Email: giuseppe-pace@cnr.it
Institution: CNR-ISmed
Birthday: 1 Sept
Member LDnet Board
Giuseppe Pace is a researcher and a planner, with experience in the field of sustainability, governance, regional development and entrepreneurial development. He holds a M.Sc. in Civil engineering. Since 1994, he is researcher at the Italian National Research Council. Since 2023, he works at the Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development (CNR-IRISS). He has been responsible of several international and national research projects in the social sciences context, and his interests go from evaluation instruments (multi-criteria analysis), decision-making processes (advocacy planning, public participation, multi-level governance), to finally arrive to collective learning processes and social networks and the last studies on transition management applied to sustainable transportation. Since 2016, he coordinates projects on methods, policies, practice for producing a balanced and sustainable approach to Underground Built Heritage conservation and re-use. From 2019 to 2023, he was the Grant Holder Scientific Representative and the Action Chair of the COST Action CA18110 “Underground Built Heritage as catalyser for Community Valorisation”.
He collaborates with several International and Italian academic institutions, by having lectures and teaching to Master courses and Erasmus programmes in the Universities of Haifa (IL), Ghent (BE), and Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK). From 2008 to 2018, he was visiting researcher at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the Ghent University (BE). From 2003 to 2007, he worked at the European Commission – DG Transport and Energy in Brussels (BE), with the responsibility of the evaluation and monitoring of the Trans-European Transport Network. He is an EC expert in the framework of the Horizon 2020, Connecting Europe Facility, ERASMUS plus and TAIEX programme. He is member of the European Network Association.
Latest Publications
Pace, G. (2024), “Italian Inner Areas and the Demand-Responsive Transport”, in Esposito G., Oppido, S., Giusto, R.M. (eds.), Risorse e servizi per la rigenerazione dei territori a bassa densità: gli esiti di un confronto interdisciplinare, Book series “Studi e ricerche per l’innovazione”, CNR Edizioni.
Pace, G. (ed) (2023), Il Rione Sanità e il cimitero delle Fontanelle. Un laboratorio vivente, CNR Edizioni, Rome. https://doi.org/10.48217/MNGSPC05
Martínez Rodríguez, S., Pace, G. (eds) (2023), Practices for the Underground Built Heritage Valorisation. Second Handbook. Proceedings of the Second Underground4value Training School, Cnr Edizioni, Rome. https://doi.org/10.48217/MNGSPC03
Pace, G. (2022), “Underground4value: convirtiendo el patrimonio minero en fuente de valor comunitaria”, in Martínez Rodríguez, S. (ed), Valorización del patrimonio subterráneo y dinamización de la comunidad. El caso de La Unión, Cnr Edizioni, Rome, pp. 7-16. https://doi.org/10.48217/mngspc02
Pace G., Salvarani R. (eds) (2021), Underground Built Heritage Valorisation: A Handbook. Proceedings of the First Underground4value Training School, Cnr Edizioni, Rome. https://doi.org/10.48217/mngspc01
Pace, G. (2020), “Sustainable ports for a Mediterranean blue economy”, in Capasso S., Canitano G. (eds), Mediterranean Economies 2020, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 247-288.