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A two-sided kingdom: a Sicily of export and urban grain supply
2020
The Sicilian provisioning system sought to guarantee both the subsistence of cities and the income of the great aristocratic landowners interested in the wheat market. A set of economic mechanisms, social practices and political conflicts unfolded around the urban Annonas, dealing with wheat and flour distribution, bread production, contracts for the procurement of supplies, and the price system of the mete, run by political élites. North-eastern Sicily was exclusively consumer, while the west central area produced surpluses for the foreign market and for the rest of the island, including the capital Palermo, and Messina, a rich and hungry city. The centralized office of the Maestro Portula…
Green Aviation L’impatto ambientale nel settore aeroportuale
2009
Notiziario della Società Italiana di Infrastrutture Viarie incentrato sul workshop intitolato “GREEN AVIATION, Cosa possiamo fare?”, organizzato dal Dipartimento di Ingegneria dei Trasporti (DIT) dell’ Università degli Studi “Federico II” di Napoli lo scorso Aprile 2009.
Human Rights and International Trade: Mapping Workers’ Rights under World Trade Organization Rules
2021
A medida que el mundo primitivo se fue conectando -globalizando- a través de los contactos con otras civilizaciones, comenzó a producirse un intercambio de bienes y tecnologías con diferentes civilizaciones, ya sea a través de la conquista o del comercio. En el siglo XXI el mundo está más conectado que nunca. Los bienes y las tecnologías se intercambian a través de un sistema de comercio mundial bien organizado y regulado entre los Estados nacionales. La Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) es una institución sobrenatural que regula el comercio entre sus 164 miembros. Un logro monumental de esta larga marcha de la historia es la aparición de los derechos humanos. Los derechos humanos son…
L'économie matérielle de la France (1830-2015). L'histoire d'un parasite ?
2018
This article explores the long-term dynamics of material use in France over a period of 185 years. It is based on material flow accounts that are perfectly consistent with the standards of Material Flows Analysis at the national economic scale. This work - which covers domestic extraction, imports and exports - is the first long-term study of material flows for France, with annual and national data for most of the period. Our database allows us to study the evolution of French metabolism during the industrialization of the country, together with the increasing dependence on abiotic materials. We highlight a singular metabolic trajectory: that of a state that benefits from successive world-s…