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PAOLA GATTO
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
2020-today Full Professor
2006-2020 Associate Professor
2004-2006 Assistant Professor
1996-2003 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 have authrored more than 150 publications.
My research activity was carried out through participation in more than 50 research projects (of which 11 as principal investigator) 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.
Commitments
Member of Boards of Professors of the PhD School ‘Land, Environment, Resources and Health’ at the University of Padova dince 2010
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 from 2014 to 2023
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of EfiMed 2014-2017
Delegate of the ConDDEFFS, the Conference of Deans and Directors of European Forestry Faculties and Schools
Notices
Orari di ricevimento
Giovedì from 14:30 to 16:30
Dipartimento TESAF, Prima Stecca, Terzo Piano, Stanza 068
Teachings
ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF FOREST GOODS AND SERVICES, AA 2025 (AVQ0089822)
ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF FOREST RESOURCES, AA 2025 (AVP3051410)
ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF FOREST GOODS AND SERVICES, AA 2024 (AVQ0089822)
ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF FOREST RESOURCES, AA 2024 (AVP3051410)
MARKET-BASED INSTRUMENTS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, AA 2024 (AVP7078785)
ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF FOREST GOODS AND SERVICES, AA 2023 (AVQ0089822)
ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF FOREST RESOURCES, AA 2023 (AVP3051410)
MARKET-BASED INSTRUMENTS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, AA 2023 (AVP7078785)
Pubblicazioni
Gatto P., Mozzato D., Defrancesco E. (2019) Analysing the role of factors affecting farmers’ decisions to continue with agrienvironmental schemes from a temporal perspective. Environmental Science and Policy (92): 237-244.DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.12.001
Gatto P., Defrancesco E., Mozzato D., Pettenella, D. (2019) Are non-industrial private forest owners willing to deliver regulation ecosystem services? Insights from an alpine case. European Journal of Forest Research (138:4), pp. 639–651 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-019-01195-1
Doimo, I., Masiero, M., Gatto, P. (2020). Forest and Wellbeing: Bridging Medical and Forest Research for Effective Forest-Based Initiatives. Forests, 11, 791) pp. 1-31. DOI: doi:10.3390/f11080791
Lawrence A., Gatto P., Bogataj N. and Lidestav G. (2020). Forests in common: learning from diversity of community forest arrangements in Europe. Ambio, 50, 448-464. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01377-x
Doimo, I., Masiero, M., Gatto, P. (2021). Disentangling the diversity of forest care initiatives: a novel research framework applied to the Italian context. Sustainability 13(2), 492; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020492.
Udali, A. Andrighetto, N., Grigolato, S. Gatto, P. (2021). Economic impacts of forest storms – Taking stock of after-Vaia situation of local roundwood markets in Northeastern Italy. Forests, 12, 414. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12040414.
Dalla Torre C., Stemberger S., Bottura J., Corrent M., Stefano Zanoni S., Davide Fusari D., Gatto P. (2022) Revitalizing Collective Resources in Mountain Areas Through Community Engagement and Knowledge Co-creation. Mountain Research and Development, 42(4), D1-D13. https://doi.org/10.1659/mrd.2022.00013.1
hen, X., Gatto, P., Pagliacci, F. (2023) Unravelling the Role of Institutions in Market-Based Instruments: A Systematic Review on Forest Carbon Mechanisms. Forests 2023, 14, 136. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14010136.
Cei, L., Defrancesco, E., Gatto, P., Pagliacci, F. (2023). Pay more for me, I’m from the mountains! The role of the EU Mountain Product term and other credence attributes in consumers’ valuation of lamb meat. Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, 11, 12. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40100-023-00253-y
Torquati, B., Rocchi, B., Gambelli, D., Franco, S., Belliggiano, A., Cavicchi, A., Gatto P., Gorgitano, M. T. (2023). Le nuove frontiere nella didattica dell’impresa agraria: elementi per un dibattito. Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, 78(1), 67-86. https://dx.doi.org/10.36253/rea-14377
Grilli G., Pagliacci F., Gatto P. (2024). Determinants of agricultural diversification: What really matters? A review. Journal of Rural Studies, 110, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103365
Pagot G., Gatto P. (2024). Challenges for community-owned forests between traditional and new uses of forests: a Q-methodology study applied to an Alpine case. Tree, Forests and People. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2024.100688
Dalla Torre C., Scolozzi R., Ravazzoli E., Gatto P. (2024). Endangered commons? Modelling of the long-term effects of demographic trends coupled with different admission rules: the case of common properties in the Province of Trento, Italy. Land, 13, 1704. doi.org/10.3390/land13101704
Area di ricerca
• The value of private and public goods and services produced by forest areas and evaluation tools, their role for rural/forest communities
• The market for wood and non-wood products and forestry services
• Payments for ecosystem services: meaning, design, effectiveness, efficiency and equity, aspects related to the attribution of property rights and transaction costs
• Property rights in forest resources, models of commons and community forests and links with sustainable management of forest resources
