Armando Montanari

Armando Montanari Professor at the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies, Rome Sapienza University and at the Master‘s Programme in Human Ecology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1993-2000). Member (1993-2000) and Vice-President (1998-2000) of the European Commission “European Consultative Forum on the Environment and Sustainable Development”, President of the European Environment Bureau, (1993-1998); Chairman (2000- ) of the IGU Commission on “Global change and human mobility”. Project manager of the following international projects: "Population processes in the urban and regional system” and "Tourism”, Scientific Programme on Regional and Urban Restructuring in Europe (RURE) of the European Science Foundation, 1988-1993; “Innovation and urban development: the role of technological and social change”, 1987-1990; “Exploitation Advisor” for the EU Project “Multimedia and Geographical Information System based Tourism Applications Authoring System”, Esprit, 1993-1995. Responsible of numerous research projects at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) where he has been director of the Research Institute of Mezzogiorno Economy (1988-93); Scientific secretary at the International Social Science Council, Vienna Centre, where he coordinated the European research projects on “Costs of urban growth” and “Project Turin International” (1979-1983). He has published more than 190 articles and volumes in Italian, English, French, Spanish and Japanese.