Marco Marchetti is Full Professor of Forest Planning and Conservation at the University of Molise, Italy. He has a research record of more than 30 years in the domains of land use, forest inventory and monitoring, management and conservation of natural resources with experiences in Europe and several countries in Africa and Latin America. His professional experience is currently being applied to urban systems and land consumption. He is on the Board of the Italian Association of Agricultural Science Societies and past President of the Italian Society of Forest Ecology and Silviculture. Recently, he was elected as Chair of the Board of the European Forest Institute.