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      <title>Carbon Leakage Revisited: Unilateral Climate Policy with Directed Technical Change</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74310</link>
      <description>Title: Carbon Leakage Revisited: Unilateral Climate Policy with Directed Technical Change
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Di Maria, Corrado; van der Werf, Edwin
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: A common critique to the Kyoto Protocol is that the reduction in emissions of CO2 by countries who comply with it will be (partly) offset by the increase in emissions on the part of other countries (carbon leakage). This paper analyzes the effect of technical change on carbon leakage in a two-country model where only one of the countries enforces an exogenous cap on emissions. Climate policy induces changes in relative prices, which cause carbon leakage through a terms-of-trade effect. However, these changes in relative prices in addition affect the incentives to innovate in different sectors. We allow entrepreneurs to choose the sector for which they innovate (directed technical change). This leads to a counterbalancing induced-technology effect, which always reduces carbon leakage. We therefore conclude that the leakage rates reported in the literature so far may be too high, as these estimates neglect the effect of relative price changes on the incentives to innovate.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Participatory Approach in Decision Making Processes for Water Resources Management in the Mediterranean Basin</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74309</link>
      <description>Title: Participatory Approach in Decision Making Processes for Water Resources Management in the Mediterranean Basin
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Giupponi, Carlo; Mysiak, Jaroslav; Crimi, Jacopo
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper deals with the comparative analysis of different policy options for water resources management in three south-eastern Mediterranean countries. The applied methodology follows a participatory approach throughout its implementation and is supported by the use of three different software packages dealing with water allocation budget, water quality simulation, and Multi Criteria Analysis, respectively. The paper briefly describes the general objectives of the SMART project and then presents the three local case studies, the valuation objectives and the applied methodology - developed as a general replicable framework suitable for implementation in other decision-making processes. All the steps needed for a correct implementation are therefore described. Following the conceptualisation of the problem, the choice of the appropriate indicators as well as the calculation of their weighting and value functions are detailed. The paper concludes with the results of the Multi Criteria and the related Sensitivity Analyses performed, showing how the different policy responses under consideration can be assessed and furthermore compared through case studies thanks to their relative performances. The adopted methodology was found to be an effective operational approach for bridging scientific modelling and policy making by integrating the model outputs in a conceptual framework that can be understood and utilised by non experts, thus showing concrete potential for participatory decision making.</description>
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      <title>Trip-Level Analysis of Efficiency Changes in Oregons Deepwater Trawl Fishery</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74308</link>
      <description>Title: Trip-Level Analysis of Efficiency Changes in Oregons Deepwater Trawl Fishery
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Tomberlin, David; Holloway, Garth
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: In 2003, an industry-financed, government-administered buyback of trawl fishing permits and vessels took place on the US West Coast, resulting in the retirement of about one-third of the limited-entry trawl fleet. The lack of cost data in this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has affected profitability, but changes in technical efficiency can provide some insight into the programs effects. This paper, the first of a planned series of analyses of the buybacks effect on technical efficiency in the trawl fleet, applies stochastic frontier analysis to assess whether technical efficiency changed perceptibly after 2003. We adopt a hierarchical modeling approach estimated with Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, and present results from both Cobb-Douglas and translog specifications. The analysis is limited to 13 boats active in Oregons deepwater DTS fishery, which targets dover sole, thornyheads, and sablefish. The results suggest that the buyback has had little impact on trip-level technical efficiency in the study fishery. However, departures from the frontier are markedly bi-modal, indicating that a mixed-density approach to estimation may be more appropriate.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Diversities in Diversity: Exploring Moroccan Migrants Livelihood in Genoa</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74307</link>
      <description>Title: Diversities in Diversity: Exploring Moroccan Migrants Livelihood in Genoa
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Alzetta, Roberto
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: It is a largely accepted idea that complexity and recent global phenomena have generated a multi-layered diversification process in Western societies. Migration phenomena are largely responsible for this process both in receiving European societies as well as in original sending countries. Migration has been and continues to be a ubiquitous human experience. Yet, while this fact has aided the understanding of the world as something other than a mosaic of distinct cultural spaces with clearly demarcated borders, it has not decreased the incomprehension, fear and suspicion with which nonEuropean migrants are often greeted within the industrialised cities of Europe. This article deals with one aspect of this process that seems to be quite underestimated in media, public opinion and academia. It is the idea that ethnicity can be approached, explored and investigated as a heterogeneous and multi-faced form of diversity itself. This is what can be defined as diversities within diversity. Departing from the presentation of an empirical research in Genoa it will be possible to analyse these phenomena at two different levels: namely, in terms of methods and methodology. By focusing on the idea of livelihood and employing an approach based on Tracing techniques, different ways of acting and being Moroccan migrants in Genoa will be revealed, presented and discussed. This method newly integrates both quantitative and qualitative information. It will allow us to analyse the experience of livelihood in a way that will reveal the simultaneous existence of many underlying different invisible and unconscious social constructions as well as visible concrete and conscious expressions of everyday life. Disclosing how the same people in the same local context produce different adaptive strategies and lifestyles will lead to outline a potential conceptual methodological framework of reference based on an open/close principle. In this case ideas of openness and closeness will be assumed in a dialectical double-faced process. It is not only a matter of how systems can be defined open or closed by themselves, but also how the encounter and interplay of many different systems  generation of diversity - establish the conditions and limits within which different individuals can reproduce their culture as social actors- production of diversities. After having discussed the methodological implications of this approach it will be possible to draw some final theoretical considerations. If we believe that new ways of investigating social phenomena are a determinant in the way we describe, analyze, explain and understand their complexity, we should recognize that not only theory might generate and define what we call social reality but also vice-versa. Approaching the world out there in new ways might result in rethinking and adjusting the conceptual taxonomies that drive social scholars in their search for gaining and catching social reality. This principle becomes crucial if we want social sciences to be heuristically oriented, in other words if we want to develop the capacity to hand back positive analytical readings and comparisons of social phenomena as well as useful recommendations for policy makers.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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