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Ugo Bardi (born 23 May 1952 in Florence, Italy^[1]) is a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Florence.^[2]

Career

Bardi is a researcher on materials for new energy sources, a contributor to the now-defunct website, "The Oil Drum". He is the co-founder and former president of ASPO Italy, a member of the scientific committee of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas [it] (ASPO),^[3] a member of the Club of Rome,^[4] and author of several books, including The Limits to Growth Revisited.

Personal life

Bardi was married in 1976 to his wife Grazia and is a father of two, Francesco and Donata.

Works

Books

Bardi, Ugo (2003). La fine del petrolio (in Italian). Ed. Riuniti. ISBN 9788835954255.
Bardi, Ugo; Pancani, Giovanni (2006). Storia petrolifera del bel paese (in Italian). Ed. Le Balze. ISBN 8875391262.
Bardi, Ugo (2008). Il libro della Chimera (in Italian). Firenze: Ed. Polistampa. ISBN 9788859603658.
Bardi, Ugo (2011). The Limits to Growth Revisited. Springer Briefs in Energy. ISBN 9781441994158..
Bardi, Ugo (2011). La Terra svuotata. Editori Riuniti. ISBN 9788864730677.
Bardi, Ugo (2014). Extracted. How the Quest for Mineral Wealth is Plundering the Planet. Chelsea Green Publishing. ISBN 9781603585415.
Bardi, Ugo (2017). The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-57206-2.
Bardi, Ugo (2020). Before the Collapse. A guide to the other side of Growth. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-29038-2. ISBN 978-3-030-29037-5. S2CID 204741627.
Bardi, Ugo; Perissi, Ilaria (2021). The Empty Sea: The Future of the Blue Economy. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-51898-1. ISBN 978-3-030-51897-4. S2CID 231905322.
Bardi, Ugo; Alvarez Pereira, Carlos, eds. (2022). Limits and Beyond: 50 Years on from The Limits to Growth, what Did We Learn and What's Next?. Exapt Press. ISBN 9781914549038.

Journals

Ugo Bardi, Andrea Atrei, Gianfranco Rovida, Initial stages of oxidation of the Ni3Al alloy: structure and composition of the aluminum oxide overlayer studied by XPS, LEIS and LEED. In: Surface Science 268, Issues 1–3, (1992), 87–97, doi:10.1016/0039-6028(92)90952-3.
Andrea Balduccia, Ugo Bardi, Stefano Caporali, Marina Mastragostino, Francesca Soavi, Ionic liquids for hybrid supercapacitors. In: Electrochemistry Communications 6, Issue 6, (2004), 566–570, doi:10.1016/j.elecom.2004.04.005.
Gaia Ballerini, Ugo Bardi, Roberto Bignucolo, Giuseppe Ceraolo, About some corrosion mechanisms of AZ91D magnesium alloy. In: Corrosion Science 47, Issue 9, (2005), 2173–2184, doi:10.1016/j.corsci.2004.09.018.
Ugo Bardi, The mineral economy: a model for the shape of oil production curves. In: Energy Policy 33, Issue 1, (2005), 53–61, doi:10.1016/S0301-4215(03)00197-6.
Stefano Caporali, Alessio Fossati, Alessandro Lavacchi, Ilaria Perissi, Alexander Tolstogouzov, Ugo Bardi, Aluminium electroplated from ionic liquids as protective coating against steel corrosion. In: Corrosion Science 50, Issue 2, 2008, 534–539, doi:10.1016/j.corsci.2007.08.001.
Ilaria Perissi, Ugo Bardi, Stefano Caporali, Alessio Fossati, Alessandro Lavacchi, Ionic liquids as diathermic fluids for solar trough collectors’ technology: A corrosion study. In: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 92, Issue 4, (2008), 510–517, doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2007.11.007.
Ugo Bardi, Peak oil: The four stages of a new idea. In: Energy 34, Issue 3, (2009), 323–326, doi:10.1016/j.energy.2008.08.015.

References

^ "ASPO 2005 IV International Workshop on Oil and Gas Depletion – Biographies". cge.uevora.pt. University of Évora. Retrieved 1 February 2013.^{[not specific enough to verify]}
^ "Ugo Bardi". Università degli Studi di Firenze. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
^ Campbell, Colin J. (14 February 2008). "About ASPO". Peak Oil. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
^ "Ugo Bardi". Club of Rome. Retrieved 1 June 2021.