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The volume collects the proceedings of the conference "Università e Territorio. Il decentramento dell'Ateneo nella Provincia di Firenze ("University and Territory. The decentralisation of the University in the Province of Florence"), which was held in Florence on January 23, 2004. The conference saw a wide participation of interventions and public debate, and dealt with the issues concerning the decentralisation of educational and scientific activities in the municipalities of the Province of Florence, with particular reference to the university settlements of Calenzano, Scandicci, Sesto Fiorentino, Vaglia, Figline Valdarno, San Casciano Val di Pesa and the district Circondario Empolese Valdelsa. The conference was conceived as an occasion of meeting and dialogue between Mayors of the Province, local administrators and deans of university degree courses. It highlighted the multiplicity and differentiation of the activities as well as the complexity of the problems related to the development of study courses in the different social-economical realities of the municipalities of the Province of Florence.

The volume collects the proceedings of the XXXIV study meeting of Ce.S.E.T. - Centro di Estimo e di Economia territoriale (Centre for Estimation and Territorial Economics) held in Florence on 15-16 October 2004.

The book collects the works presented during the XII meeting of the Italian Group of Evolutionary Biology, held in Florence in February 2004. Evolutionary theories are illustrated with balance from different points of view (from the perspective of historians, zoologists, paleontologists, anthropologists, molecular biologists) in the light of some recent experimental and theoretical discoveries. The debate and the diversity of investigations demonstrate the validity and relevance of the study of biological evolution.

For the last few years a group of European historians, under the direction of Professor Robert Frank of the Sorbonne University of Paris, has been conducting an extensive research aimed at identifying the characteristics of an European "space" in the context of the integration process. As part of the group's activities the conference, whose the proceedings are collected here, was held in October 2003 in Florence. The meeting had as its objective a reflection on the emergence and development of a "European social space" beginning from the origins of the integration process, in which historians, sociologists, political scientists and some lead actors of this important community dynamic had the opportunity to meet.