Our current legislative scenario excludes shale gas exploitation directly adjacent to water bodies, and in areas potentially at risk of a 100-year return period flood.
In the Italian cultural and legislative scenario, we believe that, under some circumstances (i.e., the expressed wishes of the patient, even in the form of advance directives), the use of EV does not violate the principle of beneficence.
These scenarios are defined in detail in Baranzelli et al. (2014), and include two technological scenarios (relatively higher and lower expected environmental impact) and two legislative scenarios (representing the current legislation in place, and a more restrictive framework).
In certain legislative scenarios, the first part of the definition, "research", might be questioned.
Testing different legislative scenarios under two major branches of modifying rates of change or locations of change can be used to identify effective policies for limiting damage to the environment while still allowing for urban growth.
In this ongoing cultural and legislative Italian scenario, we believe that, under some circumstances (i.e., the expressed wishes of the patient even in the form of advance directives), the use of EV could fall into the best interests of the patient and would thus not violate the principle of beneficence.
However, designing a CHP plant for a specific energetic, legislative or market scenario does not guarantee good performance when these scenarios change.
The results of our sensitivity analysis show that even if taxation was assumed to have costs comparable to those of other legislative interventions, the two scenarios with decreased taxation would still be cost-saving.
Figure 6 shows the WEIcns for the lowest and highest combined impact scenarios, respectively (LOW = lowest impact technological scenario with restrictive legislative framework; HIGH = highest impact technological scenario with current legislative framework).
In the "Reorganize or Die" scenario, no significant legislative changes will have occurred, other than cutting profit margins.
Last week, I wrote on this site about the evils of Republican obstruction, looking at the way the GOP grinds the Washington machine to a halt, and purposely turns the legislative process into a series of hostage scenarios and brinksmanship.
