Risk societies e resilienza ambientale: borghi nuovi, inondazioni e abbandoni sul Po nel medioevo e nella prima età moderna

This paper intends to make a contribution to the debate on catastrophes and vulnerability of communities in history, starting from the analysis of the relationship between the floods of the Po and the abandonment of new villages between Lombardy and Piedmont. The socio‐economic analysis of settlements over the long
term shows how the vulnerability of settlements increases, even more than due to social inequality, due to the loss of economic centrality.