Research

Research Themes

  • Climate vulnerability & adaptation economics — Evaluating how climate risks affect communities and what policies reduce vulnerability
  • Sustainable tourism & policy integration — Using NLP and text analysis to assess how tourism policies address ecosystem protection
  • Coastal & marine systems — Sea-level rise impacts, disaster risk quantification, coastal infrastructure vulnerability
  • Computational methods — NLP, machine learning, remote sensing, spatial econometrics, extreme value theory

Working Papers & Under Review

Sales, V.G. (2026). “Divergent Risk Patterns across Coastal Hospitality Sectors in the Northern Adriatic.” Submitted to Open Research Europe.

Sales, V.G. & Fujitani, M. (2026). “Do Disasters Speak Louder than Hazard Exposure? Tourism Policy and Ecosystem Protection in Coastal Destinations.” Presented at EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna. EGU26-7631

Selected Publications

2025

Sales, V.G. (2025). “Sea Level Rise: Scientific Evidence, Socio-Economic Realities, and Adaptation Challenges for Coastal Communities.” In Sea Level Rise: Implications for Human Rights, Security, and Peace, edited by E. Fornalé, 17–60. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI

Sales, V.G. (2025). “A Coastal Hospitality Sector Database for Vulnerability Assessments in Veneto and Emilia-Romagna, Italy.” Data in Brief 58: 111921. DOI

2023

Sales, V.G. (2023). “Assessing the Impact of Governance Policies on Landslide Risk in Brazilian Municipalities.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 99: 104058. DOI

Sales, V.G. & Strobl, E. (2023). “Using Extreme Value Theory to Assess the Mortality Risk of Tornado Outbreaks.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 14(1): 14–25. DOI

2022

Sales, V.G., Strobl, E. & Elliott, R.J.R. (2022). “Cloud Cover and Its Impact on Brazil’s Deforestation Satellite Monitoring Program: Evidence from the Cerrado Biome of the Brazilian Legal Amazon.” Applied Geography 140: 102651. DOI

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