Claudio Cecchi is Professor of Environmental Economics at the Faculty of Economics. He currently holds the established chair of Political Economy of Sustainable Tourism at the Faculty of Economics, SAPIENZA University of Rome. He is Director of the Research Centre on European, International and Development Studies (EuroSapienza). He is also faculty member of the Department of Economics and Law. His teaching activity at La Sapienza includes: Sustainable Development, Economics of Tourism and Rural Development. His research fields in recent years concern the contribution of Political Economy to the building of the Sustainability Science, and Social and Spatial theory (notably the developme...