The course aims to provide a basic preparation on the relation between man and the environment during history; more precisely on the behaviors towards the environment during the different centuries, on the historical roots of environmental problems, on the degree of awareness on the matter, on the single exemplary cases and on the minor ones.
Through the paradigms and categories of historical analysis, we want to provide tools of knowledge and analysis that can be valid for history and for the present.
Through the paradigms and categories of historical analysis, we want to provide tools of knowledge and analysis that can be valid for history and for the present.
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The course will analyze the relationship between the changes in the climate and the consequent adaptations of human societies over the centuries. During the millennia of history the climate has changed several times for natural reasons, and man has had to manage the environmental constraints that were imposed by this change. Then, with the Industrial Revolution, its activities began to directly affect the atmosphere, until the emergency began in the last decades of the 1900s. These contexts will deepen the understanding of communities, the responses put in place and the social consequences.
Exam texts
1) J. R. McNeill, Qualcosa di nuovo sotto il sole. Storia dell'ambiente nel XX secolo, Einaudi, Torino 2002;
2) W. Behringer, Storia culturale del clima. Dall'Era glaciale al Riscaldamento globale, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2013;
3) Essays in the exam folder present at the copy shop in via Leonardo da Vinci n. 285 (13 essays).
2) W. Behringer, Storia culturale del clima. Dall'Era glaciale al Riscaldamento globale, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2013;
3) Essays in the exam folder present at the copy shop in via Leonardo da Vinci n. 285 (13 essays).
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Programme
The climate in history: changes and adaptationsThe course will analyze the relationship between the changes in the climate and the consequent adaptations of human societies over the centuries. During the millennia of history the climate has changed several times for natural reasons, and man has had to manage the environmental constraints that were imposed by this change. Then, with the Industrial Revolution, its activities began to directly affect the atmosphere, until the emergency began in the last decades of the 1900s. These contexts will deepen the understanding of communities, the responses put in place and the social consequences.
Exam texts
1) J. R. McNeill, Qualcosa di nuovo sotto il sole. Storia dell'ambiente nel XX secolo, Einaudi, Torino 2002;
2) W. Behringer, Storia culturale del clima. Dall'Era glaciale al Riscaldamento globale, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2013;
3) Essays in the exam folder present at the copy shop in via Leonardo da Vinci n. 285 (13 essays).
Core Documentation
1) J. R. McNeill, Qualcosa di nuovo sotto il sole. Storia dell'ambiente nel XX secolo, Einaudi, Torino 2002;2) W. Behringer, Storia culturale del clima. Dall'Era glaciale al Riscaldamento globale, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2013;
3) Essays in the exam folder present at the copy shop in via Leonardo da Vinci n. 285 (13 essays).
Type of delivery of the course
The teaching includes frontal lessons. The attendance of the lessons, although recommended, is not mandatory.Attendance
Attendance requires students to take notes of the lessons, since they contain additional information compared to the exam texts.Type of evaluation
The verification of learning takes place through an oral test, aimed at verifying the level of knowledge of the course topics, and the analytical skills acquired following their study.