Roberto is an engineer in Environmental Quality with a Ph.D. in Planning and Development. His research touches upon different issues of environmental planning from an institutional and organizational perspective. His three main areas of research are: i) Sustainable supply chain management SSCM ii) Sustainability in the shipping industry SSI and iii) Education for sustainable development ESD. Within the SSCM area, Roberto has contributed to filling in gaps between the relationship of the SCM, innovation and entrepreneurship literatures. In his current project in this domain, Roberto analyzes contingencies of "circular economy" as a discursive construction in the context of Norwegian new product development projects. Within SSI, Roberto currently works with the Centre for High North Logistics (www.chnl.no) where he carries out research on environmental planning with focus on the shipping infrastructure in the Arctic. In the ESD domain, Roberto focuses in the integration of real-world learning teaching frameworks in interdisciplinary graduate courses.

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