WeMed 2024 – Society, Economy and Environment in the Mediterranean, edited by Francesca Abate, Giovanni Canitano, Salvatore Capasso, Stefano Carotenuto, Sandro Cruciani, Francesco di Filippo, Luca Forte, Anna Pia Maria Mirto, Marco Ricci, and Antonio Rossi, is now available online and in digital format.
The fourth volume of the Book Series "Tourism Studies on the Mediterranean Region" has been published, edited by CNR-ISMed senior researchers Piera Buonincontri, Luisa Errichiello, and Roberto Micera (University of Basilicata and CNR-ISMed). Entitled “Tourism Governance Approaches for Facing the New Challenges of the Tourism Industry in the Mediterranean Region”, the volume was realized in collaboration with guest editor Prof. Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez (University of Huelva, Spain).
Published on Lucy magazine's YouTube channel is a video lesson in which CNR-ISMed researcher Michele Colucci reconstructs the nexus between migration and labour in Italian history from 1945 to the present. Work and migration are themes that are constantly intertwined in the history of contemporary Italy.
Researchers from the Palermo branch of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the National Research Council (CNR-ISMed) will participate in Divination EXPO 2024, an exhibition of Italian excellence in the sector organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty and Forestry in Syracuse from 21 to 29 September 2024, in the context of the G7-Agriculture and Fisheries. The programme includes a conference organised on 26 September (from 7 to 8.30 p.m.) in collaboration with the Sicilian Region’s Mediterranean Fisheries Department on climate change and relations with biological resources.
The book Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains in an era of Digital Transformation: Research Developments and Future Prospects,edited by Dr Pietro Evangelista, research director at CNR-ISMed, Prof Jukka Hallikas and Prof Mohamad Y. Jaber, is now available.
From 26 to 28 September 2024, the second national conference of the Italian Society of Environmental History will be held in Naples at the Department of Humanistic Studies of the Federico II University (via Porta di Massa campus), entitled “Italian Environmental History from Ancient to Contemporary Times. Themes, sources and methods“, promoted and organised together with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the National Research Council.
The CNR ship “Gaia Blu” left Naples on Saturday 29 June for an oceanographic mission in the Mediterranean in which the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (CNR-ISMed) is participating. The overall objective, as part of the TUNSIC-BANSIC 2024 scientific expedition, is to collect data and information to monitor the presence and reproduction of two marine species that are very present in the Mediterranean and heavily exploited by man: bluefin tuna and anchovies.
Monday 3 June saw the start of the first excavation campaign at the Roman Villa in contrada Durrueli in Realmonte (Agrigento), conducted by the School of Specialisation in Archaeological Heritage, the National Research Council's Institutes for Cultural Heritage Sciences (CNR-ISPC, Catania branch) and Mediterranean Studies (CNR-ISMed, Naples), and the Archaeological Park of the Valley of the Temples, directed by Roberto Sciarratta.
The first oceanographic campaign of the CNR’s Institute for Mediterranean Studies starts today, Thursday 16 February 2023, and will sail from the port of Syracuse in four days, covering the areas of the southern Ionian Sea, the Strait of Sicily and the southern Tyrrhenian Sea, until disembarking in Messina on the 19th.
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