Promotion of sustainable lifestyle to vulnerable population in the Lombardy region. Demands analysis and interventions tools proposal
January 2011 – January 2012 Gruppo di lavoro: Marianna d’Ovidio The research is focused at proposing policy recommendations aimed to the promotion of sustainable lifestyles, looking in particular at vulnerable populations. The research is structured as follow: Lifestyle analysis through quantitative data; a cartographic analysis of Lombardy population and environmental risks; examination of local policies and best […]
The political economy of self-employed middle class
Since March 2007 Working group: Costanzo Ranci (direttore scientifico), Stefania Cerea, Giuliana Costa, Roberta Cucca, Laura Di Maria, Ivana Fellini, Pietro Lembi, Lara Maestripieri, Valentina Moiso, Emmanuele Pavolini The project belong to a wider research program focused on the italian middle class crisis. The program is funded by the Italian Council for Social Sciences, and […]
Competitiveness and social cohesion in European cities
Since 2009 Working group: Costanzo Ranci (coordinamento scientifico), Roberta Cucca, Nathalie Kakpo, Lara Maestripieri, Fabio Manfredini, Agostino Petrillo, Rossana Torri. The project forms part of the research that the Laboratory has been developing a number of years through the support of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, with the aim to investigate the relationship between the […]
Institutional Change in Long Term Care in Europe
November 2010 – February 2012 Working group: Costanzo Ranci (Politecnico di Milano) e Emmanuele Pavolini (Università Politecnica delle Marche): coordinamento scientifico August Oesterle (University of Economics and Business, Vienna), Viola Burau (University of Aarhus) e Hanne Marlene Dahl (University of Roskilde), Claude Martin (University of Rennes and CNRSFrance) Blanche Le Bihan (Ecole des Hautes Etudes […]
WILCO
December 2010 – December 2013 Working group: Costanzo Ranci, Giuliana Costa, Stefania Sabatinelli The general objective of the project is to comparatively analyse how local welfare systems can favour social cohesion, with particular reference to three target groups: precarious young adults; single mothers; migrants. The research forsees the analysis of three policy areas – employment, […]
FLOWS
Jan 2011 – June 2014 Working group: Costanzo Ranci, Roberta Cucca, Lara Maestripieri The project aims to investigate how the local welfare systems affect women’s participation in the labor market and, conversely, how women’s employment can affect the course of life (both men and women), on the structures of inequality, social cohesion and ultimately on […]
Social cohesion and economic development in Industrial Districts
September 2006 – july 2008 Working group: Stefania Cerea, Roberta Cucca, Marina Rago For a long time, the industrial districts have been able to combine satisfactory levels of economic development and social integration. Since the eighties this ability has been put under pressure by a series of transformations that have affected so much the world economy, as […]
PRIN – The policy of social investment in six italian cities
2011 – 2013 Working group: Giuliana Costa, Costanzo Ranci Funding: MIUR – PRIN Partners: Politecnico di Milano www.polimi.it (capofila del progetto) Università Politecnica delle Marche www.univpm.it Università degli Studi di Bari www.uniba.it Università La Sapienza di Roma www.uniroma1.it Università degli Studi di Napoli www.unina.it Università di Urbino www.uniurb.it
Social sustainability
Starting from the Nineties, the sustainability paradigm has been conceived as the achievement of a balance among the ecologic, economic and social dimensions of the development, through a process of equal redistribution of resources in an intra-and post-generational perspective. However, in recent times, the paradigm of the “green economy” seems to have gradually “colonized” the […]
Social sustainability
Starting from the Nineties, the sustainability paradigm has been conceived as the achievement of a balance among the ecologic, economic and social dimensions of the development, through a process of equal redistribution of resources in an intra-and post-generational perspective. However, in recent times, the paradigm of the “green economy” seems to have gradually “colonized” the […]