Catching up! The sexual behaviour and opinions of Italian students (2000–2017)

While sexuality has radically changed across middle–high-income societies in recent years, only outdated studies are available for Italy. We aim to provide novel insights into the sexual behaviour and opinions of young Italians diachronically and through a gendered lens. Our analysis compares the results of two national samples of university students collected in 2000 and 2017. The sexual behaviour and opinions of young men and women seem to be converging in several respects. We observed a fe...

Emergenza sanitaria (inter)nazionale e regionalismo (differenziato): un ossimoro?

Dimensione “patrimoniale” del dato personale e tutele risarcitorie

Il fenomeno della “patrimonializzazione” dei dati personali è legato all’evoluzione dei mercati digitali ed al loro utilizzo nel quotidiano; tale aspetto costituisce però un rischio per i diritti fondamentali dei singoli utenti a scapito del diritto di riservatezza. Se i dati personali vengono considerati quali beni commerciali e controprestazioni contrattuali, ne discende che il nuovo significato fornito al dato personale comporta che è quanto mai fondamentale la chiarezza e completezza di u...

Transition to a Sustainable Circular Plastics Economy in The Netherlands: Discourse and Policy Analysis

The circular economy (CE) has become a key sustainability discourse in the last decade. The Netherlands seeks to become fully circular by 2050 and the EU has set ambitious circularity targets in its CE Action Plan of 2015. The plastics sector, in particular, has gained a lot of attention as it is a priority area of both the EU and Dutch CE policies. However, there has been little research on the different and often contested discourses, governance processes and policy mechanisms guiding the t...