Ugo Bardi has been a faculty member of the University of Florence (Italy) since 2022. He is a member of The Club of Rome Executive Committee, member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS) and the Italian Society of System Dynamics Executive Committee.
He is the author of a number of books and articles on the subject of sustainability, mineral resources, renewable energy, climate change, and ecosystem stability. Among them, “The Limits to Growth Revisited” (2011), the reports to the Club of Rome “Extracted” (2014), “The Seneca Effect” (2017), “The Empty Sea” (2019) the recent “Limits and Beyond” (2022), and “The Future of Transportation” (2024 – in Italian).
Ugo’s work focuses on promoting a sustainable transition to renewable energy on the basis of a quantitative energy yield analysis. In his blogs, “The Seneca Effect” (www.senecaeffect.substack.com) and “The Carbon Conundrum” (www.thecarbonconundrum.substack.com), he examines the collapse of complex systems and the current modifications of the ecosystem created by human activity.
Ugo lives in Florence (Italy) with his wife Grazia.
