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Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Chiaramonte Xenia

TAV: the Project that Doesn’t Exist

The high-speed rail line is not the first major project concerning the Val Susa area: there was the “ecological highway,” then the power line, and now the high-speed train line (TAV). Initially, the opposition led by the Habitat Committee against a “conception of the territory as a passive resource” was low-key, but it served to arouse the population.#The No TAV message is clear and summed ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Dalla Longa Remo

The competitive advantage of the global city

Over the last two decades there has been a transformation of the systemic components that make up urban infrastructure. We cannot understand this upheaval, and the great problems and challenges it raises, if we do not analyze the main variables of this epochal change that lead us to add the term "new" to the more general concept of urban infrastructure.#In the context of globalization, we are witnessing ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Nanni Gabriele, Zanchini Edoardo

New Mobility for the Country

From 2002 to date, 60 percent of state funding has gone to investments in roads and highways. Yet 42 percent of the national population lives in urban areas, where there is the largest infrastructure gap with respect to the rest of Europe, and above all, where we find most of the demand for transport. To deal with that demand, there should be an increase in the number of trains in circulation, starting ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Ferraris Luigi

Electric transition between the present and the future

In the last 20 years, Italy has gone from an electricity system is based on large production plants, to a structure with rapid growth of renewable sources, in particular wind and solar, and a gradual drop in thermoelectric capacity. In this context, Terna has identified some lines of action, including strengthening its commitment on the network and on interconnections abroad to increase the infrastructure ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/2) Amatori Franco

The Long Autumn in Italy’s History

In the 1970s, Italy lived through an unprecedented cycle of labor conflict, that started with the Fiat strike in September 1969, and ended with the “March of 40,000” in Turin in October 1980.#The dynamics of industrial relations in Italy had previously seen moments of particularly strong conflict which had been followed by a retreat of the unions: the occupation of the Red Biennial (1919-1920), ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/2) Abba Laura

The Internet Needs Good Governance

Autumn 1969 in California saw the birth of the ARPANET, which enabled the transmission of data from one computer to another and laid the basis for the creation of a Network on a global scale in the following decades.#Today 4.39 billion people use the Network, 57 percent of the world’s population. One of the crucial questions is that of Internet Governance, which must be managed through a multi-stakeholder ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/2) Sommariva Andrea

A Synergy of Public and Private in Space Exploration

The first phase in the history of human exploration of space, in the 1950s and ’60s, saw a pre-eminent role of government: public investment in the military field and the missions to the moon set off processes of technological innovation with very positive spinoffs for the economies as a whole, as in the case of the development of satellite technologies,#Since the 1970s, more and more private corporations ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Bergantino Angela Stefania

A Matter of Concessions

The highway sector represents an important component of the Italian economy, both in terms of extension of the network - one of the largest in Europe - and as regards the presence of companies that have taken on an important role in other sectors of the economy and abroad. In this regard, the regulatory and public concessions sector has evolved over time in relation to both the country's social and ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Acciaro Michele

What Future for Italian Ports

Given our country’s geographical structure and history, it is not surprising that the Italian port system features a wide variety in terms of infrastructure, volumes, commercial activities, efficiency, and development. However, since the 1980s the absence of a view to development of the ports, which is instrumental to the development of the country, has limited its prospects for growth, relegating ...

Articolo rivista (E&M - 2019/4) Zucchetti Roberto

The Macroeconomic Context: Strengths and Weaknesses

The decision of whether or not to invest significance public resources for the development of transport infrastructure has been, and is, at the center of public debate in Italy. On the one hand are the supporters of the absolute necessity of boosting public investment, especially in the sector of large-scale works, and on the other those who consider such choices useless or even harmful. So starting ...