Riccardo Scarpa

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RScarpa, April 11, 2017
Position
Associate Professor
Academic sector
AGR/01 - AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND RURAL APPRAISAL
Research sector (ERC)
SH1_10 - Management; organisational behaviour; operations management

SH1_8 - Microeconomics; game theory

SH1_13 - Public economics; political economics; law and economics

E-mail
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Curriculum

Riccardo Scarpa, has been an associate professor at Verona lecturing Agricultural Economics and Rural Estate Appraisal since 2014. After is bachelor degree (1988) he completed an MSc at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth funded by the European Social Fund and in 1990 he began his career as a researcher at the Università della Tuscia di Viterbo in 1990. In 1993 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship with which he completed an MA in Agricultural Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) in 1995, which was followed by a Ph.D. Forest and Natural Resources Economics in 1999. He was a lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (2000-2001); senior lecturer at the University of York, UK (2001-2005) and then endowed chair at Queens University-Belfast, in Northern Ireland (2012-2014). Since 2005 he has regularly lectured post-graduate courses at the Faculty of Management of the University of Waikato in NZ and since 2015 at the University of Durham in UK.
 
His research focusses on:
  • consumer choice analysis and preferences
  • economics of the rural environment and ecosystem services
  • econometric methods for the analysis of discrete choices
  • metodi econometrici di analisi delle scelte discrete
  • economic valuation of nonmarket goods
His publications are mostly hosted in international peer-reviewed journals, where he has published over 150 papers which have been cited more than 3000 times in ISI papers.

Modules

Modules running in the period selected: 12.
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Course Name Total credits Online Teacher credits Modules offered by this teacher
Master's degree in Viticulture, Oenology and the Wine Market (interuniversity) Economic Policy in the wine-production sector (2019/2020)   10    5  TIPOLOGIA D'IMPRESA NEL SISTEMA VITIVINICOLO
Master's degree in Viticulture, Oenology and the Wine Market (interuniversity) Wine business management tools (2019/2020)   10    5  INVESTMENT ANALYSIS AND APPRAISAL IN THE WINE BUSINESS
Master's degree in Viticulture, Oenology and the Wine Market (interuniversity) Economic Policy in the wine-production sector (2018/2019)   10    5  TIPOLOGIA D'IMPRESA NEL SISTEMA VITIVINICOLO
Master's degree in Viticulture, Oenology and the Wine Market (interuniversity) Wine business management tools (2018/2019)   10  eLearning 5  INVESTMENT ANALYSIS AND APPRAISAL IN THE WINE BUSINESS
Master's degree in Viticulture, Oenology and the Wine Market (interuniversity) Economic Policy in the wine-production sector (2017/2018)   10    5  TIPOLOGIA D'IMPRESA NEL SISTEMA VITIVINICOLO
Master's degree in Viticulture, Oenology and the Wine Market (interuniversity) Wine business management tools (2017/2018)   10  eLearning 5  INVESTMENT ANALYSIS AND APPRAISAL IN THE WINE BUSINESS
Master's degree in Viticulture, Oenology and the Wine Market (interuniversity) Economic Policy in the wine-production sector (2016/2017)   10    5  TIPOLOGIA D'IMPRESA NEL SISTEMA VITIVINICOLO
Master's degree in Viticulture, Oenology and the Wine Market (interuniversity) Wine business management tools (2016/2017)   10  eLearning 5  INVESTMENT ANALYSIS AND APPRAISAL IN THE WINE BUSINESS
Master's degree in Viticulture, Oenology and the Wine Market (interuniversity) Economic Policy in the wine-production sector (2015/2016)   10    5  Tipologia d'impresa nel sistema vitivinicolo
Master's degree in Viticulture, Oenology and the Wine Market (interuniversity) Wine business management tools (2015/2016)   10    5  Investment analysis and appraisal in the wine business
Master's degree in Viticulture, Oenology and the Wine Market (interuniversity) Economic Policy in the wine-production sector (2014/2015)   10    3  Tipologia di impresa nel sistema vitivinicolo
Master's degree in Viticulture, Oenology and the Wine Market (interuniversity) Wine business management tools (2014/2015)   10    5  Investment analysis and appraisal in the wine business

 

Research groups

Value chain and sustainability in wine and agro-food systems
The research group works on the topics related to the research field of “Agricultural and Resource Economics”.
Skills
Topic Description Research area
Agricoltural and resource economics Agricultural water usage and its economics, rural landscape formation and multifunctionality of agricultural practices, sustainable production techniques, best practice adoption, certification processes and depopulation of rural areas, periurban agriculture and public production of amenities and ecosystem services, livestock economics in developing countries. Agricultural and resource economics
Agricultural and resource economics
Environmental and rural economics Forest economics and policy, models of outdoor visitation and destination choice, economics of conservation of iconic and rare species in commercial forests, conservation policy and ecosystem services from rural areas, sustainable food production and local and diffuse pollution reduction. CSR, sustainability and business ethics
CSR, sustainability and business ethics
Food policy Food labeling policy, nutritional information and food choice, obesity prevention and diet balancedness, alcoholic beverage and youth, lifestyle habit formation and diet, econometric models of food choice. Agricultural and resource economics
Agricultural and resource economics
Projects
Title Starting date
SUSCHOICE: Towards Sustainable Food and Drink Choices among European Young Adults: Drivers, Barriers and Strategical Implications 9/1/18
Nuove metodologie per il calcolo della riduzione di CO2 a livello di regioni vitivinicole nella prospettiva della sostenibilità economica e di mercato. (CO2 Reduction System) 4/1/13