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2019 Programme

Event #30

Mauro Agnoletti

What is the perspective of the future of Italy and of the world?

The 20th Century has seen great and rapid changes from an economic, social and environmental point of view. For this reason, the United Nations is committed to identifying a model of sustainability that, ensuring the maintenance of the Earth's ecosystem, allows the progress of the population. In recent decades, trends have been observed such as the abandonment of millions of hectares of rural areas, problems of pollution and global warming, and poor quality and quantity of food resources. A new vision is therefore needed to achieve a balance between urban and rural areas, also to cope with population growth. In this common effort, Italy can play an important role by proposing its own culture regarding the quality of agri-food products and the landscape and environmental heritage.

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Mauro Agnoletti is Professor of Agricultural and Forestry Systems Planning and Environmental History at the School of Agriculture of the University of Florence. He is president of the Landscape Observatory of the Region of Tuscany, scientific coordinator of the Register of Rural Landscapes in the field of rural development policies at the Ministry of Agriculture, and president of the scientific committee of the FAO World Programme on Agricultural Heritage. He has worked with UNESCO, the World Bank, the Council of Europe and the Convention on Biological Diversity. His works include Historical Rural Landscapes. For a national catalogue (2010) and History of the forest. Il paesaggio forestale italiano (2018), published by Laterza.

2019 Programme

Event #30

Mauro Agnoletti

What is the perspective of the future of Italy and of the world?

Space Exploration: today, tomorrow, and… the day after

And they called it sapiens

The future is history

Sketches

A time that is not near

Popular revolts in Medieval Europe. The Jacquerie of French peasants (1358)

Fragments of extinctions

Our future with A.I.

Will finance save the world?

Jokes on future

Taking care of oneself, of others, of the world

How is Earth’s climate changing?

The art of reading between past and future

The end of «the end of history»

Scott: future’s first explorer

Yesterday’s and tomorrow's diets. How to survive fake news?

Open Source Architecture

The inflamed mind

Will it still be possible to love you?

The race and the language: the future that does (not) expect us

Ernst Henry Shackleton. The hero who defeated the Arctic

The future of the theatre

Piano vs Groove

Popular revolts in Medieval Europe. The rebellion of the Ciompi (1378)

The destiny of a community and many religions: is there a dialogue for the future of humanity?

The Evil’s genes

The future of the word

Looking for immortality

Refugees’ future

What is the perspective of the future of Italy and of the world?

The real truth about plastic and bioplastic (maybe)

Robots of the future and plants

The chimera of peace

Re-writing the future of our children

City art versus outskirts art

Achilles, Odysseus and the truth of the future

Popular revolts in Medieval Europe.
The Jacquerie of French peasants (1358)