STORIA AMBIENTALE

Academic Year 2024/2025 - 4° Year
Teaching Staff: Salvatore ADORNO and Margherita BONOMO
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: M-STO/04 -
Taught classes: 48 hours
Term / Semester:

Required Prerequisites


Attendance of Lessons

optional

Detailed Course Content

The course covers the following topics:
1) The economic and population growth, the evolution of energy systems in the long term, with particular attention to the turn eight twentieth century.
2) The historical study of the relationship between humans and environmental media: soil, air, water (desertification, erosion, salinization, pollution, ozone depletion, climate change, acid rain, rivers, lakes seas: impoverishment, dams, deviations)
3) The relationship between humans and other life forms of the Earth (deforestation migration, biodiversity)
4) The role of cities, fuels, technologies, ideas and politics of environmental change as engines.

The topics will be addressed in key eminently historical global, national and local

Textbook Information

For everyone

John R. MC Neil, Qualcosa di nuovo sotto il sole. Storia dell’ambiente nel secolo XX, Torino, Einaudi, 2000, 470 pp.

S. Adorno, I limiti del pianeta. Note e appunti sull’Antropocene, in Scalisi e Sanchez, Fra le mura della modernità, Roma, Viella 2019, pp. 351-365

 

A book chosen from the follwing

Christophe Bonneuil, Jean Baptiste Fressoz, La storia la terra e noi. L’evento Antropocene,, Treccani 2019, (365 p.)

Emilio Padoa Schioppa, Antropocene, Il Mulino 2021 (167 p.)

J. R. McNeil Peter Engelke, La grande accelerazione, una storia ambientale dell’Antropocene dopo il 1945, Einaudi 2018, (245 p.)

Wolfgang Behringer, Storia culturale del clima dall’era glaciale al riscaldamento globale, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2010, (289 p.)

E. C. Ellis, Antropocene. Esiste un futuro per la terra dell’uomo? Firenze, Giunti, 2020, (220 p.)

M. Armerio, R. Biasillo, W. Graf von Hardenberg, La natura del duce. Una storia ambientale del fascismo, Einaudi,2022 (142p.)

S.L. Lewis M. Maslin, Il pianeta umano. Come abbiamo creato l’Antropocene, Torino, Einaudi, 2018 (356 p)

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

seminar evidence on a text or part of a text and oral evidence.
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