Italy in a European Context

This edited collection investigates the role of Italy in pursuing the EU five targets by 2020: R&D/innovation expenditures; the energetic measures for climate change; migration; the counter actions against poverty and social exclusion. This ambitious book uses a multidisciplinary approach and original field studies to tackle this important topic.

Elena Ambrosetti, Assistant Professor of Demography at the Faculty of Economics and affiliated to the Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Maurizio Boccacci Mariani, Full Professor of Commodity Science at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Ludovica Cesareo, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Marketing at the Marketing Department of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Alessandra De Rose, Full professor of Demography at Sapienza University of Rome and Director of the Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance, Italy Debora Di Gioacchino, Associate Professor of Industrial Economics at the Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Maurizio Franzini, Full professor of Economic Policy at Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy Adriana Lotti, Senior Economist at AGCOM. Luca Mocarelli, Full professor in Economic History at Milano Bicocca University, Italy. Beatrice Orlando, Graduate Degree Economics, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Angela Paparusso, Ph.D. candidate in Demography at the Doctoral School in Statistical Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Alberto Pastore, Full Professor of Business Management at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Michele Raitano, Assistant Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Economics and Law of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Antonio Renzi, Associate Professor of Business Management at the Faculty of Economics and affiliated with the Department of Management - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Mauro Rota, Lecturer in Economic History at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Simone Tedeschi, currently holds a Post-doctoral position in Economics at the Department of Economics and Law of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Maria Rita Testa, Senior Research Scientist at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Vienna University of Economics and Business (since 2014), Austria.