Sound risk assessment is essential for developing effective disaster’s risk reduction and climate change adaptation policies. This thesis investigates social vulnerability and the economic cost of flood risk, which are ...

The dissertation explores the role of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an offset mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol (art. 12) that allows the crediting of emission reductions from Greenhouse Gas (GHG) abatement ...

La tesi presenta tre studi di ricerca su temi bancari connessi ad alcuni eventi osservati durante la recente crisi bancaria dei mutui subprime. Il primo capitolo della tesi collega la creazione di liquidità del settore ...

This work is structured into three chapters, each one exploring the effectiveness of climate policies considering the formulation of endogenous technical change (ETC) from different perspectives. Including ETC in a computable ...

This doctoral dissertation is inspired by the major environmental and socio-economic challenges faced by biologists, climate scientists, economists and policymakers today, and is dedicated to the state-of-the-art literature ...

Climate change and migration are closely interconnected in many parts of the world. Migration is a key way by which households cope with and adapt to rapid and slow environmental changes. Under extreme conditions of drought, ...

This doctoral dissertation is inspired by the need to explore the human dimension of the clean energy transition for climate change mitigation and adaptation, through the application of behavioural science and economics ...

The issues explored in this work concern individual behaviour and its departure from the rationality paradigm. While different in terms of underlying methodology, the chapters share the unifying theme of fairness as a ...

The thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter we study a communicationgame played by three agents with conflicting and state independent preferences. Each possible outcome of the game uniquely corresponds to ...