автор: Fabio Massimo Lo Verde

Paolo Corvo is Associate Professor at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, where he teaches travel cultures and social change at the undergraduate level. He deals with issues related to food and consumption, sustainable food and wine tourism, indicators of quality of life, wellbeing and happiness. He has carried out research and training activities for public and private corporations on elements related to quality of life, tourism and regional socio-economic development, and processes of globalization and civil society. He has published numerous essays and articles in English. He is a member of Happiness Study Group of British Sociological Association,   and Aiquav, the Italian association for quality of life studies. He is a member of RN 05, Sociology of Consumption, of the European Sociological Association. Fabio Massimo Lo Verde is a member of Department of Economics, Business and Statistics at the University of Palermo and Full Professor of Sociology and Sociology of Consumption. From 2005 to 2010 he was head of the Social Science Department at the University of Palermo, and from 2005 to 2011 he was coordinator of the Ph D course in Sociology of Rural Development. His main research areas are social change, consumption behaviour and lifestyle change in Italy and other European countries, leisure research, migration studies. He is a member of the Board of Research Committee 13, Sociology of Leisure, of the International Sociological Association and member of the RN 05 Sociology of Consumption, and RN21, Quantitative Method of the European Sociological Association.