To understand the present problems and the opportunities of social and economic development of the Mediterranean it is necessary to deal with its history. This may be the core which at present provides a major impulse in the research carried out in this common area. An interest which evidently emerges in light of the new season of partnership inaugurated with the Declaration of Barcelona (1995). In the framework of the scientific activities of the Euro-Mediterranean Ramses 2 network, inspired ...

The 'Report on the Mediterranean' is an annual publication of the ISSM. Three quarters of the world's population have at their disposal a quarter of the world's product. The wealthiest 10 percent has half. This is information that is often read with regard to the distribution of product among countries at the beginning of the third millennium. However, the situation regarding the inequalities on a global scale was already changing at the turn of the millennium. This change has accelerated in the ...

Per decifrare i problemi del presente e le possibilità di sviluppo economico e sociale del Mediterraneo è necessario fare i conti con la sua storia. E' forse questo uno dei nodi che oggi fornisce maggiore impulso agli studi su quest'area comune. Un interesse la cui evidenza emerge con forza alla luce della nuova stagione di par-tenariato inaugurata con la Dichiarazione di Barcellona (1995). Nel quadro delle attività scientifiche della rete euro-mediterranea Ramses 2, ispirata e coordinata ...

I tre quarti della popolazione del Mondo dispone di un quarto del prodotto mondiale. Il 10 per cento più ricco dispone della metà. E', questa, un'informazione che si legge spesso a proposito della distribuzione del prodotto fra paesi all'inizio del terzo millennio. Già intorno all'anno 2000, nella disuguaglianza su scala mondiale, le cose stavano, tuttavia, cambiando. Questo cambiamento si è poi accelerato negli ultimi anni. La Cina e l'India, in cui vive il 40 per cento della popolazione ...

The economic growth of the last two centuries, which allowed to widely increase per capita goods and services, primarily derived from the changes in the energy system taking place between the 18th and 19th century. These changes are often described as an energy transition. This expression refers to: 1. the utilization of new energy carriers; 2. the exploitation of these carriers by means of machines. During the 18th century, all over the world, those energy sources were still exploited in use ...

In the last decade, the common consideration on the role of the national governments in the processes of globalization and its role in the implementation of decentralization's policies has produced the development of new methodological approaches that overcome the hierarchical conception of the State, founded upon the principle of the authority. This new approach, given the multiplication of the actors and the levels of negotiation -international, national and local- implicates a new model of ...

The sight of nature as an historical subject implies a change in the perspective when we reconstruct economic and social features, human relations, and technical innovation and finally the very idea of wealth. Researches in progress in the Institute are connected with the use of concept of "resource" in Northern and Southern Mediterranean regions. Researchers in the Institute are contributing on topics such as forests, seas, water resources. Part of these researches has already been published ...

In Ancient times, the Mediterranean geological fracture was not yet an economic fracture. Economic differences among Mediterranean regions were not yet so strong. Things were not so different several centuries later, after the sunset of the Ancient Civilization, around 1000, when Islamic and Byzantine civilizations were the main Mediterranean and European powers. The divergence, and economic fracture, took place later; from the epoch of Medieval demographic and economic growth. Western economy ...