FEEM is leading the development of an interactive web site designed for involving citizens of Genoa in web-forum discussion about cultural heritage and e-services related. The objective is to gather citizens’ opinions, requirements and expectations, which could be used for decision-making about cultural tourism.
FEEM is also assessing, in collaboration with the University of Nottingham, the monetary value of cultural tourism e-services for citizens, tourists and decision makers.

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) is a non-profit, non-partisan research institution established to carry out research in the field of sustainable development. Recognised by the President of the Italian Republic in July 1989, it has since become a leading international research centre. One of its principal aims is to promote interaction between academic, industrial and public policy spheres in order to comprehensively address concerns about economic development and environmental degradation. Conference activities, working papers and books are also evidence of FEEM’s research effort in the last 15 - years period. FEEM’s activities are guided by four fundamental criteria: i) to analyse relevant and innovative research areas ii) to focus on “real” world issues; iii) to integrate multi-disciplinary approaches; iv) to create and foster international research networks. Research is organised into seven main areas: Climate Change Modelling and Policy; International Energy Markets; Natural Resources Management; Sustainability Indicators and Environmental Valuation; Knowledge, Technology and Human Capital; Privatisation, Regulation and Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Management. Based on the results achieved in the fields of environmental management systems, climate change modelling and policy, the transfer and diffusion of knowledge and technology, the management of privatisation processes and corporate governance, environmental planning of the territory, FEEM has become the privileged interlocutor of a number of policy institutions, among which the IPCC, the European Commission, the Italian Ministries of the Environment, of Treasury, Finance and Foreign Trade, several Italian regions and local municipalities. Moreover, FEEM has a large experience in the dissemination of theoretical and applied research: FEEM has published 55 books, and over 1000 Working Papers; in fifteen years FEEM has organised over 250 events among which several large-scale conferences, including the first Congress of the European Association of Environmental Economists (Venice, 1990) the first World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (Venice, 1998).

Aline Chiabai
E-mail: aline.chiabai@feem.it

Livio Chiarullo
E-mail: livio.chiarullo@feem.it