Rethinking Rural

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. Local development and sustainability of rural systems: an integrated, multidisciplinary perspectivePart 1. Assessing the evolution of rural systems: theory and practice2. Monitoring the Impact of Climate Change on Social and Economic Activities over time and space3. Life under climate change: unravelling socioeconomic and bio-geophysical drivers of change in evolving Mediterranean landscapes4. Coca cultivation and deforestation in Colombia: a paradigmatic example of unsustainable (local) development5. Land consumption and food safety6. The role of wildfires in rural development7. Zoonosis and rural farming spaces evolving toward peri-urbanPart 2. Traditional and advanced tools for monitoring rural systems8. Territorial indicators: toward an integrated analysis9. Monitoring Forest Cover from a mix of Data Sources: A contribution to Landscape Analysis10. Monitoring wildfires from a socioeconomic perspective: a spatially augmented Zipf’s law tells you more11. Monitoring natural habitatsPart 3. Evaluating, understanding and planning socio-economic complexity in rural districts12. Planning and policy of sustainable land management13. Envisaging and planning Natural Disasters during the era of crisis in Greece14. Resilience, indicators and policy evaluation: Monitoring EU-PNRR strategy in Italy15. Data matters: Estimating monetary costs of a process of Environmental Degradation16. Tourism Insurance and Socio-demographic Contexts in Iran: A Delphi Panel