Search results for " Global"

Introduzione

2012

Il contributo è l'introduzione al libro Città, Intonaci, Colore, di cui sono curatore. I temi trattati nel volume vogliono indagare le relazioni fra luogo, identità e cultura nel quadro dell'attuale processo di globalizzazione; l'introduzione demarca i limiti spaziali e temporali della ricerca. The contribution is the introduction to the book Città, Intonaci, Colore, of which I am the editor. The topics covered in the book want to investigate the relationships between place, identity and culture in the context of the current process of globalization; the introduction demarcates the spatial and temporal boundaries of this research.

Le città come attori dello sviluppo

2017

Il capitolo parte dal considerare la nuova centralità che le città hanno assunto nella fase attuale del capitalismo e le ragioni di tale centralità. Vengono poi ripercorsi e descritti alcuni modelli teorici di riferimento con cui la letteratura ha studiato il ruolo delle città nei processi di crescita e in particolare viene fatto riferimento al modello di città creativa, a quello di città globale e al modello di città europea. Il capitolo infine prende in considerazione esempi di ricerca applicata che utilizzano i modelli teorici presentati e discussi.

(Re) Politizando la Solidariedad Internacional: Pensando la Cooperación como Educación para una Ciudadanía Global Radical

2017

[EN] The present moment of crisis regarding the identity and the resources of development aid calls for a deep reflection in order to recover the sense and the transformative aim of international development. In this work, we consider that we can recover a transformative agenda if we consider development aid as an space in which transformative learning processes take place. These learning processes lead to the construction of what can be called a ¿radical global citizenship¿. In development aid, individuals and organizations work together in social change processes. In these processes, people and organizations change through process of emergent and informal learning. Instead of considering …

Climate Change and Human Rights: the 2015 Paris Conference and the Task of Protecting People on a Warming Planet

2015

Does Positive Thinking Help during Difficult Pandemic Times? The Role of Positive Orientation in the Relationship between Fear of COVID-19 and Percei…

2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a huge challenge for the modern world. How people perceive themselves and their coping abilities is important for their mental health and well-being. One of the traits that may be important in effectively coping with difficulties is positive orientation: a stable cognitive disposition that is the opposite of depression and is associated with a positive perception of oneself, one’s life, events, and the future. This study aimed to verify the role of positive orientation in the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and perceived stress. A sample of 907 Polish people took part in this study. FOC-6, P Scale, and PSS-10 questionnaires were used in the presented c…

“Managing the Impossible?” Comparing How Countries Address the Dahrendorf Quandary

2021

This paper examines the policy approaches and measures that developed market economies countries have adopted to “manage” what has become known as the Dahrendorf Quandary, a profound challenge facing globalizing economies: over time, staying economically competitive requires either adopting measures detrimental to the cohesion of society or restricting civil liberties and political participation. Examining a range of countries over time, it is found that their policy choices and subsequent performance are too varied to support the inevitable, almost mechanical, incompatibility the Quandary implies. While balancing the relationship between economic globalization, social cohesion, and democra…

Laudatio (Investidura como Doctor "Honoris Causa" por la Universitat de València a José Vidal Beneyto)

2006

Public Support for TTIP in EU Countries: What Determines Trade Policy Preferences in a Salient Real-World Case?

2016

Attitudes towards international economic integration are usually measured via survey questions on preferences for free trade in general, arguably in contexts of low salience of international economic integration in the public mind. Drawing on three recent rounds of Eurobarometer surveys that contain information on citizens’ attitudes towards a free trade and investment agreement between the EU and the USA, this paper seizes the opportunity to re-examine individual-level preferences towards international economic integration with regard to a specific real-world case of relatively high political salience, i.e. TTIP. While past research has explained preferences towards trade primarily via mod…

Public Spending and Trade Liberalization: The Compensation Hypothesis Revisited

2013

Despite a widespread fascination with the so called compensation hypothesis – i.e. the proposition that governments have to provide insurance against the risks of open markets to make integration into the international economy politically feasible – there appears to exist a complete lack of research where a rather straightforward implication of this theoretical mechanism is concerned, namely that liberalization of the trade regime should become more likely with a larger public sector and more social spending already in place. In this paper, we test this hypothesis that can be regard as a complement to existing research on the compensation hypothesis. We draw on a theoretical model that link…

A General Equilibrium Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Tourism

2004

This paper studies the economic implications of climate-change-induced variations in tourism demand, using a world CGE model. The model is first re-calibrated at some future years, obtaining hypothetical benchmark equilibria, which are subsequently perturbed by shocks, simulating the effects of climate change. We portray the impact of climate change on tourism by means of two sets of shocks, occurring simultaneously. The first shocks translate predicted variations in tourist flows into changes of consumption preferences for domestically produced goods. The second shocks reallocate income across world regions, simulating the effect of higher or lower tourists' expenditure. Our analysis highl…