The White Horse Press
A Short Environmental History of Italy: Variety and Vulnerability
- Gabriella Corona (author)
- Federico Poole (translator)
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| Title | A Short Environmental History of Italy |
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| Subtitle | Variety and Vulnerability |
| Contributor | Gabriella Corona (author) |
| Federico Poole (translator) | |
| Landing page | https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2017/06/01/a-short-environmental-history-of-italy/ |
| Copyright | The White Horse Press |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Publication place | Winwick, UK |
| Published on | 2017-06-01 |
| ISBN | 978-1-874267-97-3 (Paperback) |
| 978-1-912186-49-5 (PDF) | |
| Short abstract | This book, a translation of the author’s original Italian 'Breve Storia dell’Ambiente in Italia' (Il Mulino, 2015) aims to bring together the general lines of interpretation of Italian environmental history from the decades prior to national unification to the present day, laying foundations for the writing of national history from an environmental history perspective. |
| Long abstract | This book, a translation of the author’s original Italian 'Breve Storia dell’Ambiente in Italia' (Il Mulino, 2015) aims to bring together the general lines of interpretation of Italian environmental history from the decades prior to national unification to the present day, laying foundations for the writing of national history from an environmental history perspective. The volume reconstructs processes of change in the use of natural resources in Italy, and the associated environmental and social consequences. The use in historical analysis of a polysemic concept such as ‘environment’ expresses the deep synergies in the history of Italy that have tied together nature and human activities, ecological and socio-economic issues. The ancient roots of settlement, early anthropisation by past civilisations and historical features of the processes of transformation of rural and agricultural landscapes to which large areas of the peninsula have been subject impose a historical reconstruction in which changes in the use of natural resources are closely intertwined with changes in the territory considered as a natural historical context, built and humanised. Furthermore, corollary to the great richness and variety of nature and landscape, the artistic and archaeological sites, agriculture, gastronomy and oenology, that have ‘supported’ the country in its rise to global political significance, is vulnerability in terms of geological fragility, hydrographic system and seismicity. The book aims to understand how Italy as a unitary state has ruled the balance of an area overwhelmed by the impact of an economic development model characterised by high consumption of natural resources and energy. With this in mind, an important focus of consideration is the relevance of public policies, and the relationship between policy-makers and the knowledge experts that influence them. |
| Print length | 150 pages |
| Language | English (Translated_into) |
| Italian (Translated_from) | |
| Dimensions | 152 x 229 mm | 5.98" x 9.02" (Paperback) |
| Media | 23 illustrations |
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Contributors
Gabriella Corona
(author)Gabriella Corona is a senior researcher at the Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies of the National Research Council in Naples and teaches Economic History in the Humanities Department of University of Naples ‘Federico II’.