Research

Working papers

• De Cian et al. The Impact of Air-conditioning on Residential Electricity Consumption across World Countries. Under reviewd

• Falchetta, G., Pavanello, F., De Cian, E., Sue Wing I.S. Inequalities in global residential cooling energy use to 2050. Under review

• Falchetta, G. and Hammad, A. T., Tracking green space along streets of world cities. Under review

Publications

Energy in developing countries: access and planning

• M Husein, M Moner-Girona, G Falchetta, N Stevanato, F Fahl, S Szabo (2024). The impacts of incentive policies on improving private investment for rural electrification in Nigeria – A geospatial study. Heliyon (Cell Press). Open-access download 

• Dagnachew, A., Choi, S., and Falchetta, G. (2023) Energy planning in Sub-Saharan African countries needs to explicitly consider productive uses of electricity. Scientific Reports (Nature). Open-access download 

• Falchetta, G. et al. (2022). A renewable energy-centred research agenda for planning and financing Nexus development objectives in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Energy Strategy Reviews (Elsevier). Open-access download

• Pelz S., Pachauri, S. and Falchetta, G. (2023). Short-run effects of grid electricity access on rural non-farm entrepreneurship and employment in Ethiopia and Nigeria. World Development Perspectives (Elsevier).  Open-access download

• Falchetta, G., Michoud, B., Rother, M. and Hafner, M. (2022). Harnessing finance for a new era of decentralised electricity access: A review of private investment patterns and emerging business models. Energy Research and Social Science (Elsevier). Open-access download

• Falchetta, G. (2021). Energy access investment, agricultural profitability, and rural development: time for an integrated approach. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability (IOPScience). Open-access download

• Moner-Girona, M., Kakoulaki, G., Falchetta, G., Taylor, N. and Weiss, D. (2021). Achieving universal electrification of rural healthcare facilities in sub-Saharan Africa with decentralised renewable energy technologies. Joule (Cell Press) . Open-access download

• Falchetta, G., Stevanato, N., Moner Girona, M, Mazzoni, D., Colombo, E., Hafner, M. (2021). The M-LED platform: advancing electricity demand assessment for communities living in energy poverty. Environmental Research Letters (IOPScience).  Open-access download

• Falchetta, G., Dagnachew. A, Hof, A. and Milne D. (2021). The role of regulatory, market and governance risk for electricity access investment in sub-Saharan Africa. Energy for Sustainable Development (Elsevier). Download

• Falchetta, G.; Pachauri, S.; Danylo, O.; Byers, E.; Parkinson, S. (2020). Satellite observations reveal inequalities in the progress and effectiveness of recent electrification in sub-Saharan Africa. One Earth (Cell Press). Open-access download Featured in Nasa Earth Observatory

• Falchetta, G., Hafner M., Tagliapietra S (2020).  Least-Cost Pathways to 100% Electrification in East Africa by 2030.  The Energy Journal (IAEE). Paywalled version and preprint

• Falchetta, G., Pachauri, S., Parkinson, S., Byers, E.  (2019). A high-resolution gridded dataset to assess electrification in sub-Saharan Africa. Scientific Data (Nature). Open-access download Featured in Earth.com

Climate change: exposure, impacts, adaptation, and the energy transition

• Falchetta, G., Wing, I.S., De Cian, E., Carr. D. Heat Exposures of Global Elderly Populations in CMIP6 Scenarios. Nature Communications (Nature). Open-access download. Broad press coverage, including The Guardian, Die Welt, TIME, NRP

• Campagnolo, L., De Cian, E., Pavanello, F., Falchetta, G. et al. (2023). The cost of climate change on households and families in the EU. European Economic and Social Committee technical report.  Open-access download

• Mazzone, A., De Cian, E., Falchetta, G. et al. (2023). Understanding systemic cooling poverty. Nature Sustainability (Nature). Download

• Carr, D., Falchetta, G.; Wing, I.S. (2023) Population Aging and Heat Exposure in the 21st Century: Which U.S. Regions Are at Greatest Risk and Why? The Gerontologist (OUP). Open-access download Featured in the Washington Post and The New York Times

• Edwards, M. et al. (co-authored)  (2022). Satellite Data Applications for Sustainable Energy Transitions. Frontiers in Sustainability. Open-access download

• Falchetta, G. and Mistry M. (2021). The role of residential air circulation and cooling demand for electrification planning: implications of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa. Energy Economics (Elsevier). Open-access download

Interdisciplinary sustainability challenges

• Mahama, P. et al. (co-authored)  (2023). Leaving no disease behind: the roadmap to securing universal health security and what this means for the surveillance of infectious diseases in Ghana as a precedent for sub-Saharan Africa. PloS ONE. Open-access download 

• Hammad, A.T. and Falchetta, G. (2022). Probabilistic forecasting of remotely sensed cropland vegetation health and its relevance for food security. Science of the Total Environment (Elsevier). Open-access download

• Hammed, A. T., Wirawan, I. B. M., Falchetta, G. (2021). Back to the fields? Increased agricultural land greenness after a COVID-19 lockdown. Environmental Research Communications (IOPScience). Open-access download

• Falchetta, G., Golinucci, N., Noussan, M., and Rocco, M.V. (2021). Environmental and energy implications of meat consumption pathways in sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainability (MDPI). Open-access download

• Falchetta, G., Hammad, A.T., Shayegh S. (2020). Planning universal accessibility to public healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Open-access download. Featured in the Washington Post, Internazionale and in Medicalxpress

• Falchetta, G., Noussan, M. (2019). Interannual Variation in Night-Time Light Radiance Predicts Changes in National Electricity Consumption Conditional on Income-Level and Region. Energies (MDPI). Open-access download

The water-energy Nexus

• Wamalwa, F., Maqelepo, L., Williams, N., & Falchetta, G. (2024). Solar irrigation potential in Sub-Saharan Africa: A crop-specific techno-economic analysis. Environmental Research: Food Systems (IOPScience). Open-access download

• Falchetta G., Semeria, F., Giordano, V. Pachauri, S., Byers, E. and Tuninetti, M. (2023). Solar irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa: economic feasibility and development potential. Environmental Research Letters (IOPScience). Open-access download

• Hunt et al. (2021). Hydropower and seasonal pumped hydropower storage in the Indus basin: pros and cons. Journal of Energy Storage (Elsevier). Open-access download

• Falchetta G., Kasamba C., and Parkinson S. (2020). Monitoring hydropower reliability in Malawi with satellite data and machine learning. Environmental Research Letters (IOPScience). Open-access download

• Hunt, J., Falchetta, G., Zakeri B. et al. (2020). Hydropower impact on the river flow of a humid regional climate. Climatic Change (Springer). Open-access download

• Hunt, J., Zakeri B., Falchetta G., Nascimento A., Wada Y. and Riahi K. (2019). Mountain Gravity Energy Storage: A new solution for closing the gap between existing short- and long-term storage technologies. Energy (Elsevier). Open-access download

• Johnson N., Burek P., Byers E., Falchetta G. et al. (2019). Integrated solutions for the water-energy-land nexus: Are global models rising to the challenge?  Water (MDPI). Open-access download

• Falchetta, G., Gernaat, D., Hunt, D., Sterl, S.  (2019). Hydropower dependency and climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: a nexus framework and evidence-based review.  Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier). Paywalled version and preprint. Featured in The Conversation

New frontiers of transportation

• Falchetta, G. and Noussan M. (2021). Electric vehicle charging network in Europe: an accessibility and deployment trends analysis. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment (Elsevier). Open-access download

• Falchetta, G., Hammad, H., Noussan, M. (2021). Comparing paratransit in seven major African cities: an accessibility and network analysis. Journal of Transport Geography (Elsevier). Download

Development Economics

• Malpede M., Falchetta, G. & Shayegh. S. Mosquitoes and Potatoes: How Climate-Induced Diseases Impede Development. Environmental and Resource Economics (Springer). Open-access download
  
  

Statistical methods

• Di Lascio, M., Falchetta, G., Ferrari , D.(2022). Change detection from high-resolution airborne laser scans using penalized composite likelihood screening. Spatial Statistics (Elsevier). Download
  
  

Book contributions

• Falchetta, G. and Tagliapietra, S (2022). Economics of access to energy. In: Handbook of International Energy Economics. Palgrave Macmillan. Open-access download

• Hafner, M.; Tagliapietra, S.; Occhiali, G.; Falchetta, G. (2019). Renewables for Energy Access and Sustainable Development in East Africa.  SpringerBriefs in Energy. Springer-Nature. Open-access download

Additional publications (commentaries, etc.)

• Noussan, M. & Falchetta, G. (2020). Mobilità urbana nei Paesi in via di sviluppo tra informalità e digitalizzazione. Equilibri 23 (3)

• Falchetta, G. & Noussan, M. (2020). The Impact of COVID-19 on Transport Demand, Modal Choices, and Sectoral Energy Consumption in Europe, IAEE Energy Forum, download 

• Falchetta, G. & Frixa, E. (2019). Accesso all’elettricità, migrazioni e conflitti in Africa sub-sahariana. Equilibri 23 (2), 465-479, download

Online dashboards

• https://www.re4afagri.africa, RE4AFAGRI interactive dashboards

• http://ssahealthcare.decatab.com/, data interface to Planning universal accessibility to public healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa paper, published on PNAS. Co-developed with Ahmed T. Hammad.

• https://gdessa.ene.iiasa.ac.at/ : GDESSA - Gridded Dataset for Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa. Co-developed with Olga Danylo.

Code

• Visit my Github for the repositories hosting code of most papers & more.