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Donatella Gasparro, MSc

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Degrowth and alternative economies
  • Rural areas and economies, traditional and new peasantries, peasant agroecology, rural social movements
  • Social reproduction, subsistence economies, materialist ecofeminism
  • Political ecology
  • Mediterranean Southern Europe, Southern Italy

Academic Education

10/2021 - 03/2023Master in Political Ecology, Degrowth & Environmental Justice. Organised by ICTA (Institute of Environmental Sciences) and Research & Degrowth International at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain).
08/2017 - 03/2020Master of Science in Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems - Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands) Thesis project with Farming Systems Ecology & Farm Technology chair groups. Title: "From the Atlantic forest to the Mediterranean shrubland: a farm performance assessment and a Functional Design Framework for large-scale Successional Agroforestry Systems (SAFS)".
10/2014 - 07/2017Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies - University of Bari (Italy) Graduated with 110/110 Summa cum Laude Thesis: "CO2eq emissions caused by the publication of a book: offsetting locally with the right tree species", published in January 2019 in the Italian scientific journal "Economia & Ambiente"

Work Experience

12/2022 - 03/2024WG Economic Geography and Globalization, Institute for Geography | University of Münster
08/2020 - 09/2021University Lecturer - Leiden University, Institute of Environmental Sciences (The Netherlands) Teacher in courses within the programs of Industrial Ecology MSc, Biology MSc / BSc, Urban Studies BA, and Governance of Sustainability MSc.
02/2018 - 07/2020Teaching & Education assistant - Wageningen University & Research, Farming Systems Ecology group Co-coordination and support of courses within the MSc Organic Agriculture, support in the early development of the Global Network of Lighthouse Farms, and co-coordination of theses and internships.
11/2019 - 03/2020Research Internship - Wageningen Plant Research B.U. Field Crops Research, with the unit Agriculture of the future, and with a focus on Agroforestry.

Publications

Gasparro, Donatella (2023)
Other non-scientific publication

Talks

Memories and hunches of life otherwise: re-valuing rurality and subsistence for degrowth futures, learning from the Souths-within-the-North.
Gasparro, Donatella (31/08/2023)
9th International Degrowth Conference, Zagreb
Type of talk: scientific talk
Memories and glimpses of life otherwise: revaluing rurality and subsistence for degrowth futures.
Gasparro, Donatella (27/06/2023)
3rd European Rural Geographies Conference, "Rural Geographies in Transition", University of Groningen
Type of talk: scientific talk
Salvaging the Future: an Introduction to Degrowth
Gasparro, Donatella (01/04/2023)
Limits to Growth. Lecture in preparation for the PINK! Congress, Amsterdam
Type of talk: practical talk
Degrowth: an ecofeminist perspective
Gasparro, Donatella (29/11/2022)
Rethinking our Routines. Day of Sustainability 2022, Delft University of Technology
Type of talk: practical talk