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Smart city, smart community, smart specialization per il management della sostenibilità
No full textLe smart city, le smart community e le smart specialization rappresentano tre dimensioni, fra loro spesso interconnesse, della strategia europea per la competitività economica al 2020. La corretta lettura dei ruoli che le imprese possono ricoprire in tali contesti è un tema di forte attualità nel dibattito scientifico e operativo. Di fronte ai trend di globalizzazione dei mercati, delle conoscenze e delle risorse, i vincoli dello sviluppo sostenibile impongono ai sistemi in rete di imprese, pubbliche amministrazioni, enti di ricerca e cittadini l’esigenza di maturare modelli gestionali in grado di trasformare in opportunità i rischi derivanti dalla natura evolutiva del proprio ambiente competitivo. Partendo dalla analisi dei principali contributi teorici di settore, delle best practice di settore e delle ricerche originali svolte su due smart community nell’ambito della green economy, il volume offre quindi la formulazione di strumenti di indagine e di modelli concettuali utili a comprendere il rapporto tra sviluppo tecnologico, sviluppo dei mercati e perseguimento del proprio vantaggio competitivo duraturo. L’analisi proposta dei paradigmi smart intende quindi favorire la comprensione dei processi di esplorazione e sfruttamento del pieno potenziale di questi business environment evolutivi
The role of meta-organizations in the evolution of environmental regulation: lessons learnt from two geothermal oligopolies
No full textThe evolution of environmental regulation is influenced by mutual impacts of policies, natural resources and targeted stakeholders’ behavior in an often disregarded and continuously adapting-by interacting setting. Grounding on this assumption, this work explores the role of oligopolistic industries in shaping the evolution of environmental regulation. Two real cases from geothermal sector are discussed with the aim of looking for disconfirming evidences for the absence of spontaneous virtuous dynamics of interaction between industrial leaders, policy makers and local communities, thus achieving a deeper understanding of the factual chain of causation. The paper concludes that meta-organizations seem to play a central role in coupling the evolution of environmental policy with the introduction of sustainable practices.
What is more, this role seems to emerge spontaneously as a natural consequence of trial-and-error processes. Given that, management implications are drawn to guide oligopolistic industries in designing and implementing corporate strategies in order to achieve win-win cooperation with the agents of the metaorganization
The role of meta-organizations in the evolution of environmental regulation: lessons learnt from two geothermal oligopolies
No full textThe evolution of environmental regulation is influenced by mutual impacts of policies, natural resources and targeted stakeholders’ behavior in an often disregarded and continuously adapting-by interacting setting. Grounding on this assumption, this work explores the role of oligopolistic industries in shaping the evolution of environmental regulation. Two real cases from geothermal sector are discussed with the aim of looking for disconfirming evidences for the absence of spontaneous virtuous dynamics of interaction between industrial leaders, policy makers and local communities, thus achieving a deeper understanding of the factual chain of causation. The paper concludes that meta-organizations seem to play a central role in coupling the evolution of environmental policy with the introduction of sustainable practices.
What is more, this role seems to emerge spontaneously as a natural consequence of trial-and-error processes. Given that, management implications are drawn to guide oligopolistic industries in designing and implementing corporate strategies in order to achieve win-win cooperation with the agents of the metaorganization
Un Mediterraneo di conflitti: Storia di un dialogo mancato
No full textI rapporti politici, economici e sociali tra i paesi del Mediterraneo diventano sempre più rilevanti per la stabilizzazione di un equilibrio internazionale. L’Unione Europea ha stretto fin dalla sua nascita relazioni con i paesi della riva sud del Mar Mediterraneo, ma soltanto dalla Dichiarazione di Barcellona ha cercato di allargare il quadro di riferimento. Questo testo è destinato a quanti desiderano conoscere il percorso della politica mediterranea dell’ue nei suoi momenti fondamentali: le origini, i rinnovamenti, le battute di arresto e le riprese. L’autore ricostruisce infatti tutte le tappe di questa storia: la politica globale mediterranea e gli accordi di associazione, l’ampliamento della Comunità e i programmi della politica mediterranea rinnovata, la nascita del partenariato euro-mediterraneo e la politica dell’ue nel processo di pace in Medio Oriente. Il cammino è ancora lungo e gli ultimi eventi del panorama internazionale hanno sicuramente gettato ombre inquietanti sulle prospettive del dialogo e della stabilità.
La geotermia in Italia e nel mondo: dibattito scientifico e segnali di mercato
No full textThis paper describes the state of the art in development and utilization of geothermal resources in Italy and Tuscany. Departing from the geological peculiarities of this region, which have contributed to Italy's leading role in technological innovation since the beginning of geothermoelectric power generation (GPG), recent evidences from the market and scientific community are here analyzed in order to answer the question whether the economic downturn will put geothermal energy on the back burner, or if it will function as a catalyst for change.
The first section explores the role of geothermal energy within the renewable energy mix. After an introduction on the strengths and weaknesses of the Italian energy system, the evolution of the matches between different types of geothermal resources (high, medium and low enthalpies) and technologies is analyzed from an economic, technical and environmental point of view. Here, the evolution of the regulatory framework emerges as one of the main driving forces behind incremental innovation and the spreading of technologies. The move towards sustainability seems to stimulate the market in spite of the barriers to entry linked to capital intensiveness and the risks related to geothermal investments. Beside the growth of relationships between industrial actors, public administration and scientific community, the analysis identifies the downscale of plants, the integration with other “renewables” and the industrial integration as the main next challenges in the field of geothermal competitiveness. To this end, the implementation of such new tools for territorial management as the ones based on LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) and SMCE (Social Multi Criteria Evaluation) is expected to stimulate further improvements and innovations.
The second section analyzes the present regulatory framework at the communitarian, national and local level and the allocation of economical resources to research and development in particular in relation to the distribution and characteristics of the geothermal resources. The specialization of Italy in GPG appears not to be adequately represented within European programmes and the Tuscany region is still considered not a leading market by the investors in geothermal heat pumps and geothermal district heating. Both according to the communitarian prescriptions and the requests from local actors, a few scenarios for the development of guidelines, certification schemes and regulations are here described. These elements are consistent with the purpose of sustainability and competitiveness of local economic activities.
On the basis of these evidences, the third section describes the perspectives of development of medium and low enthalpy utilizations in Italy. According to the present financial incentives schemes and the predicted modifications in relevant regulations (i.e. city plans, building regulations, etc.), a booming growth of installations is expected. This geothermal “green new deal” is pulled by the increasing number of life-long learning programmes for professionals (i.e. geologists) and, even more, is expected to be pulled by the implementation of risk management tools and certification schemes.
As result, the analysis sets a roadmap for addressing the needs of geothermal actors and removing the barriers to successful investing in this local and renewable energy resource. When we return to the initial question, it seems to be the moment for changing attitude towards energy production and to win back competitiveness and sustainability in the geothermal market
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