sustainability Article The EMAS Registration of the Livenza Furniture District in the Province of Pordenone (Italy) Veronica Novelli 1,*, Paola Geatti 1, Francesco Bianco 2, Luciano Ceccon 1, Stefania Del Frate 3 and Paolo Badin 4 1 Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Udine, Via Tomadini 30/A, 33100 Udine, Italy;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +39-0432-249-335 Received: 29 November 2019; Accepted: 23 January 2020; Published: 25 January 2020 Abstract: One of the most important manufacturing areas of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region is the territory close to Pordenone, the Livenza furniture district. This industrial district, consisting of industries of wood, wood and cork products, furniture, straw articles, and weave materials, located in 11 municipalities of that area, was the first Italian district to obtain the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) Registration in 2006. Data and information from a questionnaire compiled by more than 100 firms and 11 municipalities of the district were used to draw up the territorial environmental analysis (TEA). For the EMAS registration renewal, obtained in 2016, the TEA was updated by reviewing the methodology of the environmental impact evaluation: the ecological footprint (EF) was compared with the carrying capacity (CC) of that area.