=LDR 03500nam 22004212 4500 =001 47161303-2880-4923-8126-a53d94b2eb8a =006 m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ =007 cr\\n\\\\\\\\\ =008 250307t20172017\\\\\\\\ob\\\\000\0\eng\d =020 \\$z9781874267973$q(Paperback) =020 \\$a9781912186495$q(PDF) =040 \\$aUkCbTOM$beng$elocal =041 1\$aeng$hita =072 7$aHBJD$2bicssc =072 7$a1DST$2bicssc =072 7$aRNF$2bicssc =072 7$aHIS020000$2bisacsh =072 7$aNAT038000$2bisacsh =100 1\$aCorona, Gabriella,$eauthor.$uUniversity of Naples Federico II. =245 12$aA Short Environmental History of Italy :$bVariety and Vulnerability /$cGabriella Corona; translated by Federico Poole. =264 \1$aWinwick, UK :$bThe White Horse Press,$c2017. =264 \4$c©2017 =300 \\$a1 online resource (150 pages): $b23 illustrations. =336 \\$atext$btxt$2rdacontent =337 \\$acomputer$bc$2rdamedia =338 \\$aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier =500 \\$aAvailable through The White Horse Press. =520 \\$aThis 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. =538 \\$aMode of access: World Wide Web. =588 0\$aMetadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. =653 \\$aItaly =653 \\$anatural resources =653 \\$aanthropisation =653 \\$aenvironmental history =700 1\$aPoole, Federico,$etranslator. =710 2\$aThe White Horse Press,$epublisher. =856 42$uhttps://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/9781874267973.jpg$zConnect to cover image =856 42$uhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/$zCC0 Metadata License