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L'allevamento bovino nella Vale del Torto: un caso di zootecnia sostenibile in Sicilia
2011
La zootecnia pur non risultando tra le principali attività del settore agricolo siciliano, riveste un ruolo di estrema importanza sociale, ancor più che economica, per ampie zone della Sicilia. La crisi che dagli inizi degli anni 2000 investe il settore, ed in particolare quello bovino, ha provocato tanto la chiusura di un elevato numero di allevamenti che una forte contrazione dei capi allevati, siano essi ad indirizzo carne che ad indirizzo latte. La zootecnia bovina ad indirizzo carne presente nella Valle del Torto, in provincia di Palermo e zona oggetto del presente studio, ha per molti decenni decisamente contribuito allo sviluppo di una comunità rurale che su questa attività ha creato…
Studio di alcuni aspetti dell’Enoturismo in Sicilia.
2008
Are Farmers in Alternative Food Networks Social Entrepreneurs? Evidence from a Behavioral Approach
2015
Social entrepreneurship, individual activities with a social objective, is used in this study as a conceptual tool for empirically examining farmers’ participation in alternative food networks (AFNs). This study verifies whether their participation is driven by the social entrepreneurship dimension to satisfy social and environmental needs. We develop a more inclusive view of how social entrepreneurship is present among farmers participating in AFNs by using a behavioural approach based on three main psychological constructs: attitude, objective, and behaviour. The empirical results show that two types of farmers participate in AFNs. One type is closer to commercial entrepreneurs; the main …
Is there sustainable entrepreneurship in the wine industry? Exploring Sicilian wineries participating in the SOStain program
2016
Abstract Global climate change and the accelerating depletion of natural resources have contributed to increase discussions about the role of private enterprises in reversing negative environmental trends. Rather than focusing on profit maximization, policy makers and consumers pressure groups expect firms to meet a triple-bottom line of economic, environmental and social value creation. Hence sustainable entrepreneurship has received recently increasing interest as a phenomenon and a research topic. More recently, the concept of sustainability has been taken seriously in the Italian wine industry. The organizational challenge for entrepreneurship is to better integrate social and environme…
Envejecimiento öptimo: Un estudio en profesoras jubiladas dominicanas
2014
El interés de la presente investigación se dirige a la mujer adulta mayor –por su vulnerabilidad, en cuanto a la edad y al género- Las mujeres escogidas han sido profesoras jubiladas de la principal institución de Educación Superior de la República Dominicana, la UASD, que, por sus características, constituye un grupo privilegiado , tanto a nivel intelectual como profesional. La perspectiva teórica adoptada se sustenta sobre 3 ejes : La Perspectiva del Ciclo Vital, la Psicología Positiva y la Teoría de E. Erikson sobre el desarrollo a lo largo del la vida. Ello conlleva un punto de vista y selección de instrumentos que midan las fortalezas con las que cuentan los sujetos para afrontar su pr…
Evaluation of payment for ecosystem services in Mediterraneanforest: An empirical survey
2016
Abstract The relationship between humans and the forest has always been an important element, sometimes characterizing in the history of man himself. During the last years, the socio-economic context is profoundly changed, diversifying economic services provided by the forest. In the past, in fact, the primary function of the forest was the firewood production, while nowadays it grants several socio-economic benefits such as climate change mitigation, soil protection, protection and conservation of biodiversity, landscaping and recreational value. So, in recent decades a new type of socio-economic interest was developed in order to create a market of goods and services for the forests, call…
Economic development and agriculture: Managing protected areas and safeguarding the environment
2017
Abstract The establishment of protected areas has been one of the most important interventions to protect biodiversity from the threat of human activities and in particular from the agricultural traditional activities where they have been restricted at the expense of the economy of the territory sparking in literature a heated debate between those who argue the these hinder the socio-economic development and on the other hand are those who argue that is able to advance social welfare. On the basis of these considerations, the weight of agricultural sector of a country is highly linked to the percentage of protected areas even though the trend of the weight of agriculture in the overall econ…
Agricultural land abandonment in Mediterranean environment provides ecosystem services via soil carbon sequestration
2016
Abandonment of agricultural land leads to several consequences for ecosystem functions. Agricultural abandonment may be a significant and low cost strategy for carbon sequestration and mitigation of anthropogenic CO2 emissions due to the vegetation recovery and increase in soil organic matter. The aim of this study was to: (i) estimate the influence of different Soil Regions (areas characterized by a typical climate and parent material association) and Bioclimates (zones with homogeneous climatic regions and thermotype indices) on soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics after agricultural land abandonment; and (ii) to analyse the efficiency of the agri-environment policy (agri-environment measur…
Adoption of practices of environmental sustainability in viticulture: first suggestions from Canton of Ticino
2018
The paper investigates the practices of environmental sustainability implemented in viticulture to minimize the negative impact of agricultural operations on the environment. Through the use of an electronic questionnaire, developed on a theoretical approach based on the Stakeholders Theory and the Theory of Planned Behaviour, and sent to a sample of wineries of the Canton of Ticino, the research pursues a triple aim: (i) to understand which are the main practices and initiatives of environmental sustainability adopted at firm level; (ii) to identify the main stakeholders that affect the choices of managers and owners to orient the firms towards the adoption of practices aimed at greater en…
Valutazioni interscalari nel processo perequativo del PRG di Siracusa
2016
La questione abitativa è tornata ad essere cruciale per assicurare una maggiore equità sociale, aumentando la coesione sociale e riducendo le diseguaglianze all’interno dei sistemi metropolitani o territoriali che, nell’attuale congiuntura di grave crisi economica, devono comunque rispondere alle sfide globali di sviluppo, innovazione e sostenibilità. Questo studio si propone di costruire un sistema di conoscenze sulle condizioni di accesso alla casa a scala territoriale attraverso cui individuare le criticità locali dei problemi abitativi che potrebbero essere risolti attraverso i tradizionali strumenti di pianificazione o attraverso nuove pratiche di Social Housing che coinvolgono soggett…