The History of Environmental Resource Management in Europe and the Near East

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.

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 c.) 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 c.) 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-21th c.)