Proceedings from a scientific conference addressing the production of energy from biologically renewable resources. Topics include: technology, agricultural and combustible solids, thermochemical processing of biomass energy, methane from animal and biomass sources, biocombustibles and biocarburants, prospects for developing renewable biological sources of energy. Italian text.

Contents: Franco Scaramuzzi Saluto; Filiberto Loreti Ricordo di Claudio Vitagliano; Raffaele Testolin Le basi genetiche della resistenza allo stress in olivo; Luca Sebastiani Le basi fisiologiche; Riccardo Gucci Innovazioni tecniche.