Professor of Environmental Valuation at the University of Catania, where he also
serves as coordinator of the master program in Conservation of land, environment and
landscape. He is leading the Laboratorio di Valutazione Ambientale (ENVALAB), a research
unit carring out studies and research on the valuation of environmental and cultural
resources. He is member of the Center for the Conservation and Management of Natural
Areas and Agro-ecosystems (CUTGANA). He served as Vice-Chair the Management Committee of
the COST ACTION E45 ”European Forest Externalities” (EUROFOREX). He has been visiting
scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). He his author or coauthors of
numerous research monographs and articles published in referred national and
international journals. His research focuses on several topics of environmental
economics; in particular, non-market valuation, natural resource damage assessment,
economics and management of ecosystems and protected areas, valuation of global warming
effects on agro-ecosystems, benefit-cost analysis, landscape economics, and bio-economic
models. He is member of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (AERE),
the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE), the
International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE), the European Society for
Ecological Economics (ESEE), the Agricultural & Applied Economic Association (AAEA),
the Società Italiana di Economia Agraria (SIDEA), and the Centro Studi di Estimo e di
Economia Territoriale (CeSET). He is also member of the scientific board of the Centro
Studi Silvia Santagata - EBLA at the University of Turin.

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Loving Cultural Heritage. Private Individual Giving and Prosocial Behavior (with Enrico Bertacchini and Walter Santagata), Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers (2010)

The aim of this paper is to analyse patterns of private individual giving to Cultural...

 

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One-and-One-Half Bound Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation (with Joseph C. Cooper and W. Michael Hanemann), Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UCB (2001)

To reduce the potential for response bias on the follow-up bid in multiple-bound discrete choice...