Alessandro Galli

Research Highlights and Accomplishments

Alessandro has co-authored more than 60 peer-review articles (h-index = 33), and contributed to several editions of WWF’s Living Planet Reports. Among its most influential articles are:

• Galli A., Antonelli, M., Wambersie, L., Bach-Faig, A., Bartolini, F., Caro, D., Iha, K., Lin, D., Mancini, M.S., Sonnino, R., Vanham, D., Wackernagel, M., 2024. EU-27 ecological footprint was primarily driven by food consumption and exceeded regional biocapacity from 2004 to 2014. Nature Food 4, 810–822 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00843-5
• Ferreira, J.-P., Marques, J.L., Moreno Pires, S., Iha, K., Galli, A., 2023. Supporting national-level policies for sustainable consumption in Portugal: A socio-economic Ecological Footprint analysis. Ecological Economics, 205, 107687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107687
• Laurent, É., Galli, A., Battaglia, F., Dalla Libera Marchiori, G., Fioramonti, L., 2022. Toward health-environment policy: Beyond the Rome Declaration. Global Environmental Change, 72, 2022, 102418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102418
• Galli, A., Moreno Pires, S., Iha, K., Alves, A.A., Lin, D., Mancini, M.S., Teles, F., 2020. Sustainable food transition in Portugal: assessing the Footprint of dietary choices and gaps in national and local food policies. Science of the Total Environment 749, 141307.
• Collins, A., Galli, A., Tara Hipwood, T., Murthy, A., 2020. Living within a One Planet reality: the contribution of personal Footprint calculators. Res. Lett. 15 (2020) 025008. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5f96
• Galli, A., Iha, K., Moreno Pires, S., Mancini, M.S., Alves, A., Zokai, G, Lin, D., Murthy, A., Wackernagel, M., 2020. Assessing the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of Portuguese cities: Critical results for environmental awareness and local management. Cities 96, 102442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102442
• Vanham, D., Leip, A.., Galli, A., et al., 2019. Environmental footprint family to address local to planetary sustainability and deliver on the SDGs. Science of the Total Environment 693, 133642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133642
• Galli, A., Đurović, G., Hanscom, L., Knežević, J., 2018. Think globally, act locally: Implementing the sustainable development goals in Montenegro. Environmental Science and Policy, 84, 159–169
• Galli, A., Iha, K., Halle, M., El Bilali, H., Grunewald, N., Eaton, D., Capone, R., Debs, P., Bottalico, F. 2017. Mediterranean countries’ food consumption and sourcing patterns: An Ecological Footprint viewpoint. Science of the Total Environment, 578, 383–391.
• Baabou, W., Grunewald, N., Ouellet-Plamondon, C., Gressot, M., Galli, A. 2017. The Ecological Footprint of Mediterranean Cities: Awareness Creation and Policy Implications. Environmental Science & Policy, 69, 94-104.
• Tittensor, D.P., et al. 2014. A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets. Science, 346, 241-244. DOI: 10.1126/science.1257484
• Galli, A., Wackernagel, M., Iha, K., Lazarus, E., 2014. Ecological Footprint: implications for biodiversity. Biological Conservation, 173, 121-132.
• Weinzettel, J., Hertwich, E.G., Peters, G.P., Steen-Olsen, S., Galli, A., 2013. Affluence drives the global displacement of land use. Global Environmental Change, 23, 433–438.
• Galli, A., Wiedmann, T., Ercin, E., Knoblauch, D., Ewing, B., Giljum, S. 2012. Integrating Ecological, Carbon, and Water Footprint into a “Footprint Family” of indicators: definition and role in tracking Human Pressure on the Planet. Ecological Indicators, 16, 100-112.
• Butchart, S.H.M., et al., 2010. Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines. Science, 328, 1164-1168. DOI: 10.1126/science.1187512
• Kitzes J, Galli A, Bagliani M, Barrett J, Dige G, Ede S, Erb K, Giljum S, Haberl H, Hails C, Jungwirth S, Lenzen M, Lewis K, Loh J, Marchettini N, Messinger H, Milne K, Moles R, Monfreda C, Moran D, Nakano K, Pyhälä A, Rees W, Simmons C, Wackernagel M, Wada Y, Walsh C, Wiedmann T., 2009. A Research Agenda for Improving National Ecological Footprint Accounts. Ecological Economics, 68(7), 1991-2007.

In 2010, Alessandro was selected by the WIRED Italy magazine as one of 14 Italian visionaries – including scientists, thinkers, film-makers and researchers – who were invited to indicate priorities for the country in the coming decades, and whose work was featured within the Italian Pavilion at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture.

In 2017, Alessandro (together with CHH colleagues) has been among the 14 finalists of the New Shape Prize awarded by the Global Challenges Foundation (out of the initial 2,702 entries received from 122 countries), the biggest competition of its kind seeking improved frameworks of global governance of global catastrophic risks.

In 2022, Alessandro has been included in the list of the top 2% most cited scientists in the “environmental sciences” subfield, according to research from the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University’s (METRICS). For two years in a row since 2022, he has also been included by Research.com in their ranking of Best Scientists in Environmental Sciences.