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SOFIA BELARDINELLI
Position
Assegnista di ricerca
Structure
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Università degli studi Padova
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Work experience
03/2025-02/2026: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Biodiversity Future Centre, Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
02/2024-02/2025: Research Assistant, National Biodiversity Future Centre, Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
02/2023-current: Contributing Author and Research Fellow, Seventh Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7), UNEP.
Education and training
11/2020-05/2024: Ph.D. in Environmental Ethics (Philosophical Sciences) with full marks, Department of Humanities, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy.
10/2018-09/2020: M.Sc. in Philosophy of Science (Philosophical Sciences) with full marks and honours, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy, and Applied Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
10/2015-07/2018: B.Sc. in Philosophy with full marks and honours, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.
Notices
Pubblicazioni
Publications in international peer-reviewed journals (H-index: 3)
Fulgione, D., Soppelsa, O., Belardinelli, S., Rivieccio, E., Aceto, S., Buglione, M. (2025) Walking together: artificial and natural selection in traditional husbandry of feral pigs. Journal of Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.13252.
Nazari, V., Pungetti, G., Hong, SK., Belardinelli, S., Destro Bisol, G., Pievani, T. (2024) Island biocultural diversity in the Mediterranean: the case study of Sardinia. Regional Environmental Change 24, 143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-024-02308-2.
Nazari, V., Pasqualone, A., Pieroni, A., Todisco, V., Belardinelli, S., Pievani, T. (2024) Evolution of the Italian pasta ripiena: the first steps toward a scientific classification. Discover Food 4, 57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44187-024-00136-1.
Nazari, V., Belardinelli, S., Pieroni, A., Motti, R., Chiarucci, A., Destro Bisol, G., Vacchiano, G., Bortolini, E., Mezzavilla, M., Garaffa, L., Pievani, T. (2023) Biocultural Diversity in Italy. Human Ecology 51, 1263–1275. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-023-00455-4.
Belardinelli, S., Pievani, T. What if Consciousness has no Function?. Biosemiotics 16, 259–267 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09533-y.
Belardinelli, S. (2022). The Human-Nature Relationship in the Anthropocene: A Science-based Philosophical Perspective. Azimuth 19 (1):19-33. https://www.torrossa.com/it/resources/an/5329200?digital=true.
Troiano, C., Buglione, M., Petrelli, S., Belardinelli, S., De Natale, A., Svenning, J.-C., Fulgione, D. (2021) Traditional Free-Ranging Livestock Farming as a Management Strategy for Biological and Cultural Landscape Diversity: A Case from the Southern Apennines. Land, 10, 957. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10090957.
Contributions in volumes
Belardinelli, S., Pievani, T. (2025) Il lungo antropocene: una prospettiva evoluzionistica sul rapporto tra natura umana e non umana. In: Volpi, A., Pennacchioni, G. (eds.) Filosofia e critica dell’Antropocene. Mimesis.
Belardinelli, S. (2025) Limiti planetari. In: Enciclopedia Italiana, XI Appendice. Treccani, Roma.
Belardinelli, S., Pievani, T. (2024) From biophilia to geophilia: A challenging but necessary expansion. In: Peppoloni, S., Di Capua, G. (eds.) Geoethics for the Future. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15654-0.00012-8.
Belardinelli, S., Pievani, T. (2023). The Ethics of Gaia: Geoethics From an Evolutionary Perspective. In: Di Capua, G., Oosterbeek, L. (eds) Bridges to Global Ethics. SpringerBriefs in Geoethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22223-8_5.
Pievani, T., Belardinelli, S. (2023). Mass Extinction. In: Wallenhorst, N., Wulf, C. (eds) Handbook of the Anthropocene. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_41.
Area di ricerca
My main research interests revolve around the grand challenges posed by the environmental crisis, which I explore from multiple angles, using several philosophical and conceptual tools. I focus on the relationships between humans and the nonhuman world, and how its enlargement from a utilitarian to a plural and relational approach can help achieve the required societal transformative change.
Research areas: Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Biocultural Studies, Ecological Economics, Philosophy of Science in Practice.
