New member of the RIGG: Ciro Amato

Ciro Amato (Naples, 1974) has a degree in clinical psychology and studies topics related to the history of natural medicine, with a particular focus on Saint Hildegard of Bingen. He obtained a PhD from the University of Naples Federico II, thanks to which he acquired scientific research methods, including in law; he also has a degree in law.

His research focuses on integral human development from a diachronic perspective. In particular, he studies the relationship between creation and humankind in order to systematise Catholic teaching on these issues. He is an Italian public administrator and taught integral ecology at a pontifical university in the academic year 2023-2024. He has published the first peer-reviewed monograph on the subject of integral ecology (Ecologia integrale, principi, questioni e problemi rilevanti, Castelvecchi editore) and a volume of philosophy of law on common goods (Beni comuni una questione di paradigm r(el)lazionale, Aracne, 2014). He is currently director of the Integral Human Development Institute in Italy (Arezzo), through which he develops projects in education and environmental psychology from a Christian perspective. He is a television author and has been writing on the history and geopolitics of environmental policy for 10 years in an Italian Catholic newspaper.

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