Professor at the University of Molise (Italy), department of Biosciences and Territory, since 1994 and he is member of the teachers’ college of Ph.D. in Landscape and Environment at Sapienza University (Rome). He coordinated the project LIFE+ Making Good Natura from 2012 to 2016, that developed innovative approaches of environmental governance to preserve agro-forest-ecosystems and elaborates instruments for qualitative and quantitative valuation of the ecosystem services in the study sites of the Natura 2000 network. The main areas of scientific interest are the agrarian economy and the local development, with particular interest in the issues of short chains, urban agriculture and peri-urban landscape. His approach integrates biophysical and monetary evaluation of ecosystem services in the analysis of agriculture functions, from furniture to cultural services. He has also dealt with the economic and environmental sustainability of the agrarian business, organic agriculture, biodiversity, agri-tourism - and the environmental economy - for which he deals with protected areas, sustainable rural development, evaluation of the effectiveness of agrarian, environmental policies and agro-environmental, public expenditure analysis, marine integrated policy.
The results of his researches and teachings are reflected in almost 300 articles published in journals, in papers presented at national and international conferences and books. He has experience in project management, as he conducted several national and international projects.