Forest Resources and Landscape Quality: Global, Regional and Local Challenges

Author Biography

Alessia D’Agata is a visiting scholar at the Department of Geography, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and a doctoral candidate at the Department of Methods and Models for Territory, Economy and Finance, Faculty of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, supported by a prestigious fellowship. She holds a master’s in building engineering and architecture and a master’s in GIScience for the integrated management of land and natural resources. Her main research interests include urban planning and policy, agricultural and environmental sustainability, official statistics, and normative approaches to sustainable development. She has published articles in top-field scientific journals dealing with land-use change and forest dynamics. Vito Imbrenda graduated in environmental engineering (2003), obtained a PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Basilicata, Italy (2012). Since 2018 he has been a staff researcher at the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis of the National Research Council of Italy (IMAA-CNR, Tito Scalo). His activities focus on the study of complex phenomena involving land systems (land degradation, urban sprawl, climate change impacts) with the potential socioeconomic implications through the use of landscape ecology tools and Earth observation techniques. He is the current IMAA-CNR focal point in the National Working Groups “Drought, scarcity and water crisis”, “Internal areas, marginal and outermost regions”, and in the IRIDE project, European Earth Observation satellite programme (ESA - ASI). Ioannis Konaxis, PhD, is assistant professor of sustainable eco-tourism and nature conservation at the Business School of the public University of Piraeus, Greece. He teaches several classes of tourism business and economics, ecological conservation of protected areas, landscape and sustainable development. He has published theoretical and applied research in sustainable tourism management in prestigious international journals and book series.