Gabriella Corona

Biography

Gabriella Corona
Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies
National Research Council
Via Pietro Castellino, 111
Napoli, Italy
gabriella.corona@issm.cnr.it

Gabriella Corona is Director of Research at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (ISMED) of the National Research Council and a member of the Scientific Council of the Department of Human and Social Sciences of the National Research Council. She is professor of Economic, Environmental and Territory History at the Course of Historical Sciences of the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II.

She is editor in chief of the international scientific journal Global Environment. A Journal of Transdisciplinary History.

She is co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Meridiana. Journal of History and Social Sciences.

She has published articles in national and international scientific journals, essays on collective volumes, monographs and editors.

Among her books published after 2000 are A Short Environmental History of Italy (2017), A Short History of the Environment in Italy (2015), The Problem of Waste Disposal in a Large European City and Waste. An unresolved question with Daniele Fortini (2012, 2010) and I Ragazzi del Piano. Naples and the reasons for urban environmentalism (2007).

Her current research concerns environmental history issues from a national and global perspective.