BIO
Massimo Livi Bacci is an Emeritus Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. A former president of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and Senator of the Italian Republic (2006-2013), he is a member of the National Lincei Academy, the American Philosophical Society and the Academy of Japan, and a corresponding member of Spain’s Real Academia de la Historia. He is currently Honorary President of the Asociación Española de Demografía Histórica (ADEH). Among his book titles are The Population of Europe. A History (1999), Conquest. The Destruction of the American Indios (2008), A Short History of Migration (2012), Amazzonia. L’Impero dell’acqua, 1500-1800 (2012), A Concise History of World Population (2016, 6th ed.), The Shrinking Planet (2017), I traumi d’Europa. Natura e Politica ai tempi delle guerre mondiali (2020); and Over Land and Sea (forthcoming). He is the founder and editor of the website Neodemos for the discussion and dissemination of population and social issues.