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Obiettivo dello studio è comprendere come l’orientamento alla sostenibilità influenzi le componenti del modello di business di un’impresa e come queste si colleghino alla creazione di valore economico, ambientale e sociale. La ricerca è stata condotta su un campione di 828 imprese appartenenti al settore vitivinicolo italiano. I risultati evidenziano che la creazione di valore sociale non influenza la dimensione economica della sostenibilità. Questa è invece la risultante di differenti approcci strategici: la sostenibilità è contemporaneamente strumento di differenziazione dell’offerta che un possibile driver di risparmio dei costi aziendali

Questa nota descrive la situazione attuale della geotermia italiana, sia per quanto riguarda le innovazioni tecnologiche e le prospettive di sviluppo, sia in relazione all’impatto ambientale di tale industria.

The Antarctic continent plays a fundamental role in the global climate system and its role is particularly important in a climate change scenario. Since the '90s, the Ross Sea and the coastal area of Terra Nova Bay have been chosen as specific and peculiar research sites for climatic investigations within the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) network. Studies have been conducted by both Italian and international Universities and research centres.This macro-site area is characterized by abundant primary productivity, and zooplankton and benthonic communities. The objective of the research activities is the acquisition of long-term time series related to the biotic communities, the bio-geochemical fluxes and the physico-chemical parameters of the water column in the Ross Sea area. To this aim, four Moorings (A, B, D and H) were deployed to obtain the above-mentioned data, which will be very useful to improve the quality of the existing bio-geochemical models and to provide more precise information on the Antarctic marine ecosystem in relation to global climate change. In the Terra Nova Bay research site, the activities are devoted to the characterization of the relationship between the structure and the dynamic of the pelagic and benthonic communities and the ice cover. Numerous physical, chemical and biological data were collected from the four Moorings, the water samples retrieved at the Terra Nova Bay site and the sediments samples. Such fundamental data allowed establishing an important starting point to better understand the climate change phenomena occurred in the last twenty years, and that will occur in the future, in the Ross Sea Area.

L'autore affronta tema della trasformazione delle forme statuali nel mondo occidentale anche in relazione ai sistemi di welfare. Egli ritiene che la globalizzazione metta a nudo l'inconsistenza di ogni forma di particolarismo politico, sottraendo ampi spazi di sovranità ai singoli stati nazionali ed eliminando quelle condizioni che avevano reso possibile il "compromesso dello stato sociale". Perciò è necessaria una "svolta cosmopolitica", che superi la contrapposizione nazionale/internazionale.

This dataset and codebook correspond to the initial round of survey data gathered in Italy in 2022, within the project FULFILL - Fundamental Decarbonisation Through Sufficiency By Lifestyle Changes. As part of Work Package 3 (WP3) in the FULFILL project, we collected quantitative data from six countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, and India. In the first round of the survey, we recruited a representative sample of approximately 2000 households in each country, taking into account both the individual and household perspectives. The survey includes a quantitative assessment of the carbon footprint in various domains of life, such as housing, mobility, and diet. In addition to this, the survey also measures socio-economic factors such as age, gender, income, education, household size, life stage, and political orientation. Furthermore, the survey includes measures of quality of life, encompassing aspects such as health and well-being, environmental quality, financial security, and comfort.

This dataset and codebook correspond to the second round of survey data gathered in Italy in 2023, within the project FULFILL - Fundamental Decarbonisation Through Sufficiency By Lifestyle Changes. As part of Work Package 3 (WP3) in the FULFILL project, we collected quantitative data from six countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, and India. The first round of the survey, consisted of recruiting a representative sample of approximately 2000 households in each country. In this second survey round, we recruit around 500 respondents from the initial survey round, ensuring representativity is maintained. This survey is very similar to the survey in the first round and includes a lot of identical items, including a quantitative assessment of the carbon footprint in the housing, mobility, and diet sectors, socio-economic factors such as age, gender, income, education, household size, life stage, and political orientation. Furthermore, the survey includes measures of quality of life, encompassing aspects such as health and well-being, environmental quality, financial security, and comfort. New for this second round, we have incorporated questions regarding the measures respondents adopted in response to the 2022 energy crisis.

This brief contribution aims to apply sociological imagination to the issues that emerged with the Covid- 19 crisis and suggests some possible topics and methodologies of research. In the first section I describe three relevant themes, among the many possible ones: 1) the new role of personal data (especially those related to our health); 2) the "mediatisation" of distance; 3) the environmental impact of digital media. In the second section, I conclude with a note on how to set the sociological imagination in motion. Among the possible methods, I suggest the rediscovery/adoption of ethnographic methods, and among them, in particular, auto-ethnography. I maintain that it might be useful to study with an ethnographic approach the sociality produced during these days of confinement, instead of using the usual online questionnaires, which often represent a lazy way, for the researcher, to delegate the work of data production to others. Instead, it would be more interesting to return to participant observation and study media as a practice (Couldry 2004). In the conclusions I briefly sketch how it could still be possible to do ethnography in the field in the age of physical distancing and new possible lockdowns.

Il presente contributo si propone di approfondire l’interazione tra la dimensione economica della sostenibilità e quella ambientale. Pertanto, il capitolo si focalizza sull’impatto negativo che la crescita economica ha prodotto sulle risorse ambientali riducendone la disponibilità e deteriorandone la qualità. Il necessario approfondimento dei principi caratterizzanti la sostenibilità dello sviluppo deve indurre, quindi, un ripensamento delle politiche che regolano il mercato globalizzato a supporto della tutela ambientale e di una crescita economica sostenibile. Inoltre, l’impatto dell’inquinamento atmosferico sulla pandemia da Covid-19 conferma l’urgenza di riorientare il modello di sviluppo in una direzione sempre più sostenibile.