Paola Gatto
Biographic Data
| ID | 6017952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paola Gatto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paola |
| FAMILY NAME | Gatto |
| SIGNATURE | GATTO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2951-5692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘You shall not pass!’—frequent hikers' acceptance of access restrictions in overcrowded Italian Mountains
Outdoor recreation is reported to have many positive effects on individuals and communities. However, when recreationists' presence becomes overcrowding, it can cause ecological damage to natural sites while also reducing the benefits of outdoor recreation for recreationists and local communities. Restriction measures are an option to reduce overcrowding. First, we evaluated the acceptance and preference of restriction measures to protect the env…
Spatial determinants of public forest subsidies
Challenges for community-owned forests between traditional and new uses of forests
There is a worldwide increasing interest in forest ecosystem services (FESs), especially regulating and cultural ones. Providing FESs requires the shift towards a multifunctional forest management approach, and forest owners are key figures in this process. Current research on motivations and attitudes of forest owners towards provision of regulating and cultural FES focuses on non-industrial private forest owners but neglects community-owned for…
Determinants of agricultural diversification
Diversification of farm activities is one of the strategies to reduce the risk associated to the farm business and stabilise farmers’ income, in particular for smaller farms. Diversification may result in on-farm activities (e.g. agritourism) or off-farm, which indicates that farmers seek additional income in the labour or investment market off their farms. Understanding the determinants of diversification is important to anticipate farms that ar…
Revitalizing Collective Resources in Mountain Areas Through Community Engagement and Knowledge Cocreation
The ongoing global and large-scale changes in markets, demographics, and use of resources are impacting mountain peoples and regions. In mountain areas, resources have been governed through community-based systems for resource management for centuries, ensuring stewardship and local decision-making over the resources. Due to the importance of such systems to mountain societies, there is a need to understand local effects of global changes and rec…
Forests in common
Europe has a wealth of community forest arrangements. This paper aims to transcend the diversity of locally specific terms and forms, to highlight the value of considering them inclusively. Building on methods to make sense of diversity, we use reflexive grounded inquiry in fifteen cases in Italy, Scotland, Slovenia and Sweden. Within four dimensions (forest, community, relationships between them, and relationships with wider society), we identif…
Analysing the role of factors affecting farmers’ decisions to continue with agri-environmental schemes from a temporal perspective
To leave or not to leave? Understanding determinants of farmers’ choices to remain in or abandon agri-environmental schemes
Effectiveness of Agri-Environmental Schemes (AESs) as tools to enhance the rural environment can be achieved not only by increasing uptake rates, but also by avoiding participating farmers abandoning the scheme once they are in. For this reason, it is important to also consider what affects farmers’ decisions to remain in the scheme rather than leave it at the end of the contractual obligation. However, up to now, there has been very little on th…
How private are Europe’s private forests? A comparative property rights analysis
Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of significant value to society, and there are calls for novel policies to enhance their provision and to face the challenges of environmental changes. Such policies need to acknowledge the importance of private forests, and importantly they need to be based on a deep understanding of how property rights held by private forest owners vary across Europe. We collected …
The Global Warming Potential of Building Materials
This paper analyzes the global-warming potential of materials used to construct the walls of 3 building types—traditional, semimodern, and modern—in Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone in Nepal, using the life-cycle assessment approach. Traditional buildings use local materials, mainly wood and stone, while semimodern and modern buildings use different amounts of commercial materials, such as cement and glass wool. A comparison of the greenh…
Conflict or synergy? Understanding interaction between municipalities and village commons (regole) in polycentric governance of mountain areas in the Veneto Region, Italy
A particular challenge for mountainous areas in Italy is the definition of suitable governance models for local resources. Several solutions have been proposed over time, resulting in the co-existence of a number of decision-making centers. A crucial role is played by municipalities, but, in recent years, village commons – regola (singular) / regole (plural) in the local language – have been re-constituted as institutions with local power. In thi…
Disturbances, robustness and adaptation in forest commons
A ‘component-based’ approach to discounting for natural resource damage assessment
Why and how to measure forest governance at local level
Forestry governance and collective learning process in Italy
Factors Affecting Farmers’ Participation in Agri‐environmental Measures
Agri‐environmental measures play an important role in Italian rural areas, as shown by the financial commitment to the Rural Development programmes. However, in contrast with other European Union (EU) countries, policy‐makers still have limited experience on how farmers approach environmental incentive schemes. This paper casts new light on this issue from a northern Italian perspective. The rationale of the farmers’ decision‐making process is ex…
Professor Maurizio Merlo
Agriculture, forestry and global warming
How private are Europe’s private forests? A comparative property rights analysis
Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of significant value to society, and there are calls for novel policies to enhance their provision and to face the challenges of environmental changes. Such policies need to acknowledge the importance of private forests, and importantly they need to be based on a deep understanding of how property rights held by private forest owners vary across Europe. We collected …
Disturbances, robustness and adaptation in forest commons
Why and how to measure forest governance at local level
Forestry governance and collective learning process in Italy
Analysing the role of factors affecting farmers’ decisions to continue with agri-environmental schemes from a temporal perspective
To leave or not to leave? Understanding determinants of farmers’ choices to remain in or abandon agri-environmental schemes
Effectiveness of Agri-Environmental Schemes (AESs) as tools to enhance the rural environment can be achieved not only by increasing uptake rates, but also by avoiding participating farmers abandoning the scheme once they are in. For this reason, it is important to also consider what affects farmers’ decisions to remain in the scheme rather than leave it at the end of the contractual obligation. However, up to now, there has been very little on th…
Forests in common
Europe has a wealth of community forest arrangements. This paper aims to transcend the diversity of locally specific terms and forms, to highlight the value of considering them inclusively. Building on methods to make sense of diversity, we use reflexive grounded inquiry in fifteen cases in Italy, Scotland, Slovenia and Sweden. Within four dimensions (forest, community, relationships between them, and relationships with wider society), we identif…
Agriculture, forestry and global warming
Professor Maurizio Merlo
Factors Affecting Farmers’ Participation in Agri‐environmental Measures
Agri‐environmental measures play an important role in Italian rural areas, as shown by the financial commitment to the Rural Development programmes. However, in contrast with other European Union (EU) countries, policy‐makers still have limited experience on how farmers approach environmental incentive schemes. This paper casts new light on this issue from a northern Italian perspective. The rationale of the farmers’ decision‐making process is ex…
Forestry governance and collective learning process in Italy
Why and how to measure forest governance at local level
A ‘component-based’ approach to discounting for natural resource damage assessment
Disturbances, robustness and adaptation in forest commons
Conflict or synergy? Understanding interaction between municipalities and village commons (regole) in polycentric governance of mountain areas in the Veneto Region, Italy
A particular challenge for mountainous areas in Italy is the definition of suitable governance models for local resources. Several solutions have been proposed over time, resulting in the co-existence of a number of decision-making centers. A crucial role is played by municipalities, but, in recent years, village commons – regola (singular) / regole (plural) in the local language – have been re-constituted as institutions with local power. In thi…
The Global Warming Potential of Building Materials
This paper analyzes the global-warming potential of materials used to construct the walls of 3 building types—traditional, semimodern, and modern—in Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone in Nepal, using the life-cycle assessment approach. Traditional buildings use local materials, mainly wood and stone, while semimodern and modern buildings use different amounts of commercial materials, such as cement and glass wool. A comparison of the greenh…
Analysing the role of factors affecting farmers’ decisions to continue with agri-environmental schemes from a temporal perspective
To leave or not to leave? Understanding determinants of farmers’ choices to remain in or abandon agri-environmental schemes
Effectiveness of Agri-Environmental Schemes (AESs) as tools to enhance the rural environment can be achieved not only by increasing uptake rates, but also by avoiding participating farmers abandoning the scheme once they are in. For this reason, it is important to also consider what affects farmers’ decisions to remain in the scheme rather than leave it at the end of the contractual obligation. However, up to now, there has been very little on th…
How private are Europe’s private forests? A comparative property rights analysis
Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of significant value to society, and there are calls for novel policies to enhance their provision and to face the challenges of environmental changes. Such policies need to acknowledge the importance of private forests, and importantly they need to be based on a deep understanding of how property rights held by private forest owners vary across Europe. We collected …
Forests in common
Europe has a wealth of community forest arrangements. This paper aims to transcend the diversity of locally specific terms and forms, to highlight the value of considering them inclusively. Building on methods to make sense of diversity, we use reflexive grounded inquiry in fifteen cases in Italy, Scotland, Slovenia and Sweden. Within four dimensions (forest, community, relationships between them, and relationships with wider society), we identif…
Revitalizing Collective Resources in Mountain Areas Through Community Engagement and Knowledge Cocreation
The ongoing global and large-scale changes in markets, demographics, and use of resources are impacting mountain peoples and regions. In mountain areas, resources have been governed through community-based systems for resource management for centuries, ensuring stewardship and local decision-making over the resources. Due to the importance of such systems to mountain societies, there is a need to understand local effects of global changes and rec…
Challenges for community-owned forests between traditional and new uses of forests
There is a worldwide increasing interest in forest ecosystem services (FESs), especially regulating and cultural ones. Providing FESs requires the shift towards a multifunctional forest management approach, and forest owners are key figures in this process. Current research on motivations and attitudes of forest owners towards provision of regulating and cultural FES focuses on non-industrial private forest owners but neglects community-owned for…
Determinants of agricultural diversification
Diversification of farm activities is one of the strategies to reduce the risk associated to the farm business and stabilise farmers’ income, in particular for smaller farms. Diversification may result in on-farm activities (e.g. agritourism) or off-farm, which indicates that farmers seek additional income in the labour or investment market off their farms. Understanding the determinants of diversification is important to anticipate farms that ar…
‘You shall not pass!’—frequent hikers' acceptance of access restrictions in overcrowded Italian Mountains
Outdoor recreation is reported to have many positive effects on individuals and communities. However, when recreationists' presence becomes overcrowding, it can cause ecological damage to natural sites while also reducing the benefits of outdoor recreation for recreationists and local communities. Restriction measures are an option to reduce overcrowding. First, we evaluated the acceptance and preference of restriction measures to protect the env…
Spatial determinants of public forest subsidies
Geography (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Forest Management and Policy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Agricultural Economics and Policy (6 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (4 works)