Martedì 31 marzo 2026, ore 10.00 – 12.00 • Fondazione Marco Biagi
Municipal Administrative Data for Air Quality Policymaking in Italy: A Health–Economic Framework from Emilia-Romagna
Relatore
FILIPPO SIMEONE, Student XXXIX, Fondazione Marco Biagi – Unimore
Discussant
ALESSANDRO MONTANARO, Postdoc. Fellow, Department of Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Chair
FRANCESCO CHIRICO, Student XXXIX, Fondazione Marco Biagi – Unimore
Abstract
Effective policy design requires timely, granular evidence. This paper develops a replicable bottom-up framework that integrates heterogeneous Italian administrative data (environmental, demographic, and economic) into spatially explicit municipal-level estimates of health impacts and welfare losses, enabling their use as ex-ante policy metrics.
The framework generates municipal estimates of PM₂.₅-avoidable mortality and associated economic costs for the period 2016–2023 for the ER region, revealing pronounced intra-regional inequalities. A key innovative element lies in the shift from purely attributable outcomes to avoidable impacts, achieved through the simulation of realistic PM₂.₅ reduction counterfactuals. This allows the production of spatially explicit benefit metrics that directly support the prioritisation and targeting of policy interventions.
Overall, the study provides a proof of concept for the FAIR-oriented (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) use of administrative data in environmental policy analysis, in line with the widely adopted FAIR data principles in contemporary research governance. By showing how routinely collected public-sector information can be harmonised and operationalised within a single analytical structure supporting both ex-post evaluation and ex-ante appraisal, the paper contributes a transferable model for evidence-based air quality governance across regions and policy domains.
The paper is structured as follows. Section 1 introduces the research context and outlines the objectives of the study. Section 2 reviews the relevant literature, with particular reference to the application of AirQ+ in health impact assessment and to the economic monetisation of air pollution–related mortality. Section 3 sets out the analytical framework and explains how the various administrative sources are accessed and harmonised. Section 4 reports the empirical findings, including estimates of avoidable mortality and their monetary valuation, together with an illustrative cost–benefit exercise. Section 5 concludes by discussing the main results, reflecting on data and methodological constraints, and considering the implications for air quality governance at the sub-national level.
Keywords: Municipal administrative data; PM₂.₅; evidence-based policy; data integration; health impact assessment; Emilia-Romagna.
Ancora sulla riserva di Procedimento Amministrativo nel governo della transizione energetica
Relatore
FILIPPO DI MAURO, Student XXXIX, Fondazione Marco Biagi – Unimore
Discussant
ROBERTO PINARDI, Professore di Diritto Pubblico, Dipartimento di Economia Marco Biagi, Unimore
Chair
FRANCESCO CHIRICO, Student XXXIX, Fondazione Marco Biagi – Unimore
Abstract
Con sentenza n. 184 del 2025, la Corte costituzionale dichiara l’illegittimità della legge regionale sarda, nella parte in cui prevede un divieto generalizzato ed astratto alla localizzazione di impianti di produzione di energia da fonti rinnovabili in determinate parti del territorio.
Ciò in quanto, in materia di localizzazione degli impianti, il procedimento amministrativo resta la sede privilegiata per la comparazione e sintesi degli interessi implicati (quali energia, ambiente, paesaggio, beni culturali), tra i quali l’interesse pubblico prevalente alla transizione energetica diviene il criterio sostanziale per orientare l’esercizio della discrezionalità amministrativa.
Il seminario si terrà in lingua italiana e la partecipazione è libera.
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