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Primerano, Giuseppe Andrea - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Soil consumption and public policies of Territorial Government
    Giappichelli, 2019
    Co-Authors: Primerano, Giuseppe Andrea
    Abstract:

    The soil consumption is currently regulated by a set of rules fragmented and difficult to harmonize. This framework is accompanied by a system of multilevel governance where a plurality of subjects operate in a mix of conflicts and cooperation. A rational use of the soil represents an unavoidable circumstance in order to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Within this scenario, a central role is assumed by tools with strategic vocation and consideration of wide areas, such as environmental assessment, landscape plans and other Territorial coordination plans, but also, on a smaller scale, by programs of urban regeneration. Local communities should always be in condition to point out the interventions necessary to enhance their peculiarities which impose an approach based not just on legal and economic profiles, but also connected to Territorial sciences, like architecture and engineering, agriculture and ecology. The essay has the aim to prove that, following a multidisciplinary approach, it is going to be required a new paradigm focused on the restraint of soil consumption, which arises at guiding principle in the future Territorial Government public policies hinged on criteria of sustainable development

  • Soil Consumption and public policies of Territorial Government
    Giappichelli Editore, 2019
    Co-Authors: Primerano, Giuseppe Andrea
    Abstract:

    The importance to reflect carefully on soil consumption is largely proved by several national and supranational data such as proposals of law, soft law, directives, documents of analysis. In the past, the deepening of such theme was prevented by virtue of the dominant neoliberal vision hostile to prefigure excessive interferences in the property right, but it is significant that the European Soil Charter already defined soil «a limited resource which is easily destroyed». The soil recognition in terms of limited, essentially nonrenewable, resource provokes a conflict between the pretense to exploit lands by virtue of property rights and the public utility connected to a natural resource. The absence of a uniform discipline applicable in the European context and, as consequence, in many countries, for instance Italy, is suitable to generate uncertainties, especially towards the local administrations responsible for urban planning activities. As it was clearly affirmed by the European Commission «developments in soil sealing are largely determined by spatial planning strategies where unfortunately the effects of irreplaceable soil losses are often not sufficiently taken into account». It is, therefore, recommendable a renewed approach in the definition and implementation of practices, methodologies, procedures eligible to ensure the sustainability of public decision models, in particular those ones related to the organization and the planning of the urban systems

Giuseppe Mobilio - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Territorial Government reforms at the time of financial crisis: the dawn of metropolitan cities in Italy
    Regional & Federal Studies, 2016
    Co-Authors: Erik Longo, Giuseppe Mobilio
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    ABSTRACTOn 1 January 2015 a new institution, the metropolitan city, took its place among the Italian Territorial authorities. Despite its incorporation in the Italian Constitution since 2001, the metropolitan city become a reality only when the national Government carried out a process of reform and transformation of Italian Territorial Government by transforming 10 large cities into metropolitan cities and depriving other intermediate Governments (regions and provinces) of their fundamental competences. This article critically reviews the activation of metropolitan cities and the reshuffle of Italian Territorial authorities. It stresses the way in which this reform marks the shift towards a new phase of Italian regionalism, which is dominated both by a dynamic of recentralizing interGovernmental relations and by the resulting loss for provincial and regional Governments.

  • Territorial Government Reforms at the Time of Financial Crisis: The Dawn of Metropolitan Cities in Italy
    SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
    Co-Authors: Erik Longo, Giuseppe Mobilio
    Abstract:

    The Italian system of local Government has experienced a series of fundamental innovations during the last decade. Although Italy’s Territorial Government has moved from a light to a stronger decentralization, the Country has been embedded in an endless transition process. The last few years have witnessed a hectic period of draft constitutional amendments whose results remain to be seen. On 1st Jan. 2015 a new institution, the metropolitan city, took its place among the Italian Territorial authorities. Despite its incorporation in the Italian Constitution since 2001, the metropolitan city only become a reality only when the national Government carried out process of reform and transformation of Italian Territorial Government by transforming ten large cities and into metropolitan cities and depriving other intermediate Governments (regions and provinces) of their fundamental competencies. This paper critically reviews the activation of metropolitan cities and the reshuffle of Italian Territorial authorities made by the ‘Delrio’ Law. It stresses the way in which this reform marks the shift towards a new phase of the Italian regionalism, which is dominated both by a dynamic of re-centralizing interGovernmental relations and by the resulting loss for provincial and regional Governments.

Miguel Roigalonso - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • visibility of public budget burdens and benefits in new european union member countries
    ERSA conference papers, 2005
    Co-Authors: Miguel Roigalonso
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    The size and pattern of any public budget depend, among other factors, on the visibility of both the burdens and benefits of public revenue and expenditure. Furthermore, such visibility is a necessary - not a sufficient - condition for an efficient allocation of resources between the private and public sectors of an economy. The aim of this contribution, based on a recent research, is to apply fiscal visibility indicators to Territorial Government levels of new European Union member countries by using data and new qualitative information provided by the International Monetary Fund to draw relevant policy conclusions. Results obtained are particularly important for present and future European Union member countries aiming to make their respective fiscal systems converge for a better integration process, since significant allocation improvements can be obtained by implementing economic policy changes (public accounting systems, tax systems, public deficit management techniques...) in the new European Union member countries to raise both multiplicative and additive visibility values of public budget burdens and benefits and to bring them near to their optimal values. The proposed methodology, applied to former and new European Union member countries, can also be extended to other OECD economies to check whether the European Union pattern is shared by all developed countries and to design future general economic policies.

  • visibility of burdens and benefits of public revenue and expenditure in oecd countries with two and three levels of Territorial Government
    ERSA conference papers, 2003
    Co-Authors: Miguel Roigalonso
    Abstract:

    The size and pattern of any public budget depend, among other factors, on the visibility of both the burdens and benefits of public revenue and expenditure. Furthermore, such visibility is a necessary - not a sufficient - condition for an efficient allocation of resources between the private and public sectors of an economy. Although the importance of this visibility has been well known by academicians and practitioners for a long time, attempts to quantify it by taking the internal structure of every type of revenue and expenditure and its relative financial weight in a fiscal system into consideration are recent, and indicators used till now rest on several structural parameters, each of them ranging from to 1, which are combined in a multiplicative way. For this reason a estimate has always resulted as anyone of such factors was also 0. Starting from the same parameters, factors, and initial values, an alternative and more fruitful way to measure visibility of burdens and benefits of a public budget can consist of combining them in an additive instead of a multiplicative way. Then a null parametric value does not result in a estimate, and calculations can show higher final values which could be much more sensitive to the initial values of other parameters and factors. After six years of research in the scientific speciality of Fiscal Federalism, the aim of this contribution is to present, for the first time, new additive indicators applied to local, intermediate, and central Territorial Government levels in Austria, Canada, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and USA, and to compare them with estimates for the local and central Territorial Government levels in the remaining OECD countries (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Island, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom), by using data and essential information provided by the International Monetary Fund. The concurrence of several factors (such as non-coerciveness, non-existence of specific requitals, lack of information on concepts and quantities, partial shifting of burden by tax-payers, interGovernmental grants, etc.) explain why burden visibility values are still lower than 100.00. On the other hand, burden visibility values for the consolidated central Government are higher than those estimated for the intermediate and local levels of same countries, mainly owing to significant grants received by the subcentral public administrations from central public administrations. Policy implications of these new estimates are straightforward for OECD countries: as both present revenue and benefit visibility are not near to 100.00 en general, allocation improvements could be obtained by implementing changes and reforms to raise values in general and by approaching these two types of budget visibility to such an optimal value. Other general and significant conclusions are offered for re-organization of Territorial levels of governmnent in every country, devolution of powers, accountability, and optimization of sizes and patterns of public budgets.

  • elements for an economic assessment of intermediate Territorial levels of Government in european countries
    ERSA conference papers, 1998
    Co-Authors: Miguel Roigalonso
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    Intermediate Territorial levels of Government in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Spain are quite different regarding their basic institutions, devolved powers, revenue and public expenditure systems, public revenue equalization mechanisms, accountability, public performance management, financial control bodies, etc. In spite of the complexity derived from these different characteristics, the economic operation of such intermediate Territorial levels of Government can be analyzed, evaluated and compared from both the efficiency and equity viewpoints. >From the theory of fiscal federalism and the analysis and comparisons of the institutional and organization aspects, constitutions and basic laws, budgets, public accounts, etc. of such countries, and taking the European Union integration process into account - with present and future repercussions on powers of central and sub-central Territorial levels of Government of member countries -, this paper aims: first, to identify the main inefficiency and equity problems posed by each of the different sub-systems for financing the intermediate Territorial levels of Territorial Government in these four countries; second, to present some criteria and useful indicators for assessing the economic operation of such levels of Government in a simple, significant and standardized way; third, to advance estimates concerning some economic indicators; fourth, to draw up some conclusions for improving economic efficiency in the allocation of public resources among levels of Government and inter-Territorial equity. The methodology, solutions and reforms proposed are of general interest for other European countries planning to create or develop their own intermediate Territorial levels of Government. Keywords: fiscal federalism, intermediate Governments.

Miguel Roig-alonso - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Alternative fiscal visibility estimates for some OECD countries with three levels of Territorial Government levels
    2002
    Co-Authors: Miguel Roig-alonso
    Abstract:

    The size and pattern of any public budget depend, among other factors, on the visibility of both the burdens and benefits of public revenue and expenditure. Furthermore, such visibility is a necessary - not a sufficient - condition for an efficient allocation of resources between the private and public sector of an economy. Although the importance of this visibility has been well known by academicians and practitioners for a long time, attempts to quantify it by taking the internal structure of every type of revenue or expenditure and its relative financial weight in a fiscal system into consideration are recent, and indicators used till now rest on several structural parameters, each of them conventionally ranging from 0 to 1, which are combined in a multiplicative way. For this reason, a 0 estimate will always result as one of such factors is, at least, also 0. Starting from the same parameters, factors, and initial values, an alternative and probably more fruitful way to measure visibility of burdens and benefits of a public budget can consist of combining them in an additive instead of multiplicative way. Then a null parametric value will not result in a 0 estimate, and calculations can show higher final values which could be much more sensitive to the initial values of other parameters and factors. The aim of this contribution, based on a recent research, is to present and compare new additive indicators applied to local, intermediate, and central Territorial Government levels in Austria, Canada, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and USA by using data and qualitative information provided by the International Monetary Fund. Comparisons, conclusions, and comments are offered for general criticism, discussion, and development.

  • A New Methodology for Fiscal Visibility of Territorial Government Levels
    2001
    Co-Authors: Miguel Roig-alonso
    Abstract:

    The size and pattern of any public budget depend, among other factors, on the visibility of both the burdens and benefits of public revenue and expenditure. Furthermore, such visibility is a necessary - not a sufficient - condition for an efficient allocation of resources between the private and public sectors of an economy. Although the importance of this visibility has been well known by academicians and practitioners for a long time, attemps to quantify it by taking the internal structure of every type of revenue or expenditure and its relative financial weight in a fiscal system into consideration are recent, and indicators used till now rest on several structural parameters, each of them ranging from 0 to 1, which are combined in a multiplicative way. For this reason, a 0 estimate will always result if one of such factors is, at least, also 0. Starting from the same parameters, factors, and initial values, an alternative and probably more fruitful way to measure visibility of burdens and benefits of a public budget can consist of combining them in an additive instead of a multiplicative way. Then a null parametric value will not result in a 0 estimate, and calculations can show higher final values which could be much more sensitive to the initial values of other parameters and factors. The aim of this contribution, based on a recent research, is to present and compare new additive indicators to be applied to the several - local, intermediate, central - Territorial Government levels in the European Union and OECD member countries by using data and qualitative information provided by the International Monetary Fund. Comparisons, conclusions, and comments are offered for general criticism and discussion.