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L'articolo, partendo da una descrizione delle attività e delle principali funzioni del Centro Regionale di Monitoraggio della Sicurezza Stradale CReMSS della regione Puglia, vuole fornire un quadro sullo stato della sicurezza della rete stradale pugliese. In particolare lo studio vuole evidenziare le criticità e i punti di forza del caso della Puglia, mettendo in evidenza il sistema di interventi messi in atto e programmati. Il CReMSS, istituito con la legge regionale 18/2004, rappresenta uno strumento di raccolta e di analisi dei dati sull'incidentalità al fine di indirizzare le politiche e gli interventi in materia di sicurezza stradale, così come previsto nel Piano Nazionale della Sicurezza Stradale (PNSS) legge 144/99. Le azioni del centro sono prevalentemente orientate al coordinamento e al raccordo con altri centri di monitoraggio (comunali, provinciali e nazionali) in modo da assicurare un'integrazione delle basi conoscitive e valutative del fenomeno incidentalità viaria e con tutti gli enti, le scuole di ogni ordine grado, e le realtà del privato sociale per diffondere i saperi e condividere le buone pratiche in materia di sicurezza stradale. ; The increasing amount of traffic on the Italian road system and the number of road accidents has put the attention of the road safety problem at European, National and Regional levels. The Italian Govern with the National Plan of Road Safety (PNSS 1999) defined the strategies for road safety and to reduce road accidents. The Puglia Region with the Regional Law 18/2004 instituted the Centre for Monitoring Road Safety (CReMSS), whose issue is to collect data about road incidents and accidents, to define potential risks and to improve road infrastructure. The CReMSS has defined an integrated monitoring centre for road safety and accident prevention, and constitute a central resource and information management centre. The main Puglia Region strategy on road safety is roads safer for everyone and the key targets is to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured in road accidents. The Cremss publishes reports on road safety issues and detailed statistics on Puglia Region road traffic. CReMSS is also involved in road safety publicity campaign and surveys that monitor attitudes to key road safety issues. The present situation in Puglia region demonstrates an allarming situation as from 2006 the number of accidents has not reduced, and from the 2000 the number of accidents almost duplicates (from 5.883 in 2000 to 11.776 in 2007); the number of people killed went from 374 to 366 and the number of people injured from 9.866 to 19.652. For this reason the role of CReMSS is central and really important. The general objective that Puglia Region took has been the implementation of a monitoring centre to analyse and prevent road accidents with a specific target of the RegionalTerritory. The overall strategy underlying the actions undertaken by the Puglia Region is, as a main goal, the building of a new road safety culture to solicit attendance from the local authority, the region, other bodies dealing with the road network, schools and citizen association towards a safer and sustainable mobility. In addition, the enhancement of technical structures in charge of traffic and safety has been achieved. The expected results concern: – improvement of cooperation between all actors involved; – improvement of a local integrated culture about road safety; – availability of a powerful analysis tool and a Monitoring Centre; – development of some operational plans to improve safety and reduce crashes risks in the most critical points. – report progress in implementing the road safety strategy directed at reducing the number of accidents and casualties; – report the effectiveness of casualty reduction measures. – report on progress with road safety partnerships.

L'articolo, partendo da una descrizione delle attività e delle principali funzioni del Centro Regionale di Monitoraggio della Sicurezza Stradale CReMSS della regione Puglia, vuole fornire un quadro sullo stato della sicurezza della rete stradale pugliese. In particolare lo studio vuole evidenziare le criticità e i punti di forza del caso della Puglia, mettendo in evidenza il sistema di interventi messi in atto e programmati. Il CReMSS, istituito con la legge regionale 18/2004, rappresenta uno strumento di raccolta e di analisi dei dati sull'incidentalità al fine di indirizzare le politiche e gli interventi in materia di sicurezza stradale, così come previsto nel Piano Nazionale della Sicurezza Stradale (PNSS) legge 144/99. Le azioni del centro sono prevalentemente orientate al coordinamento e al raccordo con altri centri di monitoraggio (comunali, provinciali e nazionali) in modo da assicurare un'integrazione delle basi conoscitive e valutative del fenomeno incidentalità viaria e con tutti gli enti, le scuole di ogni ordine grado, e le realtà del privato sociale per diffondere i saperi e condividere le buone pratiche in materia di sicurezza stradale. ; The increasing amount of traffic on the Italian road system and the number of road accidents has put the attention of the road safety problem at European, National and Regional levels. The Italian Govern with the National Plan of Road Safety (PNSS 1999) defined the strategies for road safety and to reduce road accidents. The Puglia Region with the Regional Law 18/2004 instituted the Centre for Monitoring Road Safety (CReMSS), whose issue is to collect data about road incidents and accidents, to define potential risks and to improve road infrastructure. The CReMSS has defined an integrated monitoring centre for road safety and accident prevention, and constitute a central resource and information management centre. The main Puglia Region strategy on road safety is roads safer for everyone and the key targets is to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured in road accidents. The Cremss publishes reports on road safety issues and detailed statistics on Puglia Region road traffic. CReMSS is also involved in road safety publicity campaign and surveys that monitor attitudes to key road safety issues. The present situation in Puglia region demonstrates an allarming situation as from 2006 the number of accidents has not reduced, and from the 2000 the number of accidents almost duplicates (from 5.883 in 2000 to 11.776 in 2007); the number of people killed went from 374 to 366 and the number of people injured from 9.866 to 19.652. For this reason the role of CReMSS is central and really important. The general objective that Puglia Region took has been the implementation of a monitoring centre to analyse and prevent road accidents with a specific target of the RegionalTerritory. The overall strategy underlying the actions undertaken by the Puglia Region is, as a main goal, the building of a new road safety culture to solicit attendance from the local authority, the region, other bodies dealing with the road network, schools and citizen association towards a safer and sustainable mobility. In addition, the enhancement of technical structures in charge of traffic and safety has been achieved. The expected results concern: – improvement of cooperation between all actors involved; – improvement of a local integrated culture about road safety; – availability of a powerful analysis tool and a Monitoring Centre; – development of some operational plans to improve safety and reduce crashes risks in the most critical points. – report progress in implementing the road safety strategy directed at reducing the number of accidents and casualties; – report the effectiveness of casualty reduction measures. – report on progress with road safety partnerships.

Environmental quality is fundamental for the well being of human life. Environmental risk assessment and analysis have a crucial role for guaranteeing the safety of the population, especially in intensive urbanized and industrialized areas, such as the Campania region (Italy). In Italy, after the Legislative Decree 152/2006, the environmental risk assessment has become mandatory for contaminated lands such as brownfields and dismantled industrial activities. Despite the importance and fragility of the soil, it is rarely taken into account as a resource to be preserved. Moreover, due to the heterogeneity of many variables involved in the process, the environmental and human health risk assessments are used at the scale of a site, while the regional evaluation is very difficult, and keeps the administration sceptical in taking it into account for land planning and decision-making processes. During the last years, some international methodologies for ecological and human health risk assessment have been developed by national environmental agencies in many industrialized countries. An idea recently took place regarding the protection of soils: the monitoring of soil should be limited only to risk areas, as opposed to monitoring systems covering the entire territory. Focusing monitoring in selected areas would help to define priorities, increase efficiency of monitoring activities and reduce the monitoring costs. This is the reason why many methodologies for preliminary and simplified risk assessment of (potentially) contaminated sites, for the prioritization and planning of soil remediation and protection programmes, were developed. The only lack that these methodologies have is the absence of the spatial analysis. The aim of this research was to implement the human health risk assessment. For the purposes of the study we used 3535 topsoil samples, collected across the whole regional territory. The concentrations of 53 elements have been determined at Bureau Veritas Analytical Lab. Ltd (Vancouver, Canada), by means of an Aqua Regia extraction followed by a combination of ICP-MS and ICP-AES methods. After the statistical and cartographic elaboration of these regional dataset, we integrated one of the model of relative risk assessment for single contaminated sites with spatial analysis procedures. In order to support the spatial assessment of contaminated sites at the regional scale, the most suitable tool is the Geographic Information System (GIS). A new approach was applied, in order to assess/rank environmental risk by using geospatial analysis in a GIS platform to adapt a European-wide accepted methodology for the preliminary assessment of human health risks at single contaminated sites to a regional scale. The developed regional risk assessment methodology can be used by the regional administrations to select at regional level the "problem or priority areas". The identification of the problem areas is necessary for developing an efficient monitoring system and to produce a ranking of the risky areas to be used as a reference in determining the development of intervention plans, for better addressing the resources dedicated to the environmental remediation of widely contaminated regions. The methodology chosen as a reference for the risk assessment procedures is the PRA.MS (Preliminary risk assessment model for the identification of problem areas for soil contamination in Europe, 2005). Following the PRA.MS guidelines, a conceptual model for the human health risk assessment for the Campania region has been based on four different exposure routes: 1) dispersion of contaminants in groundwater, 2) dispersion in surface water, 3) dispersion in air, 4) direct contact with the contaminated media (soils). The source, the pathway and the receptor for each of the exposure route are scored on the base of a quantitative or qualitative analysis of some featuring characteristics (parameters). A total of 14 representative parameters were chosen, basing on the available regional data for Campania. Starting from these parameters values, the information is aggregated to higher levels in several steps, adopting a mixed additive and multiplicative algorithm, up to the overall risk score. The final risk map is classified according four classes of risk. This map was useful to identify the problem areas, characterized by a higher risk, where more detailed analysis had to be carried out. The identified area was located in a wide territory in the center of Campania region, between Avellino and Salerno municipalities, an high populated zone, where intensive agricultural and industrial activities are well developed. A high density survey has been carried out in this priority area; the concentrations of 53 elements have been measured on 102 new topsoil samples, followed by statistic and cartographic elaboration of the 15 potentially toxic elements (Sb, As, Be, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, Se, Sn, Tl, V, Zn) for which the Italian legislation (D.Lgs. 152/06) established the trigger and action limits, by defining the contamination threshold values (CSC) for the amount of metals in topsoils or waters. The new methodology of GIS-based human health risk assessment has been again applied, in order to select sites of particular significance in terms of danger for the resident population. Some small areas characterized by high risk have been identified. New in situ measurements and classic follow up risk assessment should be here carried out to confirm if remediation actions are needed to guaranteeing the safety of the population. Other works has been contemporaneously elaborated during the PhD. Six months have been spent at the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK), where a work on a humus samples dataset have been carried out, under the supervision of Dr. Timo Tarvainen. Moreover a new Geochemical Atlas will be completed based on inorganic elements and organic compounds concentrations in marine sediments samples, collected in the Gulfs of Naples and Salerno.

Roman amphitheatres are an interesting field of investigation and allow to analyze and classify structural instability, recurrent forms of degradation and anomalies related to their accessibility. These critical issues emerge, in particular, from the study of two interesting case studies, the Roman Amphitheatre in Tarragona, Spain, and the Roman Amphitheatre of Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy. Through a contextual interpretation of literary, historiographic and iconographic testimonies, in the light of the expertise of architectural restoration and an in situ cognitive campaign supported by surveys, the main theoretical and design nodes connected to the restoration and enhancement of these monumental complexes are identified: knowledge, conservation, use and management, understood as scheduled maintenance and constant monitoring.

The Stanze della Moda project has set up an Observatory with the purpose of economic and management monitoring of the fabric of the Florentine companies through a marketing and research workshop. The analysis of several major international retailers demonstrates the emergence of a successful business model which, albeit in some respects idiosyncratic and difficult to transfer, represents an innovative stimulus for companies in the sector that want to redefine their competitiveness in the face of the altered market conditions. The focus on the Florentine companies delineates the ways in which the local manufacturers intercept the purchasing channels of major retail, creating a mediated form of sales on the international markets

Cover -- Quartino -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I - Defining state secrecy -- Chapter 1 - State secrecy in domestic legal systems -- Chapter 2 - State secrecy in the international legal system -- Part II - State secrecy and the international protection of human rights -- Chapter 3 - State secrecy and treaty monitoring bodies'practice -- Chapter 4 - State secrecy beyond treaties: towards a customary norm prohibiting recourse to state secrecy to conceal gross human rights violations? -- Part III - Theoretical and practical issues arising from the horizoantal and vertical interaction among norms and legal orders -- Chapter 5 - From state to international organisation secrecy -- Chapter VI - To disclose or not to disclose state secrets? The dilemmas of interstate cooperation in the field of intelligence, diplomacy, and mutual legal assistence -- General conclusions -- Bibliography -- Printed by.

Questo articolo analizza le prospettive della Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite contro il crimine organizzato transnazionale dopo l'istituzione nel 2018 di un meccanismo di riesame preposto al suo monitoraggio. La tesi qui sostenuta è che il Review Mechanism, nonostante i suoi limiti strutturali, potrebbe potenzialmente contribuire a comprendere il funzionamento della Convenzione di Palermo sul piano pratico e rafforzare il ruolo della società civile nel contrasto del crimine organizzato transnazionale. ; This article examines the perspectives of the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime after the creation of its Review Mechanism in 2018. This essay seeks to demonstrate that despite its structural flaws this treaty monitoring body could potentially contribute to understand the functioning of the Palermo Convention in practice, and to strengthen the role of civil society in the fight against transnational organized crime.

The Emilia-Romagna regional government decided to develop a monitoring and surveillance system, known as MonITER (Incineration Monitoring on the Emilia-Romagna Territory), in 8 areas characterized by the presence of municipal waste incinerating plants.The project was divided into 7 lines, among these the number 6 developed a procedure of Health Impact Assessments (HIA) to support the planning of new facilities for incineration or combustion. Line number 6 is divided into 3 actions action 1 aimed to developing and validating a participative HIA methodology, as well tools for the impact assessment and recommendations for implementing HIA on future plants; action 2 analysed connected issues on communication; action 3 was focused to developing a methodology for integrating HIA models into existing tools for mandatory impact assessment.Tailoring the HIA model development to the waste management context has highlighted the fundamental differences of the HIA approach with the other mandatory assessment tools, being theoretically founded on the principles of public involvement, equity, sustainable development and ethical use of evidence. ; Il Progetto Moniter della Regione Emilia-Romagna (delibera 466/2007) ha realizzato un sistema di sorveglianza ambientale e di valutazione epidemiologica nelle aree circostanti gli otto inceneritori di rifiuti urbani della regione. Il progetto ? articolato in sette linee progettuali (LP). La LP6 ha elaborato un percorso di Valutazione di impatto sulla salute (VIS) applicabile alla pianificazione di impianti di incenerimento o combustione di futura realizzazione. Essa si articola in 3 azioni: l'azione 1 ha condotto una specifica ricerca di materiali e metodi finalizzata alla stesura e validazione di una procedura di VIS partecipativa, degli strumenti di supporto al processo di valutazione e delle raccomandazioni per l'applicazione della VIS a futuri impianti; l'azione 2 ha approfondito l'analisi della comunicazione; l'azione 3 si ? occupata dell'elaborazione di modelli per l'integrazione della VIS nelle altre forme di valutazione esistenti nel territorio. Analizzando il tema dei rifiuti ? emerso con forza che la novit? della VIS rispetto alle altre valutazioni normate risiede nell'applicazione dei valori di fondo che la ispirano: partecipazione pubblica, equit?, sviluppo sostenibile e uso etico delle prove scientifiche.

Starting from an analysis of the relationship between cognitive variables (such as the "level of interest in politics") & evaluative-affective variables (in particular, individual evaluations of political leaders), this article explores the perception that different segments of the electorate had of Silvio Berlusconi & of his Center-Left opponent Francesco Rutelli. Focus is on the degree of popularity of the two candidates & voters' opinions of their personal & political qualities. These two aspects of the candidate evaluation process are taken into account in both relational & diachronic terms, the former with special attention to the concept of "coalition belonging" that applies the classic notion of partisanship to the new main cleavage in Italian electoral politics, & the latter monitoring the evolution of voters' attitudes toward the candidates & identifying four main effects of the electoral campaign: "polarization," "involvement gap," "vedette," & "disenchantment.". 19 Tables, 1 Figure, 20 References. Adapted from the source document.

This paper outlines the EU regulatory framework and analyses current practice in four European countries in respect of public procurement and tendering of ferry services. Tender management for major ferry services resides with national government agencies, while tenders for smaller volume regional and/or inter-isles services are generally managed by local authorities and/or regional transport authorities. Operator selection criteria increasingly emphasises service quality aspects, and environmental impacts, as well as price (i.e. amount of subsidy required). There is a continued trend towards privately-owned operators providing and investing in essential ferry services, with an increasing role played by larger international integrated transport organisations. For transport authorities, ferry service procurement involves a continuous evolutionary process of specifying, offering, selecting, monitoring and reviewing services supplied. Based on the information collected and analysed, the authors have developed a 'tender route map' which explains the different stages and key issues concerning public procurement of ferry services.

The future of cities and their development are closely related to their rapid digital transformation. To build this policy and implement the transition, it is necessary to start from an analysis of the needs of the territories and measure the results over time. Defining the performance of the city is essential to achieve better results for citizens and stakeholders. In literature, numerous studies investigate the relationship between city and innovation while few try to define a methodological approach to measure the public value produced by the use of digital technologies. It is therefore essential to focus on measuring the level of implementation of the digital agenda. The purpose of this paper is to assess the adequacy of the programs dedicated to Digital Agenda of Italian Metropolitan Cities and to provide a standard methodology for monitoring and measuring the implementation of the Digital Transformation at local level. The proposed scheme is general and scalable for different kind of local territory.

The article deals with an analysis of the EU border protection apparatus, in the context of the joint border surveillance initiative (EUROSUR), with special reference to the competences of the new European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex). In September 2018, the European Commission suggested strengthening the mission of the European Border and Coast Guard, issuing a regulation proposal with the aims to establish a permanent body entrusted with the protection of EU maritime borders. EU policy concerning the role and responsibilities of the European Member States, i.e.coastal States, is then examined in the light of International Law of the Sea, with special reference to limits of State jurisdiction concerning monitoring and controlofactivities in the high sea areas. In this context, the debated question of the existence, or not, of a contiguous Italian zone will also be mentioned. Finally, the paper pointsout the utilities that can arise from an organized sharing information system between all the subjects that play a central role in managing safety at sea

Il Terzo Rapporto sulle Reti del Terzo Settore è la prima ricerca nazionale realizzata dal Forum nazionale del Terzo Settore insieme con la Sapienza Università di Roma. Il primo capitolo del volume ha proprio l'obiettivo di analizzare il significato della ricerca, alla luce sia delle importanti trasformazioni politico-legislative del settore, sia della nuova collaborazione con l'università. Alla premessa segue la presentazione degli obiettivi, delle azioni e del metodo di ricerca, e quella dell'universo di organizzazioni coinvolte nel monitoraggio. ; The Third Report on the Networks of the Third Sector is the first research made by the National Forum in collaboration with the Sapienza University of Rome. The first chapter is aimed at analyzing the meaning of the research, in the light of both the important political and legal transformations of this sector, and the new partnership with the Sapienza. This premise is followed by the presentation of the research goals, phases and methods, and finally the statistical universal of the organizations involved in the monitoring.

Over the last decade, the digitalization of China has been running together with the general growth of the country's economy. The local government has endeavored to provide the country with a modern telecommunication infrastructure and to support the diffusion of mobile technology. Today the number of Chinese net citizens is not far away from reaching 600 million users. However, the censorship system which has always affected the flow of information and content within this country seems not to weaken. Despite the Internet is becoming more and more embedded in people's everyday life, the censorship demonstrates a formidable resilience to adapt to the new platforms made available by this revolutionary tool. A technologic blocking and filtering effort combined with the continuous monitoring and controlling of users' virtual activities makes the best of the so-called 'Great Firewall': a censorship system that would not be possible without the collaboration of the population itself and its willingness to actively practice self-censorship and self-restraint.

Lo studio propone un metodo standardizzato per la realizzazione di check-list biologiche per Siti Natura 2000 e l'aggiornamento dei relativi quadri conoscitivi. Tale metodo standardizza la metodologia di ogni fase dalla raccolti dati e dalla scelta delle fonti bibliografiche, alla scelta dei gruppi tassonomici per cui risulta prioritaria un'indagine su campo, alla determinazione della normativa e delle liste di attenzione su cui basare un aggiornamento dei formulari standard. Il metodo è stato applicato alla ZSC "Monte Calvi di Campiglia" portando alla realizzazione di campagne di monitoraggio per piante vascolari, piccoli mammiferi, rettili e anfibi. Per le indagini floristiche è stato realizzato un indicatore composito denominato Indice di Priorità d'Indagine, per determinare gli ambienti sui quali investire maggiori sforzi in base all'eterogeneità e alle conoscenze pregresse. Per i gruppi zoologici indagati sono stati applicate metodologie di monitoraggio differenziate in base alle caratteristiche delle specie indagate. Lo studio ha prodotto un aumento superiore al 100% per ogni gruppo tassonomico delle specie protette o d'interesse conservazionistico, riportando inoltre le prime indagini su piccoli mammiferi e anfibi per l'area della ZSC "Monte Calvi di Campiglia". Sono state inoltre indagate le possibili applicazioni del metodo al di fuori del territorio regionale, e le prospettive future di applicazione dell'Indice di Priorità d'Indagine. This study proposes an innovative, standardized method for the creation of biological checklists of Natura 2000 sites and the updating of the related summaries of knowledge. Each phase of the methodology is standardized: data collection and selection of proper bibliographic sources, determination of taxonomic groups that require priority field survey, selection of current legislation and formulation of attention lists necessary for the updating of standard forms. This approach was applied to the ZSC "Monte Calvi di Campiglia", through monitoring campaigns for vascular plants, small mammals, reptiles and amphibians. A composite indicator was created for floristic investigations, named "Investigation Priority Index", to determine where to invest greater sampling efforts on the base of environment heterogeneity and level of previous knowledge. Specific monitoring methodologies were applied to zoological groups, based on the characteristics of the investigated species. This study resulted in an increase in report of protected species and species of conservation interest of more than 100% for each investigated taxonomic group. Besides, the first investigations on small mammals and amphibians for the "Monte Calvi di Campiglia" ZSC area is here reported. Lastly, we discuss the possible applications of the method outside the regional territory and the prospects of future application of the Investigation Priority Index.