The Lazio Regional Coordination for Public Water was born thanks to a group of citizens and activists aiming at stop the privatization of public water, started in the 1990s and consolidated in 2000. When in 2006, the Legislative Decree 152/2006 was issued, activists began to converge into a national movement: the Italian Water Movement Forum. [...]
Over the last twenty years, the international community has begun to recognize the connection that climate change and the environment have on human mobility. All continents and countries are affected by climate change. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) noted that since 2009, 26.4 million people migrate due to natural disasters. In 2015, worldwide, disasters, [...]
In 1974, in the framework of a general industrial plan for enhancing the use of nuclear energy, the Lazio Region approved the location of an electronuclear plant in the Upper Lazio, on the coastal strip that includes Montalto di Castro and other eleven municipalities :a central and important area especially for the agricultural and tourist [...]
Discovered in 1989, Tempa Rossa is located in southern Italy, in the Basilicate region, namely the Sauro high valley, at an altitude of 1,000 meters and among the Appennino Lucano Val D’Agri Lagonegrese National Park and the Gallipoli Cognato Regional Park. From the unitized Gogoglione concession (Total 50%, Shell 25% and Mitsui 25%) is expected [...]
The Tap, Trans Adriatic Pipeline is a project aimed to secure a new and alternative gas supply to the European Union member States thanks to natural gas from Azerbaijan, through the so-called Southern Gas Corridor. Tap will run through Greece and Albania, under the Adriatic Sea and it is supposed to end in Salento, Apulia. [...]
The Seveso disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on July 10, 1976, in a small chemical manufacturing plant approximately 20 kilometers north of Milan in the Lombardy region of Italy. It is known as the highest known exposure to (TCDD) in residential populations, which gave rise to numerous scientific studies and standardized industrial safety [...]
The cause-and-effect relationship between water stress, as desertification or drought, and migration has been recognized by different stakeholders, especially in the Ethiopian Case. Certainly water stress will play out differently in the various parts of the world and will be perceived differently according to the specific ecological, political, economic and cultural conditions. Desertification and drought [...]
The Niger Delta, located in south Nigeria, is one of the richest regions in Oil in Africa. Despite the richness in natural resources, from 1956 on only Multinational Oil Company contractors and corrupted politicians have been benefiting from oil and gas production. Furthermore, local population -being local economy based on agriculture and fishery -, and [...]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change putted into evidence that global climate change is a serious concern for small islands above sea level, especially due to the effects of sea level rise. Within a few decades, small islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans risk being extensively or even completely submerged. In this context, the people [...]
Ilva is a steel producer company founded by Riva family in 1905 in Taranto, South of Italy. It is one of the biggest steel plant in Western Europe, as it employees 12.000 employees and makes profit of billions of euros. Despite several warning from ARPA, the local environmental authority, ILVA never renewed the filters or the [...]
