Water: resource and threat. The management of water resources and floods in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age

Elisabetta Bini is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Naples Federico II. She has published the book La potente benzina italiana. Guerra fredda e consumi di massa tra Italia, Stati Uniti e Terzo mondo (1945-1973) (Roma, 2013) and has co-edited the volumes Working for Oil: Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry (New York, 2018) and Les territoires des transitions énergétiques. Nucléaire et énergies renouvelables en Italie et en France (Paris, 2023).

Diego Carnevale is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Naples Federico II. His principal works focus on the socioeconomic and political history of burial practices in Naples from the 1650s to 1860s. He is currently carrying out research on conflicts abut urban water supplies management in late early modern Naples. He is the author of L’affare dei morti. Mercato funerario, politica e gestione della sepoltura a Napoli (secoli XVII-XIX), Roma 2014.

Domenico Cecere is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Naples Federico II. He is the author of Le armi del popolo. Conflitti politici e strategie di resistenza nella Calabria del Settecento (2013) and has co-edited the volumes Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples (2018) and Rischio, catastrofe e gestione dell’emergenza nel Mediterraneo occidentale e in Ispanoamerica in età moderna (2022).