Call for papers: The focus of the 2017 seminar is the exploitation of Natural Resources and Environment in past and modern economies and societies. Its aim is to investigate the influence of natural resources and environmental changes on the economy of past and present societies. Attention was devoted to the exploitation of land, mineral resources, energy carriers, water and to climatic changes both in the short and long run.

List of participants

1. Eva Bodovics (Budapest), Water management and flood control practices in Miskolc (Hungary) in the late 19th century
2. Lisa FitzGerald (Galway), Urban Ecology: Envisioning and Aestheticizing Modernity in Samuel Beckett's Not I
3. Sarah Claire (Paris), Energy mix, crises and transition in Central Europe in the Middle Ages. The Kingdom of Bohemia, 14th-16th century
4. Ellen Janssens (Antwerp), The last urban common? Practices of water use and management in Antwerp (Belgium) during the late 16th and early 17th centur
5. Andreaia Lopes Fidalgo (Lisbon), The «Restoration» Plan of the Kingdom of Algarve: economic reform between 1773 and 1820
6. Soran Mohtadi (Barcelona), An empirical analysis on the relationship between resource rents and human capital: the Role of institutional quality thresholds
7. Wout Saelens (Antwerp),  Energy consumption before and during the early Industrial Revolution: the Northern and Southern Netherlands compared (c. 1650-1850)
8. Harm Zwarts (Wageningen), The development of innovation in Dutch agriculture, c. 1880-1970
9. Clavel Damian (Geneva), “Enemy Mine”: Poyais, mahogany extraction, and the Miskito King 1820-1824

Experts

• Francesco Ammannati (Bocconi University Milano)
• Guido Alfani (Università Bocconi Milano)
  Catia Antunes  (Leiden University)
• Ben Gales (Groningen University)
• Paolo Malanima (UMG University Catanzaro)
• Giovanni Muto (Napoli University)
• Jaco Zuijderduijn (Leiden University)