Castelli Giulio

		Giulio Castelli is a Research Fellow (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato di tipo A) in Agricultural Hydraulics and Watershed Protection at the University of Florence and Associate Researcher at the Environmental Governance and Territorial Development Hub (GEDT) and the UNESCO Chair in Hydropolitics of the University of Geneva. During his Ph.D., he focused on water harvesting, water resources management, and participatory approaches in international development. Alongside his Ph.D., he worked for the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) in Sudan and as a consultant for the World Bank in Burundi. He is a member of the board (Committee) of the International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance.

Giulio Castelli is a Research Fellow (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato di tipo A) in Agricultural Hydraulics and Watershed Protection at the University of Florence and Associate Researcher at the Environmental Governance and Territorial Development Hub (GEDT) and the UNESCO Chair in Hydropolitics of the University of Geneva. During his Ph.D., he focused on water harvesting, water resources management, and participatory approaches in international development. Alongside his Ph.D., he worked for the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) in Sudan and as a consultant for the World Bank in Burundi. He is a member of the board (Committee) of the International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance.

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Projects

ERASMUS+ KA171 call 2022 – funding acquired for bilateral mobility between the University of Florence (Italy) and the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (Malawi). 2022 – 2026
Agreement for research activities Watershed characterisation and identification of best siting for water harvesting (WH) structures to restore ecosystems funded by The International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA). Feb - Sep 2021

Research Interests

Characterization, modelling, implementation, and transferability of water harvesting techniques, including fog collection
Hydrological and agro-hydrological modelling of water resources systems in water-scarce and/or drought conditions
Remote sensing for the analysis of soil-water-vegetation-atmosphere interactions
Socio-hydrological and hydro-social analyses related to food security and land management
Water-related ecosystem services

Publications

Castelli, G., Bresci, E., Castelli, F., Hagos, E. Y., & Mehari, A. (2018). A participatory design approach for modernization of spate irrigation systems. Agricultural Water Management, 210, 286–295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2018.08.030
Castelli, G., Castelli, F., & Bresci, E. (2019). Mesoclimate regulation induced by landscape restoration and water harvesting in agroecosystems of the horn of Africa. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 275, 54–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2019.02.002
Piemontese, L., Castelli, G., Fetzer, I., Barron, J., Liniger, H., Harari, N., Bresci, E., Jaramillo, F. (2020). Estimating the global potential of water harvesting from successful case studies. Global Environmental Change, 63, 102121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102121
Castelli, G., Piemontese, L., Quinn, R., Aerts, J., Elsner, P., Ertsen, M., Hussey, S., Filho, W. L., Limones, N., Mpofu, B., Neufeld, D. G., Ngugi, K., Ngwenya, N., Parker, A., Ryan, C., de Trincheria, J., Villani, L., Eisma, J., & Bresci, E. (2022). Sand dams for sustainable water management: Challenges and future opportunities. Science of The Total Environment, 838, 156126. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156126
Castelli, G., Cuni Sanchez, A., Mestrallet, A., Montaño, L. C., López de Armentia, T., Salbitano, F., & Bresci, E. (2023). Fog as unconventional water resource: Mapping fog occurrence and fog collection potential for food security in Southern Bolivia. Journal of Arid Environments, 208, 104884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2022.104884
Lucca, E., El Jeitany, J., Castelli, G., Pacetti, T., Bresci, E., Nardi, F., Caporali, E. (2023, Accepted Article) A review of Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus research in the Mediterranean: evolution, gaps and applications. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ace375
Piemontese, L., Terzi, S., Di Baldassarre, G., Menestrey Schwieger, D.A., Castelli, G., & Bresci E. (2024). Over-reliance on water infrastructure can hinder climate resilience in pastoral drylands. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01929-z
Van Der Laan, M., Virtanen, S., Matsuno, Y., Castelli, G., Fayrap, A., Cresswell, R., & Hsieh, M. K. (2024). Ecosystem services of irrigated and controlled drainage agricultural systems: A contemporary global perspective. Irrigation and Drainage, ird.2974. https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2974
Ait El Kadi, M., Bouchaou, L., Castelli, G., Re, V., Çakmakçı, Y., Bresci, E., & Hssaissone, M. (2024). Multi-aspect assessment of operational fog collection systems: A rural development perspective, insights from the Sidi Ifni project in Morocco. Journal of Arid Environments, 222, 105174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2024.105174

Full publications list: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57194380100

Presentations

Renzi, N., Villani, L., El-Din, M., Haddad, M., Bresci, E. Strohmeier, S., & Castelli, G. Modeling of Indigenous Marab Water Harvesting Technique in the Jordanian Badia. FULL TALK. European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019, Wien, Austria. Session HS8.3.1, abstract EGU23-2861, 26.04.2023
Castelli, G., & Brethaut, C. Understanding the impact of recent crises on the hydropolitics and food security of the Nile River Basin: a discourse analysis. FULL TALK. European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019, Wien, Austria. Session HS5.11, abstract EGU23-1628, 25.04.2023

Full presentations list: https://wariddotblog.wordpress.com/my-work/

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