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Maria DE SALVO
24, via Vidolenghi, 27010, Marzano (PV), Italy
[email protected]
Italian
04.02.1978
Female
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January 1 – May 31 2012
Associate Researcher
Research Programme on "Climate Change and Sustainable Development"
Fondazione ENI “Enrico Mettei”
January 1 – May 31 2012
Associate Researcher
Resilience enhancement and water demand management for climate change adaptation Water2Adapt
Fondazione ENI “Enrico Mettei”
April 2010 – 31 August 2012
Reseacher
Applied Research on Environmental Valuation
University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
March 2011- March 2012
Reseacher - ENVIROCHANGE unit: Global Change and Sustainable Management of Agriculture in
Higly Developed Mountain Environment
Applied Research on Climate Change
University of Trento, Economics Department, Trento, Italy.
February 2009 – January 2010
Reseacher – ENVIROCHANGE unit: Global Change and Sustainable Management of Agriculture in
Higly Developed Mountain Environment
Applied Research on Climate Change
University of Trento, Economics Department, Trento, Italy.
September 2007 – August 2009
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Lecturer in Environmental Economics
University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
September 2006 – August 2008
Researcher
Applied Research on Environmental Valuation
University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
September 2005 – August 2007
Lecturer in Real Estate Economics
University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Education and training
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Pd.D
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covered
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providing education and training
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Ph.D in Agri-food Economics
Economics, Statistics, Political Science, Agriculture, Rural Development.
University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Master
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covered
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providing education and training
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March 2006
April 2004
M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy
Economic analysis of agriculture, food and rural areas.
Centro per la Formazione in Economia e Politica dello Sviluppo Rurale, University of Naple “Federico
II”.
Laurea
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covered
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providing education and training
November 2002
Bachelor Degree in Agricultural Science
Agriculture, Technology, Management, Agrifood Economics.
University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Publications
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Peer-reviewed Journal
Papers
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De Salvo M., Raffaelli R., Moser R. (2013): The impact of climate change on permanent
crops in an Alpine region: A Ricardian analysis, Agricultural Systems, 118: 23-32.
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Riera P., Signorello G., Tiene M., Mahieu P.A., Navrud S., Kaval P., Rulleau B., Mavsar R.,
Madureira L., Meyerhoff J., Elsasser P., Notaro S., De Salvo M., Dragoi S. (2012): NonMarket Valuation Good Practice Guidelines Proposal for Forest Goods and Services, Journal
of Forest Economics, 18: 259-270.
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Thiene M., Meyerhoff J., De Salvo M. (2012): Scale and taste heterogeneity in the case of an
unfamiliar good as biodiversity: does the modelling approach of serial nonparticipation affect
results?, Journal of Forest Economics, 18: 355-369.
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Giergiczny M., Valasiuk S., Czajkowski M., De Salvo M., Signorello G. (2012): Including cost
income ratio into utility function as a way of dealing with exploding implicit prices in Mixed
logit models. Journal of Forest Economics, 18: 370-380.
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De Salvo M., Signorello G., Missiato A. (2012): Un’applicazione degli esperimenti di scelta a
supporto della pianificazione forestale in Sicilia, Aestimum, 60: 1-25.
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De Salvo M., Signorello G. (2010): Razionalità e stabilità delle preferenze espresse negli
esperimenti di scelta. Una verifica mediante le alternative decoy, Aestimum, 56: 31-58.
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Notaro S., De Salvo M. (2009): Estimating the economic benefits of the landscape function
of ornamental trees in a sub-Mediterranean area, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 9(2):
71-81.
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Signorello G., Englin J., Longhorn A., De Salvo M. (2009): Modeling the Demand for Sicilian
Regional Parks. A Compound Poisson Approach, Environmental and Resource Economics,
44 (3): 327 – 335.
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Notaro S., De Salvo M. (2009): Estimating the economic benefits from outdoor recreation on
a scenic route: the Ponale road, Tourism Analysis, 14 (3): 313-323.
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Morey E., Thiene M., De Salvo M., Signorello G. (2008): Using Attitudinal Data to Identify
Latent Classes that Vary in Their Preference for Landscape Preservation, Ecological
Economics, 68 (1-2): 536– 546.
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Signorello G., De Salvo M., Maietta O. W. (2004): Stima non parametrica dell’efficienza
produttiva e della capacity della pesca nel Basso Ionio, Rivista di Economia Agraria, n. 4,
2004, pp. 207-231.
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De Salvo M., Guidato M., Valente N., Viscecchia R. (2008): La stima del danno da incendi
sul paesaggio boschivo del Gargano, in Nardone G. e Zanni G. (a cura di) “La valutazione
del paesaggio in chiave ecologica ed economica. La stima del danno da incendi sul
Gargano”, Claudio Grenzi Editore, ISBN 978-88-8431-309-6.
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Signorello G., De Salvo M. (2007): Preferenze monetarie per la tutela del paesaggio dei
conetti vulcanici pedemontani etnei: primi risultati di un esperimento di scelta, in Atti del
XXXVI Incontro di Studio del CeSET, pp. 317-325, Firenze University Press.
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Cucuzza G., De Salvo M., Signorello G. (2007): Il valore della funzione paesaggistica del
pistacchio sull’Etna, in Atti del XXXVI Incontro di Studio del CeSET, pp. 327-335, Firenze
University Press.
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Signorello G., Cucuzza G., De Salvo M. (2006): Valutazione contingente del paesaggio
agrario della Costa Viola, pp. 251-260, in F. Marangon (a cura di) “Gli interventi
paesaggistico-ambientali nelle politiche regionali di viluppo rurale”, Franco Angeli, Milano.
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De Salvo M. (2004): paragrafi 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 3.14, capitoli 4 e 7, e appendici A, B, C e D in
Giovanni Signorello (a cura di) “La pesca nel Basso Ionio: strutture produttive, performance
economiche e sostenibilità ambientale” Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Agrarie ed
Estimative (DISEAE), Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Agosto 2004.
Submitted papers
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Zander K.K., Signorello G., De Salvo M., Grandini G., Ducker A.G.: Assessing the Total
Economic Value of Threatened Livestock Breeds for Conservation Policy.
Working papers
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De Salvo M. (2010): Modelli microeconomici per la valutazione degli impatti dei cambiamenti
climatici sull’agricoltura, Envalab Working Papers, 4, 2010, ISSN 1827-0603.
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Signorello G., De Salvo M. (2008): Il valore economico del paesaggio agrario siciliano – Tre
casi di studio, ISBN 978-88-96008-00-3, pp. 1-128, Laboratorio di Valutazione Ambientale
(ENVALAB), Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Agrarie ed Estimative (DISEAE), Catania.
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Signorello G., Missiato A., De Salvo M. (2005): La valutazione economica delle attività
ricreative nelle aree naturali in Italia. Una rassegna della letteratura, Envalab Working
Papers, 1-2/2005, pp.1-34, Laboratorio di Valutazione Ambientale (ENVALAB), Dipartimento
di Scienze Economico-Agrarie ed Estimative (DISEAE), Catania.
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Signorello G., De Salvo M. (2005): La rete NATURA 2000 in Sicilia. Caratteri ambientali e
aspetti gestionali, pp. 1-150, Laboratorio di Valutazione Ambientale (ENVALAB),
Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Agrarie ed Estimative (DISEAE), Catania.
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Signorello G., Missiato A., De Salvo M. (2005): The economic valuation of landscape. An
annotated bibliography, Envalab Working Papers, 2005, pp. 1-73, Laboratorio di Valutazione
Ambientale (ENVALAB), Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Agrarie ed Estimative
(DISEAE), Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania.
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De Salvo M., Sauer J., Signorello G. (2005): Fisheries and Efficiency - Appling methods on
the Southern Ionian Fleet, Envalab Working Papers, 2005, pp. 1-38, Laboratorio di
Valutazione Ambientale (ENVALAB), Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Agrarie ed
Books and Reports
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Estimative (DISEAE), Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania.
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Presentations and
Lectures
Signorello G., De Salvo M. (2005): Percezione sociale e valutazione economica del
patrimonio zootecnico siciliano a rischio di estinzione, Envalab Working Papers, 2005, pp. 153, Laboratorio di Valutazione Ambientale (ENVALAB), Dipartimento di Scienze EconomicoAgrarie ed Estimative (DISEAE), Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania.
Conferences and workshops with presentation:
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Belpasso International Summer School on Environmental and Resouce Economics,
September 4-10, 2011, Belpasso (CT), Sicily, Italy.
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18th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource
Economist (EAERE), June 29 - July 2, 2011, Rome.
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November 27-28, 2006 - MEDFOREX meeting 2006, Solsona, Spain.
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November 17, 2006 -1st Workshop Cost Action E45 European Forest Externalities
(EUROFOREX).
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XIV annual meeting of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
(EAERE), June 23 -26, 2005 , Bremen, Germany.
Personal skills and
competences
Mother tongue(s)
Italian
Other language(s)
English
Self-assessment
European level (*)
English
Understanding
Listening
B2 Independent user C2
Reading
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Spoken production
B1 Independent user B2 Independent user B2 Independent user
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Computer skills and competences
Writing
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