Giulio Mela
Giulio Mela is an environmental economist at RSE - Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico, Milan. This is by [...]
Giulio Mela is an environmental economist at RSE - Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico, Milan. This Italian public research center is controlled by the Ministry of Economy and Finance through the GSE group and provides research support to the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security and the Authority for Energy, Networks and the Environment (ARERA).
He received an M.Sc. in Management, Economics and Consumer Studies – Economics, Environment and Policy from Wageningen University in 2008 and a PhD in Land, Environment, Resources and Health, specialization in Economics from the University of Padua in 2013. In the past, he worked at the Italian Institute of Agricultural Economics (INEA) and, as a post-doc in agricultural and environmental economics, at the Catholic University of Milan. Current research interests include natural resource use, externality and ecosystem services evaluation, effects of active mobility on health, cost-benefit analysis and impact analysis with supply & use models.
His recent publications include:
Mela, G., Girardi, P., 2022. Health effects of active mobility and their economic value: Unit benefit factor estimates for Italy. Journal of Transport & Health 26, 101487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2022.101487
Mela, G., Carvalho, M.L., Temporelli, A., Girardi, P., 2021. The Commodity Life Cycle Costing Indicator. An Economic Measure of Natural Resource Use in the Life Cycle. Sustainability 13, 4870. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094870