Fabio Salbitano is professor of Silviculture, Landscape Ecology and Forest and Landscape restoration at the University of Florence. The main research interests refer to urban forestry, forest ecology, landscape ecology and history, ecosystem services in urban areas, participation and governance in urban design and planning. He is co-author of the FAO Guidelines on Urban and Periurban Forestry in the frame of a continuous collaboration to FAO programme on urban forestry since 2001. Member of the editorial board of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, he is the coordinator of the working group on Urban Greening of the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology and of the working group on Urban and Periurban Forestry of Silva Mediterranea, statutory body of FAO on Mediterranean Forest questions.