Paolo Corvo
Biographic Data
| ID | 86117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paolo Corvo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Corvo |
| SIGNATURE | CORVO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gastronomic Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2361-9183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
When minority language persistence is not enough
Local ecological knowledge is an essential element of the Alpine biocultural diversity and is often linked to minority languages. However, its continuity does not necessarily correspond to the persistence of these languages. This study investigates how knowledge of wild plants (and mushrooms) is transmitted and transformed among three minority-language communities in the Italian Alps: Cimbrian, Mòcheno, and Ladin speakers. Ethnobotanical data wer…
The kitchen rediscovered
Italy was among the first countries worldwide and the first in Europe to implement a complete lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. This two-month lockdown significantly disrupted daily routines, leading to the reorganization of space, time, and modalities of meals. This article presents a study conducted in Italy during the lockdown, aiming to capture real-time changes in home-based eating practices. The study highlights how food-relat…
“We Became Rich and We Lost Everything”
Profound socioeconomic changes affected mountains of Central Italy during the last century and many traditional agro-pastoral activities were abandoned. A few ethnobotanical studies in this area have specifically documented local wild plants used decades ago, but without analyzing in-depth how and why Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) has eroded or changed over time. In this study, we 1) document ethnobotanical uses of four high-altitude rem…
Eating at Work
Workers’ wellbeing at work is a central theme for the development of institutions and enterprises. Within this debate, a central issue relates to the search for the best ways to organize lunch-breaks and food services for employees. In the past, canteens had a crucial role for workers, yet the last twenty years have marked a profound transformation of the European economy, with the effect of diversifying workers’ foodways and their food-related p…
Dissymmetry at the Border
Practices of Food Sovereignty in Italy and England
Alternative food networks are organisations of consumers and food producers that oversee and promote the functioning of short food supply chains, with the aim of fostering a direct and local exchange between producers and consumers. New short-chain economic infrastructures provide food producers - especially small-scale farmers - with a whole new set of commercial opportunities, directed towards the construction of an alternative food economy. Bu…
The virtues of being peripheral, recreational, and transnational
Background: The Italian “Strategy for Inner Areas” includes a series of actions to avoid depopulation of rural areas by safeguarding the territory from hydrogeological instability and triggering development. Such strategy classified each municipality according to the distance to a centre defined as a town where certain services are provided. This article analyses the ethnobotanical knowledge in four villages distant from a centre. Moreover, it di…
Scholarly vs. Traditional Knowledge
Keeping or changing? Two different cultural adaptation strategies in the domestic use of home country food plant and herbal ingredients among Albanian and Moroccan migrants in Northwestern Italy
BACKGROUND: Ethnobotanical field studies concerning migrant groups are crucial for understanding temporal changes of folk plant knowledge as well as for analyzing adaptation processes. Italy still lacks in-depth studies on migrant food habits that also evaluate the ingredients which newcomers use in their domestic culinary and herbal practices. METHODS: Semi-structured and open in-depth interviews were conducted with 104 first- and second-generat…
Interstitial but Resilient
La green city come attrazione turistica
L’odierno dibattito sulla citta punta sul concetto di smart city, una realta urbana leggera e integrata con i sistemi di comunicazione. In questa prospettiva si inserisce il concetto di green city, una citta che fa del rapporto sostenibile con l’ambiente e il territorio l’idea del proprio sviluppo. La citta verde cambia il concetto del vivere quotidiano, che diventa meno artificiale e piu naturale, con un recupero del rapporto con la campagna e l…
"Il progetto "Nutrire Milano
Nutrire Milano č un progetto promosso da Slow Food Italia, Universitŕ di Scienze Gastronomiche e Indaco del Dipartimento del Politecnico di Milano, riguardante la vasta area del Parco Agricolo Sud. L'obiettivo č quello di sviluppare un sistema di servizi che conducano ad un cambiamento nella concezione delle relazioni tra l'agricoltura periurbana e la cittŕ, sviluppando dei networks di alimentazione sostenibile, anche in prospettiva di Expo Milan…
The Pursuit of Happiness and the Globalized Tourist
Keeping or changing? Two different cultural adaptation strategies in the domestic use of home country food plant and herbal ingredients among Albanian and Moroccan migrants in Northwestern Italy
BACKGROUND: Ethnobotanical field studies concerning migrant groups are crucial for understanding temporal changes of folk plant knowledge as well as for analyzing adaptation processes. Italy still lacks in-depth studies on migrant food habits that also evaluate the ingredients which newcomers use in their domestic culinary and herbal practices. METHODS: Semi-structured and open in-depth interviews were conducted with 104 first- and second-generat…
The Pursuit of Happiness and the Globalized Tourist
Practices of Food Sovereignty in Italy and England
Alternative food networks are organisations of consumers and food producers that oversee and promote the functioning of short food supply chains, with the aim of fostering a direct and local exchange between producers and consumers. New short-chain economic infrastructures provide food producers - especially small-scale farmers - with a whole new set of commercial opportunities, directed towards the construction of an alternative food economy. Bu…
Dissymmetry at the Border
Scholarly vs. Traditional Knowledge
The virtues of being peripheral, recreational, and transnational
Background: The Italian “Strategy for Inner Areas” includes a series of actions to avoid depopulation of rural areas by safeguarding the territory from hydrogeological instability and triggering development. Such strategy classified each municipality according to the distance to a centre defined as a town where certain services are provided. This article analyses the ethnobotanical knowledge in four villages distant from a centre. Moreover, it di…
Eating at Work
Workers’ wellbeing at work is a central theme for the development of institutions and enterprises. Within this debate, a central issue relates to the search for the best ways to organize lunch-breaks and food services for employees. In the past, canteens had a crucial role for workers, yet the last twenty years have marked a profound transformation of the European economy, with the effect of diversifying workers’ foodways and their food-related p…
"Il progetto "Nutrire Milano
Nutrire Milano č un progetto promosso da Slow Food Italia, Universitŕ di Scienze Gastronomiche e Indaco del Dipartimento del Politecnico di Milano, riguardante la vasta area del Parco Agricolo Sud. L'obiettivo č quello di sviluppare un sistema di servizi che conducano ad un cambiamento nella concezione delle relazioni tra l'agricoltura periurbana e la cittŕ, sviluppando dei networks di alimentazione sostenibile, anche in prospettiva di Expo Milan…
"Il progetto "Nutrire Milano
Nutrire Milano č un progetto promosso da Slow Food Italia, Universitŕ di Scienze Gastronomiche e Indaco del Dipartimento del Politecnico di Milano, riguardante la vasta area del Parco Agricolo Sud. L'obiettivo č quello di sviluppare un sistema di servizi che conducano ad un cambiamento nella concezione delle relazioni tra l'agricoltura periurbana e la cittŕ, sviluppando dei networks di alimentazione sostenibile, anche in prospettiva di Expo Milan…
The Pursuit of Happiness and the Globalized Tourist
La green city come attrazione turistica
L’odierno dibattito sulla citta punta sul concetto di smart city, una realta urbana leggera e integrata con i sistemi di comunicazione. In questa prospettiva si inserisce il concetto di green city, una citta che fa del rapporto sostenibile con l’ambiente e il territorio l’idea del proprio sviluppo. La citta verde cambia il concetto del vivere quotidiano, che diventa meno artificiale e piu naturale, con un recupero del rapporto con la campagna e l…
Interstitial but Resilient
Scholarly vs. Traditional Knowledge
Keeping or changing? Two different cultural adaptation strategies in the domestic use of home country food plant and herbal ingredients among Albanian and Moroccan migrants in Northwestern Italy
BACKGROUND: Ethnobotanical field studies concerning migrant groups are crucial for understanding temporal changes of folk plant knowledge as well as for analyzing adaptation processes. Italy still lacks in-depth studies on migrant food habits that also evaluate the ingredients which newcomers use in their domestic culinary and herbal practices. METHODS: Semi-structured and open in-depth interviews were conducted with 104 first- and second-generat…
Eating at Work
Workers’ wellbeing at work is a central theme for the development of institutions and enterprises. Within this debate, a central issue relates to the search for the best ways to organize lunch-breaks and food services for employees. In the past, canteens had a crucial role for workers, yet the last twenty years have marked a profound transformation of the European economy, with the effect of diversifying workers’ foodways and their food-related p…
Dissymmetry at the Border
Practices of Food Sovereignty in Italy and England
Alternative food networks are organisations of consumers and food producers that oversee and promote the functioning of short food supply chains, with the aim of fostering a direct and local exchange between producers and consumers. New short-chain economic infrastructures provide food producers - especially small-scale farmers - with a whole new set of commercial opportunities, directed towards the construction of an alternative food economy. Bu…
The virtues of being peripheral, recreational, and transnational
Background: The Italian “Strategy for Inner Areas” includes a series of actions to avoid depopulation of rural areas by safeguarding the territory from hydrogeological instability and triggering development. Such strategy classified each municipality according to the distance to a centre defined as a town where certain services are provided. This article analyses the ethnobotanical knowledge in four villages distant from a centre. Moreover, it di…
“We Became Rich and We Lost Everything”
Profound socioeconomic changes affected mountains of Central Italy during the last century and many traditional agro-pastoral activities were abandoned. A few ethnobotanical studies in this area have specifically documented local wild plants used decades ago, but without analyzing in-depth how and why Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) has eroded or changed over time. In this study, we 1) document ethnobotanical uses of four high-altitude rem…
The kitchen rediscovered
Italy was among the first countries worldwide and the first in Europe to implement a complete lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. This two-month lockdown significantly disrupted daily routines, leading to the reorganization of space, time, and modalities of meals. This article presents a study conducted in Italy during the lockdown, aiming to capture real-time changes in home-based eating practices. The study highlights how food-relat…
When minority language persistence is not enough
Local ecological knowledge is an essential element of the Alpine biocultural diversity and is often linked to minority languages. However, its continuity does not necessarily correspond to the persistence of these languages. This study investigates how knowledge of wild plants (and mushrooms) is transmitted and transformed among three minority-language communities in the Italian Alps: Cimbrian, Mòcheno, and Ladin speakers. Ethnobotanical data wer…
Geography (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (6 works) · Ethnobotany (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Biology (4 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Medicinal plants (4 works) · Social science (4 works)