DSpace Collection:https://hdl.handle.net/1889/6412024-03-29T06:51:57Z2024-03-29T06:51:57ZOrganic and agroecological districts. Methodological approaches for Inclusive and sustainable food systems in ArgentinaSciurano, Juan Pablohttps://hdl.handle.net/1889/51342022-10-21T12:32:21Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Organic and agroecological districts. Methodological approaches for Inclusive and sustainable food systems in Argentina
Authors: Sciurano, Juan Pablo
Abstract: We are going through a difficult global period where despite having the means to feed the entire global population in a sustainable way, reality indicates that More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger whereas 1.9 billion adults are overweight or obese, in a critical environmental crisis.
Argentina is a paradigmatic case of the current dysfunctional food system. On the one hand, it exports large quantities of food goods to chains that are nutritionally inefficient and environmentally polluting, while its population lives in alarming levels of malnutrition.
The present work addresses, based on the Sustainable Development Goals, Organic Agriculture, Agroecology and inclusive territorial development approaches, the different possible alternatives for shifting to more inclusive and harmonious models.2022-01-01T00:00:00ZParticipatory Guarantee Systems (PGS): a tool to improve the effectiveness of smallholders’ productionMaccari, Michelehttps://hdl.handle.net/1889/51332022-10-21T12:29:21Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS): a tool to improve the effectiveness of smallholders’ production
Authors: Maccari, Michele
Abstract: In Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC), the product quality is strictly connected to the quality of the control system. When consumers play an active role in controlling the quality of products, the elements characterizing the quality as a domestic convention further increase the reputation of the products. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the role of Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) as quality control system in SFSC. This paper aims to investigate if PGS can represent an opportunity for smallholders to improve the effectiveness of their products.
The research makes reference to two case studies: 1) Slow Food pilot project on PGS; and 2) the case of the District of Solidarity Economy of Parma (Italy).2022-01-01T00:00:00ZThe role of financial and carbon markets in the sustainability transitionQuatrosi, Marcohttps://hdl.handle.net/1889/48162022-06-20T10:22:05Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: The role of financial and carbon markets in the sustainability transition
Authors: Quatrosi, Marco
Abstract: Carbon is fundamental for life on Earth and for humans. The last century has witnessed an increase in concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to anthropogenic activities. This has generated abrupt and irreversible changes in climate with possible consequences on production, consumption and livelihood of humans. Charging a reliable price to carbon might represent one way to reach an ideal level of carbon emissions leading to sustainable consumption, production and investment patterns. According to some studies, the marketplace would be the ideal solution at policy level to provide a price to carbon. On the other hand, an appropriate price to carbon is at the backbone to undertake a full transition towards sustainability of the financial sector, among others. Sustainable finance entails tackling climate-related risk along with reliable information and (carbon) price signals for investors. The following work will be dealing with some aspects related to the role of carbon and financial markets in the transition towards sustainability. The first chapter will adopt a methodology including lasso-based optimization in time series econometrics to analyse EU ETS price behavior with respect to a wide set of variables including CO2. The second chapter will be analysing profiles of EU countries in terms of environmental performance, energy efficiency and renewable sources via cluster algorithm. The third chapter is an exploratory work on the role of financial innovation tackling specific classes of risk of sustainability-oriented projects including climate-related risk. Considering all the limitations of the methodology, results highlighted how carbon and financial markets need to function under the same pillars (e.g., commitment, transparency, price signals). The overall aim of the dissertation will be to investigate on the role so far of markets towards the sustainability transition considering its structural limitations (e.g., equity).; Il carbonio è un elemento fondamentale per la vita sulla Terra e gli esseri umani. Nell’ultimo secolo si è assistito ad un incremento incontrollato della concentrazione di anidride carbonica a causa delle attività antropiche. Questo ha generato cambiamenti repentini ed irreversibili del clima sulla terra, con conseguenze per gli esseri umani. Combattere le esternalità generate dalle attività di produzione e consumo implica trovare quel prezzo del carbonio che possa assicurare uno sviluppo in linea con l’ambiente. Dall’altro lato, un prezzo del carbonio affidabile è una delle basi per portare avanti la transizione verso la sostenibilità del sistema finanziario. Secondo alcuni studiosi, il mercato rappresenta il luogo ideale per trovare un prezzo sostenibile per il carbonio. Il seguente lavoro analizza alcuni aspetti legati al ruolo dei mercati come luogo deputato alla creazione di un prezzo del carbonio e delle conseguenze sulle scelte di produzione, consumo ed investimento.
Nel primo capitolo si adotterà una metodologia a metà strada tra econometria delle serie storiche e machine learning per analizzare quanto effettivamente il prezzo del carbonio ricavato dell'ETS influenzi alcune variabili rilevanti, in modo particolare la CO2. Il secondo capitolo riguarderà l’analisi di analisi cluster per analizzare diverse dimensioni a livello di Paese per l'intera Unione Europea. Lo scopo sarebbe quello di individuare una possibile convergenza di performance ambientali e di efficienza energetica negli Stati UE come effetto di tutto l'apparato politico dell'Unione tra le quali, appunto, l'ETS e il mercato del carbonio. L’ultimo capitolo analizzerà un possibile ruolo delle innovazioni finanziarie come possibili fattori promotori della transizione verso la sostenibilità. Considerando i limiti delle metodologie e della letteratura, i risultati hanno evidenziato come mercati del carbonio e finanziari si basino sugli stessi principi di trasparenza, impegno e affidabilità per gli investitori. La finalità ultima dell’elaborato è quella di investigare sull’effettivo ruolo del mercato come luogo ideale per portare avanti una transizione verso la sostenibilità considerando i limiti strutturali (equità), ma anche i suoi indiscussi vantaggi.2022-01-01T00:00:00ZManagement matters: three essays on how health systems and organizations can improve their organizational performancePratici, Lorenzohttps://hdl.handle.net/1889/48152022-06-20T10:18:32Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Management matters: three essays on how health systems and organizations can improve their organizational performance
Authors: Pratici, Lorenzo
Abstract: The Italian National Health Service is considered one of the few worldwide that provide universal coverage and has been classified among the best in the world in past years. Yet in the wake of 2008 and 2011 financial crisis, with subsequent restrictive changes made by Italian governments during the 2010s, the quality of care provided raised concerns among researchers, and the Covid-19 pandemic revealed several weaknesses of the system, providing a vision of the potential emerging issues of the next decade.
Funding has been cut as a consequence of the responses to the crises mentioned above, but the need of an increasingly expensive technological innovation, the issue of an aging population, and the society’s rising expectations on quality did not stop.
Despite the fact that the national expenditure on health care in the country increased by 5% in 2020 due to the necessity of increasing funding to face the Covid-19 pandemic, this increase of funds was not made permanent and was specifically targeted to face an immediate threat
The purpose of this work is thus to identify and isolate several tools that can be used as possible instruments to improve the organizational performance of public health organizations, highlighting possible advantages and disadvantages, in order to improve the general function of the I-NHS.
This work thus will develop three essays, each one debating a current crucial organizational issue for the I-NHS.
Chapter One will focus on the opinion of public hospitals' CEOs, which was demanded through structured interviews, what organizational tools would they propose to improve the efficacy and sustainability of the I-NHS. Responses, inter alia, focus specifically on two issues: (1) the need of improving managerial competencies of health professionals and (2) the increase in the role of external coordination.
Therefore, Chapter Two investigates aims to assess how health professionals feel competent in the field of management or, in other words, do they feel ready to play the role of managers?
Chapter Three sketches the potential advantages and threats of a specific form of external coordination: Public-private partnerships in hospitals.
Conclusions of this work may be useful to identify new research topics that still need to be investigated as well as define several suggestions for policymakers.2022-01-01T00:00:00Z