Born and raised in Rome, Italy, Fulvia is a PhD researcher at ICTA-UAB since 2018.

She holds a Bachelor Degree in Environmental Engineering from the Tor Vergata University of Rome and a Joint European Master Degree in Environmental Studies on Cities and Sustainability (JEMES-CiSu) from the Universities of Aalborg (AAU), Aveiro (UA), Hamburg (TUHH) and Barcelona (UAB). During her studies, she did some volunteer work as an environmental educator and she collaborated in writing and implementing projects for urban green areas management and regeneration. Previous to starting her PhD, she worked as a research assistant at ICTA in collaboration with the Generalitat de Catalunya in order to develop methods for assessing and integrating the Cultural Ecosystem Services into environmental regional planning schemes (Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment).

Research Interests
Fulvia uses a multidisciplinary approach, performing qualitative and quantitative analyses of georeferenced social media data in order to assess and map social-ecological interactions, underlying values and consequent actions, with a focus on issues of justice and resilience.  In addition, she aims to explore the role that social media platforms play in mediating people’s perceptions and interactions with and within the environment, as well as the extent at which social power relations and dynamics are revealed and reproduced on social media in the processes of values co-creation and activation. This approach allows retrieving otherwise intangible and incommensurable values at unprecedented scale and rate and, by collaborating with decision-makers and civil society, aims to inform just and resilient landscape and urban planning. 

Keywords
Social media, social-ecological values, landscape and urban environmental planning, critical geography