Past projects

The main goal of the project is to study the relationship between socioeconomic (supply and demand level and composition, water and energy consumption, pollutants emissions, demographic trends, environmental policies) and environmental dynamics (pollution, CO2 concentration and climate change, water availability, etc.), with a specific focus on feedbacks existing between the two dimensions.

Our primary focus will be on energy production and CO2 emissions. This implies to analyze, on the supply side, the dynamics of the energy sector and the spreading of low-carbon activities; and to study, on the demand side, the factors influencing consumer behaviour. A secondary focus, whose feasibility will be evaluated on the grounds of the results of first phase of the project, is related to water use, including water availability and management. The project has had a very interdisciplinary character involving economists, sociologists, natural scientists.