Research
Environmental geography, the environmental humanities and ecology, worked together through twelve months of multispecies ethnography with farmers, shepherds and wolves in central Italy — and comparative work on bears and dingoes.
Publications
Field
Three sites, one question: what does it cost, and what does it make possible, to live alongside a returning predator?
Central Italy · 42.1°N
Twelve months living with farming communities in Tuscany and the Apennines, tracing how land abandonment, subsidy regimes and the wolf's return produce one another.
Abruzzo, Lazio & Molise NP
A decade of damage and compensation records for the world's only population of Apennine brown bears: 203 verified events a year, and what that number leaves out.
Australia
A dissensus-based Delphi with twenty-eight dingo experts, separating conflict over evidence from conflict over values — and finding distrust underneath both.
Teaching
Teaching FellowDepartment of Geography & Environment, University of Aberdeen
Supervisor, Part IA and Part IB GeographyDepartment of Geography, University of Cambridge
Curriculum
Teaching FellowUniversity of Aberdeen
PhD in GeographyUniversity of Cambridge — Wolves, farmers, & capitalism
Membership Development OfficerRSPB
MSc Conservation Science and PolicyUniversity of Exeter
BSc Animal BehaviourUniversity of Exeter
Contact
donfrancesco.valerio@gmail.com