Water Law, Policy and Economics in Italy

Chapter 1. Introduction (Paolo Turrini et al.).- Part 1. Water Resources and Their Use and Management in Italy .- Chapter 2. Water Resources of Italy (Marcello Benedini, Giuseppe Rossi).-  Chapter 3. Coping with Floods in Italy: Learning from the Past to Plan Future Adaptation (Renzo Rosso).- Chapter 4. The Uses and Value of Water in Italy: Evidence from Selected Case Studies in Italy, with a Particular Focus on Irrigation, Industry and Hydropower (Giulia Vaglietti et al.).- Chapter 5. Testing the Waters: A Sociological Analysis of Domestic Water Use and Consumption (Filippo Oncini, Francesca Forno).- Chapter 6. Water Resources Management in Italy: Institutions, Laws and Approaches (Emanuele Boscolo).- Part 2. Water Management and Environmental Concerns.- Chapter 7. Water-Dependent Ecosystems in Italy (Riccardo Santolini et al.).- Chapter 8. Water Quality Control Policies and the Criminalisation of Pollution (Giovanni De Santis, Matteo Fermeglia).- Chapter 9. Managing Water Scarcity and Droughts: The Po Experience (Antonio Massarutto, Dario Musolino).-  Chapter 10. The Management of International River Basins: The Case of Transboundary Water Cooperation Between Italy and Its Neighbours (Mara Tignino, Benedetta Gambatesa).- Chapter 11. The Italian Virtual Water Trade and Water Footprint of Agricultural Production: Trends and Perspectives (Stefania Tamea et al.).- Part. 3. The Provision of Water and Sanitation Services.- Chapter 12. The Human Right to Water in Italy's Foreign Policy and Domestic Law (Paolo Turrini, Marco Pertile).- Chapter 13. The Permanent (De-) Institutionalisation of Multi-Level Governance of Water Services in Italy (Giulio Citroni, Andrea Lippi).- Chapter 14. The Integrated Water Service in the Italian LegalSystem Between Solidarity and Competition: An Overview (Vera Parisio).- Chapter 15. The Evolution

Paolo Turrini (B.A. and M.A University of Bologna; Ph.D. University of Florence) is Assistant Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento. He is member of the editorial or scientific boards of the Italian Yearbook of International Law, the University of Bologna Law Review and Questions of International Law. His fields of expertise, or of main interest, are the history and theory of international law, international economic law and environmental law, especially water law. His publications include articles on virtual water, international trade in bulk water, and the EU water policy.Antonio Massarutto is Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Udine and Research Fellow at GREEN, the research centre on Geography, Resources, Environment, Energy and Networks of Bocconi University, Milan, and SEEDS (an inter-university research centre on sustainability and environmental economics). His research activity isstrongly applied and policy-oriented, and is mainly focused on applied environmental economics, industrial organisation and regulation of network industries, the circular economy, water economics and policy, and waste management. He authored several publications, both in academic journals and addressed to the general public and the policy community.Marco Pertile is Associate Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law and the School of International Studies of the University of Trento. He is co-director of the journal Questions of International Law and member of the Editorial Committee of the Italian Yearbook of International Law. He teaches a course on Human Rights and Natural Resources at the Paris School of International Affairs of Sciences Po, and has previously taught, in Geneva, at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and at the Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. His research interests include the international