University of Genoa
DIP.TE.RIS.
Department for the Study of the Territory and its Resources

Address:
Corso Europa, 26
16132 Genova Italy
Tel. +39 010 353 8278 - 8311
Fax +39 010 352 169
URL: www.dipteris.unige.it

Reference person: Prof. Mauro Fabiano
e-mail: fabianom@unige.it


Organisation description

The Department for the Study of the Territory and its Resources was created with the will to converge, in a single structure, university staff and researchers originating from different disciplinary and cultural backgrounds with mutual scientific interests and similar research and professional objectives. The analysis and study of environmental components, considered in the territorial system, represent the basis of mutual cultural and scientific interests with all the potentiality for an orientated, finalized and applied research.
The cultural heterogeneity and the methodological homogeneity of the afferent, allow for a development and a thorough analysis of the current research themes.
Amongst the different aims of the Department there is the will to bring expressive contributions to the surmonting of the typical barriers of the disciplinary system, and the will to influence policies in territorial management and its correct planning. Planning must respond not only to political demands but foremost to cultural and scientific needs. The Department also wants to guarantee a correct diffusion of environmental issues both in schools and in the community.

The department research subjects are:

  • Biology
  • Ecology
  • Environmetal Sciences
  • Zoology
  • Botany
  • Geophysics
  • Oceanography
  • Geography
  • Geology
  • Paleontology
  • Mineralogy
  • Petrology
  • Geochemistry

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