by Chiara Fratalia | Jun 29, 2016 | Commons Press
“The tragedy of urban roads: Saving cities from choking, calling on citizens to combat climate change” is an article wrote by LabGov coordinator, prof. Christian Iaione, and published on the Fordham Urban Law Journal in 2009.
This article argues that the best response to the tragedy of road congestion has to rely on market-based regulatory techniques and public policies aimed at controlling the demand-side of transportation congestion. Among market-based regulatory techniques, economists seem to favor price-based instruments over quantity-based instruments. This article argues instead that quantity instruments, such as tradable permits of road usage and real estate development, can better internalize all the externalities that road congestion produces. This article also advances the idea that quantity instruments are more successful tools in addressing urban congestion for four reasons: (1) they respond better to equity concerns; (2) they are therefore more politically viable; (3) they are more likely to be well designated; and (4) they are able to represent a catch-all strategy for externalities produced by congestion.
Part II of this Article illustrates that the costs that congestion imposes on society or, to use the preferred language of economists, the negative externalities that road congestion produces. Part III sheds light on the underlying causes of urban congestion. Part IV enumerates regulatory tools that are available to address the negative externalities of urban congestion and proposes a comparative analysis of the different strategies that have been implemented to address this problem throughout the world. Part V outlines possible policy options that should complement the regulatory framework. Finally, the last section concludes by stressing the need for further differentiation and experimentation in order to shape a new understanding in the use and management of the “commons” and advocates for a bottom-up regulatory strategy to address climate change and global warming, a strategy centered upon the regulation of individual behavior at the urban level.
If you are interested in this subject, please explore the full article here.
by Chiara De Angelis | Jun 28, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
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omorrow, the 29th of June, Regione Toscana, Anci Toscana and Open Toscana will host in Florence a conference all about collaboration.
Various experts will discuss about the idea the collaboration, which will be declined under different aspects: from governance to digital, from innovation to security and regeneration of the territory.
Professor Iaione from LabGov will moderate the conference, which is going to end with the presentation of the co-planning roadmap of the CollaboraToscana Agenda, made by Silvia Givone from Sociolab, and with a round table about “Regulating or experimenting sharing economy?”.
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Domani, 29 giugno, Firenze ospiterà una conferenza a tema “collaborazione”. Vari esperti si alterneranno per declinare il tema sotto vari aspetti: dalla governance al digital, dall’innovazione alla sicurezza e alla rigenerazione del territorio. Christian Iaione di LabGov modererà la conferenza, che chiuderà con una presentazione dell’Agenda CollaboraToscana e con una tavola rotonda sulla sharing economy.
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by Chiara Fratalia | Jun 21, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
Professor Christian Iaione will represent LabGov tonight in a IASC meeting in Utrecht.
The meeting will take place in the form of a dinner debate (diner pensant in Dutch) and will host several representatives of institutions and organizations from the civil society. The main target of this meeting is to kick-start the scientific debate that will completely blossom in IASC XVI Biennial Conference next year.
The IASC Conference 2017 will take place in Utrecht from the 10th to the 14th of July 2017, under the name “Practicing the commons: Self-governance, cooperation, and institutional change”. It is expected to attract over 600 academics, practitioners and others interested in the field of commons, and will be an excellent chance for them to meet each other, to learn from each other’s experiences and to exchange ideas.
Here are some images from the evening:
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Il prof. Christian Iaione rappresenterà LabGov in un meeting IASC stasera a Utrecht. Il dinner debate ha come scopo principale di dare il via al dibattito scientifico che sboccerà completamente nella XVI Conferenza Biennale di IASC, che si terrà dal 10 al 14 luglio 2017, con il titolo “Practicing the commons: Self-governance, cooperation, and institutional change”.
by Chiara Fratalia | Jun 20, 2016 | Commons Press
“Local Public Entrepreneurship and Judicial Intervention in a Euro-American and Global Perspective” is an article written by professor Christian Iaione and published in 2008 on the 7th volume of the Washington University Global Studies Law Review.
In this article, prof. Iaione investigates the subject of local public entrepreneurship, which encompasses a variety of activities carried out by local governments and designed to foster local economic development. In this article, prof. Iaione presents local public entrepreneurship as a windfall of the right to local self-government. In Part II, he discusses the competing scholarship on the role that local governments take in competing with each other by creating incentives to entice citizens and businesses into their jurisdictions. Then, in Part III, he presents the concept of local public entrepreneurism and detail how local governments utilize such activism in competition with other governments. In the following three parts, he examines the intersection of local self-government and local public entrepreneurism in the Italian, European, and American legal frameworks. Prof. Iaione explores the impact of globalization on this phenomenon in Part VII. In the following part, he presents two cases—one from the European Union (EU) and one from the U.S. – in which local public entrepreneurship played a major role. He then examines how the European Court of Justice has discouraged local governments from engaging in such activities, thereby undermining the right to local self-government. By contrast, the U.S. legal system actively encourages a high level of local public entrepreneurship for the production of urban services and infrastructure. Finally, he advocates for the formal recognition of the economic liberty of local governments and the implementation of democratic counterbalances to such liberty as an alternative to judicial intervention.
If you are interested in this subject, please explore the full article here.
by Chiara Fratalia | May 21, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
Prof. Christian Iaione was invited today at SkyTG24 Economia to debate on sharing economy.
Prof. Iaione articulated his speech in two key points. First of all, he highlighted the need of a shift from the on-demand sharing economy to a collaborative sharing economy: sharing economy is much more than the mere contrast and comparison between Uber and taxi drivers or hotels and AirBnB.
Secundarily, there is a very little needs of law production to promote sharing economy. What is really important to spread the sharing is an ensemble of good policies: co-planning, experimentations, numerous multi-level interventions, from the involvement of schools and universities to the proper adaptation of economic sectorial laws.
SkyTG24 Economia will be brodcasted at 18.35. You can follow it here.
