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The book focuses on the impact of climate change on the Italian inner areas as a privileged place to observe the ongoing environmental crisis. In the first chapter, the main stages through which sociology has approached climate change are discussed. Assuming loss as a dimension inevitably linked to climate change, the concepts of vulnerability and adaptation are established as the main research interests. A specific focus on the socio-spatial effects of climate change is needed in the inner areas: fragile territories showing vulnerabilities but also an important "green" capital. The Emilia-Romagna inner areas are then studied through a quantitative analysis at a municipal scale, identifying social, demographic and economic factors shaping fragility. The last section of the book focuses on the Delta del Po area in the province of Ferrara, and its conflictual relation with nature. Emphasizing the unstable human-environment relation that characterizes the area, the main features of the adaptation strategies adopted there to face the transformation caused by climate change are then analyzed.

Covid-19 has dramatically shown some of the limits of our cities. Labor market, tourism, service sector have suffered a backlash that can be read as an "explosion" of pre-existing inequalities. The slow and progressive process of recovery we are experiencing let us talk about a "post-Covid" phase, characterized by a forced coexistence with the coronavirus and its mutations, while the health emergency still affects the organization of urban life. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, this book provides a wide reflection on the multifaceted impacts of the pandemic on the city of Bologna. On the one hand, the chapters show how people are not "all on the same boat" in the pandemic context, with pre-existing inequalities and other vulnerabilities contributing to determine different individual experiences and outcomes. On the other hand, many authors illustrate how the socio-economic fabric of the city has given proof of resilience, with new perspective of social and territorial development in the fields of technological innovation and sustainable mobility.

La notte è passata dall'essere una dimensione "residuale" della giornata ad un importante segmento della socialità e dell'economia di molte città, diventando anche una "fucina" di nuove pratiche di consumo e di fruizione degli spazi urbani. Non mancano però contrasti e conflitti: tra le varie popolazioni che fruiscono degli stessi spazi, ma anche tra la diffusione di alcune pratiche e le politiche dell'ammi¬nistrazione locale che tentano di regolarle. Questo articolo si propone di approfondire gli usi dello spazio pubblico da parte degli studenti a Bologna e Montpellier, evidenziando le pratiche sociali e di consumo messe in atto durante la notte.