I am the creator and publisher of this web site that offers free news, Open Access full text documents (papers, books, theses, proceedings) or links on the theme of transport and environment. This new site is an integration and expansion of the older site: www.trasportiambiente.it which is still available and full of useful information, but had no space enough for images and full text. Some personal data on me and my motivation: I am 66 years old, I have lived the experience of the movements of the ’68 and, after graduating, I married and found a job. Then I started my experience in the environmentalist movements by participating to the activities of Lipu (Bird protection association), as I wanted to be in contact with nature. Because of the poor response of institutions to these issues and especially after the Chernobyl disaster, there was a spontaneous reaction of many friends. We organized in Trieste a Committee for information on the radioactive contamination, which was very active. Then I started my political commitment in the italian Green party, which was starting with an impetuous and disordered growth. Later I extended my commitment founding the local Legambiente association (italian environmentalist ligue) in Trieste and in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, because I felt the need to involve also those who did not share the political choice of the greens. At this stage I developed a transnational and multicultural collaboration and friendship with the Greens and environmentalists of Austria, Slovenia, Germany and other countries, which are one of the reasons why this site is multilingual. In 1987 I became the first regional president of Legambiente of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in 1988 I was elected member of the regional parliament of Friuli-Venezia Giulia for the Green party. For five years I dedicated myself exclusively and professionally to the defense of the environment and citizens’ rights. At the end of the mandate, I returned back to my work as a librarian at SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies) in Trieste, where I was eventually Library Head and where I promoted the digitalization of the PhD Theses and preprints. After my retirement in 2012, I continued to commit myself in the protection of the environment, especially within Legambiente.
For many years I focused my activities on the themes which connect transport and environment. I have been a member of the Steering Committee of ITE (European Initiative for Transport), a coordination between committees, groups and associations born many years ago and centred on the theme of Alpine transit transport. After many years of intense activity (annual conference, “ITE News” bulletin, annual european action day in the Alps, Pyrenees, Vosges …) the ITE organisation, unfortunately, has almost stopped her activities.
The issues of ITE are still present and important, surely they are not limited to the mountain areas, but concern Europe and the whole of humanity: the effects of globalization, with the consequent relocation of production and growth of transport, the unnecessary transportation induced by the low road transport costs (compared to less polluting modes), the major problems of lack of democracy of transport policies and infrastructure planning, the failure to involve the general public on major infrastructure projects (highways for the transit of goods through sensitive areas, alpine tunnels, high-speed rail), the need to prefer local resources and regional economies in agriculture, manufacturing and tourism by developing the so-called “short supply chain” or better regional economic activity. The great theme of decrease (also called “degrowth”) raises the basic problem: do we really need to carry and consume all those goods, e.g. mineral water or milk and potatoes travelling to countries which produce their own mineral water, milk and potatoes (“instead of carrying the same products from one country to another, please exchange the recipes”)? Which are the costs of this transportation system (the external costs are not paid for by those who transport or enjoy the transported goods, but by those who live along the route (climate change, air pollution, soil, water, noise, accidents, barrier effect, degradation of the natural and human (urban) environment and the landscape)?
I would like to expand this site from an individual initiative into something shared and participated. Now you can interact, comment and diffuse the contents of this site. You can send to info@trasportiambiente.it announces of new events, news and documents. Any help in this regard would be welcome.

I WANT TO DEDICATE THIS SITE TO THE MEMORY OF MY DAUGHTER ANNA, WHO DIED TRAGICALLY, AGED 22 YEARS