The waste crisis in Campania, South Italy: a historical perspective on an epidemiological controversy Roberto Cantoni To cite this version: Roberto Cantoni. The waste crisis in Campania, South Italy: a historical perspective on an epidemio- logical controversy. Endeavour, Elsevier, 2016, 40 (2), pp.102-113. 10.1016/j.endeavour.2016.03.003. hal-01285492 HAL Id: hal-01285492 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01285492 Submitted on 11 Mar 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. THIS IS A DRAFT. PLEASE DO NOT CITE OR CIRCULATE IT PRIOR TO THE AUTHOR’S CONSENT The waste crisis in Campania, South Italy: a historical perspective on an epidemiological controversy Roberto Cantonia aLATTS – Ecoles des Ponts ParisTech/CNRS/UPEMV Postal address: 16/20 boulevard Newton, Cité Descartes Champs-sur-Marne 77447, Marne-la-Vallée cédex 2 France E-mail address:
[email protected] Abbreviations1 Abstract Between 2001 and 2009, the area of Naples, South Italy, repeatedly hit the headlines of national and international media due to the waste management crisis that on many occasions filled up the streets of the region with huge piles of waste.