Giacomo Parrinello
@parriblue.bsky.social
Environmental historian & associate prof. at Sciences Po Paris. First book on #disasters (https://shorturl.at/cXZBh) now writing on #rivers & growth in the Po Valley of Italy. All things #water & #climate, #envhist news, & adventures in daily life.
Xmas gifts! 🍊🌳
December 22, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Xmas gifts! 🍊🌳
For my river history (re)readings I recently completed The Conquest of Nature by David Blackburn, a widely cited 2006 #envhist book I first read in 2012.
It tells the history of German rivers and landscape engineering from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. 1/🧵
It tells the history of German rivers and landscape engineering from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. 1/🧵
December 7, 2024 at 11:59 AM
For my river history (re)readings I recently completed The Conquest of Nature by David Blackburn, a widely cited 2006 #envhist book I first read in 2012.
It tells the history of German rivers and landscape engineering from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. 1/🧵
It tells the history of German rivers and landscape engineering from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. 1/🧵
There are definitely more…I remember Dan MacFarlane sharing on twitter a picture of this kind of baking pan - apparently a Canadian grandma thing, of which we posses a surviving item here in Paris 😄
November 22, 2024 at 4:29 PM
There are definitely more…I remember Dan MacFarlane sharing on twitter a picture of this kind of baking pan - apparently a Canadian grandma thing, of which we posses a surviving item here in Paris 😄
4/ In the Rhone, Po, and Ebro River deltas this facilitated the creation of regional parks.
Regional parks were an offspring of regional planning and its promise of development. Moreover, they allowed local stakeholders to retained decision-making power along with conservationists and the state.
Regional parks were an offspring of regional planning and its promise of development. Moreover, they allowed local stakeholders to retained decision-making power along with conservationists and the state.
November 2, 2024 at 2:42 PM
4/ In the Rhone, Po, and Ebro River deltas this facilitated the creation of regional parks.
Regional parks were an offspring of regional planning and its promise of development. Moreover, they allowed local stakeholders to retained decision-making power along with conservationists and the state.
Regional parks were an offspring of regional planning and its promise of development. Moreover, they allowed local stakeholders to retained decision-making power along with conservationists and the state.
2/ At the same time, wetland advocates, including Swiss philantropist and ornithologist Hoffman, were conducting unprecedented international campaign for wetland protection.
However, they were coating their plea for wetlands in the language of economic value. Wetlands were "liquid assets."
However, they were coating their plea for wetlands in the language of economic value. Wetlands were "liquid assets."
November 2, 2024 at 2:09 PM
2/ At the same time, wetland advocates, including Swiss philantropist and ornithologist Hoffman, were conducting unprecedented international campaign for wetland protection.
However, they were coating their plea for wetlands in the language of economic value. Wetlands were "liquid assets."
However, they were coating their plea for wetlands in the language of economic value. Wetlands were "liquid assets."
1/ Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the Rhone, Po, and Ebro Deltas were facing a new wave of coastal development that would have likely led to the complete disappearance of their surviving wetlands. #envhist #coastalhistory 🗃️
November 2, 2024 at 1:56 PM
1/ Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the Rhone, Po, and Ebro Deltas were facing a new wave of coastal development that would have likely led to the complete disappearance of their surviving wetlands. #envhist #coastalhistory 🗃️
Today’s #sabbaticalreading is Edgerton’s The Shock of the Old. I have a grasp of the broader argument, curious to see if there is more to it…
September 13, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Today’s #sabbaticalreading is Edgerton’s The Shock of the Old. I have a grasp of the broader argument, curious to see if there is more to it…
Even worse, when arguing for the neutrality of civil servants and their duty to execute even orders they don’t consider just I had chills down my spine thinking about Eichmann’s famous defense…
Read for yourself (if you understand Italian)…
Read for yourself (if you understand Italian)…
September 11, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Even worse, when arguing for the neutrality of civil servants and their duty to execute even orders they don’t consider just I had chills down my spine thinking about Eichmann’s famous defense…
Read for yourself (if you understand Italian)…
Read for yourself (if you understand Italian)…
This academic year I am on sabbatical leave. I have several writing projects to keep me busy, but I plan to spend some time doing some freewheeling readings, ideally every day. No specific purpose, just stuff that I want to read.
Today I am reading this 👇#sabbaticalreading
Today I am reading this 👇#sabbaticalreading
September 10, 2024 at 3:25 PM
This academic year I am on sabbatical leave. I have several writing projects to keep me busy, but I plan to spend some time doing some freewheeling readings, ideally every day. No specific purpose, just stuff that I want to read.
Today I am reading this 👇#sabbaticalreading
Today I am reading this 👇#sabbaticalreading
A friend who lives near the Po River just sent me this picture of the river at sunrise. Look at this beauty! 🤩
January 20, 2024 at 9:48 AM
A friend who lives near the Po River just sent me this picture of the river at sunrise. Look at this beauty! 🤩
While revising a chapter on sediment and the Aswan High Dam, I spent some time with The Lived Nile by Jennifer Derr.
It's a brilliant book, deftly tying river changes to ecology and the human body. I highly recommend it to #envhist #histsci #histmed #waterhist scholars.
It's a brilliant book, deftly tying river changes to ecology and the human body. I highly recommend it to #envhist #histsci #histmed #waterhist scholars.
January 17, 2024 at 11:49 AM
While revising a chapter on sediment and the Aswan High Dam, I spent some time with The Lived Nile by Jennifer Derr.
It's a brilliant book, deftly tying river changes to ecology and the human body. I highly recommend it to #envhist #histsci #histmed #waterhist scholars.
It's a brilliant book, deftly tying river changes to ecology and the human body. I highly recommend it to #envhist #histsci #histmed #waterhist scholars.
Hello #envhist #waterhistory twitter: Santiago Gorostiza and myself are looking for potential co-panelists for #eseh2023 on alternative genealogies of river basin management (abstract below).
If you are working on this topic and would like to go to Bern send me a message!
If you are working on this topic and would like to go to Bern send me a message!
November 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Hello #envhist #waterhistory twitter: Santiago Gorostiza and myself are looking for potential co-panelists for #eseh2023 on alternative genealogies of river basin management (abstract below).
If you are working on this topic and would like to go to Bern send me a message!
If you are working on this topic and would like to go to Bern send me a message!
My urban #envhist course at @ScPoEUrbaine is now focusing on specific cities in student-led classes.
The London group today came up with a great (!) role play on environmental issues in West Ham in 1900, based on @jburnford book West Ham & the River Lea
Prompt & roles here👇
The London group today came up with a great (!) role play on environmental issues in West Ham in 1900, based on @jburnford book West Ham & the River Lea
Prompt & roles here👇
November 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM
My urban #envhist course at @ScPoEUrbaine is now focusing on specific cities in student-led classes.
The London group today came up with a great (!) role play on environmental issues in West Ham in 1900, based on @jburnford book West Ham & the River Lea
Prompt & roles here👇
The London group today came up with a great (!) role play on environmental issues in West Ham in 1900, based on @jburnford book West Ham & the River Lea
Prompt & roles here👇
@VitaleTommaso dean of @ScPoEUrbaine presenting the high stakes of urban careers to which the Urban School will prepare its students: avoiding the worst scenarios of urban change by understanding and transforming the way cities work #UrbanSchoolWelcomeWeek
November 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM
@VitaleTommaso dean of @ScPoEUrbaine presenting the high stakes of urban careers to which the Urban School will prepare its students: avoiding the worst scenarios of urban change by understanding and transforming the way cities work #UrbanSchoolWelcomeWeek
Still a lot of work before seeing it in print, but I now have a first complete draft of my Po watershed book manuscript. Hallelujah!
It feels almost irreal to have it all in one file after 10 years of labor...😭
It feels almost irreal to have it all in one file after 10 years of labor...😭
November 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Still a lot of work before seeing it in print, but I now have a first complete draft of my Po watershed book manuscript. Hallelujah!
It feels almost irreal to have it all in one file after 10 years of labor...😭
It feels almost irreal to have it all in one file after 10 years of labor...😭
Proud of this poster summarizing the excellent #envhist master’s thesis of Titouan Souquet @ScPo_CHSP @ED_SciencesPo OHM Vallée du Rhône #shiftingshores
A War on Sediment? Understanding and Governing Solid Transport in the Rhône Watershed (1840-1920)
On display in Marseille!
A War on Sediment? Understanding and Governing Solid Transport in the Rhône Watershed (1840-1920)
On display in Marseille!
November 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Proud of this poster summarizing the excellent #envhist master’s thesis of Titouan Souquet @ScPo_CHSP @ED_SciencesPo OHM Vallée du Rhône #shiftingshores
A War on Sediment? Understanding and Governing Solid Transport in the Rhône Watershed (1840-1920)
On display in Marseille!
A War on Sediment? Understanding and Governing Solid Transport in the Rhône Watershed (1840-1920)
On display in Marseille!
This is me yesterday, in the scorching heat of what felt like a July afternoon, in front of an ugly 1950s dam, in the half-dry bed of the Po River, on top of a thick sand deposit and adjacent mining pit.
Definitely not Venice but more than enough to make this nerd happy 😂
Definitely not Venice but more than enough to make this nerd happy 😂
November 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM
This is me yesterday, in the scorching heat of what felt like a July afternoon, in front of an ugly 1950s dam, in the half-dry bed of the Po River, on top of a thick sand deposit and adjacent mining pit.
Definitely not Venice but more than enough to make this nerd happy 😂
Definitely not Venice but more than enough to make this nerd happy 😂
Finally managed to see the Cavour Canal, built in 1863-66, an important piece of my Po book. Cycled all the way from Turin 🚲🚲🚲and reached the point where it crosses the Dora Baltea River.
Here what the canal looks and sounds like as it begins its path through the plain
Here what the canal looks and sounds like as it begins its path through the plain
November 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Finally managed to see the Cavour Canal, built in 1863-66, an important piece of my Po book. Cycled all the way from Turin 🚲🚲🚲and reached the point where it crosses the Dora Baltea River.
Here what the canal looks and sounds like as it begins its path through the plain
Here what the canal looks and sounds like as it begins its path through the plain
This is what is called a “ponte-canale” (water bridge) in the Po Valley. It allows one canal to cross another one by flowing on top it it.
Is there any similar infrastructure where you live?
Is there any similar infrastructure where you live?
November 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM
This is what is called a “ponte-canale” (water bridge) in the Po Valley. It allows one canal to cross another one by flowing on top it it.
Is there any similar infrastructure where you live?
Is there any similar infrastructure where you live?
Visited the Medieval Museum in Bologna. It boasts several stone coffins of famous medieval lecturers with the same edifying scene of academic life:
the Professor as God 😂 😂😂
the Professor as God 😂 😂😂
November 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Visited the Medieval Museum in Bologna. It boasts several stone coffins of famous medieval lecturers with the same edifying scene of academic life:
the Professor as God 😂 😂😂
the Professor as God 😂 😂😂
My academic home for the next four weeks, on the banks of the Dora River 😍
November 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM
My academic home for the next four weeks, on the banks of the Dora River 😍
The Alps on the horizon 😍
November 4, 2024 at 9:56 AM
The Alps on the horizon 😍
Do you see this map? It’s not only beautiful. It is also (to the best of my knowledge) the only surviving cartographic evidence of two competing projects to divert the Reno River into the Po in 1805.
And I didn’t know it existed until 5 minutes ago! 🥳🤩🎁
And I didn’t know it existed until 5 minutes ago! 🥳🤩🎁
November 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Do you see this map? It’s not only beautiful. It is also (to the best of my knowledge) the only surviving cartographic evidence of two competing projects to divert the Reno River into the Po in 1805.
And I didn’t know it existed until 5 minutes ago! 🥳🤩🎁
And I didn’t know it existed until 5 minutes ago! 🥳🤩🎁
I am going to talk about my first book FAULT LINES (https://bit.ly/34BRSfZ) to an audience in China in a few minutes. Look at the beautiful poster they produced!
November 4, 2024 at 9:46 AM
I am going to talk about my first book FAULT LINES (https://bit.ly/34BRSfZ) to an audience in China in a few minutes. Look at the beautiful poster they produced!