Prof. Silvana Dalmazzone is an Associate Professor in Economic Policy in the Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Turin. She completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Economics of the University of York (UK) in 1999. She teaches Environmental and Natural Resource Economics for the Master's degree in Environmental, Culture, and Land Economics. Her research interests include the economics of biodiversity, climate change, water resource management, decentralization in environmental governance, environmental accounting, valuation of ecosystem services, resilience, green economy reforms, and renewable energies.  She was a Deputy Head of Department and Head of Teaching in the Department of Economics and Statistics (2016–2018) and Vice-President of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2016–2019).