Mita Drius is currently researcher at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Faculty of Education (Bressanone, I), where she teaches Didactics of Biology and Chemistry. She holds a PhD in Ecology and her expertise is in ecosystem services, sustainable tourism, and Mediterranean coastal habitats. In the last ten years she has been working in several research institutes, such as the International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN) in Cambridge (UK), the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) in Bangor (UK), the University of Vienna (A), and the National Research Council-Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR) in Venice (I).