Edenic Views in Wetland Conservation: Nature and Agriculture in the Fogliano Area, Italy

The article explores the genealogy of Edenic narratives about the Pontine Marshes in Agro Pontino, Italy, and the imaginary of the Bonifica Integrale (integral reclamation). This process of reclamation, implemented by the fascist regime throughout the 1930s, drained the Marshes transforming their ec...

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Main Author: Paolo Gruppuso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2018-01-01
Series:Conservation & Society
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Online Access:http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2018;volume=16;issue=4;spage=397;epage=408;aulast=Gruppuso