Andrea Bagnato, Marco Ferrari and Elisa Pasqual, A Moving Border – Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change, Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2019.

[now updated with the final cover]

This is the book developing from the Italian Limes project. I was pleased to welcome Andrea and Marco to Warwick for one of the ICE-LAW project workshops, and to be asked to write an essay for this book. With their permission, you can access my piece, ‘The Instability of Terrain’, here.

There will be a book launch at the Royal Academy on the evening of 15 April 2019 with some of the contributors. More details when advertised.

Italy’s northern border follows the watershed that separates the drainage basins of Northern and Southern Europe. Running mostly at high altitudes, it crosses snowfields and perennial glaciers—all of which are now melting as a result of anthropogenic climate change. As the watershed…