Giacomo D'Alisa

 Giacomo Dalisa is the Project Manager for the ENTITLE project. He obtained a PhD in Economics and Technologies for Sustainable Development from the University di Foggia (Italy). He obtained a bachelors degree in Economics of International Trade and Market Value  from the "Parthenope" University of Naples (Italy). He finalized a higher training scheme in Management of Sustainable development and a higher education course in History of Ethics and Political Thought. Since 2010 he has been working at the Institute of Technology and Environmental Science (ICTA), at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in Spain.

His research interests include: environmental economics, ecological economics, sustainable development, public goods, commons, social metabolism, environmental conflicts, and water security. His main interests as a researcher are strictly related to his biography. He focused on water and waste resources after spending some years as activist in Naples against the privatization of water and for a better management of waste in the Campania Region (Italy). For the last year and half he has been working on human security, mudslides and civil protection systems in Italy, as part of CLICO, a EU FP7 funded project. He is also also part of the R&D Barcelona group exploring the idea of de-growth, i.e. a smooth disappearing of the hipertrophic modern individual.