L'impatto delle attività umane sull'ambiente. Una riflessione storico-giuridica

Through the analysis of some historical, archaeological and legal sources, this paper aims to verify if the economic activities undertaken in the Roman world (mining cultivations, intensive fishing and coastal housebuilding) had a meaningful impact on the environments and, above all, if the negative externalities of such works had some form of control from the public authorities (jurists or imperial legislators). The answer to this investigation will be negative.