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Department of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

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Editorial
Published: 27 July 2021 in Anthropocene Science
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Purushothaman C. Abhilash; Simone Bastianoni; Weiqiang Chen; Ruth DeFries; Leonardo F. Fraceto; Neven S. Fuckar; Shizuka Hashimoto; Danny Hunter; Saskia Keesstra; Othmane Merah; Patrick O’Farrell; Prajal Pradhan; Simron Singh; Pete Smith; Lindsay C. Stringer; B. L. Turner. Introducing ‘Anthropocene Science’: A New International Journal for Addressing Human Impact on the Resilience of Planet Earth. Anthropocene Science 2021, 1 -4.

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Purushothaman C. Abhilash, Simone Bastianoni, Weiqiang Chen, Ruth DeFries, Leonardo F. Fraceto, Neven S. Fuckar, Shizuka Hashimoto, Danny Hunter, Saskia Keesstra, Othmane Merah, Patrick O’Farrell, Prajal Pradhan, Simron Singh, Pete Smith, Lindsay C. Stringer, B. L. Turner. Introducing ‘Anthropocene Science’: A New International Journal for Addressing Human Impact on the Resilience of Planet Earth. Anthropocene Science. 2021; ():1-4.

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Purushothaman C. Abhilash; Simone Bastianoni; Weiqiang Chen; Ruth DeFries; Leonardo F. Fraceto; Neven S. Fuckar; Shizuka Hashimoto; Danny Hunter; Saskia Keesstra; Othmane Merah; Patrick O’Farrell; Prajal Pradhan; Simron Singh; Pete Smith; Lindsay C. Stringer; B. L. Turner. 2021. "Introducing ‘Anthropocene Science’: A New International Journal for Addressing Human Impact on the Resilience of Planet Earth." Anthropocene Science , no. : 1-4.

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Published: 16 October 2020 in Journal of the American College of Nutrition
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The infection caused by COVID-19 (i.e. corona virus disease 2019) has caused more than 5.2 million cases and more than 337,000 deaths worldwide. Italy was the European epicenter for virus spread and one with most cases and deaths. The first Italian patient was diagnosed on February 18th, a young man hospitalized in Lombardy (Northern Italy). The Italian government not only isolated the village where he lived, but a few days later put the entire country in lockdown. We have here analyzed the COVID-19 Italian data during the first three months after the outbreak and the effect of lockdown. COVID-19 virus has a high transmission rate and is associated with high fatality rate especially in the older population. The initial reproduction rate of the virus (R0) in Italy was between 2.1 and 3.3 in different Italian regions, with a doubling time between 2.7 and 3.2 days. The number of confirmed cases has now reached 229,000 but after the lockdown R0 is finally below 1. Despite the lockdown, the number of infected and deceased patients in Italy was very high, with a lethality rate higher than in other countries. It is likely that number of cases is underestimating the real since the number of asymptomatic and paucisymptomatic is relatively high. It is important to investigate which patients are more vulnerable and also if other co-factors can account for this high fatality rate, since this pandemia is far from being resolved.

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Amalia Gastaldelli; Mirco Gastaldelli; Simone Bastianoni. COVID-19 Infection Pandemic: From the Frontline in Italy. Journal of the American College of Nutrition 2020, 39, 677 -684.

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Amalia Gastaldelli, Mirco Gastaldelli, Simone Bastianoni. COVID-19 Infection Pandemic: From the Frontline in Italy. Journal of the American College of Nutrition. 2020; 39 (8):677-684.

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Amalia Gastaldelli; Mirco Gastaldelli; Simone Bastianoni. 2020. "COVID-19 Infection Pandemic: From the Frontline in Italy." Journal of the American College of Nutrition 39, no. 8: 677-684.

Editorial article
Published: 09 September 2020 in Frontiers in Energy Research
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Editorial: Perspectives for Marine Energy in the Mediterranean Area

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Simone Bastianoni; Caterina Praticò; Markos Damasiotis; Riccardo Maria Pulselli. Editorial: Perspectives for Marine Energy in the Mediterranean Area. Frontiers in Energy Research 2020, 8, 1 .

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Simone Bastianoni, Caterina Praticò, Markos Damasiotis, Riccardo Maria Pulselli. Editorial: Perspectives for Marine Energy in the Mediterranean Area. Frontiers in Energy Research. 2020; 8 ():1.

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Simone Bastianoni; Caterina Praticò; Markos Damasiotis; Riccardo Maria Pulselli. 2020. "Editorial: Perspectives for Marine Energy in the Mediterranean Area." Frontiers in Energy Research 8, no. : 1.

Review
Published: 27 July 2020 in Entropy
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How to predict the evolution of ecosystems is one of the numerous questions asked of ecologists by managers and politicians. To answer this we will need to give a scientific definition to concepts like sustainability, integrity, resilience and ecosystem health. This is not an easy task, as modern ecosystem theory exemplifies. Ecosystems show a high degree of complexity, based upon a high number of compartments, interactions and regulations. The last two decades have offered proposals for interpretation of ecosystems within a framework of thermodynamics. The entrance point of such an understanding of ecosystems was delivered more than 50 years ago through Schrödinger’s and Prigogine’s interpretations of living systems as “negentropy feeders” and “dissipative structures”, respectively. Combining these views from the far from equilibrium thermodynamics to traditional classical thermodynamics, and ecology is obviously not going to happen without problems. There seems little reason to doubt that far from equilibrium systems, such as organisms or ecosystems, also have to obey fundamental physical principles such as mass conservation, first and second law of thermodynamics. Both have been applied in ecology since the 1950s and lately the concepts of exergy and entropy have been introduced. Exergy has recently been proposed, from several directions, as a useful indicator of the state, structure and function of the ecosystem. The proposals take two main directions, one concerned with the exergy stored in the ecosystem, the other with the exergy degraded and entropy formation. The implementation of exergy in ecology has often been explained as a translation of the Darwinian principle of “survival of the fittest” into thermodynamics. The fittest ecosystem, being the one able to use and store fluxes of energy and materials in the most efficient manner. The major problem in the transfer to ecology is that thermodynamic properties can only be calculated and not measured. Most of the supportive evidence comes from aquatic ecosystems. Results show that natural and culturally induced changes in the ecosystems, are accompanied by a variations in exergy. In brief, ecological succession is followed by an increase of exergy. This paper aims to describe the state-of-the-art in implementation of thermodynamics into ecology. This includes a brief outline of the history and the derivation of the thermodynamic functions used today. Examples of applications and results achieved up to now are given, and the importance to management laid out. Some suggestions for essential future research agendas of issues that needs resolution are given.

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Søren Nielsen; Felix Müller; Joao Marques; Simone Bastianoni; Sven Jørgensen. Thermodynamics in Ecology—An Introductory Review. Entropy 2020, 22, 820 .

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Søren Nielsen, Felix Müller, Joao Marques, Simone Bastianoni, Sven Jørgensen. Thermodynamics in Ecology—An Introductory Review. Entropy. 2020; 22 (8):820.

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Søren Nielsen; Felix Müller; Joao Marques; Simone Bastianoni; Sven Jørgensen. 2020. "Thermodynamics in Ecology—An Introductory Review." Entropy 22, no. 8: 820.

Journal article
Published: 24 February 2019 in Sustainability
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This paper describes a methodology for the construction of a multidimensional index for sustainability assessment in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN 2030 Agenda. The methodology is designed to properly capture the multidimensional nature of sustainable development and the SDG framework, introducing an innovative Fuzzy Multidimensional Index to measure the performance of Mediterranean countries. The focus is on agro-food sustainability, in-line with the aims of the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA). Drawing on fuzzy set theory, a step-by-step procedure was developed: the underlying dimensions of a set of selected indicators for the SDGs are identified by exploratory factor analysis; an innovative weighting method is applied to aggregate the indicators and calculate the country scores for each dimension and the Fuzzy Multidimensional Index. The PRIMA program will be a first step towards the implementation of innovative solutions, by funding international cooperation projects between countries on both sides of the Mediterranean for a decade: the Fuzzy Multidimensional Index will be the primary source of data for evaluating such projects and policies implemented from them; the Index will therefore be able to close a gap in the availability of appropriate data.

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Margherita Casini; Simone Bastianoni; Francesca Gagliardi; Massimo Gigliotti; Angelo Riccaboni; Gianni Betti. Sustainable Development Goals Indicators: A Methodological Proposal for a Multidimensional Fuzzy Index in the Mediterranean Area. Sustainability 2019, 11, 1198 .

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Margherita Casini, Simone Bastianoni, Francesca Gagliardi, Massimo Gigliotti, Angelo Riccaboni, Gianni Betti. Sustainable Development Goals Indicators: A Methodological Proposal for a Multidimensional Fuzzy Index in the Mediterranean Area. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (4):1198.

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Margherita Casini; Simone Bastianoni; Francesca Gagliardi; Massimo Gigliotti; Angelo Riccaboni; Gianni Betti. 2019. "Sustainable Development Goals Indicators: A Methodological Proposal for a Multidimensional Fuzzy Index in the Mediterranean Area." Sustainability 11, no. 4: 1198.

Book chapter
Published: 01 January 2019 in Encyclopedia of Ecology
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Deneb Karentz; Michela Marchi; Simone Bastianoni. Ozone Layer. Encyclopedia of Ecology 2019, 383 -390.

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Deneb Karentz, Michela Marchi, Simone Bastianoni. Ozone Layer. Encyclopedia of Ecology. 2019; ():383-390.

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Deneb Karentz; Michela Marchi; Simone Bastianoni. 2019. "Ozone Layer." Encyclopedia of Ecology , no. : 383-390.

Book chapter
Published: 01 January 2019 in Encyclopedia of Ecology
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This article explores the meaning of environmental protection and the mechanisms and governance structures that are used to achieve environmental objectives. A taxonomy of domestic environmental policy instruments is provided, along with a discussion of the efficiency, effectiveness, and equity issues associated with the different approaches. The article also reviews the international governance system that has been established to facilitate environmental protection. Readers are provided with a brief introduction to international environmental law, the international environmental bureaucracy, and international environmental financial mechanisms and their role in protecting the environment.

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Clive Hamilton; Andrew Macintosh; Nicoletta Patrizi; Simone Bastianoni. Environmental Protection and Ecology. Encyclopedia of Ecology 2019, 319 -326.

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Clive Hamilton, Andrew Macintosh, Nicoletta Patrizi, Simone Bastianoni. Environmental Protection and Ecology. Encyclopedia of Ecology. 2019; ():319-326.

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Clive Hamilton; Andrew Macintosh; Nicoletta Patrizi; Simone Bastianoni. 2019. "Environmental Protection and Ecology." Encyclopedia of Ecology , no. : 319-326.

Book chapter
Published: 01 January 2019 in Encyclopedia of Ecology
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Roberto Ridolfi; Federico M. Pulselli; Fabiana Morandi; Mariana Oliveira; Simone Bastianoni. Emergy and Sustainability. Encyclopedia of Ecology 2019, 294 -306.

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Roberto Ridolfi, Federico M. Pulselli, Fabiana Morandi, Mariana Oliveira, Simone Bastianoni. Emergy and Sustainability. Encyclopedia of Ecology. 2019; ():294-306.

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Roberto Ridolfi; Federico M. Pulselli; Fabiana Morandi; Mariana Oliveira; Simone Bastianoni. 2019. "Emergy and Sustainability." Encyclopedia of Ecology , no. : 294-306.

Book chapter
Published: 01 January 2019 in Encyclopedia of Ecology
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While the science of ecology has expanded markedly in the past century, that knowledge has not significantly changed the pace of economic growth or deflected the momentum of human expansion. Warnings, including that from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment team, multiply but without a corresponding societal response. The author traces the problem to the realm of politics and the ineffectiveness of statutes such as the National Environmental Policy Act. The article ends with suggestions about how to extend science more effectively into the political realm.

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David W. Orr; Valentina Niccolucci; Simone Bastianoni. Ecological Systems Thinking. Encyclopedia of Ecology 2019, 283 -287.

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David W. Orr, Valentina Niccolucci, Simone Bastianoni. Ecological Systems Thinking. Encyclopedia of Ecology. 2019; ():283-287.

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David W. Orr; Valentina Niccolucci; Simone Bastianoni. 2019. "Ecological Systems Thinking." Encyclopedia of Ecology , no. : 283-287.

Book chapter
Published: 01 January 2019 in Encyclopedia of Ecology
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were approved in September 2015 by the 193 UN Member States and are also known as Agenda 2030. The framework consists of 17 goals for environmental sustainability, social inclusion, economic development, peace, justice, good governance and partnership, the main issues for the world population in the 21st century. Each goal has several targets that better define its aims. The total number of targets is 169. The SDGs replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which expired in 2015 and were implemented over 15 years. The MDG experience underscored the importance of updated datasets for achieving the goals. Indicators are the backbone for monitoring progress towards the SDGs at local, national, regional, and global levels. Sound indicators can make the SDGs and their targets an instrument that helps countries highlight their strengths and weaknesses and monitor their progress after implementation of policies. Goals and targets are interdependent and must be pursued together as far as possible.

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Massimo Gigliotti; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Simone Bastianoni. The Sustainable Development Goals. Encyclopedia of Ecology 2019, 426 -431.

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Massimo Gigliotti, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Simone Bastianoni. The Sustainable Development Goals. Encyclopedia of Ecology. 2019; ():426-431.

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Massimo Gigliotti; Guido Schmidt-Traub; Simone Bastianoni. 2019. "The Sustainable Development Goals." Encyclopedia of Ecology , no. : 426-431.

Journal article
Published: 16 October 2018 in Resources
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One of the main goals of any (sustainability) indicator should be the communication of a clear, unambiguous, and simplified message about the status of the analyzed system. The selected indicator is expected to declare explicitly how its numerical value depicts a situation, for example, positive or negative, sustainable or unsustainable, especially when a comparison among similar or competitive systems is performed. This aspect should be a primary and discriminating issue when the selection of a set of opportune indicators is operated. The Ecological Footprint (EF) has become one of the most popular and widely used sustainability indicators. It is a resource accounting method with an area based metric in which the units of measure are global hectares or hectares with world average bio-productivity. Its main goal is to underline the link between the (un)sustainability level of a product, a system, an activity or a population life style, with the land demand for providing goods, energy, and ecological services needed to sustain that product, system, activity, or population. Therefore, the traditional rationale behind the message of EF is: the larger EF value, the larger environmental impact in terms of resources use, the lower position in the sustainability rank. The aim of this paper was to investigate if this rationale is everywhere opportune and unambiguous, or if sometimes its use requires paying a special attention. Then, a three-dimensional modification of the classical EF framework for the sustainability evaluation of a product has been proposed following a previous work by Niccolucci and co-authors (2009). Finally, the potentialities of the model have been tested by using a case study from the agricultural context.

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Nicoletta Patrizi; Valentina Niccolucci; Riccardo M. Pulselli; Elena Neri; Simone Bastianoni. The Ecological Footprint Accounting of Products: When Larger Is Not Worse. Resources 2018, 7, 65 .

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Nicoletta Patrizi, Valentina Niccolucci, Riccardo M. Pulselli, Elena Neri, Simone Bastianoni. The Ecological Footprint Accounting of Products: When Larger Is Not Worse. Resources. 2018; 7 (4):65.

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Nicoletta Patrizi; Valentina Niccolucci; Riccardo M. Pulselli; Elena Neri; Simone Bastianoni. 2018. "The Ecological Footprint Accounting of Products: When Larger Is Not Worse." Resources 7, no. 4: 65.

Journal article
Published: 10 October 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Strategies for climate change mitigation in European cities have become more urgent and require actions to proactively involve administrators, citizens and other stakeholders and let them cooperate to accomplish widely approved plans for decarbonisation. Nevertheless, considering the short term of political mandates and the instability of social-economic-legal variables in our changing world, urban planning practices will require more effective and rapid decision support systems to easily access and process information. The paper presents an optimised carbon accounting methodology to assess greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in specific urban environments and inform urban policies and design. In particular, this procedure, substantially inspired by the IPCC standard methodology for GHG emissions inventory of Nations, constitutes the framework of a “mediate model” with a dual role: to both assess the Carbon Footprint of urban neighbourhoods and to estimate the effects, in terms of Carbon Footprint mitigation, of action plans addressed to carbon neutrality. For demonstration, the carbon accounting framework has been performed based on average European values. The procedure started by profiling the typical household as functional unit, whose carbon footprint has been estimated 6.93 t CO2-eq/yr, referring to energy use for housing and mobility, domestic waste treatment and water use. The impact of the average European neighbourhood has been obtained by scaling up to 10,000 households (23,000 inhabitants) as benchmark for future applications. An additional outcome concerns the innovative spatial visualisation of results in terms of equivalent forestland (e.g. the emission of one average European household corresponds to the quantity of CO2 yearly absorbed by 0.51 ha of forest), that allows for understanding intensity and size of impacts in order to consistently support awareness raising initiatives targeting citizens and stakeholders and communication-dissemination activities.

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Riccardo Maria Pulselli; Michela Marchi; Elena Neri; Nadia Marchettini; Simone Bastianoni. Carbon accounting framework for decarbonisation of European city neighbourhoods. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 208, 850 -868.

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Riccardo Maria Pulselli, Michela Marchi, Elena Neri, Nadia Marchettini, Simone Bastianoni. Carbon accounting framework for decarbonisation of European city neighbourhoods. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 208 ():850-868.

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Riccardo Maria Pulselli; Michela Marchi; Elena Neri; Nadia Marchettini; Simone Bastianoni. 2018. "Carbon accounting framework for decarbonisation of European city neighbourhoods." Journal of Cleaner Production 208, no. : 850-868.

Journal article
Published: 03 October 2018 in Journal of CO2 Utilization
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The Province of Siena (Tuscany, Italy) is characterized by two features: 1) the carbon neutrality of its territory and 2) the great production of quality wine. The GHG balance of the Province of Siena, realized in time series according to the IPCC guidelines and validated ISO 14064-1 under the REGES Project, testifies the carbon neutrality of the territory (the percentage abatement of gross emissions passed from 72% in 2006 to 106% in 2015). This ambitious goal was achieved in 2011 after the activation of specific environmental policies (concerning energy and waste sectors, forests, transport and education) with local benefits in the short run. This paper presents a systemic investigation of the effects of the application of technologies for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture/storage on the GHG balance of the provincial area; in particular, recovery of biogenic CO2 from alcoholic fermentation of grapes could be seen as a new strategy to consolidate the status of carbon neutrality. The hypothetical installation of recovery plants in Siena wine farms could approximately capture more than 6000 t CO2, corresponding to an improvement of the GHG balance of the territory (i.e. increase of net absorption of almost 8%). CO2 can be captured and stocked in high-pressure containers and reused in production activities, both within and outside the area, avoiding the use of gas obtained in chemical industries by fossil fuel-driven production processes. The economic evaluation confirms good performances obtained by the environmental assessment. These results can inspire policies at the farm level for reducing impacts on GHG emissions from a life cycle thinking viewpoint and at the territorial (or producer consortia) level, in order to decrease impacts by means of dedicated projects, generating positive effects on the local carbon balance and relevant consequences at global scale.

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Michela Marchi; Elena Neri; Federico Maria Pulselli; Simone Bastianoni. CO2 recovery from wine production: Possible implications on the carbon balance at territorial level. Journal of CO2 Utilization 2018, 28, 137 -144.

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Michela Marchi, Elena Neri, Federico Maria Pulselli, Simone Bastianoni. CO2 recovery from wine production: Possible implications on the carbon balance at territorial level. Journal of CO2 Utilization. 2018; 28 ():137-144.

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Michela Marchi; Elena Neri; Federico Maria Pulselli; Simone Bastianoni. 2018. "CO2 recovery from wine production: Possible implications on the carbon balance at territorial level." Journal of CO2 Utilization 28, no. : 137-144.

Conference paper
Published: 04 September 2018 in Sustainable Development and Planning X
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Giulia Goffetti; Elena Neri; Riccardo M. Pulselli; Nicoletta Patrizi; Stefano Magaudda; Simone Bastianoni. CATEGORIZATION AND GEO-LOCALIZATION OF MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGIES FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA. Sustainable Development and Planning X 2018, 1 .

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Giulia Goffetti, Elena Neri, Riccardo M. Pulselli, Nicoletta Patrizi, Stefano Magaudda, Simone Bastianoni. CATEGORIZATION AND GEO-LOCALIZATION OF MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGIES FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA. Sustainable Development and Planning X. 2018; ():1.

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Giulia Goffetti; Elena Neri; Riccardo M. Pulselli; Nicoletta Patrizi; Stefano Magaudda; Simone Bastianoni. 2018. "CATEGORIZATION AND GEO-LOCALIZATION OF MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGIES FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA." Sustainable Development and Planning X , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 16 August 2018 in Ecological Indicators
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The need to define sustainability and identify meaning and scientific foundations of the concept has been compelling during the last decades. Systems approach has been largely contributing to describe the reality in which we live and understand how to measure the progress of human action towards sustainable development. Professor Sven Erik Jørgensen directly and indirectly stimulated scientific advancements in the field of sustainability definition and evaluation. His work, especially focussing on the wide view of systems sciences, of which he has always been one leading promoter, was also interestingly devoted to study the relationships between human behaviour, society, policy, education and the environment at the global level. Inspired by this view, we present and discuss a list of aspects that can be crucial in the attempt of evaluating the sustainability/unsustainability of our development models, and reflecting the multidimensional and interconnected nature of the concept. In particular, we focus on the global dimension of sustainability; the need of holistic approach, that considers relations within and among different systems at different scales; the use of intensive and/or extensive indicators for investigating sustainability; and, in more practical terms, the need of data and knowledge to feed evaluation tools. The focus on these needs will contribute to a better understanding and diffusion of the concept of sustainability under a systems perspective.

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Simone Bastianoni; Luca Coscieme; Dario Caro; Nadia Marchettini; Federico M. Pulselli. The needs of sustainability: The overarching contribution of systems approach. Ecological Indicators 2018, 100, 69 -73.

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Simone Bastianoni, Luca Coscieme, Dario Caro, Nadia Marchettini, Federico M. Pulselli. The needs of sustainability: The overarching contribution of systems approach. Ecological Indicators. 2018; 100 ():69-73.

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Simone Bastianoni; Luca Coscieme; Dario Caro; Nadia Marchettini; Federico M. Pulselli. 2018. "The needs of sustainability: The overarching contribution of systems approach." Ecological Indicators 100, no. : 69-73.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2018 in Ecological Indicators
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Water use and agricultural practices in the Mediterranean area are unsustainable. The situation is worsened by the increased frequency of droughts and floods, as well as desertification and soil depletion, associated with climate change. The aim of Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) is to foster an integrated programme of sustainable food production and water provision in the framework of the water-energy-food nexus. A monitoring tool developed under PRIMA is based on the Sustainable Development Goals, two of which are specifically dedicated to food security (SDG 2) and sustainable management of water (SDG 6). The 12 indicators that have been chosen to be monitored in the Mediterranean area are: Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI); population overweight (%); land use (%); GHG emissions (total and AFOLU)(tCO2e); cereal yield (kg/ha); agriculture value added (US$/worker); fertilizer consumption (kg/haarable land); crop water productivity (kg/m3); annual freshwater withdrawal for agriculture (%); population served using with safely managed water service (rural, %); population served using with safely managed sanitation (rural, %); amount of agricultural residues used for energy purposes (t). Datasets for these indicators are collected by international bodies such as the World Bank, WHO, FAO and UNFCCC; recent series are available for almost all Mediterranean countries and are constantly updated. The aim of the proposed monitoring tool is to keep track of the impact generated in by PRIMA research and innovation projects Mediterranean countries.

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F. Saladini; Gianni Betti; E. Ferragina; F. Bouraoui; Sebastiano Cupertino; G. Canitano; M. Gigliotti; A. Autino; F.M. Pulselli; Angelo Riccaboni; G. Bidoglio; S. Bastianoni. Linking the water-energy-food nexus and sustainable development indicators for the Mediterranean region. Ecological Indicators 2018, 91, 689 -697.

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F. Saladini, Gianni Betti, E. Ferragina, F. Bouraoui, Sebastiano Cupertino, G. Canitano, M. Gigliotti, A. Autino, F.M. Pulselli, Angelo Riccaboni, G. Bidoglio, S. Bastianoni. Linking the water-energy-food nexus and sustainable development indicators for the Mediterranean region. Ecological Indicators. 2018; 91 ():689-697.

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F. Saladini; Gianni Betti; E. Ferragina; F. Bouraoui; Sebastiano Cupertino; G. Canitano; M. Gigliotti; A. Autino; F.M. Pulselli; Angelo Riccaboni; G. Bidoglio; S. Bastianoni. 2018. "Linking the water-energy-food nexus and sustainable development indicators for the Mediterranean region." Ecological Indicators 91, no. : 689-697.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2018 in Ecosystem Services
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Ecosystem services are the benefits that humans derive from Nature. In the last decades, research efforts have been made to better understand the connections between the natural sphere and the human sphere as well as to propose novel approaches to measure the value of ecosystem services. While economic valuation has so far been the most commonly used approach – expressing ecosystem services’ value in monetary units – recent efforts have focused on alternative qualitative or biophysical accounting approaches to express the value of ecosystem service in physical units. The role of Ecological Footprint accounting as a biophysical approach for measuring the value of ecosystem services through a surface-equivalent unit is here investigated. This accounting tool allows keeping track of both the human demand on, and the Nature’s supply of, a precise sub-set of ecosystem services thus being able to make an ecological balance at the country level. A comparison between Ecological Footprint and economic valuation analyses is finally performed, for the forest ecosystem type, to highlight complementarities and correlations of these different approaches.

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Maria Serena Mancini; Alessandro Galli; Luca Coscieme; Valentina Niccolucci; David Lin; Federico Maria Pulselli; Simone Bastianoni; Nadia Marchettini. Exploring ecosystem services assessment through Ecological Footprint accounting. Ecosystem Services 2018, 30, 228 -235.

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Maria Serena Mancini, Alessandro Galli, Luca Coscieme, Valentina Niccolucci, David Lin, Federico Maria Pulselli, Simone Bastianoni, Nadia Marchettini. Exploring ecosystem services assessment through Ecological Footprint accounting. Ecosystem Services. 2018; 30 ():228-235.

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Maria Serena Mancini; Alessandro Galli; Luca Coscieme; Valentina Niccolucci; David Lin; Federico Maria Pulselli; Simone Bastianoni; Nadia Marchettini. 2018. "Exploring ecosystem services assessment through Ecological Footprint accounting." Ecosystem Services 30, no. : 228-235.

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Published: 07 November 2017 in Science of The Total Environment
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This study aims to assess the sustainability of an agroforestry system: i.e. a system obtained by the union of two productions to get at least two by-products from the same productive space. In particular, this case study presents the integration of a goose raising system with an organic grape production, from an environmental point of view. This integration is mainly designed to have two simultaneous co-products (grape and goose meat) with: i) a less intensive use of machineries for weeding and ii) avoiding use of chemical fertilizers and weeding. The sustainability is assessed by means of emergy evaluation. Emergy is a thermodynamic based tool able to estimates the environmental cost of products and services in terms of the solar energy (directly and indirectly) required for its production. As Emergy is not a state function, its final value depends on the way the product is made. The set theory applied to the emergy evaluation enables the comparison between the integrated system and the originating isolated systems in a proper way. Results confirm that the integrated system enables a saving, in emergy terms, amounting to 33% compared to the two originating isolated production systems. Emergy evaluation is able to keep track of the lower amount of resources required from outside the agroforestry system due to the optimization of resources internally available.

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Nicoletta Patrizi; Valentina Niccolucci; Cesare Castellini; Federico M. Pulselli; Simone Bastianoni. Sustainability of agro-livestock integration: Implications and results of Emergy evaluation. Science of The Total Environment 2017, 622-623, 1543 -1552.

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Nicoletta Patrizi, Valentina Niccolucci, Cesare Castellini, Federico M. Pulselli, Simone Bastianoni. Sustainability of agro-livestock integration: Implications and results of Emergy evaluation. Science of The Total Environment. 2017; 622-623 ():1543-1552.

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Nicoletta Patrizi; Valentina Niccolucci; Cesare Castellini; Federico M. Pulselli; Simone Bastianoni. 2017. "Sustainability of agro-livestock integration: Implications and results of Emergy evaluation." Science of The Total Environment 622-623, no. : 1543-1552.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2017 in Ecological Indicators
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Over the past decade, Ecological Footprint has become one of the most popular and widespread indicators for sustainability assessment and resource management. However, its popularity has been coupled, especially in recent years, by the emergence of critical views on the indicator's rationale, methodology and policy usefulness. Most of these criticisms commonly point to the inability of the Ecological Footprint to track the human-induced depletion of natural capital stocks as one of the main shortcomings of the methodology. Fully addressing this issue will require research efforts and, most likely, further methodological refinements. The aim of this paper is therefore to outline the basis of a new area of investigation in Ecological Footprint research, primarily aimed at implementing the distinction between the use of stocks and the use of flows in Ecological Footprint Accounting and debating its implications

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Maria Serena Mancini; Alessandro Galli; Valentina Niccolucci; David Lin; Laurel Hanscom; Mathis Wackernagel; Simone Bastianoni; Nadia Marchettini. Stocks and flows of natural capital: Implications for Ecological Footprint. Ecological Indicators 2017, 77, 123 -128.

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Maria Serena Mancini, Alessandro Galli, Valentina Niccolucci, David Lin, Laurel Hanscom, Mathis Wackernagel, Simone Bastianoni, Nadia Marchettini. Stocks and flows of natural capital: Implications for Ecological Footprint. Ecological Indicators. 2017; 77 ():123-128.

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Maria Serena Mancini; Alessandro Galli; Valentina Niccolucci; David Lin; Laurel Hanscom; Mathis Wackernagel; Simone Bastianoni; Nadia Marchettini. 2017. "Stocks and flows of natural capital: Implications for Ecological Footprint." Ecological Indicators 77, no. : 123-128.

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Published: 01 May 2017 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Michele Seghetta; Daina Romeo; Martina D'Este; Merlin Alvarado-Morales; Irini Angelidaki; Simone Bastianoni; Marianne Thomsen. Seaweed as innovative feedstock for energy and feed – Evaluating the impacts through a Life Cycle Assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production 2017, 150, 1 -15.

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Michele Seghetta, Daina Romeo, Martina D'Este, Merlin Alvarado-Morales, Irini Angelidaki, Simone Bastianoni, Marianne Thomsen. Seaweed as innovative feedstock for energy and feed – Evaluating the impacts through a Life Cycle Assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2017; 150 ():1-15.

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Michele Seghetta; Daina Romeo; Martina D'Este; Merlin Alvarado-Morales; Irini Angelidaki; Simone Bastianoni; Marianne Thomsen. 2017. "Seaweed as innovative feedstock for energy and feed – Evaluating the impacts through a Life Cycle Assessment." Journal of Cleaner Production 150, no. : 1-15.