Ugo Bardi was a faculty member of the University of Florence (Italy) until 2022. He is a member of the Club of Rome Board, 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 is, The Limits to Growth Revisited (2011), the reports to the Club of Rome: Extracted (2014), The Seneca Effect (2017), The Empty Sea (2019), Limits and Beyond (2022), The Future of Transportation (2024 – in Italian) and The End of Population Growth (2026).
Bardi’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 and The Carbon Conundrum, he examines the collapse of complex systems and the current modifications of the ecosystem created by human activity.
Bardi lives in Florence (Italy) with his wife, Grazia.
