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FotoPier Paolo Franzese
​Prof. Dr. Pier Paolo Franzese
Scientific area: Ecology and sustainable development.

Pier Paolo Franzese is Professor of Ecology at the Department of Science and Technology of Parthenope University of Naples, Italy.
After graduating with honours in Environmental Sciences, he achieved the international title of Ph.D. in “Crop Systems, Forestry, and Environmental Science” with label of Doctor Europaeus.
Over the last fifteen years his research and teaching activities have been focused on the development of an ecosystem approach for studying human-nature interactions. Always striving for the application of a system-based and interdisciplinary approach to science, his main research interest is focused on environmental assessment and accounting to study natural and human-dominated ecosystems.
Prof. Franzese is Coordinator of the International Ph.D. Programme “Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development” hosted at Parthenope University of Naples where he also founded and directs the Laboratory of Ecodynamics and Sustainable Development. He is President 
of the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research (ISAER) and Coordinator of national working groups on "Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services, and Environmental Accounting".
Bibliometric indices (Scopus): Documents 47, Citations 1114, h-index 21.

Main scientific interests and editorial responsibilities

His main scientific interests are focused on:
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​​- Human-environment interactions
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Environmental assessment and accounting
- Ecological Goal Functions
- Environmental footprints
- Systems ecology and ecosystem accounting
- Natural capital and ecosystem services assessment
- Nature conservation and protected areas

- UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserves
- Urban and social metabolism
- Food security and sustainable develoment
- Scientific writing


Editor in Chief of the Elsevier Book Series "Ecosystem Services" and Subject Editor of the international journal Ecological Questions (NCU).
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​Member of the Editorial Boards of the international journals:
Ecological Modelling (Elsevier), Energy, Ecology and Environment (Springer), and Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management (L&H).

Academic networks and scientific societies

- Chair holder, UNESCO Chair in "Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development".

- President of the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research (ISAER).

- Coordinator of the International PhD Programme "Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development".

- Scientific Director of the Laboratory of Ecodynamics and Sustainable Development.


- Scientific Coordinator of the Master Programme in "Project Manager of the Public Administration: interdisciplinary tools for the sustainable development of local Authorities".

- Scientific Coordinator of the Master Programme in "Natural Capital, Ecosystem Services and Environmental Accounting".

- Coordinator of the National Working Group “Natural capital, ecosystem services, and environmental accounting” of the Italian Society of Marine Biology (SIBM).

- Coordinator of the National Working Group “Natural capital, ecosystem services, and environmental accounting” of the Italian Society of Ecology (SItE).

- Coordinator of the National Working Group “Natural capital, ecosystem services, and environmental accounting” of the Italian Order of Biologists (ONB).

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Prof. Dr. Pier Paolo Franzese
Chair holder
​UNESCO Chair on "Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development"
Parthenope University of Naples
Villa Doria d'Angri
Via F. Petrarca n. 80 (80123) Naples, Italy
Tel. +39 081 547 5427 (Office)

Tel. +39 081 547 5426 (Lab)
​E-mail: unescochair@uniparthenope.it 
E-mail: pierpaolo.franzese@uniparthenope.it
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