Autorentext

Matteo Di Tullio is Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Pavia, Italy. His research focuses on environmental, economic, and social history of the preindustrial period.

Anna Maria Stagno is Associate Professor in Methodologies of Archaeological Research at the University of Genoa, Italy. Her main research interests are the history and archaeology of rural societies, the historical practices for the management of environmental resources, and the archaeology and history of common lands.

Martino Lorenzo Fagnani is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pavia, Italy. His main research interests are the history of agricultural science, environmental history, the history of travel, and food history from the 17th to the 19th century.

Klappentext

This book explores practices implemented to promote the sustainable use of environmental resources from the 16th to early 21st Century across Europe. It appeals to students and scholars of history and archaeology, as well as those in research fields related to anthropology, sociology, environmental and agricultural sciences, and economics.

Inhalt

1. Reconstructing the development of sustainability practices: a historical-environmental approach 2. Vernacular practices of water and tree management in the waterless and forestless Karst: a long-run perspective (16th-19th centuries) 3. Widespread woodlands, sustainability, and biodiversity in early modern Lombardy 4. Water management in pre-industrial economies: the Lombardy and Friuli cases compared and reconsidered (18th-20th centuries) 5. Jurisdictional conflicts as a form of sharing practices: water and canals between Cerdagne and Sierra Nevada (18th-21st centuries) 6. From farm to fork: fighting grain wastage in pre-industrial times (Northern Italy: 16th-19th centuries) 7. Evil plants and perilous waters: science and technology in the Po Valley (18th and 19th centuries) 8. Alder meadows in northern Romania, the last alnocoltura of Europe 9. The sustainability of past agro-silvo-pastoral systems: commons and sharing practices (South European mountain 18th-21st centuries)