Luigi Piemontese

Biographic Data

ID954956
NAMELuigi Piemontese
GIVEN NAMESLuigi
FAMILY NAMEPiemontese
SIGNATUREPIEMONTESE L
AFFILIATIONSStockholm Resilience Centre
ORCID0000-0002-1600-5450
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • How humans bend the hydrograph

    Open AccessBritt Basel, Uma Aslekar et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Water…2026

    Small-scale managed aquifer recharge (s-MAR) can help replenish depleted aquifers, extend groundwater availability during dry seasons and drought, and reduce flooding. Whether s-MAR brings these benefits not only depends on hydrogeological conditions and technical design, but also on how interventions align with social norms, governance structures and local priorities. Drawing on s-MAR experiences in Ethiopia, India and Mexico, we apply a critica…

  • Over-reliance on water infrastructure can hinder climate resilience in pastoral drylands

    Open AccessLuigi Piemontese, Stefano Terzi et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2024

    Extreme droughts are affecting millions of livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, causing water shortages, famines, migration and fatalities. The construction of new small water infrastructures (SWIs), such as deep wells and boreholes, is increasingly supported by climate resilience programmes of non-governmental organizations and national governments to improve water availability for agro-pastoralists, especially as an emergency response to ex…

  • Large‐scale siting of sand dams

    Open AccessLuigi Piemontese, Giulio Castelli et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2023

    Sand dams are simple and effective structures built across ephemeral riverbeds in arid/ semiarid regions to harvest water within sand pores and increase water availability and quality for rural communities. The complex morphological, hydrological, social, and economic conditions that make sand dams a beneficial tool for water resilience are largely influenced by the siting phase. Proper location of a sand dam can reduce communities' travel time t…

  • Archetypes in support of tailoring land-use policies

    Open AccessChristoph Oberlack, Simona Pedde et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    We define the tailoring of land-use policies here as a process that seeks to create a fit between instruments and processes of land-use policy on the one hand and properties of land-use systems in a particular place on the other hand (Epstein et al 2015). Tailoring influences policy effectiveness. For example, forest clearing practices in the Brazilian Amazon shifted from large-scale clearing to more extensive small-scale clearing (Assuncão et al…

  • Investing in sustainable intensification for smallholders

    Open AccessLuigi Piemontese, Rick Nelson Kamugisha et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    In Uganda, upgrading smallholder agriculture is a necessary step to achieve the interlinked sustainable development goals of hunger eradication, poverty reduction and land degradation neutrality. However, targeting the right restoration practices and estimate their cost-benefit at the national scale is difficult given the highly contextual nature of restoration practices and the diversity of small-scale interventions to be adopted. By analysing t…

  • Validity and validation in archetype analysis

    Open AccessLuigi Piemontese, Regina Neudert et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Archetype analysis is a promising approach in sustainability science to identify patterns and explain mechanisms shaping the sustainability of social-ecological systems. Although considerable efforts have been devoted to developing quality standards and methodological advances for archetype analysis, archetype validation remains a major challenge. Drawing on the insights from two international workshops on archetype analysis and on broader litera…

  • Transdisciplinary research for sustainability

    Open AccessTherese Bennich, Giorgos Maneas et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Science…2022References: 32

    In response to the interconnected character of societal challenges, there is a growing interest in transdisciplinary sustainability research. However, for transdisciplinary research to be able to support the generation of new knowledge in a participatory and reflexive manner, a number of challenges have been identified in each stage of the transdisciplinary research process. In this paper, we respond specifically to the challenge of initiating tr…

  • Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda

    Open AccessLuigi Piemontese, Rick Nelson Kamugisha et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2021

    Piemontese, L., R. N. Kamugisha, J. M. B. Tukahirwa, A. Tengberg, S. Pedde, and F. Jaramillo. 2021. Barriers to scaling sustainable land and water management in Uganda: a cross-scale archetype approach. Ecology and Society 26(3):6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12531-260306

  • The Water Planetary Boundary

    Open AccessTom Gleeson, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

  • Estimating the global potential of water harvesting from successful case studies

    Open AccessLuigi Piemontese, Giulio Castelli et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2020Cited by: 3References: 5

    Water harvesting has been widely applied in different social-ecological contexts, proving to be a valuable approach to sustainable intensification of agriculture. Global estimates of the potential of water harvesting are generally based on purely biophysical assessments and mostly neglect the socioeconomic dimension of agriculture. This neglect becomes a critical factor for the feasibility and effectiveness of policy and funding efforts to mainst…