Ph.D. cycle XLI cyclePhD XLI cycleBeatrice Fiore

Beatrice Fiore

Supervisor

Giacomo Certini

Email

beatrice.fiore(AT)unifi.it 

Office address

Piazzale delle Cascine 18, 50144, Firenze (FI)

Profile

Education

September 2018 – October 2020

MSc in Sciences and Technologies of Forest and Environmental Systems University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI) Piazzale delle Cascine 18, 50144 Florence, Italy

Specialization in Technologies for Territorial and Forest Landscape Planning, with a thesis in Landscape Planning Final grade: 110/110 cum laude

September 2015 – October 2018

BSc in Forest and Environmental Sciences University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI) Piazzale delle Cascine 18, 50144 Florence, Italy

Training focused on forest ecosystems and land and environmental protection, including forest and silvo-pastoral management, monitoring for forest and environmental planning and design, and technical–economic organization in the forestry and agro-silvo-pastoral sectors, with a thesis in Forest Soil Science Final grade: 100/110

September 2009 – June 2015

Vocational High School for Commercial, Tourism and Advertising Services – Tornabuoni Via Masaccio 8, 50136 Florence, Italy

Specialization: Advertising Graphics Upper secondary school diploma

Final grade: 71/100

Work Experience:

01/09/2024 – 31/10/2025 University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI) Piazzale delle Cascine 18, 50144 Florence, Italy

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – “Assessment of the effects of different forest management practices on soil health and forage provision in a Mediterranean silvopastoral system”

01/02/2024 – 15/05/2025 Association of Rural Landscapes of Historical Interest

Professional Appointment – Head of Marketing and Secretariat of the Presidency and National Coordination

01/03/2024 – 31/08/2024 University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI) Piazzale delle Cascine 18, 50144 Florence, Italy

Research Grant – “Analysis of GIAHS sites and data processing using GIS software”

Academic Year 2023/2024 University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI)

Teaching Assistant / Subject Expert – Landscape Planning Laboratory 

01/07/2023 – 31/12/2023 Association of Rural Landscapes of Historical Interest

Professional Appointment – Technical and Scientific Secretariat

01/08/2023 – 30/11/2023 University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI) Piazzale delle Cascine 18, 50144 Florence, Italy

Professional Appointment – Data collection and GIS analysis for the preparation of a FAO–GIAHS nomination dossier within the project “GIAHS Capacity Building”

07/12/2022 – 31/08/2024 University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI)

Research Assistant – UNESCO Chair “Agricultural Heritage Landscapes” (Prof. Mauro Agnoletti)

01/08/2022 – 31/07/2023 University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI)

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – “Investigations for the development of the Forest Management Plan of the Prosecco Hills”

01/07/2021 – 30/06/2022 University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI)

Research Grant –“Identification of GIAHS sites and preparation of nomination dossiers”

Main Papers

• Santoro, A.; Venturi, M.; Piras, F.; Fiore, B.; Corrieri, F.; Agnoletti, M. Forest Area Changes in Cinque Terre National Park in the Last 80 Years. Consequences on Landslides and Forest Fire Risks. Land 2021, 10, 293. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10030293

• Venturi, M.; Piras, F.; Corrieri, F.; Fiore, B.; Santoro, A.; Agnoletti, M. Assessment of Tuscany Landscape Structure According to the Regional Landscape Plan Partition. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5424. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105424

• Piras F., Zanzana A., Pinto L., Fiore B., Venturi M., (2021). The role of the jessour system for agrobiodiversity preservation in Southern Tunisia. Biodiversity and Conservation 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02286-5

• Santoro, A.; Piras, F.; Fiore, B.; Frassinelli, N.; Bazzurro, A.; Agnoletti, M. The Role of Trees Outside Forests in the Cultural Landscape of the Colline del Prosecco UNESCO Site. Forests 2022, 13, 514. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13040514

• Piras, F.; Fiore, B.; Santoro, A., (2022), Small Cultural Forests: Landscape Role and Ecosystem Services in a Japanese Cultural Landscape. Land 2022, 11, 1494. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11091494

• Santoro, A.; Yu, Q.; Piras, F.; Fiore, B.; Bazzurro, A.; Agnoletti, M. From Flood Control System to Agroforestry Heritage System: Past, Present and Future of the Mulberry-Dykes and Fishponds System of Huzhou City, China. Land 2022, 11, 1920. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11111920

• Santoro, A., Ongoma, V., Ait el Kadi, M. et al. Innovation of argan (Argania spinosa (L.) Skeels) products and byproducts for sustainable development of rural communities in Morocco. A systematic literature review. Biodiversity and Conservation (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02691-y

• Piras, F., Bazzurro, A., Fiore, B. et al. Assessment of ecotone changes over the last six decades in two cultural landscapes: The case of the Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene UNESCO site and of the Olive Groves of the Slopes between Assisi and Spoleto GIAHS site. Biodiversity and Conservation (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02725-5

• Agnoletti, M.; Santoro, A.; Fiore, B.; Piras, F.; Romano, F.; Bazzurro, A. Agricultural Heritage Systems in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central and South America - Environmental History. Springer (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44881-2

• Santoro, A.; Piras, F.; Fiore, B.; Bazzurro, A.; Agnoletti, M. Forest-Cover Changes in European Natura 2000 Sites in the Period 2012–2018. Forests 2024, 15, 232. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15020232

• Fiore, B.; Piras, F.; Santoro, A.  Decline and restoration of a typical silvo-pastoral mountain landscape in the Italian Apennines. The case of Moscheta in Tuscany. Trees, Forests and People 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2024.100529

• Piras, F.; Pan, Y.; Santoro, A.; Fiore, B.; Min, Q.; Guo, X.; Agnoletti, M. Agro-Silvo-Pastoral Heritage Conservation and Valorization—A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems and of the Italian Register of Historical Rural Landscapes. Land 2024, 13, 988. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13070988

Seminars and conferences

• Participation in the 6th AISSA#under40 Conference – Portici (NA), 5–6 June 2025. Oral contribution: Assessing the effects of different forest management practices on soil health and forage supply in a Mediterranean silvopastoral system.

• Participation in the 5th AISSA#under40 Conference – Florence (FI), 26–27 June 2024. Poster contribution: Decline and restoration of a typical silvo-pastoral mountain landscape in the Italian Apennines. The case of Moscheta in Tuscany.

• Participation in the 3rd AISSA#under40 Conference – Bolzano (BZ), 14–15 July 2022. Poster contribution: The role of Trees Outside Forests in the cultural landscape of the UNESCO site “The Hills of Prosecco of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene”.

• Participation in the IALE 2022 European Landscape Ecology Congress: Landscape ecology – making the future, learning from the past – Warsaw (online), 11–15 July 2022. Poster contribution: Identification of touristic routes and creation of heritage maps for the enhancement of the historical landscape. The historical landscape of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

• Participation in the 13th National SISEF Congress: Trees–Forests–Biodiversity, from the New Green Deal to the Farm to Fork Strategy – Orvieto (TR), 30 May – 2 June 2022.

Personal Links, Blogs, Websites

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