My main research interests are in the field of road safety
policies, environmental policy, sustainable development,
environmental conflicts, and deliberative democracy and public
engagement.
Deliberative democracy and citizen participation are a growing
field of interest in Political Science; the challenge however is to
wempirically verify theory's assumptions. For this
pèurpose I have carried out several deliberative processes,
such as a Citizen Jury in 2006 on urban traffic in Bologna. At
present I have been nominated as 'Regional Authority for
Participation' by the Tuscany Region, a position that will
allow observation and analysis of a large number of
particpatory processes in the coming years.
