About the Book

Venice, the world’s most beautiful and beloved city, may also be the world’s most endangered city. Defying both tides and time, Venice has always been the heralded symbol for the triumph of humans over nature as well as their own baser natures. Today, however, all evidence points to a much bleaker future for the ‘Queen of the Adriatic’. Veniceland Atlantis is the first book by an environmental scholar to give equal weight to both the environmental and social problems plaguing the city.

Numerous sources were consulted and dozens of interviews were conducted while the author lived...

About the Author

Robert France is a leading authority on watershed management and environmental restoration who has published hundreds of technical articles and more than a dozen books and who has participated in many high visibility urban planning projects around the world.

Dr France was a professor of landscape ecology at Harvard University and is presently a professor of watershed management at Nova Scotia Agricultural College. For more than a decade, he has been a frequent visitor to Venice and for three summers he resided there while teaching a course at Ca’Foscari University and conducting research for this book...

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