Mauro Agnoletti is Professor at the Department of Agronomy of the University of Florence. He is director of the Laboratory on Landscape and Cultural Heritage and coordinator of Landscape at the Ministry of Agriculture. He is a consultant to the Council of Europe for the E.U. Landscape Convention, to UNESCO for the World Heritage List, to FAO. He is part of the steering committee of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations. He has coordinated the National Catalogue of Historic Rural Landscapes. He is the co-director of the magazine Global Environment and of the book series about environmental history edited by Springer Verlag. He wrote Paesaggi rurali storici. Per un catalogo nazionale (Laterza, 2010).