Department of Cultures, Politics and Society

Research products

All my research products

Courses

• LABORATORIO PRODUZIONE SCENARI: METODI E STRATEGIE (CPS0241)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
• SISTEMI SOCIOTECNICI E AMBIENTE (CPS0550)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
• SOCIOLOGIA DEL CAMBIAMENTO CLIMATICO (CPS0565)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
• Sociologia dell'ambiente (STE0064)
  Corso di laurea magistrale Monitoraggio Ambientale, Tutela e Ripristino LM-75

Research topics

Dario Padovan is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Turin, and he is member of the Department of Culture, Politics and Society. From the 2022 he is Director of the Centre for Interuniversity Research on Socio-Ecological Changes and Sustainable Transition - Crisis - coordinated by the University of Turin. Since 2021 he has been a member of the National Doctoral School "Sustainable Development and Climate Change" - IUSS Pavia. It is a founding member of the Inter-University Research Centre on Ecology, Politics and Society coordinated by the University of Pisa and activated in 2021. Since 2016 he has been Director of the master’s degree Course in "Socio-environmental sustainability of agri-food networks". Since 2010 he is the coordinator of the Unesco Chair on Sustainable Development at the University of Torino. He is member of Editorial Committee of Theomai Journal (Buenos Aires), Chosmos & History (Melbourne, Australia), and Culture of Sustainability (Torino). He works since long time on history of social sciences, environmental sociology, social metabolism, sustainable consumption, sociology of risk, environmental conflicts. Recently is doing research on the Anthropocene, climate racism, urban metabolism regulation, sociology of practices, energy transition. Currently he is Principal Investigator of the project called “Comets - Collective action models for Energy Transition and Social Innovation”, funded by European Commission.

Temi di ricerca: consume di natura, sostenibilità ambientale, metabolismo sociale, contabilità ambientale, teoria delle pratiche, sistemi sociali, sistemi naturali, sistemi socio-ecologici, sistema agro-alimentare, transizione ecologica, ecomarxismo, razzismo ambientale, antropocene, sociologia del cambiamento climatico, sociologia dell'energia.

Research projects

• Long-Term Joint EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy
• Developing a single access point for the market uptake of geothermal energy use in multivalent heating and cooling networks across Europe
• Providing operational economic appraisal methods and practices for informed decision-making in climate and environmental policieS
• COMETS
• Collaborazione di ricerca con il Centro Interdipartimentale Responsible Risk Resilience Centre
• eCREW - Community Renewable Energy Webs: implementazione di un business model e di uno strumento operativo per la creazione di reti domestiche volte alla gestione comune dell’energia al fine di migliorare l’efficienza energetica e la diffusione delle energie rinnovabili
• COMETS: COllective action Models for Energy Transition and Social Innovation
• Ricerca connessa al progetto "LITTERING"
• Accordo all'interno del Progetto ESACOM
• GEMex: Cooperation in Geothermal energy research Europe-Mexico for development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems and Superhot Geothermal Systems
• Accordo di collaborazione scientifica con Aspem
• Scrivendo il tempo: dinamiche ed evoluzione delle strategie dell'IPCC nella comunicazione del cambiamento climatico
• Accordo all'interno del Progetto ESACOM

Academic bodies

• Consiglio di Dipartimento

Office hours

A partire da Giovedì 28 Settembre 2023 il ricevimento sarà dalle 14.00 in poi presso il CLE stanza D10 piano 3.