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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY VS CLIMATE CHANGE: HOW RESEARCH TRACKLES THIS RELATION

Mariarosaria Lombardi is a Full Professor Ph.D. in Commodity Sciences at the Department of Economics, University of Foggia (Italy). She has been a Rector’s delegate for Coordination of Planning and Accreditation Activities since May 2023 and a departmental delegate for the Third Mission (relationship with the territorial stakeholders) since June 2017. She is currently engaged in two university courses: “Innovation and Sustainable Technologies” and “Circular economy and sustainable development”. She is the author of almost 90 papers published in refereed journals and academic volumes. She deals with the innovations and socio-economic and environmental sustainability assessment of supply chains, using mainly Carbon Footprint and Material Flow Analysis methodology, focusing mostly on agro-energy and agro-food systems in relation to climate change. Particular attention is also paid to social innovation as an alternative approach to improving the sustainability of the agro-food sector. She has been part of different national and international research groups’ projects, as coordinator of some Erasmus Intensive Program projects on bioenergy and leader of a WP for the European FP7 project, STAR*AgroEnergy, coordinated by the University of Foggia. Currently, she is a member of a Ph.D. Program and both principal investigator and co-advisor of two Ph.D. projects at the Department of Economics of the University of Foggia. She is a reviewer for several international scientific journals and guest editor for some open access journals, including Sustainability and Frontiers, where she is also a member of the relative editorial board. In 2019, she received the Future Food Institute and FAO certification as a “Climate Shaper.” Since 2015, she has been a member of Vazapp, a social innovation initiative that promotes relations among farmers to develop a more sustainable agro-food system. She is a member of the Italian Commodity Science Academy and the International Society of Commodity Science and Technology.