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SERIE RESEARCH MEMORANDA Freight transport in Europe: Policy issues and future scenarios on trans.border alpine connections

This paper presents an overview of European policy on interconnected cross-border transport networks as well as of severe problems in estimating empirically the avalanche of goods movements in the European Union (EU). In particular, it deals with the Transalpine freight transport case, which represents one of the most challenging operational and policy issues of the present and future both inte...

SERIE RESEARCH MEMORANDA Evolution of EU water policy: A critical assessment and a hopeful perspective

Water is the sector most comprehensively covered in European Union’s environmental policy. An initial wave of directives accounting for public health protection and for harmonisation of environmental rules in the common market was followed by a call for a policy reform to address more properly realistic objectives, often conflicting in practical interpretation, such as environmental protection,...

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SERIE RESEARCH MEMORANDA Economic Theories of Sustainable Consumption

The term ‘sustainable consumption’ denotes the search for consumption patterns that reduce human pressure on the environment and nature. This search involves three levels of research. First, the relationship between consumption, lifestyles and environmental sustainability has to be clarified. A general scheme of relationships will be presented here. Second, a theoretical framework for studying ...

Serie Research Memoranda the Economic Intecration of Refugees in Developinc Countries: a Research Model