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Giampietro, Mario
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ICREA Research Professor at UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Technology & Engineering
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Mario Giampietro was born in Italy in 1953. He graduated in Chemical Engineering (1978) and Biological Sciences (1981) at Universitá La Sapienza, Rome. He has a M.S. degree in Food System Economics (CEFAS/Universitá La Tuscia) and a PhD in Social Sciences (Wageningen University, NL). Mario was a researcher at Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca per gli Alimenti e la Nutrizione (INRAN) from 1985 to 2007, but pursued most of his research as visiting scientist at leading universities, such as Cornell University (1987-1989 and 1992-1995), Wageningen University (1997), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1998-2000), University of Wisconsin, Madison (2002), Penn State University (2005-2006), and Arizona State University (2006-2007). He joined ICREA and UAB in 2007. He has more than 150 scientific publications and is author of five books.
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Research Interests
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Mario Giampietro works on integrated assessment of sustainability. Using new concepts developed in Complex Systems Theory, he has developed an innovative scientific approach that can integrate quantitative analyses referring simultaneously to technical, economic, demographic, social and ecological variables. In this way, it becomes possible to characterize, in relation to multiple criteria of performance, the interaction of socio-economic systems and ecological systems across multiple scales using integrated sets of indicators, which can be chosen “à la carte” by social actors.
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Key Words
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Multi-Criteria Analysis of Sustainability; Integrated Assessment of Scenarios and Technological changes; Energy Analysis; Biocomplexity and Sustainability; Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecological Metabolism; Science for Governance.
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