Current research interests

Industrial Hazard/Petrochemicals

Labor/Environmental Movements

material feminism

Water and Energy

the Amazon/environmental history of Brazil

Commons

Research Projects

2017 - 2018 - ""Towards a Political Ecology of EU Energy Policy"", coordinated by Gavin Bridge, sponsored by EU Horizon 2020 Social sciences and Humanities for Advancing Policy in European ENERGY (SHAPE ENERGY).

2016 - 2019 - "Vulnerability and Energy-Economy Nexus at the Sector Level: A Historic, Input-Output and CGE Analysis (Veenex)", coordinated by Christian Kerchner, sponsored by Czech Science Foundation.

2016 - 2017 - "Toxic Bios. A guerrilla narrative project", coordinated by Marco Armiero, sponsored by Mistra/Formas (Sweden).

2015-01-10 - 2016-05-30 - "Degrowth", coordinated by Alexander Paulsson, sponsored by Pufendorf Institutet, Lund University.

2014-09-15 - 2015-03-15 - "Just Sustainabilities", coordinated by Marco Armiero, sponsored by International Social Science Council.

2012 - 2016 - "Entitle. European Network of Political Ecology", coordinated by Giorgos Kallis, sponsored by FP7, Marie Curie ITN.

2010-02-24 - 2013-02-24 - "Climate Change, Hydro-Conflicts and Human Security", coordinated by Giorgos Kallis, sponsored by FP7.

2010 - 2013 - ""Nuclear Portugal: Physics, Technology, Medicine and Environment (1910-2010)"", coordinated by Tiago Saraiva, sponsored by FCT.

2010 - 2011 - "Observatorio Internacional de politicas locales de inclusion social", coordinated by Giovanni Allegretti, sponsored by CGLU, Comision de Inclusion Social y Democracia Participativa.

2006 - 2008 - "Enclosing Water. Nature and property rights in a European periphery,: the Liri valley, 1806-1916", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by C.V. Ciriacy Wantrup Program, University of California at Berkeley.

2002 - 2004 - "Il capitale naturale. Acque e industrializzazione in valle del Liri", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Dipartimento di Teoria e Storia dell'Economia Pubblica, Università di Napoli "Federico II".

2000 - 2001 - "Le risorse idriche in Italia: scienza e diritto tra '800 e '900", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.

1999 - 2001 - "acque e indsutrializzazione in Italia meridionale. Risorse, tecnici, istituzioni tra '800 e '900", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli.

1996 - 1997 - "La cultura industriale a Napoli tra le due guerre", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli.

Networks

Agroecology International (Programa Grundtvig, UE)

European network of Political Ecology

European Society for Environmental History