Quantitative Sustainability

Preface.-Forward.-Laboratory structure.- The blue planet and the ocean sustainable economy.- Food security and the health of the planet and its inhabitants.- Climate and environmental changes.- The new data science for sustainability and huiman ecology.- Energy transition and indiustrial product chains.- Sustainability frames and social equity and the right to sustainability.- Protection of the Earth habitats with Space tools.

Stefano Fantoni is an Italian theoretical physicist, currently retired from the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste (SISSA), but still working in the fields of nuclear physics, low temperature physics and complex systems. He is the associate professor of Nuclear Physics at the University of Pisa, and has previously been a full professor of both Nuclear Physics at the University of Lecce (1986-1990) and Nuclear Forces at SISSA (1991-2011). He was the director of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of SISSA (1991-2000) and then subsequently the Director of SISSA (2004-2011). He was the recipient of the 2007 Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal, the 2001 UNESCO Kalinga Prize, the 2002 Piazzano prize, the 2006 Pirelli International prize, the 2007 Capo d'Orlando, the 2008 Silver Rose Prize and the 2010 Barcola Prize from the city of Trieste.

Nicola Casagli is a professor of Engineering Geology at the University of Florence, Department of Earth Sciences. Heis the president of the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics and of the Civil Protection Centre of University of Florence, as well as of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He is an expert on geological hazards and ground instability, monitoring technology, remote sensing, engineering geological characterization and modeling. He is a member of the Major Risks National Committee of the Department of Civil Protection of the Italian Government and of the World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction of the International Programme on Landslides. He is the founder and deputy chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on Prevention and Sustainable Mitigation of Geo-hydrological Hazards. He is an adjunct professor of the UNESCO Chair on Geoenvironmental Disaster Reduction at Shimane University (Japan).

Marina Cobal is vice-president of the FIT, a current full professor of Physics at the University of Udine, and INFN coordinator of the Gruppo