Contents
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Natural Resorces and their Uses
1: The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Biomass, Solar, and Mini-Wind Power Plants: The World, Italy, and Tuscany
2: The Environmental Impact of Urbanization and Industrializa-tion in the Greater Florence Area, 1945–2011
3: Florence and Its Waters: Water Management Policies in a Central Italian City, 1944–1980
4: Industries, Tourism, and the Environment: A Case Study of Tuscany’s Central-Southern Coast
Part II: Mobility and the Environment
5: The Environmental Impact of the Car on Italian Cities, 1950–1974
6: Transportation and the Environment in Italy, 1944–2006
7: Cars and Emissions Regulation in Italy, 1950–2008
Part III: Politics
8: Environmental Knowledge, Urban Planning, and Political Decisions in Italy from 1850 to the Present
9: The Parabola of Italian Environmentalism: From the Centrality of Associationism to the Success of NIMBY Localism
10: Popular Initiative Movements and the Commons: Promotion of an Alternative Economic Model or Defense of the Particular?
Notes
Bibliography
Index