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Environmental Sustainability and Global Change: Forests, Agriculture, and Soils vis à vis Human Disturbance offers an integrated approach to the socio-environmental dynamics of the ecological-economic nexus characteristic of Mediterranean landscapes. Evidencing the role of policies targeting sustainable development goals in Southern Europe, case studies from Italy, Spain, and Greece confirm the need of place-specific approaches to socio-ecological complexity and the partial effectiveness of generalized, top-down measures. Authored by leading scholars in Southern Europe – with eminent contributions from Eastern Europe – the book identifies the intrinsic peculiarity of the environmental-economic nexus characteristic of the Northern Mediterranean basin, along with important regional differences. Stimulating a spatial planning for rural areas, the book proposes a dynamic image of Mediterranean rural landscapes, providing novel interpretations, conceptual definitions, and operational tools designed to reduce ecological fragility and economic vulnerability.

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Luca Salvati, M.Sc. Statistics and Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, PhD at the Faculty of Economics of the same university, is an adjunct professor and staff researcher (Class B, holding a full professor habilitation in economic statistics) at the Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2001 he has been staff researcher at the National Council for Research in Agriculture and the Analysis of Agricultural Economics (CREA). From 2006 to 2010 he was permanent researcher at the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). He also had collaborations with public research bodies such as the National Research Council (CNR) and the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) and numerous universities both in Italy and abroad. He has carried out continuous research periods abroad (2012-2014) at various public universities and research institutions in France (Toulouse), Spain (Barcelona) and Greece (Athens). He is an expert in the topics of 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, more recently developing studies on the monetary evaluation of natural resources. 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 is a member of the teaching staff of the doctorate of ""Models for economics and finance"", curriculum of Economic Statistics (University of Rome La Sapienza). He has supervised master's and doctoral theses, both in Italian universities and abroad. He has published more than 30 printed books and over 600 scientific publications in English.

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