https://hdl.handle.net/10419/231277 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:16:17 GMT 2026-09-23T01:16:17Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279839 Title: European Union digital single market: Legal framework and challenges Authors: Bertarini, Beatrice Abstract: This study analyzes the evolution of the legal framework of the Digital Single Market in Europe, beginning with the first acts issued by the European Union on the subject of an information society. The gradual evolution of multiple regulatory frameworks aimed at aspects of digital technologies highlights how public regulation is now reaching the definition of the guiding principles for the Digital Single Market: in the digital era, this will increasingly dominate the lives of enterprises and citizens. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279839 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279838 Title: Cities and regions in transition Editors: Capello, Roberta; Conte, Andrea Abstract: The conference of the Italian Regional Science Association (AISRe), held in September 2022 in Milan, provided a great opportunity to reflect on the local responses to the important challenges that European territories are facing. This book collects a series of contribution that were presented during the conference, with a main focus on local and regional economic systems. Far from being exhaustive on the issue of global challenges and local responses, it highlights some of the ways in which cities and regions are grappling with the transformative processes imposed by disruptive challenges, such as shifts in labour markets and working conditions, the increasing urgency of environmental concerns and the push for resource-efficiency and decarbonisation, and the drive to increase productivity and growth through modernisation processes, irrespective of the type of sectoral specialization (high vs. low sectors). The book is structured in three parts. The first part presents four papers dealing with the recent challenges and the regional responses to such challenges. The second part of the book is dedicated to novel methods and applications for spatially monitoring and analysing socio-economic transformations, focusing in particular on R&I investments, value chains, poverty, wellbeing and firms' efficiency levels. The third part of the book focuses on the role of cohesion policies in guiding socio-economic transformations. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279838 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279840 Title: Anti-corruption models and experiences: The case of the Western Balkans Editors: Carloni, Enrico; Paoletti, Diletta Abstract: The challenge of fighting corruption is strategic at a global and European level, and the inadequacy of the repressive and penal response alone has now been evidenced: corruption must not only be fought, but understood, and preventive administrative measures must be taken. Anti-corruption is not an issue that concerns only the judiciary branch, the legal system, and police authorities, but it is, above all, a challenge for society and institutions as a whole. And it is a challenge to be transformed, in particular, into a change in administrations and institutions, in their way of organizing and operating. This volume the result of the Project 'Administrative Prevention through Targeted Anti-corruption MODels for candidate countries' - APTAMOD, co-funded by the European Union's HERCULE III programme, which has conducted comparative law studies and high-profile research activities in the field of administrative prevention of corruption, with specific focus on Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279840 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279837 Title: The regional challenges in the post-Covid era Editors: Caloffi, Annalisa; De Castris, Marusca; Perucca, Giovanni Abstract: The XLII AISRe Conference, held online between 8 and 10 September 2021, called the Italian community of regional and urban scientists to debate on the long-term consequences, issues and challenges imposed by the coronavirus global emergency. These challenges concern the asymmetric consequences of the public health emergency across places and within societies. In fact, in a world already characterized by increasing social inequalities, the pandemic is likely to exacerbate the rise of disparities. Limited mobility, the restricted access to public services such as schools and hospitals, and the higher uncertainty generated by the healthcare emergency hit more severely those individuals in a condition of relative economic, occupational, and educational disadvantage. The territorial implications of these phenomena are extremely relevant, and still understudied. They mainly concern two dimensions: the first one refers to the differentiated impact of the pandemic on the inequalities across places; the second one concerns the differentiated impact of the pandemic on the inequalities within places. The effect of the Covid pandemic on inequalities cumulates with the one of other deep socioeconomic transformations, as those induced in the production sector and job market by the rise of the Industry 4.0 paradigm. In such framework, the role of public policies becomes fundamental, in order to mitigate the undesired effects of these phenomena and to amplify the positive ones. The present book collects a selection of the many interesting studies, presented during the XLII AISRe Conference, that were devoted to the abovementioned issues. More in details, the book is structured into three parts. The first section supplies fresh evidence on the levels and trends of socioeconomic disparities across and within regions. The second section investigates the determinants of these trends, pointing in particular to the role of the unprecedented transformations occurring in the economic structure and job markets of regions and cities. Finally, the third section of the book focuses on the policy tools to face the challenges emerged in the previous discussion. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279837 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z