★The first book that presents the impacts of climate change and its extreme events (now stronger and more frequent) on fragile landscapes: a study to understand how our future could be.

Earthquakes, prolonged drought, extreme events and strong tides that destroy everything in their path: why are these phenomena increasingly frequent? Whose fault is it? Antonello Pasini analyses the case of Italy, from the landslides and floods that affects Piedmont and Liguria to the umpteenth occurrence of high water in Venice, and identifies the main factors at stake, putting them into relation with one another in what is provocatively defined the ‘equation of disasters’: the dangerousness of weather- and climate-related events, the vulnerability of the Italian landscape and what we, our homes and our property, are exposed to. The conclusion is that it is not about an evil nature, but an environment that has been disfigured by man, from the point of view of climate and territory, to the abuses on a landscape that was already fragile. It is a study that leads to the conclusion that only by becoming aware of the human impact on climate and on landscape can we do something to change course. Because not only the political decisionmakers but citizens as well have to know.

Antonello Pasini, a climatological physicist at the CNR (Italian Research Council) and lecturer in Physics of the Climate the University of Roma Tre, he has published numerous scientific articles in international journals. He is also an active populariser: in 2016, his blog “Il Kyoto fisso” won the National Prize for Scientific Popularisation. His previous books include Effetto serra, effetto guerra (ChiareLettere, 2017) written with Grammenos Mastrojeni