Anastasia Basina studied Business Administration (2006) at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics (2009) from the Department of Public Administration of Panteion University, Athens. During her postgraduate studies, she specialized in the field of renewable energy technologies and their impact on the environment and the Greek economy. She is also a member of the Greek Chamber of Commerce and since March 2010 has been responsible for the department of economics in the field of PV-Systems, in one of the pioneering solar and wind system companies in Greece.
Elisa Bonazzi has a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Bologna and an MSc in Environmental Economics from Bocconi University, Milan. She is a PhD student in Agriculture Economics at the University of Bologna and research fellow at the Faculty of Agriculture, funded by Arpa (Environment Agency of Emilia-Romagna Region). Her main research studies focus on environmental economics and accounting.
Renato Marra Campanale is a researcher at the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA). He worked for a time at the OECD and cooperates with ISTAT on environmental accounting. He has a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy from Pavia University, Italy.
Valeria Costantini is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Roma Tre University (Italy) and Lecturer in Environmental Economics and Climate Change, and Urban Economics. She has worked as an economist at the Italian National Research Institute for New Technologies, Energy and Environment (ENEA). She is involved in several national and international research projects, with specific interest in environmental economics and climate change, international energy markets and innovation in green technologies.
Silvana Dalmazzone (PhD in Environmental Economics and Environmental Management, University of York, UK, 1999) is Assistant Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Turin, Italy, where she teaches environmental and natural resource economics. She is member and former director of the Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Sustainability (IRIS), Turin. She has co-edited Governing the Environment: Salient Institutional Issues (2009), Environmental Governance and Decentralization (2007), The Economics of Biological Invasions (2000) and authored numerous articles in volumes and journals in the areas of economics of biodiversity, resilience of economic-ecological systems, environmental Kuznets curve, biological invasions and environmental accounting.
Pablo del Río is tenured researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). He received his PhD in Economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2002. His research focuses on the factors influencing environmental technology change in firms, climate change mitigation measures and renewable energy support schemes. He has collaborated in several EU and national projects and has published his work in international journals.
Charalambos Economidis has a BSc in Economics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany in 1979 and a PhD in Economics from Panteion University, Athens in 1991. Since 2003, he has lectured in Economics at the Department of Public Administration (Economics Section) at Panteion University, where he has held the post of Associate Professor in Economics since 2008. He has been lecturing on postgraduate courses since 2005. His research interests include Input–Output analysis and environmental and air pollution. Since 1994 he has been a member of the International Input–Output Association. In 2007 he published a book entitled Introduction to the System and the Analysis of Input–Output. He has co-authored numerous papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings.
Aldo Femia has an MSc in Economics and Econometrics and a PhD in Political Economy and has worked at the National Research Council, the Wuppertal Institute fuer Klima, Umwelt und Energie and the OECD. He is currently Senior Researcher at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). His research interests are in the fields of sustainability, environmental accounting, material flow analysis and Input–Output analysis.
Alessandra La Notte (MA in Environmental Management and Development, Australian National University, Canberra Australia, 1998; PhD in Environmental Economics, University of Trento, Italy, 2004) is a researcher at the European Commission-Joint Research Centre and Contract Professor of Environmental Accounting at the University of Turin, Italy. Her research topics range from the economic valuation of ecosystem services to environmental and ecosystem accounting.
Giovanni Marin has been a PhD student in Economics at IMT (Institutions, Markets, Technologies) Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy) since 2009. He graduated in Applied Economics at the University of Ferrara (Italy) and was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, in spring 2011. His current research focuses on analysis based on environmental accounts and on environmental patenting of European firms.
Massimiliano Mazzanti is Associate Professor in Economics and lecturer in Environmental Economics at the University of Ferrara. He is also a research collaborator with the CERIS DSE CNR Institute in Milan. His main research fields deal with environmental policy, economics of innovation, economic performance and innovation, economic evaluation by stated preference techniques, waste management and policy, climate change and development.
Anna Montini (PhD in Political Economics) is Assistant Professor in Economics and Lecturer in Economics and Environmental Economics at the University of Bologna. She is also a Research Fellow at the National Research Council in Milan (CERIS-DSE). Her main research interests concern environmental economics and policy, waste management and environmental-economic performances at geographical/spatial level.
José Manuel Rueda-Cantuche is Contractual Agent at the Institute for Prospective and Technological Studies (IPTS) at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Seville. He has conducted extensive research (1997–2008) on the compilation of supply–use and Input–Output tables for Andalusia and the compilation of time series of supply–use and Input–Output tables for individual member states, the euro area and the European Union for Eurostat (2007–). He was the editor of the International Input–Output Association’s Newsletter for three years (2007–2010) and is currently one of its Council Members (2007–); he is also Vice-President of the Hispanic-American Input–Output Society (2008–).
Michele Sansoni is a Management Engineer and MSc in Geographic Information Systems and a project manager at Arpa Emilia-Romagna. An expert in environmental assessment, energy–environment interactions and GIS analysis, his work also focuses on the development of RAMEA matrices and the analysis of methodologies for conducting GHG inventories at local level.
Milan Ščasný is a Senior Research Fellow at Charles University Environment Center, Prague. His research activities cover several areas in the field of environmental economics including, inter alia, the valuation of non-market goods, especially health risks, consumer behaviour, distributional effects of environmental regulation and economic impact modelling. He has been involved in more than 15 research projects funded as part of the FP5 to FP7 programmes of the European Commission, most of which he has coordinated, and he also took part in the OECD project on Household Behaviour and Environmental Policy.
Athanasios Sfetsos received a BSc in Physics from the University of Patras in 1995. He obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London. He collaborated with the Research Tourism Institute and the Center for Renewable Energy Studies prior to joining the Departmento de Engenharia Electrotécnica at the Nova Universidade de Lisboa. He is currently a research scientist with the Environmental Research Laboratory at NCSR Demokritos. His research interests include environmental risk management and mitigation and air pollution. He has co-authored more than 100 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings.
Peter J. Stauvermann is Professor of Economics at Changwon National University (Republic of Korea). He obtained his PhD from the Technical University of Dortmund (Germany) and has worked at several other universities including the University of Rostock (Germany), the Technical University of Twente (the Netherlands), the University of Tilburg (the Netherlands) and the University of the South Pacific (Fiji). His fields of research are environmental economics, growth theory, regional economics and the economic theory of conflicts.
Miguel Ángel Tarancón has a PhD in Economics and is Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. His field of specialization is Input–Output analysis. Within this field, he has contributed to key international journals including Economic Systems Research, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Energy and Transportation Research. He is also the author of a book on Input–Output (in Spanish) and has collaborated in other international publications.
Fusako Tsuchimoto Menkyna has been a Research Fellow at Charles University Environment Center, Prague, since 2009. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Law at the University of Tokyo in 2004 and an MA in Economics from CERGE-EI. She expects to obtain a PhD in Economics from CERGE-EI in 2011. Her fields of interest are Applied Econometrics, Environmental Economics, Law and Economics, Political Economics. In the field of Environmental Economics, she conducts research on empirical analysis on the effect of firm behaviour on environmental quality.
Angelica Tudini (MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics and MA in Economics and Statistics), is a senior researcher at the Italian National Statistical Institute (ISTAT) where she has been working on Environmental Accounting since 1995. Her main area of expertise at national and international level is in Integrated Economic and Environmental Accounts and specifically NAMEAs and environmental taxes.
Giusy Vetrella, MA in Economics and Statistics and Researcher at the Italian National Statistical Institute (ISTAT), has worked on Environmental Accounting since 1999. Her main area of expertise is the calculation, at national and regional (NUTS 2) level, of air emission accounts (NAMEA) and energy use tables in physical units. She is also an expert in the calculation of general government expenditure for environmental protection.