Elena Pisani

Prof. Dr. Elena Pisani

Dip. Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali (TESAF) - Università di Padova (Italy)
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37Years (1990-Present)

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1 March 2020 in Science of The Total Environment
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FPFrancesco Pagliacci
Francesco Pagliacci
EDEdi Defrancesco
Edi Defrancesco
DMDANIELE MOZZATO
DANIELE MOZZATO
Lucia BortoliniLucia Bortolini
Lucia Bortolini
Andrea PezzuoloAndrea Pezzuolo
Andrea Pezzuolo
PGPaola Gatto
Paola Gatto
The EU rural development policy has addressed challenges related to climate change in agriculture by introducing public voluntary schemes, which financially support the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices. Several factors, most of which are non-financial ones, drive adoption and continuation of these schemes by farmers. Despite the importance of these factors, only a few studies explore their role in the European context. This paper contributes to filling this gap from a twofold perspective. First, it investigates the role of the farming factors, technology accessibility, environmental features, policy design and social expertise at the territorial level on early adoption. Second, it sheds light on farmers' attitudes and motivations and on social pressure on their decision to continue or discontinue the practices, by surveying a sample of early adopters. Three schemes for the Veneto region rural development programme are considered: no-tillage, fertiliser reduction, and water and fertiliser reduction. The results highlight that non-financial factors should be considered in order to design more effective schemes to prompt farmers to adopt and continue such practices over the long run. The paper also stresses the need to complement financial support with proactive information-based instruments.
31 August 2018 in Sustainability
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DMDANIELE MOZZATO
DANIELE MOZZATO
PGPaola Gatto
Paola Gatto
EDEdi Defrancesco
Edi Defrancesco
Lucia BortoliniLucia Bortolini
Lucia Bortolini
Francesco PirottiFrancesco Pirotti
Francesco Pirotti
LSLuigi Sartori
Luigi Sartori
Environmentally Friendly Farming Practices (EFFPs) are tools aimed at providing ecosystem services or mitigating the environmental impacts of intensive agriculture. A large literature has explored the factors affecting the adoption of EFFPs by farmers. However, opposite effects of several factors on uptake have often emerged. We carried out a qualitative meta-analysis of the literature seeking to identify some geographical and temporal trends that can provide a rationale to explain these opposite results. To reach this goal, we analysed the literature and classified the following factors affecting farmers’ behaviour according to the theory of reasoned action and planned behaviour: farm, farmer, informational, and social factors. Our perspective in exploring the existing literature shows that the geographical context and the temporal period under analysis, considered as different adopters’ cohorts, can explain most of the opposite effects. For example, while the different effects of farm structural factors show specific geographical patterns, those of the management and economic factors follow temporal trends. The impact of some farmers’ socio-demographical characteristics and some social factors can be explained in terms of both geographical context and time. The broad trends we found cast light on the importance of further research adopting the same methodological approach in different geographical contexts and under a temporal perspective.
8 February 2021 in Sustainability
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Elisa RavazzoliElisa Ravazzoli
Elisa Ravazzoli
Cristina Dalla TorreCristina Dalla Torre
Cristina Dalla Torre
RRRiccardo Da Re
Riccardo Da Re
VGValentino Marini Govigli
Valentino Marini Govigli
LSLaura Secco
Laura Secco
Maria NijnikMaria Nijnik
Maria Nijnik
Social innovation (SI) impacts are long-term changes that affect different dimensions of territorial capital (i.e., economy, society, environment, governance) for the territory in which SI occurs. Yet, systematic empirical evidence and theoretically sound assessments of the impacts of SI are scarce. This paper aims to fill the gap and assess the different aspects of SI’s impacts in European and Mediterranean areas that are characterized by marginalization processes. To assess the impacts of SI in marginalized areas, we use the evaluation framework developed within the Social Innovation in Marginalized Rural Areas (SIMRA) Horizon 2020 project and apply it to nine SI initiatives related to the fields of agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and rural development. Our findings show that SI produces cross-sectoral (societal, economic, environmental, and governmental) and multi-level impacts (on individuals, community, and society), which have improved the societal well-being, and contributed to the reduction of certain forms of marginality, mainly inside the territory in which SI occurred.
1 July 2019 in Forest Policy and Economics
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LSLaura Secco
Laura Secco
EPElena Pisani
Elena Pisani
RRRiccardo Da Re
Riccardo Da Re
TRTodora Rogelja
Todora Rogelja
CBCatie Burlando
Catie Burlando
Maria NijnikMaria Nijnik
Maria Nijnik
1 April 2016 in Forest Policy and Economics
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EMElena Górriz Mifsud
Elena Górriz Mifsud
LSLaura Secco
Laura Secco
EPElena Pisani
Elena Pisani
29 May 2020 in Sustainability
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Cristina Dalla TorreCristina Dalla Torre
Cristina Dalla Torre
Elisa RavazzoliElisa Ravazzoli
Elisa Ravazzoli
MDmarijke dijkshoorn-dekker
marijke dijkshoorn-dekker
NPNico Polman
Nico Polman
MMMariana Melnykovych
Mariana Melnykovych
LSLaura Secco
Laura Secco
Social innovation is considered a relevant concept to tackle societal challenges and needs in rural areas and to promote smart, inclusive and sustainable growth. The characterising sector of rural areas is agriculture; therefore, the focus of this paper is on social innovation in the field of social farming. Among the many factors leading to the emergence and development of social innovation, agency has been considered relevant in the literature on transformability and transformative social innovation as it is the ability to turn contextual difficulties into opportunities for social innovation and for inclusive growth. This paper proposes an evaluation framework to assess the different dimensions of agency by triangulating quantitative with qualitative data and by using indicators. This paper adopts a case study approach, analysing two cases of social farming in Italy and the Netherlands. The results show that the social innovation idea and the resilience of the agency are among the most relevant dimensions for the emergence and development of social innovations. Finally, this paper discusses the three most relevant factors for agency to lead to social innovation: idea and embeddedness of the agency, transformability of the context through agency´s resilience, and agency as catalyst for empowerment.