Andrea Cattaneo
Biographic Data
| ID | 6454788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Cattaneo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Cattaneo |
| SIGNATURE | CATTANEO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8845-5020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Occupational exposure to total and hexavalent chromium in welders
Introduction: Chromium (Cr), and particularly its hexavalent form is classified as a Group 1 human carcinogen and represents a major occupational hazard, particularly in stainless-steel welding. This exploratory study integrated environmental and biological monitoring to characterize welders' exposure and assessed how analytical methods influence exposure estimates. Methods: Twenty-two welders from two Northern Italian companies and 10 administra…
Viewpoint
Climate-related shocks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine have exacerbated world hunger, making it more difficult for people to meet their nutritional needs. This viewpoint examines, for 136 countries, the ability of populations to afford an energy-sufficient and a healthy diet in the face of shocks. Using pre-pandemic data from 2019, we calculate the percentage of countries’ populations at risk of losing access to these diets in the …
Asbestos Exposure in Patients with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma included in the PRIMATE Study, Lombardy, Italy
The PRIMATE study is an Italian translational research project, which aims to identify personalized biomarkers associated with clinical characteristics of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). For this purpose, characteristics of MPM patients with different degrees of asbestos exposure will be compared to identify somatic mutations, germline polymorphism, and blood inflammatory biomarkers. In this framework, we assessed exposure to asbestos for 5…
On the Determination of Cr(VI) in Cr(III)-Rich Particulates
The goals of this work are the evaluation of the performances of official methods in the challenging determination of Cr(VI) in Cr(III)-rich particulate matter, and the development of a novel and robust analytical protocol for this issue. A liquid chromatography inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry apparatus (LC-ICP-MS), together with an isotope-enriched spike addition technique, was used to allow the study of Cr(III)/Cr(VI) interconversi…
Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum
The economic and social development of nations relies on their population having physical access to services and employment opportunities. For the vast majority of the 3.4 billion people living in rural areas, this largely depends on their access to urban centers of different sizes. Similarly, urban centers depend on their rural hinterlands. Building on the literature on functional areas/territories and the rural–urban continuum as well as insigh…
Establishing the link between internal and international migration
Internal and international migration are often thought of as separate processes, rarely analysed together in a coherent framework. This paper examines, based on data for 21 Sub-Saharan African countries, how previous internal migration can shape international migration intentions – i.e. desiring and planning to move abroad. We find that individuals who migrated to urban areas are on average the most likely to develop international migration inten…
Viewpoint
Food systems that support healthy diets in sustainable, resilient, just, and equitable ways can engender progress in eradicating poverty and malnutrition; protecting human rights; and restoring natural resources. Food system activities have contributed to great gains for humanity but have also led to significant challenges, including hunger, poor diet quality, inequity, and threats to nature. While it is recognized that food systems are central t…
Comparison between Communicated and Calculated Exposure Estimates Obtained through Three Modeling Tools
This study aims to evaluate the risk assessment approach of the REACH legislation in industrial chemical departments with a focus on the use of three models to calculate exposures, and discuss those factors that can determine a bias between the estimated exposure (and therefore the expected risk) in the extended safety data sheets (e-SDS) and the expected exposure for the actual scenario. To purse this goal, the exposure estimates and risk charac…
Commuters’ Personal Exposure Assessment and Evaluation of Inhaled Dose to Different Atmospheric Pollutants
Several studies evaluating exposure to pollutants in microenvironments (MEs) are available in the scientific literature, but studies that evaluate the inhaled doses of pollutants are few in number. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the exposure of commuters to different pollutants (i.e., nitrogen dioxide [NO 2 ] and fractionated particulate matter [PM], including ultrafine particles [UFPs]) using miniaturized and portable real-time monitori…
Inside Project
Hypertensive disorders are common complications during pregnancy (HDP) with substantial public health impact. Acute and chronic particulate matter (PM) exposure during pregnancy increases the risk of HDP, although the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) may be the ideal candidates for mediating the effects of PM exposure in pregnancy as they are released in response to environmental stimuli. The INSIDE pro…
Nasal Microbiota Modifies the Effects of Particulate Air Pollution on Plasma Extracellular Vesicles
Air pollution exposure has been linked to modifications of both extracellular vesicle (EV) concentration and nasal microbiota structure (NMB), which might act as the respiratory health gatekeeper. This study aimed to assess whether an unbalanced NMB could modify the effect of particulate matter (PM) exposure on plasmatic EV levels. Due to two different NMB taxonomical profiles characterized by a widely different relative abundance of the Moraxell…
Estimation of the Inhaled Dose of Airborne Pollutants during Commuting
During rush hours, commuters are exposed to high concentrations and peaks of traffic-related air pollutants. The aims of this study were therefore to extend the inhaled dose estimation outcomes from a previous work investigating the inhaled dose of a typical commuter in the city of Milan, Italy, and to extend these results to a wider population. The estimation of the dose of pollutants inhaled by commuters and deposited within the respiratory tra…
Multiple moves and return migration within developing countries
This paper sheds new light on internal migration processes by estimating stylized migration histories for populations in 31 countries. The focus is on repeat migration and on return migration back to rural areas from urban areas. Migration histories are portrayed by introducing migration pathway matrices , representing the shares of the population (by gender) that have moved or stayed in rural and urban areas over three periods (childhood and two…
The environmental impact of reducing food loss and waste
This paper examines the rationale for pursuing environmental objectives by reducing food loss and waste (FLW). The main thrust of the literature on this issue is that FLW reduction can make a major contribution to making food systems more sustainable. Using a stylized analytical framework, we find that reducing FLW always improves resource use efficiency for land and water, and reduces the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted per unit of food…
Reducing food loss and waste
Despite broad agreement in policy circles on the need to reduce food loss and waste (FLW), considerable gaps in information still exist. This paper identifies policy-relevant information gaps, summarizes recent research that tries to fill these gaps and identifies five challenges for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in reducing FLW. The five challenges identified are: (i) measuring and monitoring FLW, (ii) assessing benefits and costs …
Managing Climate Change Risks in Africa - A Global Perspective
Improving the efficiency targeting of Malawi's farm input subsidy programme
Adoption and intensity of adoption of conservation farming practices in Zambia
Modeling Population Exposure to Ultrafine Particles in a Major Italian Urban Area
Average daily ultrafine particles (UFP) exposure of adult Milan subpopulations (defined on the basis of gender, and then for age, employment or educational status), in different exposure scenarios (typical working day in summer and winter) were simulated using a microenvironmental stochastic simulation model. The basic concept of this kind of model is that time-weighted average exposure is defined as the sum of partial microenvironmental exposure…
Airborne Particulate Matter in School Classrooms of Northern Italy
Indoor size-fractioned particulate matter (PM) was measured in seven schools in Milan, to characterize their concentration levels in classrooms, compare the measured concentrations with the recommended guideline values, and provide a preliminary assessment of the efficacy of the intervention measures, based on the guidelines developed by the Italian Ministry of Healthand applied to mitigate exposure to undesirable air pollutants. Indoor sampling …
Assessing sustainable forest management under Redd
Agricultural risk management policies under climate uncertainty
On international equity in reducing emissions from deforestation
The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Government commitments and market transitions lay the foundation for an effort to save the forest and reduce carbon emission.
Comparing climate and cost impacts of reference levels for reducing emissions from deforestation
The climate benefit and economic cost of an international mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) will depend on the design of reference levels for crediting emission reductions. We compare the impacts of six proposed reference level designs on emission reduction levels and on cost per emission reduction using a stylized partial equilibrium model (the open source impacts of REDD incentives spreadsheet; OSIRIS). …
Viewpoint
Food systems that support healthy diets in sustainable, resilient, just, and equitable ways can engender progress in eradicating poverty and malnutrition; protecting human rights; and restoring natural resources. Food system activities have contributed to great gains for humanity but have also led to significant challenges, including hunger, poor diet quality, inequity, and threats to nature. While it is recognized that food systems are central t…
Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum
The economic and social development of nations relies on their population having physical access to services and employment opportunities. For the vast majority of the 3.4 billion people living in rural areas, this largely depends on their access to urban centers of different sizes. Similarly, urban centers depend on their rural hinterlands. Building on the literature on functional areas/territories and the rural–urban continuum as well as insigh…
Multiple moves and return migration within developing countries
This paper sheds new light on internal migration processes by estimating stylized migration histories for populations in 31 countries. The focus is on repeat migration and on return migration back to rural areas from urban areas. Migration histories are portrayed by introducing migration pathway matrices , representing the shares of the population (by gender) that have moved or stayed in rural and urban areas over three periods (childhood and two…
Establishing the link between internal and international migration
Internal and international migration are often thought of as separate processes, rarely analysed together in a coherent framework. This paper examines, based on data for 21 Sub-Saharan African countries, how previous internal migration can shape international migration intentions – i.e. desiring and planning to move abroad. We find that individuals who migrated to urban areas are on average the most likely to develop international migration inten…
Reducing food loss and waste
Despite broad agreement in policy circles on the need to reduce food loss and waste (FLW), considerable gaps in information still exist. This paper identifies policy-relevant information gaps, summarizes recent research that tries to fill these gaps and identifies five challenges for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in reducing FLW. The five challenges identified are: (i) measuring and monitoring FLW, (ii) assessing benefits and costs …
The environmental impact of reducing food loss and waste
This paper examines the rationale for pursuing environmental objectives by reducing food loss and waste (FLW). The main thrust of the literature on this issue is that FLW reduction can make a major contribution to making food systems more sustainable. Using a stylized analytical framework, we find that reducing FLW always improves resource use efficiency for land and water, and reduces the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted per unit of food…
Agricultural risk management policies under climate uncertainty
Improving the efficiency targeting of Malawi's farm input subsidy programme
On international equity in reducing emissions from deforestation
The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Government commitments and market transitions lay the foundation for an effort to save the forest and reduce carbon emission.
Comparing climate and cost impacts of reference levels for reducing emissions from deforestation
The climate benefit and economic cost of an international mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) will depend on the design of reference levels for crediting emission reductions. We compare the impacts of six proposed reference level designs on emission reduction levels and on cost per emission reduction using a stylized partial equilibrium model (the open source impacts of REDD incentives spreadsheet; OSIRIS). …
On international equity in reducing emissions from deforestation
Assessing sustainable forest management under Redd
Agricultural risk management policies under climate uncertainty
Adoption and intensity of adoption of conservation farming practices in Zambia
Modeling Population Exposure to Ultrafine Particles in a Major Italian Urban Area
Average daily ultrafine particles (UFP) exposure of adult Milan subpopulations (defined on the basis of gender, and then for age, employment or educational status), in different exposure scenarios (typical working day in summer and winter) were simulated using a microenvironmental stochastic simulation model. The basic concept of this kind of model is that time-weighted average exposure is defined as the sum of partial microenvironmental exposure…
Airborne Particulate Matter in School Classrooms of Northern Italy
Indoor size-fractioned particulate matter (PM) was measured in seven schools in Milan, to characterize their concentration levels in classrooms, compare the measured concentrations with the recommended guideline values, and provide a preliminary assessment of the efficacy of the intervention measures, based on the guidelines developed by the Italian Ministry of Healthand applied to mitigate exposure to undesirable air pollutants. Indoor sampling …
Managing Climate Change Risks in Africa - A Global Perspective
Improving the efficiency targeting of Malawi's farm input subsidy programme
Comparison between Communicated and Calculated Exposure Estimates Obtained through Three Modeling Tools
This study aims to evaluate the risk assessment approach of the REACH legislation in industrial chemical departments with a focus on the use of three models to calculate exposures, and discuss those factors that can determine a bias between the estimated exposure (and therefore the expected risk) in the extended safety data sheets (e-SDS) and the expected exposure for the actual scenario. To purse this goal, the exposure estimates and risk charac…
Commuters’ Personal Exposure Assessment and Evaluation of Inhaled Dose to Different Atmospheric Pollutants
Several studies evaluating exposure to pollutants in microenvironments (MEs) are available in the scientific literature, but studies that evaluate the inhaled doses of pollutants are few in number. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the exposure of commuters to different pollutants (i.e., nitrogen dioxide [NO 2 ] and fractionated particulate matter [PM], including ultrafine particles [UFPs]) using miniaturized and portable real-time monitori…
Inside Project
Hypertensive disorders are common complications during pregnancy (HDP) with substantial public health impact. Acute and chronic particulate matter (PM) exposure during pregnancy increases the risk of HDP, although the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) may be the ideal candidates for mediating the effects of PM exposure in pregnancy as they are released in response to environmental stimuli. The INSIDE pro…
Nasal Microbiota Modifies the Effects of Particulate Air Pollution on Plasma Extracellular Vesicles
Air pollution exposure has been linked to modifications of both extracellular vesicle (EV) concentration and nasal microbiota structure (NMB), which might act as the respiratory health gatekeeper. This study aimed to assess whether an unbalanced NMB could modify the effect of particulate matter (PM) exposure on plasmatic EV levels. Due to two different NMB taxonomical profiles characterized by a widely different relative abundance of the Moraxell…
Estimation of the Inhaled Dose of Airborne Pollutants during Commuting
During rush hours, commuters are exposed to high concentrations and peaks of traffic-related air pollutants. The aims of this study were therefore to extend the inhaled dose estimation outcomes from a previous work investigating the inhaled dose of a typical commuter in the city of Milan, Italy, and to extend these results to a wider population. The estimation of the dose of pollutants inhaled by commuters and deposited within the respiratory tra…
Multiple moves and return migration within developing countries
This paper sheds new light on internal migration processes by estimating stylized migration histories for populations in 31 countries. The focus is on repeat migration and on return migration back to rural areas from urban areas. Migration histories are portrayed by introducing migration pathway matrices , representing the shares of the population (by gender) that have moved or stayed in rural and urban areas over three periods (childhood and two…
The environmental impact of reducing food loss and waste
This paper examines the rationale for pursuing environmental objectives by reducing food loss and waste (FLW). The main thrust of the literature on this issue is that FLW reduction can make a major contribution to making food systems more sustainable. Using a stylized analytical framework, we find that reducing FLW always improves resource use efficiency for land and water, and reduces the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted per unit of food…
Reducing food loss and waste
Despite broad agreement in policy circles on the need to reduce food loss and waste (FLW), considerable gaps in information still exist. This paper identifies policy-relevant information gaps, summarizes recent research that tries to fill these gaps and identifies five challenges for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in reducing FLW. The five challenges identified are: (i) measuring and monitoring FLW, (ii) assessing benefits and costs …
Viewpoint
Food systems that support healthy diets in sustainable, resilient, just, and equitable ways can engender progress in eradicating poverty and malnutrition; protecting human rights; and restoring natural resources. Food system activities have contributed to great gains for humanity but have also led to significant challenges, including hunger, poor diet quality, inequity, and threats to nature. While it is recognized that food systems are central t…
Asbestos Exposure in Patients with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma included in the PRIMATE Study, Lombardy, Italy
The PRIMATE study is an Italian translational research project, which aims to identify personalized biomarkers associated with clinical characteristics of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). For this purpose, characteristics of MPM patients with different degrees of asbestos exposure will be compared to identify somatic mutations, germline polymorphism, and blood inflammatory biomarkers. In this framework, we assessed exposure to asbestos for 5…
On the Determination of Cr(VI) in Cr(III)-Rich Particulates
The goals of this work are the evaluation of the performances of official methods in the challenging determination of Cr(VI) in Cr(III)-rich particulate matter, and the development of a novel and robust analytical protocol for this issue. A liquid chromatography inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry apparatus (LC-ICP-MS), together with an isotope-enriched spike addition technique, was used to allow the study of Cr(III)/Cr(VI) interconversi…
Economic and social development along the urban–rural continuum
The economic and social development of nations relies on their population having physical access to services and employment opportunities. For the vast majority of the 3.4 billion people living in rural areas, this largely depends on their access to urban centers of different sizes. Similarly, urban centers depend on their rural hinterlands. Building on the literature on functional areas/territories and the rural–urban continuum as well as insigh…
Establishing the link between internal and international migration
Internal and international migration are often thought of as separate processes, rarely analysed together in a coherent framework. This paper examines, based on data for 21 Sub-Saharan African countries, how previous internal migration can shape international migration intentions – i.e. desiring and planning to move abroad. We find that individuals who migrated to urban areas are on average the most likely to develop international migration inten…
Viewpoint
Climate-related shocks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine have exacerbated world hunger, making it more difficult for people to meet their nutritional needs. This viewpoint examines, for 136 countries, the ability of populations to afford an energy-sufficient and a healthy diet in the face of shocks. Using pre-pandemic data from 2019, we calculate the percentage of countries’ populations at risk of losing access to these diets in the …
Occupational exposure to total and hexavalent chromium in welders
Introduction: Chromium (Cr), and particularly its hexavalent form is classified as a Group 1 human carcinogen and represents a major occupational hazard, particularly in stainless-steel welding. This exploratory study integrated environmental and biological monitoring to characterize welders' exposure and assessed how analytical methods influence exposure estimates. Methods: Twenty-two welders from two Northern Italian companies and 10 administra…
Geography (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Business (10 works) · Environmental Science (10 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Natural resource economics (8 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (6 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Population (6 works)