(JB) ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

The research activity of the Economics Group focuses above all on the following main areas:

• Empirical evaluation of public policies
• Labor economics
• Circular economy 
• Waste management
• Water resources management
• Economic dynamics and equilibrium in goods, labor and financial markets
• Underground economy and tax evasion
• Business cycle
• Energy transitions and economic growth
• Economic History
• Spatial Econometrics
• DSG model
   

Disaster can arrive in many forms. It can be caused by a natural disaster (i.e. landslides or hurricanes), industrial failures (i.e. chemical spills or building collapse), political rationalities (i.e. terrorism or war) and other incidents both accidental or purposeful. Disaster has phases and aftermaths for response and recovery and differing implications across a variety of scales.

In the CEPAC we develop research on Heritage, Landscape and Construction, namely on water resources, land use planning, urbanism, urban rehabilitation. history, environmental assessment and engineering for sustainability framed in the CEPAC's interdisciplinary.

Contributing knowledge towards a sustainable and resilient society” is the 4th research objective of CIMA and aims to: communicate scientific knowledge to diverse audiences; support authorities in planning, developing, and implementing coastal and maritime strategies; and participate in national and international organizations for the management of natural marine resources. 

The Energy Transition Lab proposes an ambitious and original programme of research and engagement responding to the challenges of energy transition in the European Union.

Influence of Transition to the Renewable Energy Sources on Maritime Transport, Sustainable Development and Labour Market Policy; Proceeding from the fact that sustainable development is the key principle of Environmental Law, this research aims to determine whether transition to renewable energy sources has contributed to its intensification,  but also to the decreasement  of pollution and increasement of expenses in maritime sector as well.

The Environmental Impacts of Maritime Shipping; The aim is to establish, by using scientific method, whether our hypotheses according to which cruise ships are greater polluter than cargo ships in the Adriatic Sea is founded. The other question that should be considered within this research is whether air pollution from ships is already declining as a result of implementation of several international and European regulations obliging to emission reduction.

Since the creation of the team in 1982 by the founders of the institute, its researchers have been interested not only in the practices of space transformation but also in the doctrines, paradigms, ideas and theories on which they are based. This orientation has led us to build tools for observation, analysis and evaluation, but also to examine theories, discourses and representations.