Biography:
Franco Paolinelli was born in Rome, Italy, on May 8, 1954. He graduated in Forestry from the University of Florence in 1980. He further pursued advanced studies, earning a Master's degree in Urban Forestry from the University of Toronto (1984), a Master's degree in Social Agriculture from the University of Tuscia (2006), and completed studies in Integral Ecology at the Pontifical Gregorian University (2024–2025). Alongside his professional work as an urban tree consultant, he has participated in development projects across Africa and the Middle East. In the early 1990s, he founded S.A.P. (Silviculture, Agriculture, and Landscape), a non-governmental organization dedicated to environmental sustainability. Since 1995, S.A.P. has been promoting the "Roman Urban Trees Wood" initiative, inspired by the American Urban Wood Network, through production projects and educational workshops.
Title : Roman urban wood an opportunity