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Paulo A.L.D. Nunes - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and University of Venice

Senior Researcher

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, 30124 Venice, Italy
P: +39 041.270.435
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Corso Magenta 63, 20123 Milano, Italy
P: +39.02.520.36.952
Email: paulo.nunes@feem.it
URL: http://www.feem.it/getpage.aspx?id=287&sez=People

Paulo A.L.D. Nunes (Ph.D. in Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) joins FEEM in 2000 and he is currently the Head of the Ecosystems and Biodiversity Economics Division. He is also Professor of Environmental Valuation at the School for Advanced Studies in Venice Foundation of the Venice International University.

His main areas of expertise include economic valuation of environmental goods; cost-benefit analysis; econometrics of non-market valuation; economics of marine biodiversity and coastal ecosystems; social dimension of biodiversity conservation; the role of ecosystem services in promoting poverty alleviation; scaling-up ecosystem services values to macro-economic dimensions; impacts of climate change and ecosystem effects on human wellbeing, welfare analysis and policy guidance.

In the recent years, Nunes has contributed with his technical expertise to a wide set of international initiatives, including, for example, ‘The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity’ (TEEB) initiative, coordinated by the European Commission and UNDP; the ‘Costs of Policy Action’ (COPI) quantitative assessments (both action I and action II), coordinated by the European Commission; scaling-up ecosystem service’s values, initiative coordinated by the European Environmental Agency; the Social Dimension of Biodiversity, initiative coordinated by the European Commission; the development of an operative framework for corporate ecosystem valuation, initiative coordinated by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and with the technical support of the IUCN; and, Ocean Health Index initiative, coordinated by Conservation International. Nunes is also author or coauthor of 50+ scientific publications in a variety of international journals. His most recent book is Bioeconomic Modelling, Valuation and Stakeholder Analysis for Sustainable Management of Exploited Marine Ecosystems.