1st Edition

The History of Environmental Resource Management in Europe Sustainable Practices Through Time

282 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Bringing together a broad range of case studies from across Europe, this book explores practices implemented to promote the sustainable use of environmental resources from the 16th century until the turn of the 21st century. How and with what results environmental resources were managed in the past is one of the main topics of debate in rural and environmental history and archaeology. This... Read more

1 Reconstructing the development of sustainability practices: a historical–environmental approach

Anna Maria Stagno, Matteo Di Tullio, and Martino Lorenzo Fagnani

2 Vernacular practices of water and tree management in the waterless and forestless Karst: a long-run perspective (16th–19th centuries)

Aleksander Panjek

3 Widespread woodlands, sustainability, and biodiversity in early modern Lombardy

Matteo Di Tullio

4 Water management in pre-industrial economies: the Lombardy and Friuli cases compared and reconsidered (18th–20th centuries)

Claudio Lorenzini and Maurizio Romano

5 Jurisdictional conflicts as a form of sharing practices: water and canals between Cerdagne and Sierra Nevada (18th–21st centuries)

José Abellán Santisteban, Anna Maria Stagno, Ylenia Paciotti, Matteo Tacca, Nathan Brenu, Alessandro Panetta, Giulia Bizzarri, Beatriz González Montes, Andrés Menéndez-Blanco, and Riccardo Santeramo

6 From farm to fork: fighting grain wastage in pre-industrial times (Northern Italy: 16th–19th centuries)

Laura Prosperi

7 Evil plants and perilous waters: science and technology in the Po Valley (18th and 19th centuries)

Martino Lorenzo Fagnani

8 Alder meadows in northern Romania, the last alnocoltura of Europe

Anna Westin, Livia Ardelean, Bogdan Iancu, Anamaria Iuga, Cosmin Ivașcu, Tommy Lennartsson, and Monica Stroe

9 The sustainability of past agro-silvo-pastoral systems: commons and sharing practices (South European mountain 18th–21st centuries)

Anna Maria Stagno, Matteo Tacca, Caterina Piu, Alessandro Panetta, Davide Attolini, Giovanni Cristina, Andrés Menéndez-Blanco, and Riccardo Santeramo

Biography

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 Professor in Archaeology at the University of Genova, 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.