School of Economics

Awards

Mario has won several UMaine awards: Graduate Dean’s Recognition Award for Extraordinary Service to Graduate Studies (2012) and the Outstanding Researcher Award from the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture (2002).  Mario served on the Faculty Senate from 2004-2007 and Interim Dean, of the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture from 2020-21.

Mario also won an appreciation award for his work on food safety from the Prevention Effectiveness Program, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006.

In 2022, Research.com identified Mario as one of the top researchers at the University of Maine (ranked 35 at UMaine).

In the summer of 2009 Mario was an Invited Researcher at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Nancy Research Centre in collaboration with Lorraine University and the French Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering  In 2005-06, Mario was awarded a year-long Teaching/Research Fulbright Scholar Award at the University of Zagreb Croatia.

Mario has been an active reviewer, or on editorial boards for several journals and granting agencies (e.g., U.S. EPA) and an editor of books (e.g., Labeling Strategies in Environmental Policy).

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Google Scholar Page

Courses

• ECO 450 International Environmental Economics and Policy – Syllabus (PDF)
• ECO 489 Senior Seminar- Syllabus (PDF)

Links to Web Pages

• Initiative for One Health and the Environment
• School for Policy and International Affairs
• Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change
• Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions
• Lobster Institute