Massimiliano
Mazzanti is currently associate professor and lecturer in
Environmental Economics at the University of Ferrara. He
collaborates as research fellow with the National Research Council
in Milan, dealing extensively with waste and resource issues, with
a strong focus on policy assessment. He was awarded with the Master
of Science in Environmental and Resource Economics at the
University College in London, and got the Doctorate degree at the
University of Rome III, with a thesis on the economic valuation of
cultural impure public goods.
His
major fields of interest are environmental economics and
environmental policy, labour
economics, applied microeconomics, technological and
organisational innovation. He has participated in many research
projects at local, national and European level. Research projects
have dealt with techno-organisational innovation, social capital,
environmental innovation, ex ante and ex post evaluation of waste
and resource policies, methods of economic evaluation,
effectiveness of environmental economic instruments and
environmental policy, water demand estimation. He has published
many papers in leading journals such as environmental &
resource economics, ecological economics, applied economics and
journal of environment & development among others. He is
publishing two books with Routledge in 2009, one on Waste &
environmental policy and a second on Economic dynamics,
environmental efficiency and policy, co-edited with Anna
Montini.
