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Giacomo Bonan is assistant professor of history of science and technology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and member of the ERC Advanced Grant project "The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900." He has worked at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm; the Centre for the History of the Alps at the University of Italian Switzerland; the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna; and the Historisches Seminar at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. He is member of the editorial board of Global Environment and Passato e Presente. His research interests include the relations between property regimes and systems of natural resources management; forest history; water history; and rural social conflicts associated with modernization.
RCC Research Project: The Alpine Metabolic Transition: the Evolution of Forest-River Relations from an Agrarian to an Industrial Regime
Selected Publications:
- Le acque agitate della patria: L’industrializzazione del Piave (1882-1966). Rome: Viella, 2020.
- The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2019.
- with Katia Occhi, eds. Environmental History: New Approaches and Research Perspectives. Volume 46, no. 2 of Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento / Jahrbuch des italienisch-deutschen historischen Instituts in Trient. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2020.
- "An Alpine Energy Transition: The Piave River from Charcoal to 'White Coal'." Environmental History 25 (2020): 687–710.
- "Natural Time and Bureaucratic Time. State Building, Forests and Environmental Conflicts in the 1800s." Environment and History 25, no. 3 (August 2019): 421–450.
- "'Di tutti e di nessuno'. I beni comunali nel Veneto preunitario." Quaderni Storici 155, no. 2 (2017): 445–470.