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GIANGIACOMO BRAVO

Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Università di Torino
Via S. Ottavio, 50 - 10124 Torino - Italy
Phone +39 011 670 26 35; Fax +39 011 670 26 12
Email giangiacomo.bravo@unito.it

Education Positions Teaching Research interests Publications CV

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Last update: February 24, 2009

Education

B.A. Modern Literature. Università di Torino, 1995

Ph.D. Economic Sociology. Università di Brescia, 2000

Present positions and main activities

Lecturer in Economic Sociology, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Università di Torino
Affiliate, Collegio Carlo Alberto

Book review editor: International Journal of the Commons
Referee activity: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Mind & Society, Government & Policy C, Environment & Planning C

Past positions and main activities

2009. Finalist, "Cultaptation" Social Learning Computer Tournament.
2009 (February). Visitor, Department of Sociology, Utrecht University
2004-2008 (October). Lecturer in Economic Sociology, Dipartimento di Studi Sociali, Università di Brescia
2004-2008. Board member, Ph.D. Program in Economic Sociology, Università di Brescia
2008. Organizing committee member, European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) 2008 Conference. Brescia, Italy, September 1-5, 2008
2005-2006. Co-Chair, IASCP Europe Regional Conference (Brescia, Italy, March 23-25, 2006)
2003-2006. Board member, IRIS - Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Sustainability
2001-2003. Post-doctoral fellow, Dipartimento di Studi Social i, Università di Brescia, Italy
1998. Visitor, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), USA
1997-2000. Researcher, IRES (Istituto di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali) L. Morosini, Torino, Italy
1996. Visitor, ZWE Arbeit und Region, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Current teaching

Sociology of development (Sociologia dello sviluppo), Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Torino.
Global social-ecological systems (Società ed ecosistemi globali), Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Torino.

Past teaching

2003 - 2008. Economic sociology, Faculty of Economics, University of Brescia
2007 - 2008. Comparative Analysis of Economic and Social Institutions (Istituzioni economiche e sociali comparate), Faculty of Economics, University of Brescia

2002 - 2008. Sociology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Brescia

Main research interests

sustainable development

environmental sustainability

common-pool resources

collective action

evolution of altruistic and cooperative behaviors
experimental and computational sociology

Books and edited volumes

Bravo, G. (2009), Alle radici dello sviluppo insostenibile. Un'analisi degli effetti ambientali di società, istituzioni ed economia. Roma: Aracne. [click here to download the pdf (1212 Kb)]
De Moor, T. and Bravo, G., (eds.) (2008), Special issue: The Commons in Europe. International Journal of the Commons, 2(2).
Bravo,G. (2006), Gli alberi o le statue. Risorse comuni e sostenibilità ambientale. Roma, Aracne.
Di Monaco R., Bravo G., Roccati D. (1998), Le attività economiche a Collegno. Problemi dello sviluppo e delle politiche industriali. Milano: FrancoAngeli.

Recent journal articles and chapters in books

Bravo G. (2010), Agents’ beliefs and the evolution of institutions for common-pool resource management. Rationality and Society, 22(3): in press.
Bravo G. (2010), Voluntary contribution to public-goods in mutual-help forums: reciprocity or group attachment?. Socio-Economic Review, in press.
Boero, R., Bravo, G., Castellani, M., Laganà, F. and Squazzoni, F. (2009), Pillars of Trust: An Experimental Study on Reputation and Its Effects. Sociological Research Online, 14(5): 5.
Boero, R., Bravo, G., Castellani, M. and Squazzoni, F. (2009), Reputational cues in repeated trust games. Journal of Socio-Economics, 38(6): 871-877.
Boero, R., Bravo, G., Castellani, M., Laganà, F. and Squazzoni, F. (2009), La reputazione come vettore di ﬁducia nei sistemi socio-economici: alcuni risultati sperimentali. Stato e Mercato, 86: 263-294.
Bravo, G. (2009), Risorse comuni e sistemi socio-ecologici globali. In Russo, M., Farina, A. (eds.), I nuovi paradigmi dello sviluppo. Scienze sociali e scienze ecologiche a confronto. Trieste: Gogliardica Editore.
Bravo, G. and Marelli B. (2008), Irrigation systems as common-pool resources: Examples from Northern Italy. Révue de Géographie Alpine, 96(3): 15-25.
Bravo, G. and De Moor, T. (2008), The commons in Europe: from past to future. International Journal of the Commons, 2(2): 155–161.
Bagliani, M., Bravo, G. and Dalmazzone, S. (2008), A consumption-based approach to environmental Kuznets curves using the ecological footprint indicator. Ecological Economics, 65(3): 550-661.
Bravo, G. and Tamburino, L. (2008), The evolution of trust in non-simultaneous exchange situations. Rationality and Society, 20(1): 85-113.
Bravo, G. (2008), Imitation and Cooperation in Different Helping Games. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 11(1): 8.
Bravo, G. and Villa, M. (2008), Imprese sociali verdi? L'esperienza della provincia di Brescia. Impresa Sociale, 76(4): 102-126.

Older downloadable articles

Bravo, G. and Marelli B. (2007), Micro-foundations of the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis: An empirical analysis. International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, 2(1): 36-62.
Bravo, G. and Tamburino, L. (2007), Computer modeling of cooperation and altruistic punishment. Journal of Social Complexity, 3(1): 23-35.
Bravo, G. (2005), Verso, un futuro comune. .eco, 120: 8-11.
Bravo, G. (2002), Né tragedia, né commedia: la teoria dei "commons" e la sfida della complessità. Rassegna italiana di sociologia, XLIII(4): 633-646.
Bravo, G. (2002), Istituzioni e capitale sociale nella gestione di risorse comuni. Il caso dei sistemi di irrigazione valdostani. Rassegna italiana di sociologia, XLIII(2): 229-250.

Bravo, G. (2001), Dai pascoli a Internet. La teoria delle risorse comuni. Stato e Mercato, 63: 487-512.
Bertolini S. and Bravo, G. (2001), Dimensioni del capitale sociale. Quaderni di sociologia, 25: 37-66.

Working papers (comments welcomed)

Bravo, G. (2010), Cultural commons and cultural evolution. arXiv:1002.1196v1 [q-bio.PE].
Boero, R., Bravo, G., Castellani, M., Squazzoni, F. (2009), Why Bother with What Others Tell You? An Experimental Data-Driven Agent-Based Model. Presented at the ICORE 2009 Conference.
Bagliani, M., Bravo, G., Dalmazzone, S., Giaccaria, S. and Golia, S. (2008), Economic growth and environmental pressure: A worldwide panel analysis. University of Torino, Departmenti of Economics “S. Cognetti de Martiis”, Working paper No. 12/2008.