Graziella Benedetto

Graziella Benedetto
University of Sassari | UNISS · Department of Agriculture

Agricultural Science
Associate Professor

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January 1994 - October 2017
University of Sassari
Position
  • Professor
December 1994 - present
University of Sassari
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
Education
November 1982 - March 1988
Agrarian Faculty
Field of study
  • Agricultural Science

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Publications (50)
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he twin transition has great potential for the development of the wine sector, although its benefits for the valorisation of the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) economy and at the quality districts level are not explored in depth either in the theoretical or empirical literature. The study aims to contribute to this knowledge gap from a stric...
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The study describes the implementation hypothesis of the BC (BC) Technology within a specific wine-growing area, production area of a unique Controlled and Guaranteed Denomination of Origin at an international level, that of Vermentino di Gallura DOCG, located in the Region Sardinia (Italy). The paper is structured as follows: first, the operating...
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This work explores the relationship between nutrition and health: specifically, it focuses attention on the aspect of longevity. From this point of view, the analysis is deepened through a Case Study Analysis that takes the case of Sardinia (Italy) as a reference. The Island is a privileged observation point since, as amply demonstrated in the lite...
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This paper explores the concept of sustainable tourism in rural areas and the relationship with the social dimension. In particular we address the issue of people with disabilities, above all physical, starting from the statement that the number of people with disabilities willing to practice tourism it’s always increasing over the years and will c...
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Karst caves are widespread in Europe, especially in the Mediterranean area. Besides their purely environmental functions, they often are important tourist destinations and contribute to the so-called identity amenities or landscape beauties of a territory. In spite of their interest and tourism potential, economists have paid little attention to ka...
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The growing mobility of people and foodstuffs on the territory outlines new and multiple connections between tourism, food and agriculture, and new scenarios of relations between urban and rural spaces. The central theme of this work revolves around the foodies’ movement according to three aspects: firstly from a definitive point of view and in ord...
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The central theme of this work revolves around some initiatives carried out by the UNESCO Creative Cities of Gastronomy and is framed within the debate about the relationships between city and countryside with a twofold aim: i.to discuss if and how much gastronomic initiatives can really induce the development of the agricultural and rural systems...
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Tourism has many environmental impacts and particularly in marine Protected Areas, which are declared to protect biological and environmental values. The long-term objective of Protected Areas can be complex considering that preservation of a site should not be in conflict with the right of user's access and with the quality of visitors experiences...
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Abstract : This work was carried out along the central-eastern coast of Sardinia in a sea cave developed in the limestone cliffs of the Mesozoic, the Cave of Bue Marino (Picture 1), where the sea is rich in biodiversity and which has a large socio- economic and cultural interest. Each year, in fact, this cave is visited by approximately 60. 000 tou...
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This work was carried out along the central-eastern coast of Sardinia in a sea cave developed in the limestone cliffs of the Mesozoic, the Cave of Bue Marino (Picture 1), where the sea is rich in biodiversity and which has a large socio- economic and cultural interest. Each year, in fact, this cave is visited by approximately 60. 000 tourists. The...
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Abstract – The tourist experience as a whole and the role of the Internet as the main source of travel information must be taken into account by local DMOs (destination management organizations) building a successful tourist destination. Looking at existing literature in tourism & ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) while focusing on t...
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Policies for governance have become a key question within the sustainability paradigm. Researchers can play an important role in supporting the action of policymakers and responsible agencies involved in managing the sustainability of fragile venues, such as protected areas when pressed for tourism purposes. The Asinara National Park shows the pecu...
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INTRODUCTION - Le problème du compromis entre la conservation et la mise en valeur des ressources environnementales est une question cruciale dans les études concernant l’économie de l’environnement et l’économie du tourisme. OBJECTIFS- Cette étude vise à déterminer si le flux touristique actuel doit être considéré comme optimal par rapport à l’imp...
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The growing attention of consumers, intermediate and final, to the social and environmental aspects associated with the production of agro-industrial goods, is a key driver in leading companies in this sector towards greater attention to issues of social responsibility. The new type of consumers includes within its economic choices also the ethical...
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Currently, stakeholders’ increasing attention to quality is driving the wine sector to rethink and change its own production processes. Amongst product quality dimensions, the environment is gaining ever-growing attention at various levels of policy-making and business. Given its soundness, the use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has become widespre...
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This chapter discusses the application of life cycle assessment methodologies to rice, wheat, corn and some of their derived products. Cereal product systems are vital for the production of commodities of worldwide importance that entail particular environmental hot spots originating from their widespread use and from their particular nature. It is...
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The chapter aims at analyzing whether female entrepreneurs have some distinctive capacities than men in managing business within the Italian wine industry and if these skills are useful for the sustainability of their farms and the whole sector. After the sketch of the women situation in the Italian agriculture and in the wine sector, we have analy...
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The premise of this paper is that viticulture is an expression of history and social relations. In this sense, we embrace a post-modern vision of development that characterized both economic and cultural geography and agricultural economics. Such an approach does consider culture as an element of mediation between humans and the nature, placing it...
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Since more than a decade agricultural economists pay more attention to CAP’s effects evaluation as a consequence of a larger social request for understanding what impacts are generated by adoption of Rural Development Policy. The EU 2020 strategy fosters a political shift from the market liberalization processes towards policies promoting stability...
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The authors are involved in the research project “Sustainable Exploitation of karst areas: study and conservation of biodiversity in the caves of Sardinia (KARSTBIOSAR)”, funded by the Region of Sardinia with LR 7/2007. The aims of this paper is to show the progress of the project, focusing on the case study of the ‘Bue Marino’ Caves. The area has...
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INTRO, BACKGROUND AND AIMS. In recent years, increasing attention is paid to political actions and public interventions that are established as a result of a share owned by citizens of a nation, by the local population. Social inclusion in decision-making has become a central element also in the preparation of rural development policies of the EU....
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CRITICAL ISSUES IN S-LCA OF A WINE: Around the wine sector runs a very large number of actors, both upstream and downstream of the strictly agricultural production phase, therefore the application of a S-LCA would be a very important leverage in terms of improving the quality of work, increasing social cohesion, and triggering a virtuous loop betwe...
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The ‘Sardinian Young Wines Exhibition’ of Milis is a feasible example of a successful wine and food festival held in a peripheral location, the Italian island of Sardinia. The Stakeholder Analysis allowed us to describe the map of power and interests of local social and economic actors and thus explain the capability of a local community in organiz...
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The aim of this paper is to highlight the potential use of the tools of life cycle thinking LCT to support business decisions, which can have economic, social and environmental impacts, in the short and long term, using as a case study the agri-food sector. In this way, thus, we intend to contribute to the solution of an issue much debated in the l...
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This paper aims at providing a review outlook and tracing some guidelines for future research in the wine sector based on LCA. Accordingly, we have detected among the LCA approaches retrievable in the literature those that have been used in the wine sector, searching some useful starting point for the development of specific research. For this purp...
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The international scientific community considers the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach as a key topic in measuring sustainability of economic activities. The purpose of this paper is to focus on future eventual applications of the LCA approach in agricultural economics. In order to sketch some leading drivers for future research, first we will b...
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Purpose The aim of this study was to evaluate the environmental emissions associated with the production of a typical white wine produced in Sardinia, with particular reference to CO2 emissions. The main objective is to determine the main environmental impacts of the overall production process and to identify what steps have the greatest level of c...
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This short paper is devoted to the analysis of a case study -the coastal cave complex known as Bue Marino Caves near Cala Gonone in the Gulf of Orosei, central eastern coast of Sardinia – as an example of karst landscape. Because of particular attention is paid to the aspect of enhancement of environmental good towards sustainable use, for the prep...
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This paper originates from the presumption that, in order to be sustainable, rural landscapes must be an expression of cultural heritage and local identity. We consider the constraints and opportunities embedded in insularity per se through a study of Sardinia as both an entire territory and a sum of diverse cultural zones. Local communities are no...
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Obiettivo di questa parte del lavoro è soffermare l’attenzione sull’analisi delle determinanti del capitale sociale e del capitale umano che possono influenzare lo sviluppo di un territorio rurale. Si tratta di un esercizio esclusivamente teorico che fa affidamento sulla imponente letteratura costruita negli anni attorno a questi due concetti, che...
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Over recent years considerable research has been devoted to the assessment of the rural landscape value. These studies have concerned both use and non-use value estimation. An important issue in monetary evaluations is about taking (or not) into account the structural complexity of landscape. Three analytical approaches may be recognized on the bas...
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This article would like to propose a methodology for the identification and the characterization of wine local systems, whose identification is preliminary to more deepened and accurate empirical study. The analysis has been lead in Sardinia and used the communal ISTAT dataset. Through the factorial analysis it has been proposed a mapping of the wo...

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My case study is a bottle of wine produced in Sardinia, Italy.
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My case study is the Bue Marino Caves and its network and I would like to assess the social footprint of all the systems, including the stakeholder categories.

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