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• Date of publication Sep 21, 2004 Category: Commentary

  The Delta Regional Park and Citizens' Participation

  by Michele Fabbri

  The Regional Park of the Po River Delta1 was set up in 1988 (it belongs to a Consortium of Public Bodies). It extends over 54,000 hectares of land and stretches across 45 km of the Italian Eastern coastline (45 km of the more than 90 km that go between the provinces of Ferrara and Ravenna)2 and is one of the largest and most significant natural parks in Italy.

  Volume 3 • Issue 03 • 2004

• Date of publication Sep 21, 2004 Category: Commentary

  Consensus and coordination in park policy

  by Ugo Leone

  I would like to start with a brief news item in the August 1999 issue of National Geographic which gives some food for thought: "With 5,000 climbing routes, such as Double Dogleg and Walk on the Wild Side, California's Joshua Tree National Park attracts about 140,000 enthusiasts a year to test their skill on granite boulders. But some visitors view their metal bolts as defacements hammered into rocks.

  Volume 3 • Issue 03 • 2004

• Date of publication Mar 21, 2004 Category: Editorial

  Science and the international public opinion

  by Pietro Greco

  On 16 January 2004, the United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan launched a Global Media Aids Initiative, with the aim of convincing the press, radio, television and Internet to join the fight against what has been called the "forgotten disease of the forgotten continent". Throughout the world, over 40 million people have the Hiv virus. In 2003 there were 5 million new infections and 3 million deaths were caused by Aids.

  Volume 3 • Issue 01 • 2004

• Date of publication Jun 21, 2002 Category: Focus

  Why science is hunting for an audience: the reasons of Italian researchers

  by Nico Pitrelli

  "We can only appeal to society, considering that governments and parties have fallen constantly short of expectations since the late eighties. The public must know that without research there is no innovation, and without innovation there is no state-of-theart. The lack of research is a handicap for the development of the country". The words of Silvio Garattini, director of Milan's Mario Negri Institute, reveal rage and passion. This is how he explained the reasons why more than one year ago 1,500 Italian scientists made an unprecedented, resolute and unmediated appeal to the general public to back research in Italy.

  Volume 1 • Issue 02 • 2002

• Date of publication Jun 21, 2002 Category: Commentary

  Biotechnologies in public

  by Andrea Cerroni

  Molecular nomenclature

  by Giovanni Villani

  Volume 1 • Issue 02 • 2002