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Speaker: Marco Bindi
marco.bindi<at>unifi.it
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Facoltà Agraria, Piazzale delle Cascine 18,
50144 Firenze Italy
Title of the talk:
Agricultural systems and their vulnerability to climate change (pdf: 3MB)
Biosketch
Marco Bindi (born 1961) has a PhD in crop simulation modelling of forage crops and currently is full professor at the University of Florence. Since the 1988 he carried out research in the fields of the crop simulation model and the effect of climate change on natural and agricultural ecosystems. He has lead several national interdisciplinary projects on agrometeorology, integrated wheat production, application of remote sensing and GIS and development of simulation models. He has participated in 10 EU-funded projects (EPOCH, MANARA, CLAIRE, CLIVARA, RESMEDES, RESYSMED, CHIP, ACACIA, MICE, ENSEMBLES) on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. In 2001 he was the local organiser of the “2nd International Symposium on Modelling Cropping Systems”- ESA- 16-18 July 2001, Florence, Italy and the guest editor of the special issue of the Symposium on the European Journal of Agronomy (EJA). In 2004 he was nominated lead author of the IPCC 4th assessment report for Chapter 13 – Europe. He is author of 40 papers on refereed international journals dealing with agrometeorology, crop modelling, climate change, environmental physiology. He is member of the European Society of Agronomy and Italian Society of Agronomy. He is the chairman of Div. 2 of the European Society of Agronomy. He is in the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Agronomy and is referee of several international journals.
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