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Diversitas and Biodiversity: the roots of a 21st century myth
2010
The first on conceptualization of what we now term “biodiversity” was given by Federico Cesi about 400 yrs ago. By the light of the first formulation of this concept, the historical changes in the human approach to “biodiversity” are discussed. The popularity of this term shifted from scientific to socio-political contexts and its significance became progressively blurred by eco-social implications. Biodiversity, today, is perceived by most as an ideal container of the remains of a vanishing traditional landscape, where man and nature lived together harmoniously. This is in contrast with the man’s desire for self-assertion, which has accompanied the civilisation process from its origins up …
Trafficking and labour exploitation in domestic work and the agricultural sector in Italy
2016
In Italy, as in many European countries, agriculture and domestic work are sectors characterised by high levels of irregular work without contract and with no respect of minimum pay, humane living conditions or access to basic services. Generalised informality however sometimes leads to cases of sever exploitation and outright human trafficking. This report focuses on the conditions that can lead from irregular work to abuse and trafficking in agriculture and domestic work – we question the cultural and economic aspects that make such situations possible. We also review the relevant legislation punishing exploiters and protecting victims with a view of identifying existing gaps and make sug…
Infrastructures agroécologiques en droit
2017
International audience; Les infrastructures agroécologiques (IAE) sont une notion récente désignant des éléments naturels, culturels et paysagers, tels les mares, les landes, les haies, les talus, les fossés, les arbres, les bosquets, les bandes enherbées le long des cours d’eau, les murets de pierre ou encore les terrasses. Pendant des siècles, ces milieux physiques sont passés inaperçus pour le droit. Attachés au foncier, ils n’en constituaient qu’un accessoire sommé de suivre le régime juridique du principal. Ces infrastructures étaient sous l’entière maîtrise du propriétaire immobilier pouvant, à sa guise, les créer ou les faire disparaître. Leur statut a cependant c…
La valorisation de l'exploitation agricole : totem et tabou
2017
International audience; Depuis la profondeur des âges et l’ordre éternel des champs, les sociétés agraires se sont toujours montrées réfractaires à la finance. Jusqu’au tournant du milieu XXème siècle, l’esprit paysan – baigné de catholicisme - cultivait même soigneusement sa différence en regard du monde marchand. Il n’est guère étonnant, dans ce contexte, que la valorisation des exploitations agricoles fasse figure de tabou. Mais au-delà des mentalités, c’est la politique juridique française qui a rendu la question impensable. A l’origine de la loi, il y a le souci impérieux d’éviter la spéculation foncière. La terre étant le substrat de la plupart des unités de production agricoles, le l…
Ecosystem dynamics: exploring the interplay within fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems
2021
AbstractScholars and practitioners continue to recognize the crucial role of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) in creating a conducive environment for productive entrepreneurship. Although EEs are fundamentally interaction systems of hierarchically independent yet mutually dependent actors, few studies have investigated how interactions among ecosystem actors drive the entrepreneurial process. Seeking to address this gap, this paper explores how ecosystem actor interactions influence new ventures in the financial technology (fintech) EE of Singapore. Guided by an EE framework and the use of an exploratory-abductive approach, empirical data from semi-structured interviews is collected and ana…
Voters’ preferences and electoral systems: the EuroVotePlus experiment in Italy
2016
Motivated by the need to understand voting behaviour under different electoral rules, Laslier et al. (Eur Union Polit, 16(4):601–615, 2015) have conducted an online experiment, the EuroVotePlus experiment, focusing on the effects of the different rules adopted to elect members of the European parliament on voters’ behaviour. The experiment took place in several European countries in the 3 weeks before the 2014 elections for the European Parliament. This paper focuses on the Italian data. Firstly, we show that the behaviour of Italian respondents is consistent with the empirical findings at the European level. Then, we exploit the change from open list to closed list elections implemented in…
Does the internet increase the job finding rate? Evidence from a period of expansion in internet use
2021
Abstract We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006–2009) in which the share of households with a broadband connection increased by 31 percentage points, and job-seekers increased their use of the internet as a search tool. During this period, household access to broadband internet was almost completely dependent on the availability of a particular technology (DSL). We therefore exploit the variation in DSL availability across municipalities as an instrument for household access to the internet. OLS estimates which control for differences in individual and local area characteristics suggest a job finding advantage of about…
The relavance of indoor comfort in the process of prisoners’ rehabilitation: a case study
2016
The history of prisons is full of contradictions in every historical period and the evolution of prison buildings expresses many faces in the history of each country. The concept of punishment imposed on the offender has undergone several changes over the centuries, related to culture, politics, and to the evolution of the human thought. For centuries, tiny closed spaces have been adapted for the offenders' detention, without ever thinking to create an ad hoc functional distribution of spaces. The issue of the design of prisons has often been a reason of debate, and it is still an open field of discussion. From a legal point of view, in recent years there has been a rethinking of the proble…
Wave Energy Assessment along Sicilian Coastline, Based on DEIM Point Absorber
2017
The use of renewable energy sources is one of the most relevant goals to be achieved in order to match the climate protection targets. As a case study, the paper shows the current electrical energy production by sources in the Sicilian context. Among the renewable energy sources, the paper investigates the wave energy potential along the Sicilian coasts, because of the favorable climate around the island. A point absorber is present in order to exploit this source. Two scenarios are presented, with two different levels of energy production.
Use of finite element models for estimating thermal performance of façade-integrated solar thermal collectors
2016
Abstract Research on building-integrated solar thermal collectors is attracting increasingly more interest. Many efforts have been focused at the design level for obtaining specific building-orientated products, but there is a significant lack of standardised methods for evaluating how the efficiency of solar collectors changes when a wall is an integral part of the solar component itself. Generally speaking, experimental tests on integrated components are not easy to realise and are, in any case, expensive in terms of time and money. Physical and numerical methods can be utilised, but at the moment, there is no common approach. The present work addresses a method for the calculation of a b…