- Nationality
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- Affiliation
- Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Field of study
- Agriculture, Agricultural Operations and Related Sciences
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2022 1st Semester 2016 1st Semester 2012 & Earlier
Projects
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Developing a complexity science capable of solving practical, important, and urgent problems
The process of transforming agriculture in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is, especially for policymakers and decisionmakers, highly complex. -
Complexity and Anticipation
Complexity is possibly the most relevant scientific idea that emerged during the past decades.
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public lecture / seminar
Using complexity science to solve practical, important and urgent problems in agriculture - Fellows' seminar by Mario Giampietro, Aloisius Louie, Ansel Renner and Richard Sikora
The Cartesian Dream is all about prediction and control, said Mario Giampietro of the Institute of Environmental Science & Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
publication
A “Grammar” for assessing the performance of power-supply systems: Comparing nuclear energy to fossil energy
Francois Diaz-Maurin and Mario Giampietro. 2013. A “Grammar” for assessing the performance of power-supply systems: Comparing nuclear energy to fossil ener...
event
STIAS Lecture Series: Prof. Mario Giampietro - Taking the red pill: the failure of reductionism in sustainability analysis
Prof. Mario Giampietro from ICREA (Catalan Institute of Advanced Studies and Research) at the Institute of Science and Technology for the Environment, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and STIAS fellow will present a talk with the title: Taking the red pill: the failure of reductionism in sustainability analysis Abstract It has become more and more evident that conventional scientific narratives are inadequate to analyze the sustainability of current patterns of economic growth.