Stefano Balbi

Ikerbasque Research Fellow, BC3

Research line:

Computational models of complex systems for the analysis of ecosystem services, human mobility and security, and natural resource management.

Recipient of Italian Ministry of Education PhD Fellowship, Bizkaia:Talent Incoming Mobility and Reintegration Fellowship, MINECO Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Fellowship.

Previous research experience at UNDP (Trinidad & Tobago), European Commission (DG Environment), Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC, Italy), the Alpine Convention, Australian National University, University Nova of Lisbon (Portugal), Polytechnic University of Milan (Italy).

PhD in 2011 in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development from Ca’ Foscari and IUAV Universities in Venice (Italy).

2024

Article / Quantifying the role of saltmarsh as a vulnerable carbon sink: A case study from Northern Portugal

Science of the Total Environment

Cunha, J.; Cabecinha, E.; Villasante, S.; Gonçalves, J.A.; Balbi, S.; Elliott, M.; Ramos, S.

Review / The role of Earth observation in ecosystem accounting: A review of advances, challenges and future directions

Ecosystem Services

Kokkoris, I.P.; Smets, B.; Hein, L.; Mallinis, G.; Buchhorn, M.; Balbi, S.; Černecký, J.; Paganini, M.; Dimopoulos, P.

2023

Article / ARIES for SEEA: Artificial intelligence technology for rapid natural capital accounting

BC3 Working Papers

Ferdinando Villa, Stefano Balbi, Ken Bagstad, Alessio Bulckaen, Amelia Ochoa

Article / An interoperability strategy for the next generation of SEEA accounting

BC3 Working Papers

Ferdinando Villa, Stefano Balbi, Ken Bagstad, Alessio Bulckaen

Article / Fire risk modeling: An integrated and data-driven approach applied to Sicily

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Marquez Torres, A.; Signorello, G.; Kumar, S.; Adamo, G.; Villa, F.; Balbi, S.

Article / Scientific modelling can be accessible, interoperable and user friendly: A case study for pasture and livestock modelling in Spain

PLoS ONE

Torres, A.M.; Balbi, S.; Villa, F.

Article / Analysis of Changes over Time in Four Provisioning Ecosystem Services in Italy

Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management

Boschetto, R.G.; Capriolo, A.; Mascolo, R.A.; Arrigotti, J.; Racevich, S.; Bulckaen, A.; Balbi, S.; Villa, F.

Article / Combined artificial intelligence, sustainable land management, and stakeholder engagement for integrated landscape management in Mediterranean watersheds

Environmental Science and Policy

Ruiz, I.; Pompeu, J.; Ruano, A.; Franco, P.; Balbi, S.; Sanz, M.J.

Article / Defining hotspots and coldspots of regulating and maintenance ecosystem services is key to effective marine management – An assessment of a coastal-open sea gradient, Portugal

Ocean and Coastal Management

Cunha, J.; Cabecinha, E.; Villasante, S.; Balbi, S.; Elliott, M.; Ramos, S.

Article / Pollination supply models from a local to global scale

Web Ecology

Giménez-García, A.; Allen-Perkins, A.; Bartomeus, I.; Balbi, S.; Knapp, J.L.; Hevia, V.; Woodcock, B.A.; Smagghe, G.; Miñarro, M.; Eeraerts, M.; Colville, J.F.; Hipólito, J.; Cavigliasso, P.; Nates-Parra, G.; Herrera, J.M.; Cusser, S.; Simmons, B.I.; Wolters, V.; Jha, S.; Freitas, B.M.; Horgan, F.G.; Artz, D.R.; Sidhu, C.S.; Otieno, M.; Boreux, V.; Biddinger, D.J.; Klein, A.M.; Joshi, N.K.; Stewart, R.I.A.; Albrecht, M.; Nicholson, C.C.; O'Reilly, A.D.; Crowder, D.W.; Burns, K.L.W.; Nabaes Jodar, D.N.; Garibaldi, L.A.; Sutter, L.; Dupont, Y.L.; Dalsgaard, B.; Da Encarnação Coutinho, J.G.; Lázaro, A.; Andersson, G.K.S.; Raine, N.E.; Krishnan, S.; Dainese, M.; Van Der Werf, W.; Smith, H.G.; Magrach, A.

2022

Article / How regulating and cultural services of ecosystems have changed over time in Italy

One Ecosystem

Capriolo, A.; Boschetto, R.G.; Mascolo, R.A.; Bulckaen, A.; Balbi, S.; Villla, F.

Note / The global environmental agenda urgently needs a semantic web of knowledge

Environmental Evidence

Balbi, S.; Bagstad, K.J.; Magrach, A.; Sanz, M.J.; Aguilar-Amuchastegui, N.; Giupponi, C.; Villa, F.

2021

Article / Scientific modelling can be accessible, interoperable and user friendly: An example for pasture and livestock modelling

BioRxiv

Marquez,A., Balbi,S. and Villa, F.

Article / Artificial Intelligence technology for rapid natural capital accounting: The ARIES for SEEA explorer

BC3 Policy Briefings

Ferdinando Villa, Stefano Balbi, Alessio Bulckaen, Amelia Ochoa

Article / An interoperability strategy for the next generation of SEEA accounting

BC3 Policy Briefings

Ferdinando Villa, Stefano Balbi, Alessio Bulckaen

2020

Article / Biophysical and economic assessment of four ecosystem services for natural capital accounting in Italy

Ecosystem Services

Capriolo, A.; Boschetto, R.G.; Mascolo, R.A.; Balbi, S.; Villa, F.

Article / A game theory model to explore the role of cooperation and diversity in community food security: the case of Southern Malawi

Regional Environmental Change

Balbi, S.; Alvarez-Rodriguez, U.; Latora, V.; Antonioni, A.; Villa, F.

2019

Article / ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Fact Sheet

ALICE Improving the management of ATLANTIC LANDSCAPES: accounting for biodiversity and ecosystem services (H2020)

F. Villa, A. Marquez-Torres, S. Balbi

2017

Article / Semantics for interoperability of distributed data and models: Foundations for better-connected information

F1000research

Villa, Ferdinando; Balbi, Stefano; Athanasiadis, Ioannis N.; Caracciolo, Caterina; VILLA, FERDINANDO; BALBI, STEFANO

Article / Traveling for happiness, moving to adapt: An agent-based perspective on population mobility

BC3 Working Papers

Stefano Balbi

Article / Semantics for interoperability of distributed data and models: Foundations for better-connected information

F1000research

Villa, Ferdinando; Balbi, Stefano; Athanasiadis, Ioannis N.; Caracciolo, Caterina

2016

Article / Beyond Ecosystem Services: A Food Security Perspective

BC3 Working Papers

Stefano Balbi and Ferdinando Villa

Article / Urban research at BC3: How climate change science can support urban policy making

BC3 Policy Briefings

Marta Olazabal, Elisa Sainz de Murieta, Sébastien Foudi, Aline Chiabai, Ibon Galarraga, Stefano Balbi, Leif Vogel, Maria Victoria Román and Anil Markandya

2015

Article / The Total Cost of Water-Related Disasters

Review Of Economics

Balbi, Stefano; Giupponi, Carlo; Olschewski, Roland; Mojtahed, Vahid; BALBI, STEFANO

Article / The Total Cost of Water-Related Disasters

Review Of Economics

Balbi, Stefano; Giupponi, Carlo; Olschewski, Roland; Mojtahed, Vahid

2014

Chapter / Hydro-meteorological Hazards and Disasters

Paron,A., and Di Baldassare, G.

Giupponi, C., Mojtahed, V., Animesh,G., Biscaro, C., Balbi,S.

2013

Article / Integrated Assessment of Natural Hazards and Climate Change Adaptation: I. The KULTURisk Methodological Framework

Carlo Giupponi, Vahid Mojtahed, Animesh K. Gain, Stefano Balbi

Article / Integrated Assessment of Natural Hazards and Climate-Change Adaptation: II. The SERRA Methodology

Vahid Mojtahed, Carlo Giupponi, Claudio Biscaro, Animesh K. Gain, Stefano Balbi

Article / The economics of hydro-meteorological disasters: approaching the estimation of the total costs

BC3 Working Papers

Stefano;Balbi, Carlo;Giupponi, Roland;Olschewski and Vahid;Mojtahed

Creación de una herramienta mediante el software de Inteligencia Artificial ARIES para la implantación de Planes Espaciales Marinos

Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Beñat Egidazu - In preparation

Ecosystem services modelling and mapping for sustainable land management and planning: recreational ecosystem services in Friuli Venezia Giulia

Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste

Valentina Olmo - In preparation

Creación de una herramienta mediante el software de Inteligencia Artificial ARIES para la implantación de Planes Espaciales Marinos

Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Beñat Egidazu - In preparation

Spatial-temporal characterization of forest ecosystem services in a context of climate change through semantic integration.

University of Lleida

Alba Márquez Torres - In preparation

Integrating land use with river regulation effects on river flows and water quality.

Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

Hatem Khedr - Finished

Understanding complexity in ecosystem service assessment perspectives and innovations in spatial analysis

Ca Foscari

Michele Zen - Finished

The Potential of Agent-based Modelling as a Tool to Unravel the Complexity of Household Food Security: A Case Study of Rural Southern Malawi

University of Southampton

Samantha Dobbie - Finished

2022

Actividad pesquera de atuneros congeladores españoles en el Atlántico y su adaptación al cambio climático

Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

2020

Integrated Coastal Zone Management

UPV/EHU

2019

Assessing the Value of Green Infrastructure for Flood Regulation in the Ruhr Region Using the ARIES Flood Regulation Model

Universität Duisburg-Essen

2017

Web process services for sustainability

Istanbul Technical University

Assessing and mapping ecosystem services. A case study based on ARIES

University of Catania

2013

Climate services: their potentials in improving economic performances in agricultural systems

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

2023

Evaluación de bienes y servicios ecosistemicos course given at Geoinformática para la Gestión de Recursos Naturales ? Escuela de Ingeniería Agraria y Forestal, Campus de Ponferrada, Universidad de León (from 2023 to 2023)

2022

Maestria en Innovación sostenible, modulo Vigilancia tecnológica e inteligencia competitiva. course given at universidad EAN (from 2022 to 2022)

PhD in Analysis and Management of Climate Change course given at Ca Foscari University (from 2022 to 2022)

2021

PhD in Analysis and Management of Climate Change course given at Ca Foscari University of Venice (from 2021 to 2021)

Artificial Intelligence for the Wellbeing and Sustainability of Societies course given at UPV/EHU (from 2021 to 2021)

2020

ALICE Winter School course given at (from 2020 to 2020)

MASTER EN GEOINFORMÁTICA PARA LA GESTIÓN DE RECURSOS NATURALES course given at Universidad de Leon (from 2020 to 2020)

Conservation Biology course given at University of Cape Town (from 2020 to 2020)

PhD in Analysis and Management of Climate Change course given at Ca Foscari University (from 2020 to 2020)

MÁSTER EN JARDINES HISTÓRICOS Y SERVICIOS ECOSISTÉMICOS DE LA INFRAESTRUCTURA VERDE course given at Universidad politecnica de Madrid (from 2020 to 2020)

2019

"International Spring University on Ecosystem Services Modeling Course" 2019 Edition course given at (from 2019 to 2019)

Class on integrated modelling for PhD Programme on Climate Change course given at Ca Foscari (from 2019 to 2019)

ARIES training at ESP10 course given at (from 2019 to 2019)

ARIES training in Catania University course given at (from 2019 to 2019)

Summer school on migration in computational social science course given at (from 2019 to 2019)

ARIES-IM Hackaton 2019 course given at (from 2019 to 2019)

International Spring University on Ecosystem Services Modeling - 2019 course given at (from 2019 to 2019)

2018

Spring university on Ecosystem Services Modeling 2018 course given at (from 2018 to 2018)

2013

Teacher at the International Spring University on Ecosystem Services course given at BC3 (from 2013 to 2013)

2022

BC3 contact point of WG on Biodiversity and ES for the Think Sustainable Europe network (from 2022 to 2027)

2019

Representante del colectivo de entidades colaboradoras con los programas de Doctorado en el Comité de Dirección de la Escuela de Doctorado y Master de la UPV (from 2019 to 2024)

2017

The Integrated Modelling Partnership (from 2017 to 2019)

2023

Invited talk | Democrazia della conoscenza, ambiente e intelligenza artificiale

Democrazia della conoscenza, ambiente e intelligenza artificiale - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi; Greta Adamo

Invited talk | From open to integrated science: using artificial intelligence for sustainability challenges

From open to integrated science: using artificial intelligence for sustainability challenges - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi; Greta Adamo

Invited talk | From open to integrated science: using artificial intelligence for sustainability challenges

From open to integrated science: using artificial intelligence for sustainability challenges - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi; Alessio Bulckaen; Greta Adamo

Invited talk | ARIES: Data for Impact with the Basque Center For Climate Change

Waves of Change - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Marta Pascual; Stefano Balbi; Sudeshna Kumar

Invited talk | ARIES and k.LAB demo

Innovate4Climate - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi

2022

Conference organization | ARIES role

kick off of ESA People EA project at ESRIN ESA - Conference organization

Stefano Balbi; Rubén Crespo Ceballos

Conference organization | ARIES role

kick off ALICE2 - Conference organization

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | ARIES for SEEA Sector Hub

UN Big Data Conference 2022 - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | ARIES for SEEA; Operationalization of SEEA

2022 WORKSHOP ON EARTH OBSERVATION FOR ECOSYSTEM ACCOUNTING (EO4EA 2022) - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi; Alessio Bulckaen

2021

Invited talk | Pastureland and livestock modelling can be accessible, interoperable and user friendly

ALICE project final congress: A roadmap to multifunctional and resilient landscapes: the adaptation to global change through Blue and Green Infrastructure Networks - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | Modelling with k.LAB for improved interoperability

ALICE Final Congress - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi; Simone Langhans; Alba Marquez

Invited talk | Mechanistic models of pollinator occurrence

OBServ anual meeting 2021 - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi; Ainhoa Magrach

Invited talk | AI and Earth Observation for Environment & Sustainability: the ARIES project

Remote Sensing For Landscape Monitoring: From In Situ Data To Copernicus Services - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | How 198 models of pastureland management can be accessible, interoperable and user friendly

3rd ESP Europe Conference - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | Live demo of ARIES global models

Third ESP Asia: Training “ARIES (ARtificial Intelligence for Environment & Sustainability) ” - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | ARIES Masterclass

3rd ESP Europe Conference - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Poster presentation | La modelización del sistema agrícola puede ser accesible, interoperable e intuitiva

Concurso de posters Universidad de Lleida - Poster presentation

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi

2020

Invited talk | AI for Ecosystem Services (ARIES). EO for Ecosystem Accounting at ESA ESRIN

EO for Ecosystem Accounting at ESA ESRIN - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | Interoperability of data and models for a more sustainable European Atlantic Coast. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society

International Environmental Modelling and Software Society - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi; Alba Marquez

Invited talk | Ecosystem Services assessment using k.LAB. ALICE Winter school on “Landscape habitats and Ecosystem Services mapping for landscape management”

Winter school “Landscape habitats and Ecosystem Services mapping for landscape management” - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | AI for Ecosystem Services (ARIES)

EO for Ecosystem Accounting at ESA ESRIN - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | Interoperability of data and models for a more sustainable European Atlantic Coast.

International Environmental Modelling and Software Society - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | Ecosystem Services assessment using k.LAB

Winter school “Landscape habitats and Ecosystem Services mapping for landscape management” - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | Mechanistic models of pollinator occurrence

OBServ anual meeting 2020 - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi; Ainhoa Magrach

Invited talk | Interoperability of data and models for a more sustainable European Atlantic Coast

iEMSs Conference 2020 - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Stefano Balbi

2019

Invited talk | Artificial intelligence & semantic web-supported collaborative modeling for Ecosystem Services. Workshop: From the Stream to the Coast: Valuing Ecosystem Services to promote the Sustainable Development of River Basins

From the Stream to the Coast: Valuing Ecosystem Services to promote the Sustainable Development of River Basins - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | Philosophy of globally customizable ARIES models. The ESP 10th World Conference

The ESP 10th world conference - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | ARIES Pre-Release, ESP 10th World Conference

ESP10 Word Conference - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Marta Pascual; Stefano Balbi; Alba Marquez

Invited talk | Artificial intelligence & semantic web-supported collaborative modeling for Ecosystem Services

From the Stream to the Coast: Valuing Ecosystem Services to promote the Sustainable Development of River Basins - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa

Invited talk | Philosophy of globally customizable ARIES models

The ESP 10th world conference - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Marta Pascual; Alba Marquez

Invited talk | Working package 6 development

Alice Project board meeting - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | k.LAB

Modular, integrated agent-based social-ecological modelling: An international workshop - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa

Invited talk | Aries Pre-Release

ESP10 Word Conference - Invited talk

Ferdinando Villa; Marta Pascual; Stefano Balbi; Alba Marquez

Oral presentation |

ALICE project board meeting - Oral presentation

Stefano Balbi; Alba Marquez

2018

Invited talk | A decade of ARIES: adapting ecosystem service models to decision making needs, ESP EU 2018

ESP EU 2018 - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | A decade of ARIES: adapting ecosystem service models to decision making needs

ESP EU 2018 - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

2017

Invited talk | Modelling beneficiaries in dynamic Ecosystem Services assessments

ICMaSS2017 International Conference on Materials and Systems for Sustainability - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

2016

Conference organization | On Modelling Cultural Ecosystem Services

Understanding multiscale linkages in ecosystem services assessment using ARIES platform - Conference organization

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | Integrating human agency and ecosystem services: an ABM perspective on food

8th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

2015

Invited talk | Incorporating biophysical model output into economic models

International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE2015) - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Poster presentation | Integrating models of ecosystem services to estimate trade-offs in agro-forestry

8th Ecosystem Services Partnership World Conference - Poster presentation

Stefano Balbi

Poster presentation | Design of an empirical agent-based model to explore rural household food security within a developing country context

European Social Simulation Association (ESSA 2015) - Poster presentation

Stefano Balbi

2014

Invited talk | Modelling trade-offs among ecosystem services in agricultural systems

biannual conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Poster presentation | Socio-Economic Regional Risk Assessment (SERRA) application to flood risk in the Vipacco Basin (north-east Italy).

International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) - Poster presentation

Stefano Balbi

Poster presentation | An Integrated Approach for Including Social Capacities, and Economic Valuation in Risk Assessment of Water Related Hazards in Uncertain Scenarios.

International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) - Poster presentation

Stefano Balbi

Poster presentation | Estimating the benefits of early warning systems in reducing urban flood risk to people: a spatially explicit Bayesian model

International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) - Poster presentation

Ferdinando Villa

2013

Invited talk | The socio-economic dimension of flood risk assessment: insights of KULTURisk framework

The General Assembly 2013 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) is held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April 2013. - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | Conceptual integration of approaches between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction: operational solution to flood risk assessment

Water in the Anthropocene, May 21-24, Bonn, Germany. - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | Local development and climate change adaptation in the Alps: a case study on sustainable winter tourism in the Dolomites

The First European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA2013) - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | Multi-agent integrated agro-economic simulation of irrigation water demand with climate services for adaptation and water saving

The First European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA2013) - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi

Invited talk | Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for a Heavily Modified Water Body (HMWB): the Lambro-Seveso-Olona system case study.

3rd International IWA Conference on Water Economics, Statistics and Finance - Invited talk

Stefano Balbi