Contribution to Ongoing Policies:

• President, Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, and Forests, Commission for the Drafting of the Implementing Decree of Law 10/2013 on Ancient Forests, Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, and Forests.

Contributions to Completed Policies_

• 2022, Delegate of the National Observatory of Rural Landscape, Partnership Table, National Strategic Plan for the CAP 2023–2027, Ministry of Agricultural, Food, and Forestry Policies.
• 2016, Consolidated Law on Forestry Supply Chains, Coordinator, Working Group, Implementing Decree, Art. 7, c.11.
• 2017, Consolidated Law on Wine, Ministry of Agricultural, Food, and Forestry Policies.
• 2015, Revision of the Forestry Law of the Tuscany Region (Recovery of Abandoned Agricultural Lands).
• 2012, Revision of the National Forestry Law 227/2012.
• 2017, Coordinator, Guidelines for the Implementation of the Third Pillar of Sustainable Forest Management, Interministerial Conference for the Protection of Forests – IUFRO.

Conferences

Mauro Agnoletti has attended about 340 national and international meetings, 225 of the as invited speakers. He was invited speaker at the COP on Climate in Bonn (D) in 2017; the High Level Segment Meeting at the COP on Biodiversity in Hadong Korea in 2018; the State of the European Union in Florence, 2023.

Papers

Professor Agnoletti has authored 12 books and edited 17 volumes with national and international publishers and has produced approximately 200 articles. Regarding his publications in scientific journals, rankings from PLOS Biology for 2020-21-22 place him among the top 2% of the most influential researchers worldwide. Below are some of his most significant publications:

Recent Publications:

• Bobiec, A., Rotherham, I.D., Kırca, S. et al.Towards biocultural realism: Connecting conservation with historical ecology and common sense. A European perspective. Ambio(2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02089-2
• Francesco Piras, Marta Allegri, Beatrice Fiore, Mauro Agnoletti, Antonio Santoro,Cultural landscape transformations in the “Prosecco hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene” UNESCO World Heritage Site in the context of terrain morphology, Journal of Rural Studies,Volume 112, 2024,103452, ISSN 0743-0167, (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103452.
• 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;
• Agnoletti M., Santoro A., Fiore B., Piras F.Romano F., BAzzurro A., Agricultural Heritage Sytems in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central and South America, 2023, Springer, Dordrecht and New York
• Agnoletti M., Santoro A., 2022, Agricultural Heritage Systems and Agrobiodiversity, Biodiversity and Conservation, Special Issue: Agricultural Heritage Systems and Biodiversity, Guest Editors Mauro Agnoletti & Antonio Santoro; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-022-02460-3
• 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
• Agnoletti M., Piras F., Venturi M., Santoro A., Cultural values and forest dynamics: The Italian forests in the last 150 years,  Forest Ecology and Management, Special Issue on Restoration of cultural values in forested landscapes, Guest Editors John Parrotta & Mauro Agnoletti, Volume 503, 2022, 119655, ISSN 0378-1127,

Agnoletti M., 2014, Rural landscape, nature conservation and culture: Some notes on research trends and management approaches from a (southern)European perspective, Landscape and Urban Planning.  126 (2014) 66-73. Was ranked  among  the 1%  of the most read papers in the field by the Web of Science in 2016-2019

The book:

• Agnoletti, M., Santoro, A., Fiore, B., Piras, F., Romano, F., Bazzurro, A. Agricultural Heritage Systems in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central and South America. Springer, Dordrecht and New York, 2023.
• Agnoletti, M. Storia del Bosco. Il paesaggio forestale italiano. Laterza, Bari, 2018 (3rd edition).
• Agnoletti, M., Conti, L., Frezza, L., Santoro, A., Tei, T. I Sistemi Terrazzati in Toscana. Analisi territoriale e tipologica. Lorenzo de’ Medici Press, Florence, 2017.
• Agnoletti, M., Emanueli, F. (Eds.). Biocultural Diversity in Europe. Springer, Dordrecht, 2016.
• Agnoletti, M. (Ed.). The Italian Historical Rural Landscapes. Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development. Springer, New York, 2012.
• Agnoletti, M. Paesaggi Rurali Storici per un Catalogo Nazionale. Laterza, Bari, 2010 (out of print).
• Agnoletti, M. Rural landscape, nature conservation and culture: Some notes on research trends and management approaches from a (southern) European perspective. Landscape and Urban Planning, 126 (2014), 66-73. (Ranked in the top 1% of most-read articles worldwide in the social sciences and humanities sector by Web of Science).
• Agnoletti, M. Atlante dei Boschi Italiani. Laterza, Bari, 2010.

Agnoletti M. ed., Italian Historical Rural Landscapes. Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development, Springer, Dordrecht and New York, 2012. Was ranked among the 25% of the most downloaded book by Springer in 2013.

Awards:

• 2022, Co-Winner, FAO-World Food Forum, Transformative Research Challenge, Roma.
• In 2019-21 he was included among the most influencial researchers in the world by Plos Biology.
• 2019, Bologna Award, Fondazione Fico, per gli studi sulla pianificazione del paesaggio rurale.
• 2008, Regione Toscana, Prize “Città Ideale”, project  for  the Parco del Paesaggio Rurale di Moscheta.
• 2006, Regione Toscana/Ministero dell’Ambiente –Diploma Award for his studies on landscape.