Presentation FEEM

The theme host office is organized by the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), a no-profit, no-partisan research institution established to carry out research in the field of sustainable development.
Recognised by the President of the Italian Republic in July 1989, it has since become a leading international research centre.
One of its principal aims is to promote interaction between academic, industrial and public policy spheres in order to comprehensively address concerns about economic development and environmental degradation.
The Fondazione's activities are guided by four fundamental criteria:

• to analyse relevant and innovative research areas;
• to focus on "real" world issues;
• to integrate multi-disciplinary approaches;
• to create and foster international research networks.

FEEM also supplies technical support and advice to the public and private decision-making process in the economic and environmental field, at the national as well as international level (The Italian Ministry of Finance and Economics, the Italian Ministry of the Environment, expert groups under the umbrellas of the EU, the OECD, the United Nations, the UN Commission of Sustainable Development, the IPCC, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, etc.).
FEEM also co-operates with Institutions such as the World Bank, the NBER, Resources for the Future, the CEPR, the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, and several European and US Universities.

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Margaretha Breil holds a Phd from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Germany in Architecture and Urban Planning on the origins o f Urban Policies and Instruments (1992) and a Master in Valuation of urban and environmental policies (IUAV, 2003). She joined FEEM in 2002. At FEEM she is working on valuation models for environmental transformations, and on policy frameworks for management of coastal environment in the Venice Lagoon (ICZM) where she dealt principally with the socio-economic challenges of coastal planning in a peri-urban and rural context.
Contact: encora@feem.it

Carlo Carraro is Professor of Environmental Economics and Econometrics, Vice Provost for Research Management and Policy, and Chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Venice. He is also Research Director of FEEM and member of its Scientific Advisory Council. Professor Carraro holds a Ph.D. from the Princeton University and has a proven track record and international recognition in environmental economics and policy. Past academic positions include teaching at the University of Paris I, LUISS in Rome, University College of London, University of Udine, University of Aix-en-Provence, University of Nice, University of Paris X, and at the Clemson University MBA School. Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and one of the founders of the European Climate Forum (ECF), he is also Research Fellow of CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research), of GREQAM (Groupe de Récherche en Economie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille), of CESifo (Center of Economic Studies), of CTN (Coalition Theory Network), and Associate Research Fellow of CEPS (Center for Economic Policy Studies). He belongs to the Climate Strategies and Transust Networks. He is also in the Steering Committee of the Ecological and Environmental Economics Programme at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), a joint initiative with the Beijer Institute.
Contact: ccarraro@unive.it

Presentation CORILA

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Thematic Network Conference
12th – 13th  March  2007. Venice, Italy

The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the Consortium for Coordination of Research Activities Concerning the Venice Lagoon System (CORILA), are organizing a conference on socio economic impacts on coastal zones and their evaluation in a context of integrated coastal zone management.
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