Does exposure to climate-related natural disasters increase awareness about climate change and support for Green political parties? Can educational interventions play a role in harnessing support for costly climate policies? To answer these questions, this dissertation uses observational and exp...
This technical report describes a case study where the Fitness for Purpose (F4P), i.e., a series of benchmarking and analysis tools available in the ClimSA Station, were applied to four rainfall estimation (RFE) space-born products. The F4P toolbox aims at providing methods and frameworks for ob...
Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (hereinafter “TFEU”) prohibits “abuse […] of a dominant position”. The wording of the article clearly invites the idea that for the prohibition to apply, the abuse must originate from the undertaking’s dominant position. In other...
This report investigates Italian cultural events, with a focus on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose is to explore new metrics for cultural vibrancy and complement the picture offered by the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor, the statistical tool developed by the European Commi...
Growing evidence suggests that increasing socio-economic inequality fosters the electoral success of the far right. Yet the exact socio-economic drivers of support for these parties still cause debate among scholars, as individual-level studies provide limited causal support for the role of econ...
Russia’s full-fledged military attack on Ukraine has completely reshaped the European security scene. An event of such magnitude invariably calls for discussions on blame and has intensified and mainstreamed a debate on the West’s potential principal responsibility for this latest escalation on ...
This literature review provides a comprehensive report on the relationship between drug use, impaired driving and traffic accidents. It covers methodological issues, presents results of prevalence surveys among drivers and provides an overview of findings from major international epidemiological...
