Journal title RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA
Author/s Fausto Di Quarto
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/2
Language Italian Pages 21 P. 84-104 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rgioa2-2024oa17810
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Through a historical excursus, the study analyzes the use, relationship, and relative impact of water resources in the process of urban development in the Milan area. Taking as a theoretical reference the concepts of Urban Political Ecology (Heynen et al., 2006), the article emphasizes the socio-ecological change related to the ‘domestication’ of water as a de-socializing practice and its management as a highly conflictual process, as an expression of political-economic choices, ideologies, and social fantasies. Finally, the longstanding issue of the flooding of the Seveso River and the reopening of the canals is referred to as an example of governance related to a particular idea of territorial development and water management. The ultimate effect is to create ‘winners and losers’ in the appropriation and management of nature.
Keywords: ; urban political ecology, water, Milan, Seveso river.
Fausto Di Quarto, Il governo urbano dell’acqua. Ecologia politica ed evoluzione socio-ecologica delle reti idriche di Milano in "RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA" 2/2024, pp 84-104, DOI: 10.3280/rgioa2-2024oa17810