Giacomo Bonan

Giacomo Bonan (University of Turin) assistant professor in the history of science and technology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and member of the ERC Advanced Grant project “The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900”. He has worked at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm; the Centre for the History of the Alps at the University of Italian Switzerland; the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna; and the Historisches Seminar at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. He is member of the editorial board of Global Environment and Passato e Presente. His research interests include the relations between property regimes and systems of natural resources management; forest history; water history; and rural social conflicts associated with modernization.