Spatial Environmental and Resource Economics

Although the spatial dimension is embedded in the vast majority of issues studied by environmental and resource economics, its incorporation into economic models - especially in the form of explicit introduction of a spatial transport mechanism - is not widespread. As a result, important aspects of these issues may not be accounted for, which could lead to regulatory inefficiencies.

Prof. Anastasios Xepapadeas (University of Athens and University of Bologna) delivered a lecture on the major spatial transport mechanisms, along with the methods to incorporate them into forward-looking optimizing economic models. Prof. Massimiliano Mazzanti (University of Ferrara) intervened during the event and the discussion was moderated by Riccardo Spani (FEEM).

The event was organised by the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in collaboration with the Italian Forum for Sustainable Finance (ItaSIF) and Nedcommunity and as part of the project DeRisk-CO.