Agricultural Heritage Systems in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central and South America / Environmental History Bd.16 (PDF)

restoration projects on behalf of the FAI (Italian National Trust), in the drafting of the proposal of the Colline del Prosecco for the UNESCO World Heritage List, in the Management Plan of the UNESCO site Portovenere, Cinque Terre and Islands. He has published about 30 scientific articles in international journals in the fields landscape monitoring, cultural forests, and traditional agroforestry systems.
Beatrice Fiore graduated in Forestry Systems Science and Technology at the University of Florence with a thesis on "Identification of tourist routes aimed at enhancing the historic landscape. The case of the Mona Lisa landscape". She has collaborated in the "GIAHS Building Capacity" project and is currently a researcher at the Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Forestry Sciences of the University of Florence within the project "Investigation for the Forest Reforestation Plan of the core zone of the hills of Conegliano Valdobbiadene inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List". She also works as a research assistant of the UNESCO Chair "Agricultural Heritage Landscapes". To date, she has published six scientific articles on forestry, landscape and traditional agriculture.
Francesco Piras graduated in Forest Science and Technology from the University of Florence with a thesis on the evolution of forests in Tuscany. He later collaborated as a researcher on the "GIAHS Building Capacity" project at the Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment, and Forestry of the University of Florence. Currently, he works as a research assistant for the UNESCO Chair on "Agricultural Heritage Landscape" and has published 17 articles in the fields of forestry, landscape, and traditional agriculture.
Federica Romano Italian-Swiss, achieved her Maturity Degree in Switzerland and her Masters' Degree in Communication at the Cagliari University. Initiated her working activity in the framework of a project funded by the EBRD and further specialized through experiences in food industry companies (Colussi Group Milan), foundations for the valorisation of Denominations of Origin (Qualivita Siena), associations working on the olive oil natural and cultural heritage (Associazione Città dell'Olio), national and regional public institutions (ISMEA, Regional Government of Sardinia). More recently, she worked with FAO in support to the GIAHS Programme Secretariat and, currently, she collaborates with the University of Florence - Department of Agriculture (DAGRI) where she holds the role of Programme Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair "Agricultural Heritage Landscapes" acting in support to research and project management activities concerning natural and cultural heritage, rural landscape and agri-food systems.
Alessandra Bazzurro is a research fellow at the Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRY) of the University of Florence, where she graduated in Forest systems sciences and technologies at the University of Florence with a degree thesis on "The landscape role of woodlands in the UNESCO site Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene". She is currently collaborating in the drafting of the Forest Management Plan of the Colline del Prosecco UNESCO site and in the the MedAgriFood Resilience project. She also works as a Research Assistant for the UNESCO Chair "Agricultural Heritage Landscapes".