G. P. Marsh wrote his monumental Man and Nature (1864) almost entirely in Italy, where he drew heavily from Italian insights and Italian landscapes.
The nationalization of Italian mountains has been a story of military conquest and resistance, ecological and social transformation, expropriating resources and imposing meanings…
This environmental history of ancient civilizations seeks to demonstrate that environmental degradation is not exclusively a problem of the modern world.
This article examines energy consumption, the transition from organic to fossil energy carriers, and the consequent CO2 emissions over a period of almost 150 years (1861–2000) in Italy and Spain.
Covering a wide geographical range of European countries, the articles in this edited collection investigate urban disasters such as floods, fires, earthquakes, and epidemic diseases.
This volume brings together, for the first time—in Italy or for an English-speaking audience—a collection of over 40 authors from this deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing.
Based on ethnographic and archival data, this in-depth study of the Venetian island of Burano shows how its inhabitants develop their sense of a distinct identity.
This film investigates how people in Italy respond to the permanently unfinished infrastructure surrounding them.
Earthquakes occur along fault lines, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Italy. Fault Lines follows the history of these places before and after their destruction, explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters, and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.
This article explores the relationship between disasters and the population movements in two case studies: The 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley earthquake.
