n the last twenty years economics has created much of lasting value and real potential: it has been a very fertile period. But economics has also suffered from what I sha [...]

What is the rate at which people discount future lives saved? The answer to this question has important implications when comparing policies on the grounds of cost per li [...]

Waste generation and waste disposal are issues that are becoming increasingly prominent in the environmental arena both from a policy perspective and in the context of de [...]

The paper presents a multiple criteria model for the evaluation of the sustainability of projects for the economic re-use of historical buildings in Venice. The model uti [...]

Policy has increasingly shifted towards economic incentives and liability attenuation for promoting cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites, but little is known a [...]

The rationale for conservation and creation of wetlands stems from the recognition of both their ecological and economic values. This paper examines the welfare impacts o [...]

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of production. Production exhibits increasing returns to [...]

In many developed countries, abandoned (derelict or underused) industrial areas often occupy important parts of the cities. This raises issues about the possibilities of [...]

This paper analyses the process of delinking for landfilling trends embedding the dynamics in a frame where economic, geographical and policy variables enter the arena We [...]

Italian historical buildings require urgent and costly maintenance and restoration works, but neither the local, nor the national public administrators can afford these e [...]