Environmental Sustainability and Global Change

Luca Salvati is an Associate (staff) professor of applied economics and economic statistics at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Since 2001 he has been staff researcher at the National Council for Research in Agriculture and the Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA). He is an expert in official statistics, spatial statistics, Geographic Information Systems and Remote sensing applied to socioeconomic and environmental issues. He has conducted studies on topics of economic statistics, urban economics, regional demography, and sustainable development, using exploratory multivariate statistics and geographic information systems for decision support. He has held courses in Economic Statistics (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Basic Mathematics (University of Rome La Sapienza), Multivariate Statistics (University of Roma Tre), Regional Economics (University of Camerino, University of Eastern Piedmont), Strategic Evaluation of environmental impact (University of Roma Tre). He has supervised master's and doctoral theses and has published more than 30 printed books and over 600 scientific publications in English.

• 1. Toward a balanced development of forest and agricultural land? A Mediterranean perspective2. A renewed ‘Sustainability Thinking’ is possible: Land Resources, Economic Development and Global Change in Southern Europe3. Sustainability Strategies for Bridging the Rural-Urban Divide: Implications across Economic, Social, and Environmental Front4. Economic and Environmental convergence and the quest for sustainable development5. Sustainability, Resilience, Land Degradation and Regional Disparities: (Re)framing four hegemonic concepts from a ‘rural’ perspective6. A brief Outlook at the long-term Evolution of Agriculture and the Environmental Consequences in Italy7. Rural development and Environmental Sustainability in advanced economies: The socio-ecological role of traditional crops8. Toward an unsustainable pasture? The Influence of topographical position on soil compaction at the farm scale9. Sustainable development and integrated soil management in Mediterranean vineyards10. Land Degradation and Sustainable Development: a Multi-step Statistical Framework to Complexity Analysis of Soil Quality11. Toward a Mediterranean model of rural settlement? Land degradation and the evolving demographic pressure in Italy, 1972-202112. Spending for the environment: a quantitative analysis of local treasure expenditure in Italy13. The economic costs of forest fires: a simplified accounting system for Mediterranean Europe14. Rural depopulation and land abandonment: the quest for a comprehensive framework and the experience of Itay15. Socio-economically and environmentally disadvantaged (rural) Regions in European Union: The case of Western Macedonia16. Mediterranean Environments and Local Communities: Monitoring Demands and Implications for Mitigation Policies