Mini Track on Resilient Agri-food and Environmental Systems for Sustainable Development and Agile Entrepreneurship
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- HERMES Doctoral workshop – Modeling the Metaverse: Empirical Results in Business and Economics
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- Mini Track on Financial perspectives in turbulent times
- Mini Track on Digital Leadership and Resilient Entrepreneurship in the Metaverse Era
- Mini Track on Digitalization impact on economic recovery in the context of Covid-19 pandemic
- Mini Track on Resilient Agri-food and Environmental Systems for Sustainable Development and Agile Entrepreneurship
- Mini Track on Current challenges within demographic data: measurement, collection, retrieval, analysis and reporting
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- Mini Track on Marketing and Sustainability
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THE 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Fostering recovery through metaverse business modelling
16-17 June 2022, Bucharest, Romania
Mini Track Chairs
Mariarosaria Lombardi, University of Foggia, Italy
Diego Begalli, University of Verona, Italy
Simona Roxana Pătărlăgeanu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
The agri-food and environmental systems have shown the signs of the transition to a more sustainable model, yet the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have proved that the path to achieving the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is paved with resilient entrepreneurial intentions that strive to enable sustainability at all business levels, as well as efficient management during times of crisis.
The objective of the Mini Track entitled Resilient Agri-food and Environmental Systems for Sustainable Development and Agile Entrepreneurship is to explore multidimensional solutions to global challenges faced by the actors involved in the agri-food and environmental sectors. Moreover, this Mini Track aims to bring together academic scientists, researchers, decision makers, entrepreneurs and representatives of the business environment with the goal of collaborating towards identifying more resilient and agile managerial approaches specific to the agri-food and environmental systems. Papers related to all three dimensions of sustainable development (economic, environmental, and social) are highly welcome.
The main topics covered by the hereby call for papers are related to:
Sustainable food systems
Sustainable Environmental Systems
Sustainable Development
Sustainable food production and consumption
Sustainability in the Agri-food business
Environmentally sustainable businesses
Environmentally-friendly Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Resilience in the Agri-food Sector
Food Supply Disruption due to COVID-19 Pandemic: Solutions
Resilient and Agile Entrepreneurship for a Sustainable Future
Circular Economy
Resilient Agri-food Value Chains
Food Safety and Food Security
Climate Change Mitigation
Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
Waste Management
Renewable Energy Topics
Green Buildings and Green Cities
Green Policies
Green Investments and Competitiveness
Green Labelling and Taxation
Other topics related to agri-food and environmental economics, sustainable development, resilience and entrepreneurship in the agri-food and environmental sectors

Mariarosaria Lombardi
has been assistant professor in the scientific area of Commodity Sciences at the Department of Economics, University of Foggia (Italy) Since 2006. Graduate in Economics, she took Ph.D. in Commodity Sciences at the University of Bari (Italy). She mainly deals with economic and environmental aspects of innovations applied to production processes. Since 2015, she has been member of the rural hub Vazapp, that is applying social innovation in agriculture. In 2019, she became “climate shaper” as certificated by FAO and Future Food Institute.

Diego Begalli
studied Agricultural Economics at Bologna University (Italy). After graduating his Phd studies in Food Economics and Policy at the University of Padua (Italy) he become, first assistant professor and then associate professor at the University of Udine (Italy). In 2000, Diego Begalli was appointed Professor of Rural Economics and Appraisal at the University of Udine and since 2002 he holds the Chair of Agri-food Economics at the University of Verona (Italy). He was head of Inter-university Department of Viticulture, Oenology and Wine Business between the University of Padua and Verona in 2003-06. He was chair of several master and post-graduate courses in the fields of wine Business, wine and food marketing, and agribusiness. He had the scientific responsibility of several national and European research projects with special regard to environmental and rural development policies, the management of sustainable development processes in the agri-food system, the impact of climate change on farm revenues, the value of territorial food systems in the regional and national economy. Since 2017 he is the vice-director of the Department of Business Administration of the University of Verona (Italy), where since 2019 he is also Pro-Rector for the Knowledge Transfer.

Simona Roxana Pătărlăgeanu
Associate Professor, PhD, studied Agrifood and Environmental Economics (EAM) at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Vice-dean of the Faculty Agrifood and Environmental Economics, her research is situated in the field of Eco and Agrifood Economics and Decision Making.