Through a combination of memory, experience, and archival research, this volume explores the connection between storytelling and the writing of environmental histories in Germany and Italy.

Fabian Zimmer discusses how the perceptions of dam visitors were actively shaped through public open days throughout the twentieth century.

Claudio de Majo argues that the notion of the commons, often seen as an economically motivated notion, could also be seen in relation to metabolic cycles, both in the mountains of Sila in Italy and in the uplands of the Serra Gaucha in southern Brazil.