Baiocchi, Giovanni

Bio

Professor Giovanni Baiocchi is an applied environmental economist. Giovanni’s main research looks at the global and local impact of economic activity, including trade, urbanization, diets, mobility, and lifestyles. He has published a wide range of interdisciplinary research in international multidisciplinary journals such as Science, Nature Climate Change, Nature Energy, Ecological Economics, Journal of Industrial Ecology, and Computational Economics.

Giovanni was a lead author for the IPCC 5th Assessment for Working Group III and a contributor for the 6th, focusing on the drivers, trends, and mitigation of climate change. He is an Executive Editor of the Journal of Cleaner Production, which ranks at No. 1 in the category of Sustainable Development by Google Scholar Metrics. He has been evaluating projects for the UN's IPCC on climate-relevant research in topics such as living soils, biodiversity, regenerative viticulture, agroforestry, water management and terrestrial carbon cycle to support early-career scientists from Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States. 

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Degrees

  • Economics University of York, UK - Ph.D

  • Economics, Virginia Tech University - MA

  • Economics, Italy - Laurea

Areas of Interest

  • Environmental and Ecological Economics
  • Computational Economics
  • Footprints and Other Assessment Types
  • Sustainable Lifestyles
  • Spatial Data Science and Visualization
  • Computational Economics

Research Topics

  • Human Dimensions of Global Change - Coupled Human and Natural Systems
  • Hu, G., Feng, K., Sun, L., & Baiocchi, G. (2023). Tracing toxic chemical releases embodied in US interstate trade and their unequal distribution. Environment international, 171, 107681.

  • He, Pan, Baiocchi, Giovanni, Hubacek, Klaus, Feng, Kuishuang, & Yu, Yang. (2018). The environmental impacts of rapidly changing diets and their nutritional quality in China. Nature Sustainability, 1(3), 122-127. doi: 10.1038/s41893-018-0035-y

  • Hubacek, Klaus, Giovanni Baiocchi , Kuishuang Feng, Raúl Muñoz Castillo, Laixiang Sun and Jinjun Xue. 2017. “Global carbon inequality.” Energy, Ecology and Environment, Vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 361–369. DOI: 10.1007/s40974-017-0072-9.

  • Liu, B., K. Feng, L. Sun, G. Baiocchi. 2024. Does interstate trade of agricultural products in the U.S. alleviate land and water stress? Journal of Environmental Management (2022 IF = 8.7). Vol. 354, article no. 120427.

  • Song, K., G. Baiocchi, K. Feng, K. Hubacek, L. Sun. 2022. Unequal household carbon footprints in the peak-and-dcline pattern of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Journal of Cleaner Production (2021 IF: 11.072), Vol. 368, article no. 132650, pp. 1-15.

  • Song, K., G. Baiocchi, K. Feng, K. Hubacek, L. Sun, D. Wang, D. Guan. 2022. Can U.S. multi-state climate mitigation agreements work? A perspective from embedded emission flows. Global Environmental Change (2021 IF: 11.16), Vol. 77, article no. 102596.

  • He, Pan, Kuishuang Feng, Giovanni Baiocchi, Laixiang Sun, Klaus Hubacek. 2021. Shifts towards healthy diets in the US can reduce environmental impacts but would be unaffordable for poorer minorities. Nature Food (2021 IF: 20.43). Vol. 2, pp. 664–672.

  • Zhao, D., K. Feng, L. Sun, G. Baiocchi, H. Liu. 2022. Environmental implications of economic transformation in China’s Pearl River Delta region: Dynamics at four nested geographical scales over 1987-2017.” Science of the Total Environment (2020 IF: 7.963)

  • Funes, J., L. Sun, T. Benson, F. Sedano, G. Baiocchi. 2022. Social Interaction and Geographic Diffusion of Iron Biofortified Beans in Rwanda. Agricultural Economics (2020 IF: 2.585). Published online 14 June 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12722.

  • Younes, H., et al., Comparing the Temporal Determinants of Dockless Scooter-share and Station-based Bike-share in Washington, D.C. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2020. 134: p. 308-320.

  • H. Younes, A. Nasri, G. Baiocchi, L. Zhang. (2019) How transit service closures influence bikesharing demand; lessons learned from SafeTrack project in Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Journal of Transport Geography.

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