Seventh International Symposium : monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas : Problems and Measuremen Techniques : Livorno, Italy, June 19-20- 21, 2018

The Seventh International Symposium Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas. Problems and Measurement Techniques (Livorno, Italy June 19-20-21, 2018)was organized by the CNR-IBIMET in collaboration with the City of Livorno, the LEM Foundation, the FCS Foundation and theCompagnia dei Portuali di Livorno, with the patronage byAccademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Accademia dei Georgofili, The University of Florence, the Tuscany Region and the North Tyrrhenian Sea Port System Authority. The Symposium, in which scholars from all over the Mediterranean basin participated, was an opportunity to illustrate new proposals and to promote actions to protect the Mediterranean coastal marine environment.

In particular, the event was characterized by the search for technical and instrumental solutions to problems related to: energy production in the coastal area, morphology and evolution of coastlines, flora and fauna of the littoral system, management and integrated coastal protection, coastline geography, human influence on coastal landscape. Fabrizio Benincasagraduated in electronic engineering, Research Director at National Research Council (CNR) of Italy, former founder and director of the CNR-Institute for the Monitoring of Agroecosystems of Sassari (now section of the Institute of Biometeorology - IBIMET of Florence). He has always dealt with instrumentation for the measurement of physical environmental parameters, producing about 160 scientific publications, including about twenty books.

Since 1998 he is the editor of the IBIMET Technical-Scientific Book Series. Since 2006 he is Symposiarch of the International Symposium "Monitoring of Mediterranean coastal areas: problems and measurement techniques", which is held in Livorno every two years. Retiring since 2013 he continued his activity as an associate member of IBIMET, focusing mainly on historical-engineering topics concerning the physical environment. [Publisher's text]

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