Books

Il Rosso e il Verde. PCI e questione ambientale, 1972-1992, Jacabook, Milano (in progress)

Fascist Nature. Environmental Policies and Conflicts in Italy, 1922-1943 (manuscript)

Articles and essays

Green Rhetoric in Blackshirts: Italian Fascism and the Environment, with Marco Armiero, Environment and History, 2011 (in review);

Beyond human limits: the culture of nature conservation in interwar Italy. Aether – The Journal of Media Geography, 2011 (in print);

Atti di Dio o atti dell’uomo? (in a debate section entitled Catastrofi edited by Wilko von Hardenberg), Passato e Presente, 82(2011);

La creazione del modello petrolifero: ambiente, lavoro e consumo agli albori di un’industria. 900. Per una storia del tempo presente, 4(2010) (in print);

Conflitti ambientali nel Ventennio: l’area del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio tra tutela della natura e usi collettivi tradizionali. Archivio Scialoja-Bolla, 1.2010, Giuffrè Editore, Milano;

Act local, think national: a brief history of access rights and environmental conflicts in Fascist Italy, in Nature and History in Modern Italy, M. Armiero and M. Hall (eds.), Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 2010;

Ressourcen und Konflikte als Elemente einer sozialen Umweltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Das italienische Beispiel. In Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2008-2009, ed. Bernd Herrmann, Graduiertenkolleg Interdisziplinäre Umweltgeschichte, Universität Göttingen, 2010;

La vittima occulta: una rassegna di documentari sull’impatto ambientale della guerra, Passato e Presente 78(2009):89-100;

La storia ambientale nell’era dei problemi ecologici globali, with Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro e Viktor Pál, Storia e Futuro, June 2009;

The environmental question, employment, and development in Italy’s left, 1945 – 1990, with Paolo Pelizzari, Left History 13:1(2008): 77-105;

Percezione e rappresentazione della natura in Le Vie d’Italia, 1917 – 1967, Paratesto 5(2008): 237-254;

Nature rhetoric. Mediterranean Fascisms between industrialization and first preservation, in Views from the South. Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World (19th-20th centuries), M. Armiero (ed.), ISSM-CNR, Napoli, 2006;

Oltre la storia ambientale. Interdisciplinarietà, metodologia, prospettive. Passato e presente, 68(2006): 149-161;

Chapters 2 – Quale sostenibilità and 4 – Buone pratiche e tecnologie per la mobilità sostenibile, in Sostenibilità ambientale e sociale della mobilità nelle aree montane decentrate, CSP and Dip. di Scienze Sociali (Università di Torino), Regione Piemonte, Torino, 2005;

ICT e società dell’informazione: tentativi di definizione, in Rapporto Finale DOCTA, M. Pollone e S. Doglioli (eds.), CSP, Torino, 2003: 9-14.

Papers at conferences and invited lectures

28 Jun 2011  Conflict and conservation. Which geographic scale for the history of nature (accepted) conservation in the Alps?, 6th Conference of the European Society for  Environmental History, Turku

1-2 Jul 10 Climate, fascism, and ibex: a case study in historical animal population trends, 79th Anglo-American Conference of Historians: Environments, Institute of Historical Research, London

27 Nov 09 Conflitti ambientali nel Ventennio: l’area del Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio tra tutela della natura e usi collettivi tradizionali. 15a Riunione Scientifica, Centro studi e documentazione sui demani civici e le proprietà collettive, Trento;

18 Sep 09 Between propaganda and preservation: the Italian national parks in the Alps, 4th Symposium of the Hohe Tauern National Park for Research in Protected Areas, Kaprun, Austria;

05 Aug 09 Green Rhetoric in Blackshirts: Italian Fascism and the environment, 1st World Congress of Environmental History 2009, Copenhagen,  with Marco Armiero;

06 May 09 Ressourcen und Konflikte als Elemente einer sozialen Umweltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Das Italienische Beispiel, Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2008-2009, Universität Göttingen (invited lecturer);

06 Jun 07 Environmental policies in post-war Italy between reconstruction and economic boom, Environmental Connections 4th Conference of the European Society for Environmental History, Amsterdam;

14 Jan 06 Modifications of rights to resources in Fascist Italy at the conference “Uses of Environmental History” organized by CRASSH at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge;

06 Jun 05 From Archives to Nature: History of Environmental Politics in Fascist Italy at the Graduate Seminars of the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge;

18 Mar 05 Modifications of rights to access resources in authoritarian regimes. The Italian case, 1922-1943 at the American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting 2005 “Energy, Space, Time” in Houston, Texas;

17 Feb 05 The Associazione Irrigazione Est Sesia: a case study on rights to access resources under fascist rule, 1923-1943 at the European Society for Environmental History Third International Conference “History and Sustainability” in Florence;

11 Feb 04 Nation and Nature: Fascism, Aesthetics and Conservation in Italy at the Documenting Environmental Change Seminars, University of Cambridge;

13 Sep 03 Nature rethoric. Mediterranean Fascisms between industrialization and first preservation at the “Views from the South. Environmental stories from the Mediterranean World (19th – 20th centuries)” conference, ISSM-CNR, Naples.

Book reviews

How Green Were the Nazis? Nature Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich, Franz-Josef Brueggemeier, Marc Cioc, and Thomas Zeller (eds.), 2005, Ohio University Press, Athens for the H-Environment mailing list, 2006;

Storia dell’ambiente. Una introduzione, Marco Armiero and Stefania Barca, 2003, Carocci, Roma in Passato e Presente, 63(2004): 165-6;

Storia dell’ambiente europeo, Robert Delort and François Walter, 2002, Dedalo, Bari, in Passato e Presente, 63(2004): 168-70;

Umweltgeschichten. Themen und Perspektiven, Wolfram Siemann (ed.), 2003, Beck, München, in Passato e Presente, XXII 63(2004): 172-4;

Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves and the Hidden History of American Conservation, Carl Jakoby, 2001, UCP, Los Angeles, in Passato e Presente, 63(2004): 174-5;

Ambiente e risorse nel Mezzogiorno contemporaneo, Piero Bevilacqua and Gabriella Corona (eds.), 2000, Donzelli Editore, Roma in Rivista Geografica Italiana, CIX (2002), 4: 874-6.

Outreach

Nature and Nation website

Riflessi d’Oriente. Interview on sino-european relationships. FormArt, Provincia Autonoma di Trento – FilmWork;

Note to John R. McNeill, “Il riscaldamento globale, Al Gore e la verità.” Passato e presente, 72(2007): 119-120.

Posters

12 – 17 Apr 11    Golden eagles in the Alps. An historical population trend analysis, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, Phoenix, AZ.