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PAOLA GATTO

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Position

Professoressa Ordinaria

Address

VIALE DELL'UNIVERSITA', 16 - LEGNARO PD

Telephone

0498272719

Paola Gatto
Born in Padova, Italy, on August 23, 1960
Full Professor, Forest Economics and Policy
University of Padova, Department TeSAF – Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry
Agripolis, Viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (Padova)
Italy

Degrees
Honours Degree in Forestry, University of Padova, Italy, 1985
MPhil in Agricultural Economics, University of Newcastle, UK, 1991
PhD in Forestry Economics and Planning, University of Florence, 1992

Employment history
2006-2020 Associate Professor
2004-2006 Assistant Professor
1993-2003 Research Associate
1994-1995: Post-doctoral researcher
1987-1988: Professional forester

I have thirty years’ research experience in the fields of forest and environmental economics and rural development. My current research activities focus on: Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and other policy tools for the provision of Ecosystem Services from agriculture and forestry; analysis of farmers’ and of forest owners’ attitudes and perceptions into participating to agro-environmental and forest-environmental measures; property rights in natural resource management and property regimes in forestry and rural areas; forests as social-ecological systems, forest commons, community forests and analysis of their adaptation patterns and resilience; ecosystem services mapping and modelling and related design of PES mechanisms at landscape scale; Cost estimates of Natura 2000 areas.
I am the author of more than 140 publications.
My research activity was carried out through participation in 38 projects (of which 10 as principal investigator, 3 as head of local unit and 3 as head of WP) and in various COST Actions and other international research networks. I carry out consultancy activities for various territorial institutions in the Alpine area. I am a member of the national scientific associations SIDEA and AIEAA.
Currently I coordinate a research group at the TESAF Department made up of 4 PhD students and 1 research assistant engaged in research projects with community and regional funding.
Commitments
Member of Boards of Professors of the PhD School ‘Land, Environment, Resources and Health’ at the University of Padova
Member of Boards of Professors of the Erasmus Mundus PhD School FONASO (2010-2014)
Head of the Second Cycle Degree in Forest Science, University of Padova (since 2015)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of EfiMed since 2014
Delegate of the ConDDEFFS, the Conference of Deans and Directors of European Forestry Faculties and Schools

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Office hours

  • Thursday from 14:30 to 16:30
    at Dipartimento TESAF, Prima Stecca, Terzo Piano, Stanza 068

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