Giacomo Certini

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Name: Giacomo Certini, Ph.D.
Member Since: March 30th, 2007
Member Name: Giacomo.certini
Last Logged In: October 17th, 2015
Location: Firenze, AK
Biography:

Giacomo Certini is Associate Professor of Pedology at the School of Agriculture of the University of Florence, Italy. His main current scientific interests are: soil carbon sequestration, fire effects on soil, impact of warfare on the environment,and Anthropocene. He is author of 90 scientific articles, 62 of which are published in peer-reviewed ISI journals, including Science. The latter are cited 1249times in journals indexed by Scopus, with a H-index of 15 (data from Scopus, October 16th, 2015). He is co-author of the textbook "Basi di Pedologia" (in Italian), published in 2010 by Edagricole, and co-editor of the book “Soils. Basic Concepts and Future Challenges”, published in 2006 by the Cambridge University Press and comprising contributes by 23 authors from all over the world. He is serving as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Wildland Fire since 2007 and SOIL since 2014. He teaches “Pedology” and “Sustainable use of agricultural soils” at the University of Florence.