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GLI STRUMENTI PROCESSUALI DI TUTELA COLLETTIVA IN MATERIA AMBIENTALE: UN SISTEMA MULTILIVELLO DI ENFORCEMENT “INTEGRATO” (ED IN PROGRESS) NELLA PROSPETTIVA INTERNA E TRANSNAZIONALE
Full text linkIl presente studio si propone di individuare e analizzare quali sistemi di tutela processuale collettive siano contemplati a livello nazionale ed in prospettiva comparatistica per porre rimedio agli illeciti ambientali ed (anzi) prevenirne la consumazione. Non di rado il tentativo compiuto a livello legislativo è stato quello di apprestare un sistema multilivello di enforcement “integrato” a presidio di valori condivisi, sulla cui effettività è doveroso indagare per trarre le opportune conclusioni circa la capacità degli strumenti offerti dal processo civile – quale modello processuale assunto a riferimento dell’interprete – di garantire i risultati agognati in termini di ripristino e deterrenza del danno ambientale strictu sensu e del c.d. danno climatico
Fatal road traffic accidents and injuries: a preliminary study
No full text: Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are a major public health problem globally and cause deaths, disability, and significant economic costs. In Italy, there was an increased number of road accidents, deaths, and injuries in 2022 compared to 2021, although still below pre-pandemic levels. A retrospective observational study was performed on a case series of 53 consecutive fatal RTAs examined by the Section of Forensic Medicine of Verona. The case series was divided, according to the type of victims involved, into pedestrians, car drivers, car passengers, and motorcyclists. For each, the times and causes of death, the distribution of external and internal injuries, and toxicological data were analysed, and the results were compared with those in the literature. Although this is a preliminary study on a small case series and lacks statistical validation, so more cases are needed, the preliminary results seem to provide a useful tool for assessing injuries in complex fatal road accidents
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
Replication Data for: Intergenerational Insurance, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XDBGVY, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Orz4NCbou3GqYAwbkDezmw== [fileUNF]
No full textThis is the replication package for "Intergenerational Insurance," accepted in 2024 by the Journal of Political Econom
Intergenerational Insurance
Full text linkHow should successive generations insure each other when the young can default on previously promised transfers to the old? This paper studies intergenerational insurance that maximizes the expected discounted utility of all generations subject to participation constraints for each generation. If complete insurance is unattainable, the optimal intergenerational insurance is history-dependent even when the environment is stationary. The risk from a generational shock is spread into the future, with periodic resetting. Interpreting intergenerational insurance in terms of debt, the fiscal reaction function is nonlinear and the risk premium on debt is lower than the risk premium with complete insurance
Prices vs. quantities for self-enforcing agreements
No full textWe study the optimal self-enforcing agreement based on quantity mandates and price instruments in a repeated game between countries, whose domestic firms invest in green technology before consumers emit. We find that technology must be regulated in addition to emissions, even in the absence of technological spillovers. Under a quantity agreement, emission is capped and countries must either overinvest in technology—to weaken the temptation to emit—or they must be punished unless they invest less—to maintain their willingness to retaliate on others. Under a price agreement, emission is taxed and investments subsidized. The price agreement dominates the quantity agreement because when firms are free to modify investment levels if another government defects, the punishment for defection is stronger
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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