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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
77
Citations
30709
World Ranking
1111
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Sergio Ulgiati is affiliated with Parthenope University of Naples in Italy and has made extensive contributions primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields including Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy and Management, Global and Planetary Change, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics explored in their work cover Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Sustainable Industrial Ecology.

Sergio Ulgiati has authored multiple papers, with recent publications addressing circular economy, sustainability, and environmental impacts. These include:

  • "Promoting circular economy transition: A study about perceptions and awareness by different stakeholders groups" (2021, Journal of Cleaner Production)
  • "Food waste recovery pathways: Challenges and opportunities for an emerging bio-based circular economy. A systematic review and an assessment" (2020, Journal of Cleaner Production)
  • "Circular Economy and the Transition to a Sustainable Society: Integrated Assessment Methods for a New Paradigm" (2021, Circular Economy and Sustainability)
  • "Impact of fertilization schemes with different ratios of urea to controlled release nitrogen fertilizer on environmental sustainability, nitrogen use efficiency and economic benefit of rice production: A study case from Southwest China" (2021, Journal of Cleaner Production)
  • "A Review about Microalgae Wastewater Treatment for Bioremediation and Biomass Production-A New Challenge for Europe" (2021, Environments)

Their frequent coauthors include Patrizia Ghisellini, Renato Passaro, Remo Santagata, Gengyuan Liu, and Amalia Zucaro.

Most of Sergio Ulgiati's publications can be found in a few key venues:

  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Energies
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Environments
  • Ecological Indicators

Best Publications

  • A review on circular economy: the expected transition to a balanced interplay of environmental and economic systems

    Patrizia Ghisellini;Catia Cialani;Sergio Ulgiati;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Emergy-based indices and ratios to evaluate sustainability: monitoring economies and technology toward environmentally sound innovation

    M.T Brown;S Ulgiati

  • Life cycle assessment (LCA) of waste management strategies: Landfilling, sorting plant and incineration

    Francesco Cherubini;Silvia Bargigli;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Exploring environmental and economic costs and benefits of a circular economy approach to the construction and demolition sector. A literature review

    Patrizia Ghisellini;Maddalena Ripa;Sergio Ulgiati;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Emergy use, environmental loading and sustainability an emergy analysis of Italy

    S. Ulgiati;H.T. Odum;S. Bastianoni

  • Crop residues as raw materials for biorefinery systems – A LCA case study

    Francesco Cherubini;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Energy quality, emergy, and transformity: H.T. Odum’s contributions to quantifying and understanding systems

    Mark T Brown;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Emergy Analysis and Environmental Accounting

    Mark T. Brown;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Monitoring patterns of sustainability in natural and man-made ecosystems

    Sergio Ulgiati;Mark T. Brown

  • Emergy evaluations and environmental loading of electricity production systems

    M.T. Brown;S. Ulgiati

  • Measuring China's Circular Economy

    Yong Geng;Joseph Sarkis;Joseph Sarkis;Sergio Ulgiati;Pan Zhang

  • Feasibility of Large-Scale Biofuel Production

    Mario Giampietro;Sergio Ulgiati;David Pimentel

  • Life Cycle Assessment and Water Footprint of Hydrogen Production Methods: From Conventional to Emerging Technologies

    Andi Mehmeti;Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis;George Arampatzis;Stephen John McPhail

  • Life cycle assessment and energy pay-back time of advanced photovoltaic modules : CdTe and CIS compared to poly-Si

    Marco Raugei;Silvia Bargigli;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Quantifying the environmental support for dilution and abatement of process emissions The case of electricity production

    Sergio Ulgiati;Mark T Brown

  • The geobiosphere emergy baseline: A synthesis

    Mark T. Brown;Daniel E. Campbell;Christopher De Vilbiss;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Emergy Evaluation of the Biosphere and Natural Capital

    Mark T. Brown;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Updated evaluation of exergy and emergy driving the geobiosphere: A review and refinement of the emergy baseline

    Mark T. Brown;Sergio Ulgiati

  • Emergy-based indices and ratios to evaluate the sustainable use of resources

    S. Ulgiati;M.T. Brown;S. Bastianoni;N. Marchettini

  • A Comprehensive Energy and Economic Assessment of Biofuels: When “Green” Is Not Enough

    Sergio Ulgiati

Frequent Co-Authors

Gengyuan Liu
Gengyuan Liu Beijing Normal University
Mark T. Brown
Mark T. Brown University of Florida
Zhifeng Yang
Zhifeng Yang Guangdong University of Technology
Marco Raugei
Marco Raugei Oxford Brookes University
Yong Geng
Yong Geng Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yan Zhang
Yan Zhang Beijing Normal University
Charles Francis
Charles Francis University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Francesco Cherubini
Francesco Cherubini Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Simone Bastianoni
Simone Bastianoni University of Siena
Haizhong An
Haizhong An China University of Geosciences

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