Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Eva Pfostl Title: Editoriale Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:5-8 Volume: 2013/2 Year: 2013 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=50175&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:RISSRI:v:html10.3280/RISS2013-002001 Number: 1 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Hanna Safwat H. Shakir Author-Name: Kendall T. Harris Author-Name: Irvin W. Osborne-Lee Author-Name: Gian Paolo Cesaretti Author-Name: Rosa Misso Author-Name: Magdy T. Khalil Title: Global Ecological Footprint, Climate Change Impacts and Assessment Abstract: Ecological footprint (EF) is an important measure in calculating the human demands and impacts on our global environment. In this respect, the ecological footprint is a function of all the parameters that interact between the power of ecosystem productivity and human interactions and activities on a particular ecosystem or the demand from that ecosystem. The present paper will cover and analyses the ecosystems? productivity and the human demand from the ecosystems. It will produce comprehensive analyses in measuring the possibility of capabilities of the ecosystems to provide goods and services to the human beings on our planet Earth. Further, the paper will discuss the models that can be used in measuring the sustainability of ecosystem, climate changes and what we should be doing to maintain the Earth healthy ecosystems. In this respect, the paper will assess and introduce a comprehensive model called Global Ecological Footprint and climate change (GEF-CH) that can describe the status of our ecosystems? productivities and the impacts of climate change and global human population Earth boundaries. Furthermore, the paper will provide some answers to the human issues globally; Climate change impacts as the results of human activities. Further, warning to the current trend in use and abuse of our natural ecosystems and what will be expecting from these ecosystems to provide the human needs in response to the current use of global ecosystems' existence. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Cambiamento climatico globale, impronta ecologica produttivit? ecosistemi, popolazione umana globale, sostenibilit?, Modello cambiamento climatico e impronta ecologica (GEF-CH) Note: Pages:9-38 Volume: 2013/2 Year: 2013 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=50176&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:RISSRI:v:html10.3280/RISS2013-002002 Number: 2 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zaid Eyadat Title: Development from the Economic to the Human: Means, Ends and Results. A Sustainability Approach Abstract: The dynamic relationship between international development discourse and human rights discourse is inexorable as well as embedded in the same history and circumstances from which both discourses emerged. Human rights paradigm represent an intrinsic part of and give meaning to human development, while development approach represents the means and processes necessary to realizing human rights. This paper argues that the extent and success of human development could be measured in terms of its success in advancing and making possible the attainment of human rights through adjusting social, political, and economic structures. This paper utilizes Jordan as a case-study. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Sostenibilit?, diritti umani, sviluppo umano, politiche sociali, Giordania Note: Pages:39-58 Volume: 2013/2 Year: 2013 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=50177&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:RISSRI:v:html10.3280/RISS2013-002003 Number: 3 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marcello Di Paola Author-Name: Mirco Daniel Garasic Title: The Dark Side of Sustainability: Avoiding and Shortening Lives in the Anthropocene Abstract: In this paper, we critically rehearse the morality of avoiding and shortening the lives of present and future consumers in order to decrease humanity?s impact on global eco-systems and spare scarce natural resources in the Anthropocene. Our main objective is not originality, but rather providing a short tour of some relatively unexplored recesses of moral reflection, as it tackles practices of sustainability that may not accord easily with our wishes about what life in our own geological epoch should have been like. We shall discuss these practices only as moral options to be embraced by individuals voluntarily, out of a sense of obligation (or perhaps also in pursuit of various benefits that may be offered as positive incentives) - not as coerced, mandatory activities imposed on individuals by some agents, such as governments. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Antropocene, riflessioni morali, consumatori attuali e futuri, evitare e accorciare le vite Note: Pages:59-81 Volume: 2013/2 Year: 2013 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=50178&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:RISSRI:v:html10.3280/RISS2013-002004 Number: 4 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Mariella Nocenzi Title: Dalla sostenibilit? del welfare ad un welfare della Sostenibilit? Abstract: Al termine del "Decennio dell?Educazione allo Sviluppo Sostenibile 2005-2014" (DESS), proclamato dall?Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite affidandone l?organizzazione all?UNESCO, non sembra ancora pienamente raggiunto il suo principale obiettivo della sensibilizzazione di governi e societ? civile verso un futuro pi? equo, sostenibile nei confronti delle risorse del pianeta e dell?altro. Sia il legislatore comunitario che quello nazionale hanno determinato strategie applicative mirate, fra le quali verr? analizzata l?efficacia dell?integrazione fra tutti gli attori sociali coinvolti - dalla societ? civile al sistema politico, dai media alle istituzioni ai saperi esperti - per raggiungere condizioni di uguaglianza sostanziale, specie nell?accesso ai servizi ritenuti indispensabili per il benessere individuale e collettivo. Si tratta di strategie necessarie ad affermare non soltanto la sostenibilit? del welfare dal punto di vista economico, politico e sociale dopo il crollo del modello tradizionale, quanto di proporre un welfare della sostenibilit?. Rispetto all?invecchiamento della popolazione, all?impoverimento delle famiglie, alla diversificazione culturale dei cittadini, possono fornire una risposta strumenti come il Piano di Zona che dal 2000 ad oggi ha progressivamente applicato azioni. Fra le prassi pi? significative si analizzeranno quelle relative all?integrazione delle politiche, alla messa in rete delle risorse finanziarie e umane del territorio, alla contaminazione delle esperienze e la co-progettazione fra diversi settori che verranno analizzate per il grado di efficacia e miglioramento in alcune esperienze italiane. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Welfare, sostenibilit?, integrazione, responsabilit?, programmazione sociale, good practices Note: Pages:83-105 Volume: 2013/2 Year: 2013 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=50179&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:RISSRI:v:html10.3280/RISS2013-002005 Number: 5 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Berna Edoardo Berionni Title: Regionalizzare la tutela dell?ambiente? Verso una sostenibilit? su scala regionale: il caso dell?UE e dell?ASEAN Abstract: L?articolo propone un?indagine sulle origini e sulle evoluzioni pi? recenti della governance ambientale su scala regionale e sull?avvio del processo di cosiddetta ?regionalizzazione della tutela dell?ambiente?. La tesi sostenuta ? che tale processo costituisca al momento la soluzione migliore in ragione dello scarto esistente tra sforzi a livello globale in una fase di stallo e l?urgente richiesta d?intervento entro i tempi giudicati utili secondo il Quinto Rapporto IPCC 2013. Dopo aver affermato il quadro teorico di riferimento, il lavoro analizza due casi-studio distinti di governance regionale dell?ambiente: i casi-studio dell?Ue e dell?Asean. Quest?ultimi dimostrano che le Organizzazione regionali possono rappresentare un interessante laboratorio di governance ambientale dal quale ripartire alla ricerca di risposte innovative e realistiche alla sfida del cambiamento climatico. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Governance ambientale, regionalismo, cambiamenti climatici, Unione europea, Asean, sostenibilit? dello sviluppo. Note: Pages:107-128 Volume: 2013/2 Year: 2013 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=50180&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:RISSRI:v:html10.3280/RISS2013-002006 Number: 6 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ranabir Samaddar Title: City, Sustainability, and Social Justice: a note on Kolkata Abstract: This article offers some reflections on sustainability in Kolkata, Indian city characterized by a steady increase in population, poverty and violence. It is argued that the key issue is not the continuous increase in population, but how to square the circle between, on the one hand, social justice and the right at a decent standard of living and, on the other, environmental sustainability and the availability of resources. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Kolkata, giustizia sociale, violenza, diseguaglianza, risorse Note: Pages:129-143 Volume: 2013/2 Year: 2013 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=50181&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:RISSRI:v:html10.3280/RISS2013-002007 Number: 7 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Martina Vallesi Title: A measure of the sustainable connection between highest remunerations? and economic performance Abstract: Focusing on the agency conflict between manager and shareholders and on the definitions of tunneling and propping, we delve into the related party transactions between a group and its management. Firstly, the paper examines actual and previous information to disclose for directors board remunerations (as for IAS, Consob and TUF). Such remunerations are based on a contract with legal and moral managers obligations to the companies of the group they run and to the stakeholder of such companies. For this reason, a balance between their remunerations and their performance is necessary to achieve preserving the interests of all the subjects involved in the companies? activities and maintaining the continuity of the group. Then, using regressions, we measure, in a sample of listed companies, if there is a significant and sustainable connection between particular remunerations of the highest paid members of the directors board and the economic group performance. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Teoria dell?agenzia, remunerazione membri del consiglio di amministrazione, parti correlate, operazioni tra parti correlate. Note: Pages:145-159 Volume: 2013/2 Year: 2013 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=50182&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:RISSRI:v:html10.3280/RISS2013-002008 Number: 8 Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Luc Behar-Bannelier Title: Sustainability in Disneyland Paris Abstract: Classification-JEL: Keywords: Note: Pages:161-164 Volume: 2013/2 Year: 2013 Issue:2 File-URL:http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=50183&Tipo=Articolo PDF File-Format: text/HTML Handle: RePEc:fan:RISSRI:v:html10.3280/RISS2013-002009 Number: 9