CURRENT
POSITION
Giovanni Baiocchetti is a tenure-track researcher in Geography at IULM University. He obtained his PhD in Geography from the University of Milan and holds a degree in Foreign Languages from the Universities of Milan, Leeds, and L’Aquila.
He was a visiting PhD student in Economic Geography and project support coordinator at the Department of Geography of the London School of Economics and Political Science, an invited visiting scholar and research collaborator at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, and a postdoctoral research fellow in Economic and Political Geography at the University of Bergamo. He participated in internationalization projects of the University of Milan in collaboration with Spanish and French universities.
He taught Economic and Political Geography, Tourism Geography, and Teaching Methodologies for Geography at the University of Milan, as well as Fundamentals of Economic Geography at the University of Eastern Piedmont.
He authored monographs, book chapters, scientific articles, and reports on regional development, sustainable tourism, governance of protected areas, administrative geography, territorial innovation, natural hazards, and retail geography.
He is a member of the Human Settlements Research Centre at Liaoning Normal University (Dalian, China), of the research groups on Geography of Innovation and Geopolitics of the Italian Geographers’ Association, of the international research network Rete Montagna, and of the inter-university research centre on the Romance Americas (CRIAR). He participated in the activities of the interdisciplinary research centre Territori Aperti at the University of L’Aquila and in the research project Addressing Excessive, Extreme and Inaccessible Tourism: an Integrated Approach for Sustainable Regulation at the University of Milan.
He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Geography Notebooks, of the scientific committee of the book series Geografia, Turismo e Cultura (Pàtron), and of the editorial board of the series Criando (Milano University Press). He serves as a referee for the journals Journal of Regional Science, Papers in Regional Science, J-Reading, Geography Notebooks, and Documenti Geografici.
He is also a member of the Italian Register of Journalists.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Territorial development, with particular attention to the enhancement of local tangible and intangible heritage, fragile areas, and the locational choices of economic activities.
Tourism geography, with particular attention to conflicts related to overtourism, and to sustainable tourism policies and practices.
Administrative geography, with particular attention to processes of regionalization and territorial reorganization.
Spatial innovation, with particular attention to the impact of technologies and the role of universities.
Regional resilience, with particular attention to governance and communication in emergency contexts.
DISCIPLINARY
GROUP
11/GEOG-01
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