away from a fossil-based society toward a bioeconomy, in which energy and manufacturing production processes are based on sustainable biological resources. In this context, the forest bioeconomy can play a key role, as it links the entire forest value chain, from the management and use of natural resources to the delivery of products and services. The paper adds to the existing literature on policy mixes, seeking to identify effective policy mixes in support of the European circular forest bioeconomy. To this end, we employ a two-step methodology involving a fuzzy inference simulation, to assess the most suitable policy mixes to promote forest sector development. We considered different scenarios in order to identifying the most suitable policy mix. This analysis of alternatives revealed a number of interesting findings regarding the relative effectiveness of different policy mixes. Strengthening environmental policy resulted to be a precondition for an effective policy mix. According to stakeholder knowledge, the policy mix that performs best in pushing the bio-based forest to evolve in a circular and innovative trajectory, combines “climate mitigation policies” with “sustainable forest management policies,” “R&D policies” and “awareness raising policies.
Il governo locale: uno dei pilastri per costruire uno Stato palestinese indipendente
No full textTraduzione di LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A TOOL FOR AN INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STAT
«Municipi d’oriente»: una macro-comparazione per differenze
No full textContributo metodologico introduttivo al volume "Municipi do'oriente" dedicato allo studio del governo locale in Europa orientale, Asia, Australia.
L'Autore effettua una comparazione per macroaree, tenendo in considerazione l'esperienza dell'Europa orientale, dell'Asia e dell'Australia e propone alcune riflessioni metodologiche necessarie e propedeutiche a uno studio comparatistico dei modelli di decentramento nell’area geografica “orientale”. Dopo aver messo in luce le difficoltà linguistiche e semantiche, legate soprattutto alla traduzione di vocabili propri della tradizione giuridica occidentale, l’A. sostiene che una comparazione fruttuosa può essere svolta soltanto attraverso una macro-comparazione per differenze, unica in grado di tenere in giusto conto le peculiarità antropologiche, sociali e culturali dei singoli ordinamenti considerati
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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