Italy Report 2011

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS Italy: a therapy of the choosing by Gian Maria Fara, President of Eurispes CHAPTER 1 – TRUST/CONFIDENCE Is trust good? Not trusting is better!

1. Citizens’ trust in institutions (survey)
2. Banks and insurance companies: Italians in a crisis of trust (survey)
3. Italians and public services (survey)
4. From the paper economy to the economy of raw materials
5. The Italian agri-food trade
6. Food, labels and product origins
7. Bilateralism: a new frontier in consumer protection
8. Cultural heritage and identity
9. Renewable energy sources in Italy
10. The pleasure of living in Italy (survey)

CHAPTER 2 – PLANNING/IMPROVISATION Foreseeing and preventing

11. Is Italy losing competitiveness? A critique of international competitiveness indices
12. The Italian transhipment crisis in the Mediterranean context: Taranto, Gioia Tauro, Cagliari
13. Local planning tools
14. Special laws for cities: case studies and initiatives for Florence
15. Recycling and best practices. The role of communication in the separate collection and management of the waste cycle
16. Air quality in Italian cities: from emergency measures to a rational approach
17. Study of nutrient loads: an application to the Po river basin
18. Operational oceanography: an advanced tool for the management of emergencies at sea and in the coastal zone
19. From consumerism to critical consumption: 2010 the year against food waste
20. The Italian film industry

CHAPTER 3 – WELLBEING/DISCOMFORT Well-being and malaise: from the speed camera to Wall Street

21. The economic condition of families (survey)
22. Inflation: poor and mistreated
23. Italian tourism with a thousand faces
24. Guardia di Finanza’s activities to protect agri-environmental and agri-food safety
25. Computerised infrastructures
26. Juvenile crime: young hooligans, young robbers, young bullies
27. Ethical fashion, technology and fashion consumption in today’s society
28. Who is afraid of the psychologist?
29. Pet live: pets and their surroundings (survey)

Health culture and living will (survey) CHAPTER 4 – CITIZENSHIP/SUBJECTION Citizens of the world

31. Citizens and politics (survey)
32. European day, working together
33. When flexibility is synonymous with precariousness
34. Immigrants in the labour market. Employment, entrepreneurship, illegal hiring
35. Families and banks: an “almost equal” relationship
36. Latest news from crime: crimes and territory
37. Looking at the world through a window: life in Italian prisons
38. Social integration of disabled citizens
39. Italian volunteering: between identity and future
40. The health system between diagnosis and therapy

CHAPTER 5 – NORTH/SOUTH The dis-Unity of Italy

41. Unity of Italy (survey)
42. Comparing North and South: economy, labour market, infrastructures, welfare
43. Fiscal federalism: quantitative aspects and simulation of standard requirements
44. Industrial districts in Italy. An ongoing challenge
45. The relationship between banks and SMEs
46. Defending the economy and the market
47. The usury risk index: a map of Italy
48. Index of mafia penetration
49. Inside the League
50. Italian emigration: I go, I come back, I stay?

CHAPTER 6 – MAN/WOMAN An irreconcilable universe or a possible union?

51. Desperate housewives, between old stereotypes and new responsibilities (survey)
52. Men in front of the mirror: growing male attention to aesthetics
53. Without children, when the choice is to remain two
54. Separated fathers and single-parent families: the new poor
55. Italian women, the rise to power
56. Women and work. Female enterprise
57. Persecutio temporum: the (contemporary) art of mailing
58. Post-partum depression: from baby blues to infanticide
59. 1981-2011 Referendum on abortion, thirty years later
60. Odi et amo: the torment of “domestic murderers”