Davide Viaggi

Davide Viaggi is professor in Agricultural economics and rural appraisal at the University of Bologna. He holds a first degree in Agricultural Sciences, a European Master in Agricultural economics with specialisation in Environmental and resource economics, and a PhD in Agricultural Economics and Policy. His main research interests include agricultural policy evaluation, economics of water use in agriculture, economics of innovation in the agri-food sector, design of agri-environmental schemes, environmental evaluation, and farm management. He coordinates the fp7 project CAP-IRE and was involved in several fp5, fp6, and fp7 research projects. The results of his research activities are collected in more than 170 publications, including articles in some of the main international journals in agricultural economics, water policy, and environmental and resource economics.

Publications

Estimation of Irrigation Water Demand on a Regional Scale: Combining Positive Mathematical Programming and Cluster Analysis in Model Calibration
Estimation of Irrigation Water Demand on a Regional Scale: Combining Positive Mathematical Programming and Cluster Analysis in Model Calibration
Davide Viaggi, Meri Raggi. © 2012. 17 pages.
Mathematical programming tools are widely used to simulate agriculture water use thanks to their ability to provide a detailed technical and economic representation of farm...
Agricultural and Environmental Informatics, Governance and Management: Emerging Research Applications
Agricultural and Environmental Informatics, Governance and Management: Emerging Research Applications
Zacharoula Andreopoulou, Basil Manos, Nico Polman, Davide Viaggi. © 2011. 574 pages.
Information and communication technologies (ICT) play an increasingly important role in the socio-economic environment of rural areas, and e-governance can empower citizens by...
Estimation of Irrigation Water Demand on a Regional Scale Combining Positive Mathematical Programming and Cluster Analysis in Model Calibration
Estimation of Irrigation Water Demand on a Regional Scale Combining Positive Mathematical Programming and Cluster Analysis in Model Calibration
Davide Viaggi, Meri Raggi. © 2011. 17 pages.
Mathematical programming tools are widely used to simulate agriculture water use thanks to their ability to provide a detailed technical and economic representation of farm...
Ex-Post Analyses of Agri-Environment Schemes: A Comparative Analysis Using Expert Judgement and Multicriteria Analysis
Ex-Post Analyses of Agri-Environment Schemes: A Comparative Analysis Using Expert Judgement and Multicriteria Analysis
Fabio Bartolini, David Bourke, John Finn, Davide Viaggi. © 2011. 16 pages.
This chapter illustrates an ex-post evaluation of the performance of agri-environment scheme (AES) implementation in three case study regions in the EU. Due to a lack of...