Il bel paese : an introduction / Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall
Foundations
The distinctive character of Italian environmental history / Piero Bevilacqua
Upside-down landscapes : seismicity and seismic disasters in Italy / Emanuela Guidoboni
Moving ground : Vesuvius and the Nola mudslides of the nineteenth century / Walter Palmieri
Environmental imperialism in Sardinia : pesticides and politics in the struggle against malaria / Marcus Hall
Commons and forests
The decline of the commons and the environmental balance in early modern Italy / Gabriella Corona
Forest visions in early modern Italy / Bruno Vecchio
Environmental heritage of a past cultural landscape : alder woods in the upper Aveto Valley of the northwestern Apennines / Roberta Cevasco
Act locally, think nationally : a brief history of access rights and environmental conflicts in Fascist Italy / Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
Pollution, industry, and urban environment
Dealing with industrial pollution in Italy, 1880-1940 / Simone Neri Serneri
Petrochemical modernity in Sicily / Salvatore Adorno
The Seveso disaster legacy / Laura Centemeri
Landscape, culture, and environmentalism
A "natural" capitalism : water and the making of the Italian industrial landscape / Stefania Barca
Nationalizing the mountains : natural and political landscapes in World War I / Marco Armiero
Nature preservation and protection in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italy, 1880-1950 / Luigi Piccioni.