Giacomo Falchetta
Research Scholar
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
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Biography
Giacomo Falchetta is a research scholar in the Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, where he works on the Long-term Europe Africa Partnership on Renewable Energy (LEAP-RE), a joint initiative of the European Union and African Union. He joined IIASA in October 2021, after being affiliated with the institute as a guest research scholar between 2018 and 2019.Falchetta is also affiliated with the Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and before joining IIASA, he worked as a research fellow in the Future Energy Program (FEP) at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), a sustainability science research center based in Milan, Italy. An environmental economist by training, he carries out applied research on the nexus between energy, water, climate change, and economic development with a particular focus on the use of geographic information system (GIS) data and methodologies.
He holds a PhD from the Department of International Economics of the Catholic University of Milan, an MSc in Environmental and Climate Change Economics from the London School of Economics, and a BSc in Economics and Social Sciences from the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen. He has authored several publications in international journals.
Last update: 26 JUN 2023
Publications
Falchetta, G. & Hammad, A.T. (2023). Tracking global urban green space trends. In: EGU General Assembly 2023, 23-28 April 2023, Vienna.
Vinca, A. , Falchetta, G. , Ireland, G., Tuninetti, M., Awais, M. , Byers, E. , Semeria, F., & Giordano, V. (2023). The benefits of rural electrification to improve water access and irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa, a water-energy-land assessment framework applied to Zambia. In: EGU General Assembly 2023, 23-28 April 2023, Vienna.
Pelz, S. , Pachauri, S. , & Falchetta, G. (2023). Short-run effects of grid electricity access on rural non-farm entrepreneurship and employment in Ethiopia and Nigeria. World Development Perspectives 29 e100473. 10.1016/j.wdp.2022.100473.
Malpede, M., Falchetta, G. , & Shayegh, S. (2023). Mosquitoes and Potatoes: How Local Climatic Conditions Impede Development. Environmental and Resource Economics 86 (4) 851-892. 10.1007/s10640-023-00818-x.
Hammad, A.T. & Falchetta, G. (2022). Probabilistic forecasting of remotely sensed cropland vegetation health and its relevance for food security. Science of the Total Environment 838 e156157. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156157.