Marco Armiero is Director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He is the co-editor of Nature and History in Modern Italy (2010), author of A Rugged Nation: Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy (2011) and a senior editor of the journal, Capitalism Nature Socialism.
Lise Sedrez is Professor at the Instituto de Hist�ria, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.